Listening Comprehension Strategy - read the questions before watching/listening

Instructions

1) The main idea is about... learning of the people indifferent of the IQ level

2) The speaker’s purpose is to... The grit: is the perseverance for the a goal

3) Organize the sequence of the author’s activities

She studied psychology 4

She taught at a public school 3

She worked in management consulting 1

She did research work 2

4) The author discovered that success depends mostly on:

family economic support.

a person’s ability to learn quickly and easily. X

personal health and appearance.

a person’s determination to keep on going.

5) In the video, the author does NOT say that: (1pt)

a better understanding of students and learning is needed.

social intelligence was a good predictor of success.

the one thing teachers know how to measure best is IQ.

she tried to predict which children would advance. X

6) The author implies that the educational system needs

improvement of physical installations

motivational and psychological emphasis X

the design of a simplified curriculum

better standardized tests to measure the IQ

7) What motivated the author to go to graduate school?