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chandani

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on: Jun 20, 2018
A middle school teacher wants to motivate his students to learn classroom subject matter. Considering the age range of the youngsters in his classes, which one of the following strategies is most likely to be effective?
 
  a. Incorporate small-group work into each week's lessons.
  b. Display the work of the best students so that others can shoot for similar levels of performance.
  c. Award points for high achievement and good behavior, with the three students earning the most points getting an end-of-semester prize.
  d. Regularly remind students of his classroom rules so that students' behavior doesn't get out of control and interfere with instruction.

Question 2

Which one of the following children clearly has a performance goal rather than a mastery goal?
 
  a. Anne Marie persists when she encounters a difficult mathematics problem.
  b. Bart practices the song he will need to sing in his audition for the school choir.
  c. Christina always does more than her teacher requires.
  d. Devon is bored by easy assignments.


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tennis14576

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

B


chandani

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Excellent

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