Ch. 7: Apply and Evaluate

Reading through Ormrod's textbook, I found two quotes that piqued my interest. Taking these quotes and thinking about them with Bloom's taxonomy, I came up with the following:

Quote #1: "Transfer increases when the cultural environment encourages and expects transfer." (pg. 265)

• If cultural  environment discourages instead of encourages transfer, how can we as teachers expect our students to learn the topic?
• The topic that came to mind here was evolution and the Big Bang Theory. Science classes are required to teach these topics to students, but the Christian religion strongly discourages these concepts. If the student believes one thing to be true, whatever the topic may be, how can we expect our learners to actively engage in the topic?

Quote #2: "How students encode a problem influences their approach in trying to solve it." (pg. 269)

• Worded problems can be difficult to "encode"; it is sometimes difficult to really determine what the question is asking. How can students avoid this obstacle, especially during test taking?
• The most common occurrence for this example would be in a math lesson. A word problem requires reading skills and comprehension of the question and the material.
• Sometimes, a question on a test might include words that the student does not understand which will make that student misinterpret the question.
• How can we help students to understand what the question is asking? How can they feel prepared in answering the question?