Harmony School, 2002, Page 236

Description:	?p? JirI*5y>r- r;I v-■ ■ J —i ?--•M -a■< J.:L, _ :«ai > lfete. 4 ’ IStandardized tests do not reflect what we know abouthow students learn. They are based in behavioristpsychological theories from the nineteenth century.While our understanding of the brain and how peoplelearn and think has progressed enormously, tests haveremained the same. Behaviorism assumed thatknowledge could be broken into separate bits and thatpeople learned by passively absorbing these bits. Today,cognitive and developmental psychologists understand thatknowledge is not separable bits and that people (includingchildren) learn by connecting what they already know withwhat theyare trying to learn. If they cannot actively makemeaning out of what they are doing, they do not learn orremember. But most standardized tests do not incorporatethe modern theories andare still based on recall of isolatedfacts and narrow skills.Which of these words probably comes fromthe Latin word assilire, meaning to jump on?F:assistG:assertH.asylumJ assai IHer showed in her workbarb backlerF:dilegenceG:dilugenceHrdiligenceJrdilagenceThe author claims that by studying examples of handcraftedJapanese tansu that are still available today, scholars can learnabout which of the following?I. How mass production first began in JapanII. How Japanese industrialists developed shortcuts in buildingfurnitureIII. How the Japanese lived during the Edo Period and the Meiji Era
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Collection:	Harmony School

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