Chapter 5 Flashcards
An effective Teacher understands what?
How & why research is done.
Research is a process of?
Critical thinking & solving problems
What is Research?
Use of the human mind to search for & seek answers.
What is Research used for?
To find Answers
It is Called RE-search because?
Thats what its all about, to search & search & search.
During what period did the process become formalized?
The Renaissance.
What type of process is research considered?
Higher-level process
Who Wrote Stimulating High-level Comprehension by Interspersing Questions in Text Passages?
John P. Rickards
Prior to what time was teaching based on tradition?
1960
What was teaching based on before 1960?
Myths, hearsay, & Tradition.
It may be dangerous to teach how?
The way that you were taught.
Unfortunately many teachers seem to teach?
the way they were taught.
There is no research to support which model of teaching? Name 3.
Assigning chapters to read.
Take lecture notes.
Watch a movie or to do an activity.
Why do teachers teach as their academic college professors taught them?
Because that was their last & most remembered educational experience.
What is the last step of the research process?
Conclusion.
What is the first step in the research process?
Problem.
What is the “ Data “ step of the research process?
Its the “ What do I look for? “ stage.
What was One thing that John P. Rickards discovered?
The most worst place to put questions is at the end of a textbook chapter.
What is the other thing that Rickards discovered?
Its an ineffective method to give a student all the questions for an assignment at one time and then ask the student to answer all the questions and turn them in all at one time.
What did he find was the most effective way to achieve high-level comprehension?
To spread the questions out through the text.
Who does what research tells us is most effective?
Effective teachers
Why are there so many ineffective teachers?
Because they are not familiar with or use research that uses effective practices.
Effective teachers use proven?
Practices.
Educational research is not all always?
Theoretical.
Peopler who know what to do and people who know how to do it will always be working for who?
Those who know why it is being done.
