ANSWER KEY

Test I: Multiple Choice

Direction: Read each question carefully and write the letter of the correct answer.

1. Students are not being the only ones who resist these approaches. Some colleagues and administrators
will object as well.
a. Faculty Resistance b. Overcoming Resistance c. Responding to resistance d. resistance

2. It is a behavior that communicates dissatisfaction or conflict in response to new or changing

information or experiences.
a. Learner Centered Approach b. Resistance c. Faculty Resistance d. Passive Resistance

3. These approaches are more work for faculty, who now face complex instructional design issues, but the
students resist because they quickly realize that this means much more work for them as well.
a. Learner Centered Approach are more work c. Learner Centered Approach are more threatening
b. Learner Centered Approach involve lossess d. Learner Centered Approach may be beyond students

4. Students also resist these approaches because they are afraid.

a. Learner Centered Approach are more work c. Learner Centered Approach are more threatening
b. Learner Centered Approach involve lossess d. Learner Centered Approach may be beyond students

5. This frequently appears as an overwhelming lack of enthusiasm for what you have proposed.
a. Open Resistance b. Partial Compliance c. Passive, Non-Verbal Resistance d. Resistance

6. These are the students who openly object to the approach or the policies, practices, and assignments
associated with it.
a. Passive, Non-verbal Resistance b. Open Resistance c. both a and b d. Partial Compliance

7. This resistance is often what students do if the teacher ignores their passive resistance and keeps after them
until they comply.
a. Open Resistance b. Partial Compliance c. Faculty Resistance d. sana all

8. It is important for the learner-centered teacher to have some strategies for dealing with it.
a. Dealing w/ Faculty Resistance b.Resistance c. Faculty Resistance d. all of the above
9. This is all Strategies in Dealing with Faculty Resistance, which one is NOT.
a. Be Mindful of the Politic c. Use the Autonomy of your Classroom
b. Do not seek to convert Masses d. Norms in the Classroom

10. He said “found that if faculty display cold, uncaring attitudes and lack of enthusiasm, students resist more
so don’t become part of the problem”.

a. Karl Maxx b. Immanuel Kant c. Kearney and Plax d. Aristotle

Test II: (Knowledge) Identification

Direction: From the pool of words below, choose the appropriate answer of the following descriptions.
Overcoming the resistance Resistance Kearney and Plax

Passive, Non-verbal Resistance Frequent and Explicit Open Resistance

Encourages and Positively Reinforces Resists Their Resistance Partial Compliance

Dealing w/ Faculty Resistance Faculty Resistance Lawrence Kohlberg

 _________11.
Passive, Non-verbal Resistance This frequently appears as an overwhelming lack of enthusiasm for what you have proposed.

Dealing w/ Faculty Resistance Faculty is not quickly dissipated with easy answers.
__________12.
Faculty Resistance Consider how a faculty member committed to learner-centered approaches.
__________13.

Overcoming__________14.
the Resistance It is something the teacher works to help students accomplish for themselves.

__________15.
Encourages and Positively Reinforces The more enduring resistance springs from anxiety, the fear of not knowing how if they can
do it.

__________16.Is
Resistance a behavior that communicates conflict in response to new or changing information or
experiences.

__________17.
Frequent and Explicit The rationale behind learner-centered approaches to teaching needs to be discussed openly
and regularly.

Resist__________18.
their Resistance If it continues, it tends to wear us down, which is exactly the response students want,
especially at the beginning of this endeavour.
Kearney and Plax
__________19. According to him that student resistance is widespread.
Open Resistance
__________20.These are the students who are confident in complaining to the approaches.

Test III: Enumeration

Direction: Enumerate the terms being asked.

21-24. Common reasons students resist learner-centered approaches

 Learner-Centered Approaches Are More Work

 Learner-Centered Approaches Are More Threatening
 Learner-Centered Approaches Involve Losses
 Learner-Centered Approaches May Be Beyond Students

25-30. Strategies in Dealing with Faculty Resistance

 Be Mindful of the Politics

 Use the Autonomy of your Classroom

 Do not seek to Convert Masses

 Document the Impact of your Approaches

 Find Like- Minded Colleagues

 To Finish Up
31-35. Characteristics of communication to Resistance

 The Communication Is Frequent and Explicit

 The Communication Encourages and Positively Reinforces
 The Communication Solicits Feedback from Students
 The Communication Resists Their Resistance

Test IV: Essay Type (5 pts each)

1. Why students resist?

Students resist because their observable behavior makes an instructor for less likely to use an instructional
strategy. They passively refusing to participate in an activity, actively complaining or disrupting group during an activity
or giving low course evaluations to the instructors who use active learning.

2. Why some students object of the learner centered approach?

Students object without having to own the responsibility of doing so. It presents the teacher with special
challenges because students can maintain that it is not happening. Students may not do assignments because they object
to what they are being asked to do, but when confronted, they offer other excuses. That’s why they resist by faking
attention, appearing to take notes while actually working on material from another class.

3. Why do we need to overcome resistance?

We need to overcome the resistance because it is the way how we express our negative thoughts so that
individual’s must overcome to communicate with people who are willing to help to avoid lack of enthusiasm and
confidence. And so on you will be able to overcome those negative impacts to become comfortable and active learning.