Content Category I || Section A : Student Development & The Learning Process

Question 1

What factors impact the speed and efficiency of student’s growth?

Answer 1

the environment, experiences, and meta-cognitive processing of a child’s education

Question 2

Learning theorists differ in their ideas of how knowledge is…

Answer 2

acquired

Question 3

Learning theorists have overlapping ideas and research which inform the development of (what? and what?) used in schools today.

Answer 3

curriculum and instructional design

Question 4

What are the 4 theories that relate to educational contexts?

Answer 4

behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and social learning theory

Question 5

The 4 theories that relate to educational contexts, influence what in the classroom?

Answer 5

instructional design

Question 6

The development of cognitive processes is ________ and _________ by the students’ learning experiences and environment.

Answer 6

ongoing, influenced

Question 7

Students’ ability to process information is critical to their _________ and _________________.

Answer 7

growth, development

Question 8

Cognitive development happens at the intersection of…(5)?

Answer 8

1) information processing
2) intelligence
3) reasoning
4) language development
5) memory

Question 9

How many cognitive processes are generally associated with academic learning?

Answer 9

9

Question 10

List or recall the 9 cognitive processes that are generally associated with academic learning.

Answer 10

1) critical thinking
2) creative thinking
3) questioning
4) inductive reasoning
5) deductive reasoning
6) problem-solving
7) planning
8) memory
9) recall

Question 11

To apply, analyze, evaluate, compare, and synthesize information is what cognitive process for academic learning?

Answer 11

critical thinking

Question 12

To create, develop, and understand new perspective is what cognitive process for academic learning?

Answer 12

creative thinking

Question 13

To ask why, how, where, what, or when is what cognitive process for academic learning?

Answer 13

questioning

Question 14

To reason by working from a specific concept to a general topic is what cognitive process for academic learning? An example of this is, a lesson starts by exploring earth and then moves to earth’s place in the solar system.

Answer 14

inductive reasoning

Question 15

To reason by working from a general topic to a specific concept is what cognitive process for academic learning? An example of this is, students are exploring ecosystems and determining how evolving ecosystems result in evolving species natural selection and species’ evolution.

Answer 15

deductive reasoning

Question 16

To use a variety of thinking strategies to generate or evaluate solutions is what cognitive process for academic learning?

Answer 16

problem-solving

Question 17

To prepare is what cognitive process for academic learning?

Answer 17

planning

Question 18

Working memory is used to process the current task or situation; descriptive memory is used to carry out a procedure or remember information over a long period of time is what cognitive process for academic learning?

Answer 18

memory

Question 19

To retell is what cognitive process for academic learning?

Answer 19

recall

Question 20

The nine cognitive processes related to academic learning are processes that build on one another and are useful to ___________ _______________ (2 words) for various stages and types of learning.

Answer 20

design instruction