Three of the Following Teaching Strategies Should Help Students Benefit

question 69

Multiple Choice

Three of the following teaching strategies should help students benefit from a discovery learning situation.Which strategy is least likely to be helpful?

• A)Mr.Sokol takes his students to the site of a battle and says, "Okay, look around and see what you can find."
• B)Ms.Elliot asks students to write down their discoveries about what happens to a chemical solution when they heat it.
• C)Ms.Talbot gives students several guidelines to follow as they conduct a physics experiment.
• D)Mr.DiCicco makes sure students have some knowledge about triangles, including the concepts of base and height, then provides an exercise through which they discover for themselves the formula for calculating the area of a triangle.

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Definitions:

Masked Branding

Masked branding is a strategy where a company's products are marketed without clear association with the parent brand, often to appeal to a different market segment or to test new markets.

Fixed-Ratio

In the context of behavioral psychology, this refers to a reinforcement schedule that rewards a response only after a specified number of responses.

Variable-Ratio

A schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded after an unpredictable number of responses, commonly used in behavior modification programs.

Fixed-Interval

A schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed.