Ch. 3 Key Vocabulary

Question 1

Effective Feedback

Answer 1

Is clear, relevant, immediate, and constructive.

Question 2

Critical Thinking

Answer 2

The process students use to reflect on, assess, and judge the assumptions underlying their own and others’ ideas and efforts.

Question 3

Creative Thinking

Answer 3

The process students use to develop ideas that are unique, useful, and worthy of further elaboration.

Question 4

Metacognition

Answer 4

Thinking about thinking, involves questioning our individual learning processes.

Question 5

Originality

Answer 5

Combine ideas in new ways or come up with unusual ideas

Question 6

Flexibility and Elaboration

Answer 6

Categorize and develop ideas

Question 7

Visualization

Answer 7

This strategy opens up student thinking by using sensory information to stimulate imagination with both spoken and written words.

Question 8

Mind Mapping

Answer 8

Method of visual note-taking that helps students organize information in unique and personal ways.

Question 9

Differentiation

Answer 9

Structured learning environments that address the variety of learning styles, interests, and abilities found within a classroom. Differentiated instruction is based upon the belief that students learn best when they make connections between the curriculum and their diverse interests and experiences.

Question 10

Encapsulation

Answer 10

The process of stating ideas in a concise, precise form.