EDUC 606 MIDTERM PRACTICE
TEST QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
classroom climate (Stipek) - Answer- treat errors as a natural part of learning, build
community, show enthusiasm
control (Stipek) - Answer- give students autonomy, choice in difficulty, design, and
timing of assignments, hold students accountable
TARGET framework - Answer- tasks, authority, recognition, groups, evaluation, time
self-regulation - Answer- ability to control our own thoughts and direct our behaviors and
emotions
the three phases of the self-regulation cycle - Answer- Planning, Monitoring, and
Evaluation
strategies to promote metacognition - Answer- Model thinking skills, encourage self-
explanation, provide self-check opportunities, ask questions around key ideas, have
headers and bullet points in note taking
positive transfer - Answer- Something learned at one time facilitates learning or
performance at a later time (Like not-taking practice in sixth grade helps you study for
ap tests in high school)
how to promote transfer - Answer- when similarities can be identified, when material is
taught and practiced in multiple ways, when learning has been taught in a meaningful
way, when strategies can be applied to multiple situations (rules of thumb)
relation of grit to growth mindset - Answer- learning ability isn't fixed and effort has a big
impact on ability to learn
criticisms of grit - Answer- equivalent to hunger games, embracing grit is a quick fix and
is anti-black
Learning Styles Theories (myth) - Answer- There is no body of research evidence to
support the existence of learning Styles (see for example, Hyde & Jenkins, 1969).
Students (and teachers)Can use Learning Styles myth to avoid truly understanding
content.
, Sensory register/memory - Answer- The first and most immediate form of memory that
individuals have. Super short term memory, takes in information from any sensory
stimulation (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch).
Role of attention - Answer- Once the sensory stimuli is noticed, and attention is brought
to it, the registration of that sensory stimuli can be encoded. Attention in general plays a
critical role in determining what information will be encoded into your working memory.
Working memory - Answer- A cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold
information temporarily, capacity of 4-5 chunks. Only the information that is paid
attention to gets encoded into working memory.
Maintenance rehearsal - Answer- Process of repeatedly verbalizing or thinking about a
piece of information to keep it in the working memory.
Cognitive load - Answer- The amount of information that working memory can hold at
one time. (The burden that's placed on your working memory).
Long-term memory - Answer- The storage of information over an extended period of
time, information is transferred into the long-term memory via the process of
consolidation.
Encoding - Answer- Bringing attention to a perceived sensory input and storing that
information into the working memory.
Retrieval - Answer- Accessing memory (remembering), activated by a cue.
Cues - Answer- minor stimuli that determine when, where, and how the person
responds (a quiz question, diagram, emotions, smells, etc)
Consolidation - Answer- Process in which short-term memories are converted into long-
term memories due to changes at the neural level.
rote memorization - Answer- remembering information by repetition without necessarily
understanding the meaning of the information
meaningful learning - Answer- Remembering the facts and the meaning behind them by
recognizing the relationship to prior knowledge
elaboration - Answer- add additional ideas to new information (ask them to explain why
something is the case)
Organization - Answer- sort or group new information, connect to prior knowledge (like
making a flow chart)
TEST QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
classroom climate (Stipek) - Answer- treat errors as a natural part of learning, build
community, show enthusiasm
control (Stipek) - Answer- give students autonomy, choice in difficulty, design, and
timing of assignments, hold students accountable
TARGET framework - Answer- tasks, authority, recognition, groups, evaluation, time
self-regulation - Answer- ability to control our own thoughts and direct our behaviors and
emotions
the three phases of the self-regulation cycle - Answer- Planning, Monitoring, and
Evaluation
strategies to promote metacognition - Answer- Model thinking skills, encourage self-
explanation, provide self-check opportunities, ask questions around key ideas, have
headers and bullet points in note taking
positive transfer - Answer- Something learned at one time facilitates learning or
performance at a later time (Like not-taking practice in sixth grade helps you study for
ap tests in high school)
how to promote transfer - Answer- when similarities can be identified, when material is
taught and practiced in multiple ways, when learning has been taught in a meaningful
way, when strategies can be applied to multiple situations (rules of thumb)
relation of grit to growth mindset - Answer- learning ability isn't fixed and effort has a big
impact on ability to learn
criticisms of grit - Answer- equivalent to hunger games, embracing grit is a quick fix and
is anti-black
Learning Styles Theories (myth) - Answer- There is no body of research evidence to
support the existence of learning Styles (see for example, Hyde & Jenkins, 1969).
Students (and teachers)Can use Learning Styles myth to avoid truly understanding
content.
, Sensory register/memory - Answer- The first and most immediate form of memory that
individuals have. Super short term memory, takes in information from any sensory
stimulation (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch).
Role of attention - Answer- Once the sensory stimuli is noticed, and attention is brought
to it, the registration of that sensory stimuli can be encoded. Attention in general plays a
critical role in determining what information will be encoded into your working memory.
Working memory - Answer- A cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold
information temporarily, capacity of 4-5 chunks. Only the information that is paid
attention to gets encoded into working memory.
Maintenance rehearsal - Answer- Process of repeatedly verbalizing or thinking about a
piece of information to keep it in the working memory.
Cognitive load - Answer- The amount of information that working memory can hold at
one time. (The burden that's placed on your working memory).
Long-term memory - Answer- The storage of information over an extended period of
time, information is transferred into the long-term memory via the process of
consolidation.
Encoding - Answer- Bringing attention to a perceived sensory input and storing that
information into the working memory.
Retrieval - Answer- Accessing memory (remembering), activated by a cue.
Cues - Answer- minor stimuli that determine when, where, and how the person
responds (a quiz question, diagram, emotions, smells, etc)
Consolidation - Answer- Process in which short-term memories are converted into long-
term memories due to changes at the neural level.
rote memorization - Answer- remembering information by repetition without necessarily
understanding the meaning of the information
meaningful learning - Answer- Remembering the facts and the meaning behind them by
recognizing the relationship to prior knowledge
elaboration - Answer- add additional ideas to new information (ask them to explain why
something is the case)
Organization - Answer- sort or group new information, connect to prior knowledge (like
making a flow chart)
