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Essay Question 9: Howard Williams teaches a college course in Educational
Foundations. The course is intended to expose students to the historical roots of
education, key philosophers, and current issues in teaching and education. The grading
scheme that he proposed is: (1) 90% of students' grades in his course are determined by
a midterm and a final exam, both consisting of 75 multiple-choice questions, and (2)
10% for attendance.
The typical kinds of questions on the midterm, for example, were:
"The first Education program in Canada was established in_XXXXX" and
"The philosopher identified with the progressive movement is YYYYY"
In the course evaluations, students often described his course as "easy exams, but
meaningless." Dr. William is seeking advice on how to better assess his students' ability
to apply knowledge, to construct knowledge, and to be critical thinkers.
a. Given that Dr. Williams will probably continue to use at least some multiple-choice
testing, list six to eight guidelines regarding how multiple-choice items could be
constructed to improve their content validity for course objectives? (4 points).
1. Avoid exact wording
2. Avoid unclear stems
3. Avoid extremely fine discriminations
4. Avoid synonym distractors
,5. Avoid grammatical errors
6. Avoid obvious patterns
Compared to the behaviouristic orientation, the cognitive perspective recognizes people
as what type of learners?
Active
Authentic Assessment
Assessment of students' knowledge and skills in a "real-life" context.
Maria has excellent study habits. She seems to know just what to review and how long
to spend on each part of every course. Maria is applying what type of knowledge?
Self-regulatory knowledge
Alec still remembers how to touch-type, even though it has been three years since he has
practiced. The memory system most directly involved here is
Procedural memory
What you are thinking about right now is being held in what type of memory?
Working memory
Mr. Kawicki is teaching his sixth-grade science students about the scientific method.
Students are instructed about each component of the method first in order to
understand the whole process. This instructional strategy is based on what concept?
Bottom-up processing
Items can typically be stored in working memory for approximately how long?
20 seconds
,You are given a math problem to solve. As you try to remember the formula involved,
what memory system is being searched?
Schematic memory
Mark can answer the physics problem because of patterns of knowledge stored in his
long-term memory, which he did not intentionally try to learn. This situation involves
Mark using his
Implicit memory
Because memories are organized in propositional networks, recall of one bit of
information often
Leads to recall of another bit of information
A scriptis viewed by cognitive theorists as useful
In directing everyday activities in different situations
What is a common problem with students using underlining or highlighting that
teachers should be aware of?
Students are under-selective and highlight or underline too much
Current beliefs about problem-solving techniques suggest that domain-specific
strategies are
Likely to be used increasingly as experience with a particular subject increases
Which one of the following concepts is consistent with the notion of a heuristic?
Analogical thinking
, Gloria thinks about the solution to a problem regarding homelessness in Toronto. She
asks herself what she needs to know in order to solve the problem. She tries to think
about the problem in different and, possibly, creative ways. She is then able to clarify
the problem and propose a potentially useful solution. The aspect of problem solving
that Gloria's strategy exemplifies is
Flexibility
Creativity is thought to be associated directly with what type of thinking?
Divergent
Vygotsky's notion that learning is inherently social and embedded in a particular
cultural setting is consistent with
Situated learning
Which one of the following ways of learning an applied skill is most consistent with a
constructivist approach?
Use realistic materials and a group format to provide support for individuals
Ms. French would like to have her students, while experimenting with their own
structured materials, discover some key principles of gravity. Which one of the
following teaching methods should be most appropriate for this purpose?
Inquiry
Which one of the following behaviours is one of the teacher's roles in problem-based
learning?
Help students to reflect on their investigations
Use the assignment of roles as a way to encourage participation
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Essay Question 9: Howard Williams teaches a college course in Educational
Foundations. The course is intended to expose students to the historical roots of
education, key philosophers, and current issues in teaching and education. The grading
scheme that he proposed is: (1) 90% of students' grades in his course are determined by
a midterm and a final exam, both consisting of 75 multiple-choice questions, and (2)
10% for attendance.
The typical kinds of questions on the midterm, for example, were:
"The first Education program in Canada was established in_XXXXX" and
"The philosopher identified with the progressive movement is YYYYY"
In the course evaluations, students often described his course as "easy exams, but
meaningless." Dr. William is seeking advice on how to better assess his students' ability
to apply knowledge, to construct knowledge, and to be critical thinkers.
a. Given that Dr. Williams will probably continue to use at least some multiple-choice
testing, list six to eight guidelines regarding how multiple-choice items could be
constructed to improve their content validity for course objectives? (4 points).
1. Avoid exact wording
2. Avoid unclear stems
3. Avoid extremely fine discriminations
4. Avoid synonym distractors
,5. Avoid grammatical errors
6. Avoid obvious patterns
Compared to the behaviouristic orientation, the cognitive perspective recognizes people
as what type of learners?
Active
Authentic Assessment
Assessment of students' knowledge and skills in a "real-life" context.
Maria has excellent study habits. She seems to know just what to review and how long
to spend on each part of every course. Maria is applying what type of knowledge?
Self-regulatory knowledge
Alec still remembers how to touch-type, even though it has been three years since he has
practiced. The memory system most directly involved here is
Procedural memory
What you are thinking about right now is being held in what type of memory?
Working memory
Mr. Kawicki is teaching his sixth-grade science students about the scientific method.
Students are instructed about each component of the method first in order to
understand the whole process. This instructional strategy is based on what concept?
Bottom-up processing
Items can typically be stored in working memory for approximately how long?
20 seconds
,You are given a math problem to solve. As you try to remember the formula involved,
what memory system is being searched?
Schematic memory
Mark can answer the physics problem because of patterns of knowledge stored in his
long-term memory, which he did not intentionally try to learn. This situation involves
Mark using his
Implicit memory
Because memories are organized in propositional networks, recall of one bit of
information often
Leads to recall of another bit of information
A scriptis viewed by cognitive theorists as useful
In directing everyday activities in different situations
What is a common problem with students using underlining or highlighting that
teachers should be aware of?
Students are under-selective and highlight or underline too much
Current beliefs about problem-solving techniques suggest that domain-specific
strategies are
Likely to be used increasingly as experience with a particular subject increases
Which one of the following concepts is consistent with the notion of a heuristic?
Analogical thinking
, Gloria thinks about the solution to a problem regarding homelessness in Toronto. She
asks herself what she needs to know in order to solve the problem. She tries to think
about the problem in different and, possibly, creative ways. She is then able to clarify
the problem and propose a potentially useful solution. The aspect of problem solving
that Gloria's strategy exemplifies is
Flexibility
Creativity is thought to be associated directly with what type of thinking?
Divergent
Vygotsky's notion that learning is inherently social and embedded in a particular
cultural setting is consistent with
Situated learning
Which one of the following ways of learning an applied skill is most consistent with a
constructivist approach?
Use realistic materials and a group format to provide support for individuals
Ms. French would like to have her students, while experimenting with their own
structured materials, discover some key principles of gravity. Which one of the
following teaching methods should be most appropriate for this purpose?
Inquiry
Which one of the following behaviours is one of the teacher's roles in problem-based
learning?
Help students to reflect on their investigations
Use the assignment of roles as a way to encourage participation
