Potential Exam Questions, Exam #1
Potential Short Answer Questions
- Effective time management requires 3 tools. What are they, and what information
should you put in each tool?
- Describe 3 useful pieces of information you can find on the Sac State Library
Web page.
- What service is provided through Interlibrary Loan? When would you use those
services?
- When you have an assignment that requires research,
why is it a bad idea to rely on the Internet? Give at least four specific
reasons with examples.
- Explain five strategies for time management that will help you keep current
in your classes.
- Describe five strategies for a successful presentation, including at least
one on organization, one on using your voice, and one on using your body effectively.
- Describe the differences between these levels of learning: knowledge, comprehension,
applicaiton, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Be sure to define each level
in your answer.
- Choose three of these theories of learning and explain the difference between
them: constructivism, behaviorism, neuroscience, brain-based, communities
of practice, observational, Vygotsky and Piaget. For each theory, describe
at least one specific strategy for learning that you can apply in your own
life as a student.
Potential Essay Questions
1.Your friend is in your 9 am class, but she never gets up in time to go to
class, and asks you to take notes for her. You are going to stage an intervention
to try to get her to go to class and stop depending on you. You want to be really
ready for all her ptential arguments, and you want to have some good arguments
of your own so she will agree to start going to class.
- Think of two arguments she is likely to use to support her decision to miss
class. Describe each argument and how you would answer each argument.
- Think of at least two arguments you can use to persuade her that missing
class hurts not only her, but others in the class as well. Support each argument
with an example from your own experience, from what you have seen happen in
your classes, and what you have seen happen to your friends.
2.Your friend is very worried about the upcoming exam in his Biology class.
He has decided to lock himself in his room and read his notes over for the whole
night before the test. You talk him into tryng a learning styles assessment,
and he rates himself as an Auditory/Kinesthetic learner. What strategies should
he use to prepare for the test?
- Write list of recommendations for your friend, describing your recommendations
in detail, including:
- at least 5 strategies based on his learning style, and
- at least 5 strategies based on two of the learning theories listed here:
Vygotsky, commuities of practice, brain-based, observational.