Which strategy helps motivate learning by framing units and lessons in ways that make learning stimulating and relevant to students?

• Cognitive Interest Cues

• Student Goal Setting and Monitoring

• Vocabulary Instruction

• Strategy Instruction and Modeling

How does engaging students in goal setting and monitoring help them remain committed to learning?

• It keeps the brain from reverting to low-effort mode.

• It helps them train their brains to expect dopamine rewards from effortful thinking.

• It helps students see effort is the key to success.

• All of the above.

Which statement is true regarding direct instruction?

• Direct instruction is not an effective method for teaching students new processes or skills.

• Self-discovery and error is an efficient way to automate new processes and skills.

• The process of automation is made easier and more efficient through initial direct instruction.

• It is safe to assume students will naturally discover on their own new processes and skills.

Which of the following is a guiding principle for high-level questions and student explanations:

• Questions that prompt students to think about their learning support better learning outcomes.

• Encouraging students to explain their own thinking supports consolidation of new learning.

• Cold-calling techniques are more effective than voluntary response techniques.

• All of the above are guiding principles.

Which curiosity hook is an example of the following: “One way to reduce greenhouse gases would be to build nuclear power plants. After exploring the pros and cons of this energy source, what do you think?”

• Mysteries
• Controversy

• Riddles & Suspense

• Cognitive Conflict

Which of the following is true regarding visualizations and concrete examples?

• A) Scientific research offers no evidence for “learning styles” or any benefits for classifying students as visual, verbal, or kinesthetic.

• B) All students benefit from pairing visuals with verbal learning.

• C) It is unnecessary to illustrate abstract ideas with concrete examples.

• D) Schematics are more powerful when teachers provide them to students rather than having students create their own.

Which form of feedback provides students with the most benefit according to research:

• A) Delayed feedback (ex. Providing correct answers at the end of an assignment)

• B) Correct-response immediate feedback (ex. Providing “scratch-off” access to correct answers to multiple choice questions)

• C) Multiple-try immediate feedback (ex. Providing incorrect answers with a “try again” message)

• D) All of the above are equally beneficial for students.

What misconception about student learning is addressed in Chapter 1?

• A) All students learn at the same pace.

• B) Intelligence is fixed and unchangeable.

• C) Students should only learn through direct instruction.

• D) Collaboration hinders individual learning.

Which example of peer-assisted learning activities has research shown can virtually eliminate student failure on subsequent content tests?

• Numbered heads together

• Think-write-pair-share

• Reciprocal teaching

• Homogeneous grouping

According to Chapter 2, which statement is a guiding principle for student goal setting and monitoring?

• Concrete, achievable goals are not effective for straightforward tasks.

• To be effective, goals can be vague as long as feedback is specific.

• Progress feedback (progress monitoring) has no impact on the effectiveness of goal setting.

• Students should set mastery (not performance) goals.