Strategic Approaches to Reading Instruction

Question 1

What is cooperative learning?

Answer 1

Cooperative learning is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences.

Question 2

What is readability?

Answer 2

Readability is the ease with which a reader can understand a written text.

Question 3

What is a construct in the philosophy of science?

Answer 3

A construct in the philosophy of science is an ideal object, where the existence of the thing may be said to depend upon a subject’s mind.

Question 4

What are learning styles?

Answer 4

Learning styles refer to a range of competing and contested theories that aim to account for differences in individuals’ learning.

Question 5

What is learning?

Answer 5

Learning is the act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information.

Question 6

What is classical conditioning?

Answer 6

Classical conditioning refers to a learning procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus is paired with a previously neutral stimulus.