Unit 4 assessment Flashcards
True or False
According to Skinner’s operant conditioning model, both positive and negative reinforcement increase the likelihood of the desired behavior appearing again in the future.
False; Positive reinforcement increases the likelihood of the desired behavior appearing again in the future by providing a reward. Negative reinforcement increases the likelihood of the desired behavior appearing again in the future by removing an unwanted or unpleasant consequence.
What is the concept of metacognition?
Students thinking about their own thinking
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is important for a teacher to know. Describe how Maslow’s hierarchy of needs impacts a child’s Educational experience.
Maslow’s theory postulated that all humans have multiple needs. The most basic needs are physiological (food, water, and shelter) and safety needs. People also have social needs (the need for love) and the need for respect (love needs). All of these needs must be satisfied before students are able to focus their attention toward maximizing their potential (the self-actualization need). Students who are hungry, tired, or feel unsafe cannot focus on their schoolwork.
Which theory of learning most closely aligns with cooperative and collaborative learning?
Constructivism;
The theory of constructivism postulates that people learn best with the help of social interaction.
Which theory of learning most closely aligns with direct instruction?
Behaviorism;
Behavioral learning theory emphasizes direct instruction and practicing (drilling) skills or information to be learned.
A teacher asks students, “Who was the first person to walk on the moon?”
Which level of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy is the teacher asking students to use?
Remembering
True or False
A teacher who wants to measure the progress of the entire class as a whole should use a norm-referenced assessment.
False;
Norm-referenced assessment measures only the relative performance of individuals within a class, not the progress of the entire class as a whole. If the teacher wanted to measure the performance of an entire class of students, a better choice would be a teacher-created criterion-referenced assessment.
True or False
Before beginning a lesson on the three branches of government, a social studies teacher wants to find out how much his or her students already know about the subject.
This teacher should administer a diagnostic assessment.
True;
Diagnostic assessments are a type of pretest designed to tell educators what students know before beginning a unit of study.
A music teacher wants to assess the progress each student in the band has made from the beginning to the end of the year. As part of this assessment, he records each band member playing an individual piece of music at the end of every month.
Which kind of assessment strategy would be suitable, given the teacher’s goal? Select all that apply.
Performance or authentic assessment
Standardized assessment
Criterion-referenced assessment
Objective assessment
Performance or authentic assessment
and
Criterion referenced assessment
The context is a 9th grade algebra class with 27 students. The primary focus in this unit has been linear equations.Would an instructional technique based on constructivist theory be okay for this class? Would a different technique and learning theory be better? Explain?
Constructivist theory posits that students need to create their own understanding. While some students might thrive in a learning atmosphere where they are encouraged to determine unique solutions, others would feel ill-prepared to learn these skills. Ideally, students would have the option of using constructivist learning theory to create their own unique understanding, but they should be supported with direct instruction as well. Direct instruction is associated with behaviorism. Behavioral learning theory focuses on students being taught skills directly. Research suggests that students benefit from learning specific techniques to solve mathematical problems.
