Author Question: Using the suggestions for classroom practice as a basis for responding, which of the following ... (Read 88 times)

FButt · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Using the suggestions for classroom practice as a basis for responding, which of the following statements is the best assessment of what Halima did in her learning activity?

a. This is an effective activity, because it provides a real-world task and capitalizes on student-student interaction.
b. This is an effective activity, because it incorporates concepts such as elaboration and organization.
c. This is an ineffective activity, because Halima has not provided sufficient context for the topic.
d. This is an ineffective activity, because students haven't been provided with appropriate examples on which to model their speech.

Question 2

Mr. Smith has a girl named Katherine in his class. He is very good about knowing his students' names and calls on all of them regularly. One weekend he was at a social event and Katherine was there as well. He recognized her and prepared to introduce her to his wife. Much to his embarrassment he couldn't remember her name. Information processing theorists would suggest the best explanation would be which of the following?

a. He never got her name encoded into long-term memory, so he was unable to retrieve it.
b. He had encoded Katherine's name in the context of his class, and the social event was a different context.
c. The social event caused his perception to screen out her name.
d. Her name was not meaningful to him.