CS302 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
transliteracy - ANSWER The ability to read, write, and interact across a range
of platforms, tools, and media
constructivism - ANSWER A philosophy of learning based on the premise that
people construct their own understanding of the world they live in through
reflection on experiences
schemata - ANSWER mental framework: organize and construct meaning
metacognition - ANSWER "Thinking about thinking" or the ability to evaluate
a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then to monitor and
adjust one's performance on that task
three systems of information in written language - ANSWER graphemic,
syntactic, semantic
graphophonemic - ANSWER the recognition of letters and the understanding
of sound-symbol relationships and spelling patterns
syntactic - ANSWER grammatical
Semantics - ANSWER meaning
three models of reading - ANSWER interactive, bottom up, top down
interactive reading - ANSWER prior knowledge and print
bottom up - ANSWER print/decoding symbols
top down - ANSWER prior knowledge and experience
AND ANSWERS
transliteracy - ANSWER The ability to read, write, and interact across a range
of platforms, tools, and media
constructivism - ANSWER A philosophy of learning based on the premise that
people construct their own understanding of the world they live in through
reflection on experiences
schemata - ANSWER mental framework: organize and construct meaning
metacognition - ANSWER "Thinking about thinking" or the ability to evaluate
a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then to monitor and
adjust one's performance on that task
three systems of information in written language - ANSWER graphemic,
syntactic, semantic
graphophonemic - ANSWER the recognition of letters and the understanding
of sound-symbol relationships and spelling patterns
syntactic - ANSWER grammatical
Semantics - ANSWER meaning
three models of reading - ANSWER interactive, bottom up, top down
interactive reading - ANSWER prior knowledge and print
bottom up - ANSWER print/decoding symbols
top down - ANSWER prior knowledge and experience
