Ms. Iwata has a long-term goal for her science students: to consider what they have learned about science as they deal with issues and problems in their daily lives.
What teaching strategy will best help her students retrieve relevant scientific principles when they need them the most?
a. Make sure that students study those principles in a no-anxiety situation.
b. Associate those principles with as many real-life situations as possible.
c. Maximize the use of concrete materials, and minimize the use of abstract ideas.
d. Maximize the use of abstract ideas, and minimize the use of concrete materials.
Question 2
The textbook describes a study by Bartlett in which college students in England read a Native American ghost story entitled The War of the Ghosts.
From Bartlett's results, we can conclude that students who read a story written from the perspective of a culture different from their own are likely to:
a. Reject the story as being ridiculous or far-fetched
b. Form unwarranted and prejudicial attitudes about people from the other culture
c. Interpret the story in a way that's more consistent with their own culture
d. Construct a more multicultural perspective of the world
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