Researchers and Theorists Have Offered Numerous Suggestions Regarding How Teachers

question 39

Multiple Choice

Researchers and theorists have offered numerous suggestions regarding how teachers might help students develop more effective learning and study strategies. Which one of the following is not consistent with their suggestions?

• A) Show students in a concrete fashion (perhaps by giving them a short quiz) just how ineffective their current strategies are.
• B) Teach students some techniques for evaluating their own performance on a regular basis.
• C) Help students acquire epistemic beliefs that are implicit rather than explicit, so that students apply them unconsciously and automatically.
• D) Have students work together in pairs or small groups on challenging learning tasks.

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Definitions:

Indentured Servants

Individuals who agreed to work for a set period without wages in exchange for passage to the New World.

Chesapeake Tobacco Planters

Landowners and farmers in the Chesapeake Bay region who cultivated tobacco as a cash crop during the colonial and early national periods of American history.

Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

Refers to the region and period relating to the Chesapeake Bay in the 1600s marked by the establishment of English colonial societies based on tobacco farming and indentured servitude.

Artisans

Skilled manual workers who craft goods or products with their hands, often resulting in unique, functional art or functional items.