As a teacher, you want your students to use effective information ...

[mwit1967]

As a teacher, you want your students to use effective information processing strategies as they study classroom subject matter. You consider research about the effects of classroom assessment tasks on learning, and you conclude that you should:
 
  a. Ask many short questions rather than a few lengthy ones.
  b. Assess students' rote knowledge of the material first, then ask higher-level questions about the material in a subsequent assessment.
  c. Give assessment tasks that require meaningful understanding of the material.
  d. Not give paper-pencil tests at all.

Question 2

Three of the following statements reflect contemporary views of Piaget's stages. Which statement is not accurate?
 
  a. The stages better reflect how children can think under optimal circumstances rather than how they typically do think in day-to-day situations.
  b. Acquisition of stage-related characteristics (or not) seems to depend to some degree on the culture in which a child grows up.
  c. Most formal operational capabilities emerge 23 years earlier than Piaget suggested.
  d. Cognitive development can be better characterized as gradual trends than as four distinct stages.

[emily12345]

Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

c

[mwit1967]

Excellent

[gcook]

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