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Instructional approaches determine how teachers present content, involve learners and achieve lesson objectives. Coverage includes lecture, discussion, demonstration, questioning, problem-solving, cooperative learning, project and activity methods, along with teacher-centred and learner-centred approaches. Method selection depends on the subject, learners, available resources and intended learning outcome.

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Fairly easy
  • A. control
  • B. uncontrolled
  • C. both
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Cybernetic systems are modeled on automatic control devices that use feedback to monitor and adjust performance.

Correct answer: control
Hard
  • A. non regulated
  • B. regulated
  • C. both
  • D. None of these

Explanation: A cybernetic process compares the initial state with the final result through feedback and regulates the system when needed.

Correct answer: regulated
Moderate
  • A. Congnitive pedagogy
  • B. Integrative pedagogy
  • C. cooperative pedagogy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: In the jigsaw technique, each student researches one part and teaches it to group members, making it a cooperative learning strategy.

Correct answer: cooperative pedagogy
Moderate
  • A. cooperative pedagogy
  • B. Congnitive pedagogy
  • C. Integrative pedagogy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Cooperative pedagogy organizes students into small groups that work together toward shared learning goals.

Correct answer: cooperative pedagogy
Moderate
  • A. Congnitive pedagogy
  • B. Integrative pedagogy
  • C. cooperative pedagogy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Positive interdependence is a core element of cooperative learning, meaning group members depend on one another to achieve a common goal.

Correct answer: cooperative pedagogy
Fairly easy
  • A. cooperative pedagogy
  • B. Congnitive pedagogy
  • C. Integrative pedagogy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Collaborative pedagogy is commonly used as a broad label for cooperative pedagogy because both emphasize students working together to…

Correct answer: cooperative pedagogy
Moderate
  • A. Integrative pedagogy
  • B. cooperative pedagogy
  • C. Congnitive pedagogy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Jigsaw is a well-known cooperative learning activity in which each learner becomes responsible for one part of the material and…

Correct answer: cooperative pedagogy
Moderate
  • A. Congnitive pedagogy
  • B. Integrative pedagogy
  • C. cooperative pedagogy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: When small-group activities are deliberately used as a learning experience, they represent cooperative pedagogy.

Correct answer: cooperative pedagogy
Moderate
  • A. cooperative pedagogy
  • B. Congnitive pedagogy
  • C. Integrative pedagogy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Small-group tasks are characteristic of cooperative pedagogy because students share work, support one another, and pursue a common…

Correct answer: cooperative pedagogy
Moderate
  • A. Congnitive pedagogy
  • B. Integrative pedagogy
  • C. cooperative pedagogy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Cooperative learning promotes social interaction by requiring students to communicate, coordinate, and help one another.

Correct answer: cooperative pedagogy
Moderate
  • A. cooperative pedagogy
  • B. Congnitive pedagogy
  • C. Integrative pedagogy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Cooperative learning reflects Vygotsky’s view that learning develops through social interaction, while also teaching interpersonal and…

Correct answer: cooperative pedagogy
Moderate
  • A. Congnitive pedagogy
  • B. Integrative pedagogy
  • C. cooperative pedagogy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Individual accountability is a core element of cooperative learning: each student must contribute and understand the material, not hide…

Correct answer: cooperative pedagogy
Fairly easy
  • A. teaching
  • B. acting
  • C. Learning
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Jigsaw is a popular cooperative learning activity, not merely a teaching or acting activity.

Correct answer: Learning
Fairly easy
  • A. big
  • B. small
  • C. both
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Cooperative learning normally takes place in small groups so that members can interact, share responsibility, and remain individually…

Correct answer: small
Fairly easy
  • A. special
  • B. common
  • C. both
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Cooperation involves group members sharing responsibility for a common task or goal.

Correct answer: common
Fairly easy
  • A. external
  • B. internal
  • C. Interpersonal
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Interpersonal skills are a core element of cooperative learning because students must communicate, listen, resolve disagreements, and…

Correct answer: Interpersonal
Fairly easy
  • A. Initial
  • B. Positive
  • C. negative
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Positive interdependence is the principle that group members’ success is linked, so they need one another to complete the task.

Correct answer: Positive
Fairly easy
  • A. title
  • B. contents
  • C. subject
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Cooperation aims to improve learners’ understanding of a subject by having them work together on its content and problems.

Correct answer: subject
Moderate
  • A. model
  • B. phase
  • C. element
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Face-to-face promotive interaction is commonly listed as the fourth basic element of cooperative learning, alongside positive…

Correct answer: element
Fairly easy
  • A. pupils
  • B. teachers
  • C. both
  • D. none of these

Explanation: A cooperative approach requires pupils or students to work together in small groups so that each member can participate.

Correct answer: pupils