Part 1. Definition
You need to read the given passage and construct a question about the information present in the passage. The question should be answerable from the passage. Most importantly, only those questions are allowed whose answers cannot be determined from a single sentence. Do not generate questions that require only a single sentence to answer. Instead, try to combine two sentences and create a question from that combination. Do not create open-ended questions, i.e., the answers to them cannot be found precisely from the information provided in the passage.
Part 2. Example
Paragraph- Sent 1: A Republican bid to keep the government open past Friday includes no new money for the construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to several congressional aides familiar with ongoing talks.
Sent 2: GOP leaders submitted the new offer Tuesday afternoon in an effort to appease Democrats, whose votes are needed to avert a shutdown of federal agencies, several House and Senate aides said.
Sent 3: However, Republicans also insisted on increases in border security and defense spending, including money to repair existing fencing and new surveillance technology to patrol the nearly 2,000-mile border.
Sent 4: Democrats have indicated that they would support such appropriations so long as no money goes toward an actual wall.
Answer: Who has to be appeased to keep the government open?
Explanation: This is a good multi-sentence question because, "appease Democrats" is mentioned in Sent 2, while "keep the government open" is part of Sent 1. As this question requires more than one sentences to answer, it's a good question.
Part 3. Exercise
Paragraph- Sent 1: Bandura on education Bandura's social learning theory contributes to students and teachers within the field of education.
Sent 2: In 1986, Bandura changed the name of the social learning theory to social cognitive theory.
Sent 3: The social cognitive theory still focuses on how behavior and growth are affected by the cognitive operations that occur during social activities.
Sent 4: The key theoretical components of the social cognitive theory that are applied in education are self-efficacy, self-regulation, observational learning, and reciprocal determinism.
Sent 5: The social cognitive theory can be applied to motivation and learning for students and teachers.
Sent 6: Bandura's research shows that high perceived self-efficacy leads teachers and students to set higher goals and increases the likelihood that they will dedicate themselves to those goals.
Sent 7: In an educational setting self-efficacy refers to a student or teacher's confidence to participate in certain actions that will help him or her achieve distinct goals.
Sent 8: Self-regulation is the process by which an individual sets future goals and manages his or her behavior and plans to accomplish them.
Sent 9: It operates under individual everyday classroom functions such as goal setting, self-monitoring, and self-influence.
Sent 10: The social cognitive theory research offers support that modeling can be useful for incorporating new strategies into training for teachers.
Sent 11: According to Bandura's observational learning theory, students acquire self-regulative functions from observing models.
Sent 12: Observational learning occurs when students or teachers observe a well-trained model and experience increases in his or her knowledge and understanding.
Sent 13: Lastly, the mutual relationship between a student or teacher, his or her environment, and his or her behavior is pointed out as key components in Bandura's triadic reciprocal determinism theory.
Sent 14: The mutual relationships within reciprocal determinism point out what influences behavior and the results that will affect future thoughts.
Sent 15: In other words, when a student or teacher decides to replicate an observed behavior, that student or teacher's self-efficacy provides him or her with the confidence to attempt to perform the observed behavior.
Sent 16: Self-regulation is the process he or she will use to set goals to perform the observed behavior.
Sent 17: If the performed behavior leads to successful results, it will encourage him or her to perform similar behaviors again and validate his or her use of high self-efficacy.
Answer:
In Bandura's observational learning theory, when does observational learning occur?