There are a few children in your class who make errors. Which of these is most likely to be your analysis of the situation?

• The children have poor intelligence

• The children have not yet gained conceptual clarity and there is need for you to reflect on your pedagogy

• The children are not interested in studies and want to create indiscipline

• The children should not have been promoted to your class

Which one of the following statements best describes why children should be encouraged to ask questions in the class?

• Questions increase the curiosity of the children

• Children can be made to realize that they lack intelligence by making them think of all the things they don't know about

• Questions take learning forward by interactions and lead to conceptual clarity

• Children need to practice their language skills

• By giving children a variety of problems to solve and support while solving them

• By giving tangible rewards for solving problems

• By encouraging children to look for answers to the problems in the textbook

• By providing correct solutions to all the problems they pose to students

A student highlights the main points in a chapter, draws a visual representation and poses questions that arise in her mind at the end of the chapter. She is

• trying to regulate her own thinking by organization of ideas

• trying to use method of loci

• trying to use the strategy of maintenance rehearsal

• ensuring observational learning

In a learner-centred classroom, the teacher would

• encourage children to compete with each other for marks to facilitate learning

• use lecture method to explain key facts and then assess the learners for their attentiveness

• demonstrate what she expects her students to do and then gives them guidelines to do the same

• employ such methods in which the learners are encouraged to take initiative for their own learning

An upper primary school constructivist classroom would foresee the following role of students in their own assessment

• make detailed guidelines for how marks would be correlated to students' achievement and prestige in class

• denying that assessment has a role in teaching-learning

• students would be the sole determinants of their own assessment

• students would plan for assessment with the teacher

As an upper primary school mathematics teacher you believe that

• students' errors provide insights into their thinking

• students need to possess procedural knowledge even if they don't understand conceptual basis

• not all children have the ability to study mathematics in upper primary school

• boys will learn mathematics without much effort since they are 'born with it' and you need to pay more attention to girls.

Which one of these statements do you agree with?

• A child fails because the government is not giving enough technological resources in schools

• A child's failure is primarily due to lack of parent's education and economic status

• A child's failure can be attributed directly to the genetic material he/she has acquired from his/her parents

• A child's failure is a reflection on the system and its inability to respond to the child

Role of a teacher in a class is to

• follow the time-table strictly and stick to the course

• provide authentic learning situations and facilitate independent thinking in students

• fill the students with her own knowledge and prepare them for examinations

• transmit knowledge in a straight fashion and prepare students for right answers

Which of the following statements is most appropriate about children making errors?

• To avoid making errors, children need to imitate the teacher

• Children's errors need to be taken seriously and they should be punished severely so that they do not repeat the mistakes

• Children commit errors since they do not have the capacity to think

• Children's errors are a window into how they think