48.    When a science teacher asks the class, “what do you know about the pollution?”, the teacher is encouraging __________________ in order to use the students existing knowledge to set the stage for new information.

46.    Participating in debates and writing persuasive essays are great ways to increase students’ ___________.

43.    _______________ is when a student transfers what he/she learns in school to another setting.

31.    A problem-solving strategy that increases the probability of finding a solution, but does not guarantee a solution, is called an algorithm. 

42.    ______________is when learning in one situation fails to generalize to other settings.

50.    When a student learns to identify effective study strategies, plan out a schedule and manage their time, monitor their progress along the way, and evaluate the effectiveness of their chosen strategy, he/she is engaging in ________________________.

37.    The reason for the greater success of partial notes is that they force the student to __________________. 

35.    Which of the following is NOT an element of thought related to critical thinking?

47.    Many students become overwhelmed when they are assigned a research paper, and as a result tend to procrastinate and turn in incomplete or sub-standard work.  A teacher can help the students “solve this problem” by breaking the task down into smaller steps/tasks (e.g. choose a topic, find 5-10 research sources, make an outline, write a rough draft, and edit to produce a final draft).  This problem-solving strategy is called _________________.

45.    People often have trouble solving the following problem due to the way it is presented. Problem: Connect all dots with no more than 4 lines without lifting your pencil. People assume that they cannot go beyond the outline of the general shape of the square.  This is an example of ___________________.