D1C4 Learning Process

Question 1

What are the three instructional practices?

Answer 1

Peer tutoring

Cooperative learning

Mastery learning

Question 2

What is peer tutoring?

Answer 2

The practice of one student teaching another student.

Question 3

Rooted in constructivism, what has been shown to help students of diverse backgrounds increase their level of academic achievement and develop more attitudes toward the information being studied?

Answer 3

Peer tutoring

Question 4

What is cooperative learning?

Answer 4

When students work in small diverse groups and help one another master new material.

Question 5

What helps raise achievement, builds positive relationships among students, and provided positive learning experiences?

Answer 5

Cooperative learning

Question 6

What is mastery learning?

Answer 6

An approach to teaching that assumes every student can learn the material if certain conditions are met.

Question 7

What are the five conditions that must be met in order for mastery learning to be effective?

Answer 7

1. Sufficient natural ability for the learning task.
2. Ability to understand instructions.
3. Perseverance on the part of the student.
4. No restrictions on how long it takes to learn the material.
5. Good quality instruction.

Question 8

What are the three instructional practices that have proven to improve the achievement of ethnic minority and low socioeconomic status students?

Answer 8

Peer tutoring

Cooperative learning

Mastery learning