Exam 9: The Learning Sciences and Constructivism

One of the reasons Mr. Brakefield assigns students to cooperative learning groups is so that he can rotate leadership roles and opportunities amongst his students. Mr. Brakefield's rationale for assigning groups is a valid one.

When the teacher provides students with question stems and then asks students to answer the questions in pairs, he/she is involving the students in ________.

Which of the following is NOT a guideline by Palincsar for effective reciprocal teaching?

According to Woolfolk, group work and cooperative learning are simply different terms used for the same instructional approach.

Several studies have found that children and adults with ADHD have smaller frontal lobes, basal ganglia, and cerebellums than people without ADHD.

A structure for teaching that introduces the fundamental structure of all subjects early in the school years, then revisits the subjects in more and more complex forms over time is known as

Once effective cooperative learning groups are established for problem-based learning activities, the teacher's role is primarily that of observer.

A social situation or context in which ideas are judged useful or true is referred to as

Ms. Constantine has always identified as an athlete. She was a competitive athlete in her youth and she still competes in age group competitive athletic events. She is proud of the fact that she has designed her sixth-grade classroom around competitive events and activities. All individual and group activities in her class involve a "winning" person or team. She spends a great deal of time finding valued prizes to give as rewards for her competitive activities. What concerns might educators, who call for the creation of learning communities, have with Ms. Constantine's approach?

The role of the ________ in a cooperative learning group is to explain concepts when needed.

Although there are many cognitive apprenticeship models, they all share the feature of conceptual scaffolding that is gradually reduced as students become more competent and proficient.

10) According to McCaslin and Good (1996), the advantages of group learning are so superior to individual learning approaches teachers do not need to question the possible disadvantages of group learning.

In organizing cooperative learning groups, Woolfolk suggests that it is best to

In a cooperative learning situation, the role of the encourager is to

The learning environment developed by the Vanderbilt University Group is a problem-based approach called anchored instruction.

The principle characteristics of constructivist teaching are complex, real-life learning environments and

According to McCaslin and Good (1996), one of the potential disadvantages of group learning is that status differences among students may be increased rather than decreased.

Social constructivist theorists view learning as occurring within a specific ________.

Service learning refers to problem-based learning projects which are outside of the student's curriculum.

The alternative conception of learning based on the view that students actively create their own knowledge through their interactions with tasks and resources is the ________ perspective.