Experiential learning, an aspect of pragmatism, holds that education should come through what?
Correct answer C. experience
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What is the process of choosing units from a population in order to estimate the population’s characteristics?
Correct answer B. Sampling
According to Aristotle, virtue is what kind of state between excess and deficiency?
Correct answer C. Intermediate
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Where was Plato’s Academy founded?
Correct answer A. Athens
According to the theory of forms, what is the material world in relation to the real world?
Correct answer D. Image
According to idealist philosophy of education, what should form the subject matter of the curriculum?
Correct answer A. The mind
Which law states that we are motivated to gain rewards and avoid punishments?
Correct answer C. law of effect
According to John Locke, what does a child’s mind not contain at birth?
Correct answer A. Innate ideas
A teacher shows a picture for a second or two and then asks students to describe as much of it as they can. What is the teacher trying to improve?
Correct answer B. Visual Memory of the students
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What is the term for a student-generated list of words, kept by students to remind them of words they need to practise further?
Correct answer A. Spelling Notebook
What is a one-to-one approach to teaching or re-teaching concepts called?
Correct answer A. Tutoring
What is the cooperative learning method called that combines whole-class learning with heterogeneous small groups?
Correct answer A. Circles of learning
When a teacher forms groups of students who take turns asking each other questions, which strategy is being used?
Correct answer B. Cooperative Review
You are a well-known teacher, but your students are unhappy with your teaching style. How should you teach them?
Correct answer A. Will make harmony with students' style
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the theory of what?
Correct answer B. Knowledge
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According to John Dewey, what are the two sides of the educational process?
Correct answer D. psychological and sociological
What is an assessment called that measures what it is intended to measure?
Correct answer B. Valid
Which technique is commonly used to help people start the creative process?
Correct answer C. Brainstorming
How would you approach taking on a project?
Correct answer A. Plan it very carefully and see that there is no chance of failure
How should a teacher treat pupils in a co-educational class?
Correct answer A. Deal with them according to need