For which group of students is the pattern of simple questions that allow a high percentage of correct answers, along with ample encouragement and praise, considered most effective?

Correct answer: Younger students and lower-ability students of all ages.

Explanation

Effective teaching requires differentiating questioning strategies. For younger or struggling learners, a high-success, encouraging pattern builds confidence and participation. For high-ability learners, more challenging questions and critical feedback are needed to stimulate growth.

Other questions

Question 1

According to research by Robert Pianta, classroom climate consists of three dimensions. Which dimension covers affective concerns such as warmth, mutual respect, and positive emotional connections between teacher and students?

Question 2

What is the term for the unique kind of teacher knowledge that combines mastery of academic content with knowing how to teach that content and match it to student differences?

Question 3

In the Mager method for writing behavioral objectives, what are the three essential parts that a good objective must contain?

Question 4

What are the six processes in the revised Bloom's taxonomy of the cognitive domain, as published in 2001?

Question 5

In Rosenshine's Six Teaching Functions for effective direct instruction, what is the recommended student success rate for guided practice before moving to independent practice?

Question 6

What is the primary purpose of a comparative advance organizer in direct instruction?

Question 7

Classic research by Mary Budd Rowe found that when teachers learn to wait for at least 3 to 5 seconds after posing a question, what is a likely outcome?

Question 8

What is the key principle behind the Understanding by Design (UbD) model developed by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe?

Question 9

According to the Point/Counterpoint discussion on homework, what is the National PTA's recommendation for the maximum amount of daily homework for children in grades K-2?

Question 10

What is a major problem with ability grouping in schools with significant racial and ethnic diversity, according to Paul George (2005)?

Question 11

In Lyn Corno's model of adaptive teaching, what type of instruction is most appropriate for students who are novices in a subject area?

Question 12

What is the first step in the INCLUDE strategy recommended by Friend and Bursuck for making adaptations for students with disabilities?

Question 13

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that all students eligible for special education services must be considered for what type of support?

Question 14

What is a 'sustaining expectation effect' in the context of teacher expectations?

Question 15

According to the text, in which grades are self-fulfilling prophecy effects from teacher expectations generally stronger?

Question 16

What does research on planning indicate about the flexibility of teachers' plans?

Question 17

The collaborative approach to planning used in Japan, where a small group of teachers develop, teach, analyze, and refine a lesson, is called what?

Question 18

What do Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe call the 'twin sins' of instructional design that having a clear objective helps teachers avoid?

Question 19

In the taxonomy of the affective domain, which objective represents the highest level of commitment, where a student adopts an idea or value and acts consistently with it?

Question 20

What type of advance organizer would a teacher be using if they provided new knowledge, such as a broad statement of a literary theme, that students would need to understand an upcoming unit?

Question 21

Research reviewed on the value of discussing texts for improving student comprehension found that getting students to talk more was most effective for which group of students?

Question 22

What are the two kinds of expectation effects that can occur in classrooms?

Question 23

What is the typical pattern of questioning in a classroom recitation, often abbreviated as IRE?

Question 24

The chapter discusses a study of 64 middle schools which found that only a very small amount of class time was devoted to student-centered dialogues. What was the average amount of time per 60-minute class?

Question 25

In the Hattie and Timperley model of feedback, which level of feedback is considered most powerful for helping students move toward deep understanding and mastery?

Question 26

What term is used to describe an introductory statement that is broad enough to encompass all the information that will follow in a lesson, and which serves to direct attention and highlight relationships among ideas?

Question 27

According to research on teaching, Barak Rosenshine and Norma Furst reviewed about 50 studies and concluded which teacher behavior was the most promising for future research on effective teaching?

Question 28

Which of the following is NOT one of the six facets of deep understanding that is the focus of the Understanding by Design (UbD) model?

Question 29

In a 5-year longitudinal study of flexible grouping in a high-needs urban elementary school, what was the reported increase in students who reached mastery level?

Question 30

What is the term for a teacher's instruction that is similar to teacher warmth and enthusiasm and is considered the affective dimension in Pianta's model of classroom climate?

Question 31

Universal design is a current trend that involves considering the needs of all users in the design of what?

Question 32

In the anecdote about Marvin Marshall, a teacher mistakenly uses students' locker numbers as their IQ scores. What did the teacher do as a result of her mistaken belief that the students were very bright?

Question 33

What is the term for a groundless expectation that leads to behaviors that then make the original expectation come true?

Question 34

What type of questions have only one right answer, typically dealing with concrete facts?

Question 36

What is the primary drawback of direct instruction, particularly when it involves extended teacher presentations or lectures?

Question 37

Which of the following describes the strategy of 'scripted cooperation' as a way to incorporate active learning into lectures?

Question 38

What is the recommended success rate for students doing independent seatwork?

Question 39

In constructivist approaches to planning, what guides the teacher's decisions instead of specific student behaviors and skills?

Question 40

What are the four kinds of knowledge acted upon by cognitive processes in the 2001 revised Bloom's taxonomy?

Question 41

Which method of writing instructional objectives, proposed by Gronlund and Brookhart, starts with a general term like 'understand' and then lists sample behaviors as evidence?

Question 42

In a study of over 3,000 ninth-grade students in Singapore, what two factors were found to be positively related to student engagement?

Question 43

Studies in German high schools found that math teachers with more pedagogical content knowledge had students who were more cognitively engaged and supported, which predicted what outcome?

Question 44

What is the primary goal of flexible grouping?

Question 45

A teacher who is especially effective with African American students by showing both high expectations and great caring is referred to as what?

Question 46

What is a key difference in how teachers often interact with low-expectation students compared to high-expectation students during class discussions?

Question 47

According to the guidelines for avoiding the negative effects of teacher expectations, what should teachers do with information from tests and cumulative folders?

Question 48

In the summary of research on seatwork, a review found that students with learning disabilities were spending about what percentage of their time on individual seatwork?

Question 49

What does Pianta's 'Classroom Organization' dimension of classroom climate include?

Question 50

What is the recommended first step in Rosenshine's Six Teaching Functions?