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Multiple choice question

Strategies are steps and actions that help you achieve a specific goal.

For example:

Strategies such as summarizing and asking questions while you study can help you achieve higher test scores.

Two strategies helped England to win the war: They always tried to surprise the enemy, and they always attacked with all their strength instead of using only a small number of soldiers.

series of actions to improve the way you do something

errors that prevent you from reaching your goal

set of techniques to help you do something more effectively

plans to help you do things better

Which words below are closest in meaning to strategies? Choose the 3 correct answers.

Response:

plans to help you do things better

errors that prevent you from reaching your goal

series of actions to improve the way you do something

set of techniques to help you do something more effectively
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readers who want to understand a difficult text

people who want to plan what to cook for dinner

salespeople who want to increase their sales

students who want to succeed at university

Which answers are examples of people who need strategies?

Choose the 3 correct answers. 

Response:

readers who want to understand a difficult text

students who want to succeed at university

salespeople who want to increase their sales

people who want to plan what to cook for dinner
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cope more effectively with something that is complex.

make something less difficult.

decide what we need to do and in what order of priority.

get someone else to do our work for us.

Which answers below best complete this sentence? Choose the 3 correct answers.

 

The main purpose of a strategy is to help us ...

Response:

make something less difficult.

get someone else to do our work for us.

cope more effectively with something that is complex.

decide what we need to do and in what order of priority.
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According to Edward de Bono, creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in new and different ways. Together with other experts, de Bono developed a range of strategies you can use to help you think more creatively. 

 

In this exercise, you will use the SCAMPER strategy, developed by Robert Eberle. This strategy consists of questions you can ask yourself to help you be more creative. 

 

SCAMPER stands for:

Substitute: What can I use instead of what we always use?

Combine:   What can I combine or put together to do something in a new way?

Adapt: How can I change this?

Modify or Magnify: What can I add or make bigger?

Put to alternative uses: How I can I use this differently, what else can I use this for?

Eliminate or Minimize: What can I remove, reduce or make smaller?

Reverse or Rearrange: What can be rearranged in some way? 

 

act as 'lenses' to help you look at something in new ways.

help you start thinking more creatively.

give you creative solutions.

lead you to new ideas.

Let's see if the SCAMPER strategy can help you.

Use the above list of SCAMPER questions to help you think of 3 ways to improve the way you make or do something.

Then choose 2 answers that best complete the following sentence: SCAMPER questions can ...

Response:

help you start thinking more creatively.

give you creative solutions.

act as 'lenses' to help you look at something in new ways.

lead you to new ideas.
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Concept mapping is a learning strategy designed to help students understand connections and relationships between ideas. Concept maps were first developed by Professor Joseph Novak, at Cornell University in the 1970s as a method of helping students see the relationships between concepts. See two examples of concept maps below. For more about how and why this strategy can help you study more effectively, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map. The previous exercise, Exercise 5, is a good example of a strategy that can help you think more creatively.

Read this paragraph and answer the question below.

Concept maps are a strategy for showing students how to get from one concept to another.

Making concept maps can help students remember what they read.

Concept maps are a strategy for helping students understand complex ideas.

How Can Concept Maps Help Students Learn? In order to remember new information about a concept, students have to understand how the parts of a concept fit together. Concept maps can help students “;see”; how different ideas related to a concept form a larger, integrated whole. Students can use these maps to divide material they are learning into different parts that work together to form the “;big picture”;, instead of being left with a lot of “;small pieces, loosely joined”;. Concept map strategies can also improve meaningful learning by helping students to see how new concepts they are learning are related to what they already know.

What is the main message of this text? Choose the 3 correct answers.

Response:

Making concept maps can help students remember what they read.

Concept maps are a strategy for showing students how to get from one concept to another.

Concept maps are a strategy for helping students understand complex ideas.