Visible Learning for Teachers_John Hattie

Question 1

Why would intelligent people devote hundred of hours to honing an inherently __________ skill

Answer 1

unavailing

Question 2

one aspect that ______ for explanation is….

Answer 2

clamour

Question 3

but such brief split second usage does not develop the ____ _____ in any meaningful way

Answer 3

mental schemata

Question 4

passing knowledge through oral traditions becomes less _______ if more effective communication vehicles have become effective

Answer 4

laudable

Question 5

how ____ the individual mind is when it comes to holding _____ peices of information such as numbers

Answer 5

fallible, arbitrary

Question 6

clear and ____ techniques for memorization should be actively taught

Answer 6

usable

Question 7

teachers taught _____ students to establish for the student that they are “not ____ at all”

Answer 7

remedial, dumb

Question 8

the term acrostic tends to be used when a word can stand as a memory aid to help ___ the procedue

Answer 8

cue

Question 9

One experienced teacher instructed her students to “Call in the COPS”

Answer 9

capitals, organization, punctuation, spelling

Question 10

If you count the number of letters in the sentence, than ____, the value is Pi.

Answer 10

behold

Question 11

If you encounter someone who has just suffered a severe ____ __ __ ____, or a possible ______, get them to START: smile, talk, arm raise, poke their tongue

Answer 11

blow to the head, stroke

Question 12

The medical world has developed an extensive set of such mnemonics of tremendous value in training the _______.

Answer 12

noviciate

Question 13

… rather than remaining a word to be learnt by _____ rehearsal alone

Answer 13

blunt

Question 14

The results are _________.

Answer 14

variable

Question 15

A skilled interpreter has no use for _____ keywords.

Answer 15

contrived

Question 16

… any available learning aid that would help restore that vital info back into the _____ and overloaded working memory stystem

Answer 16

puny

Question 17

Useful mnemonics are embeded within context, rather that being seen as _______ tools for assimilating lists of meaningless information.

Answer 17

generic

Question 18

__________ of mnemonic arts often ______ educators for failing to teach memory techniques

Answer 18

Exponents, assail

Question 19

similar findings ______ in all fields

Answer 19

abound

Question 20

One leading researcher expressed such findings _______.

Answer 20

sardonically

Question 21

…. considerable evidence for the phenomenon of ___-_______

Answer 21

self-enhancement

Question 22

it was initially felt the effect could be a form of _______ lying.

Answer 22

outright

Question 23

When people are _____ to answer honestly,…..

Answer 23

induced

Question 24

People have great difficulty in _______ the notion of average.

Answer 24

benchmarking

Question 25

People commonly believe they are stating the truth as would be seen by any fair _____.

Answer 25

umpire

Question 26

Many people will afford themselves any opportunity to ____ __.

Answer 26

talk up

Question 27

But the chance of being ______ is minimal.

Answer 27

unmasked

Question 28

Being average on tricks (like the ability to balance a pencil on its end) is ________.

Answer 28

immaterial

Question 29

You are also a valued member of your professional _______.

Answer 29

fraternity

Question 30

Whenever a desirable attribute is cited, it is not difficult to access memories of incidents that ____ __ ____.

Answer 30

fit the bill

Question 31

When compared with objective _____, self-assessments are not only poor, but not accurate.

Answer 31

indices

Question 32

People who smile are more likely to be successful at _______.

Answer 32

hitchhiking

Question 33

People who smile are more likely to be regarded as someone others would like to _______.

Answer 33

befriend

Question 34

People who smile tend to be treated with _______ when they break rules.

Answer 34

leniency

Question 35

People who smile are less likely to ___ _____ for medical malpractice.

Answer 35

get sued

Question 36

Human-like avatars programmed to show gentle smiles in the course of a ____ _____.

Answer 36

sales pitch

Question 37

_______, _______ smile

Answer 37

sneering, mocking

Question 38

___ smile

Answer 38

coy

Question 39

After taking a few moments to regroup, he stood up before the assembly smiling broadly, to ________ applause.

Answer 39

rapturous

Question 40

The smile is a basic social signal, ___-_____ universal to the human species.

Answer 40

well-nigh

Question 41

people smile back in a fast, automative, ________-like manner

Answer 41

contagion

Question 42

smiling in response to a genuine pleasurable event is distinguishable from smiling for more ______ purposes

Answer 42

contrived

Question 43

The face will register the extent to which a person understands his or her current ________.

Answer 43

predicament

Question 44

the gentle, low-level smile, ______ by a brief, almost imperceptible movement of the muscles around the mouth

Answer 44

indexed

Question 45

finding that expert teachers ________ read their students’ body language

Answer 45

acutely

Question 46

Students observe how you smile and use this as an ______ to tell them what mood you are in.

Answer 46

index