Which statement best describes the Constructivist model?

• A. The teacher is the sole source of information.
• B. Learner passively receives everything.
• C. The learner creates knowledge; constructs and adds meaningful new knowledge to existing knowledge; shapes knowledge by life experiences and social interactions; and they establish knowledge cooperatively.
• D. Knowledge is fixed and unaffected by experience.

Answer: (C)

Constructivism sees learning as an active process in which students build new understanding by connecting it to what they already know, shaped by life experiences and social interactions. The statement that best describes this model highlights that the learner creates knowledge, adds meaningful new understanding to existing ideas, and constructs knowledge cooperatively through experiences and collaboration with others. In practice, this means students explore, ask questions, discuss with peers, and receive guidance from the teacher as a facilitator, rather than simply receiving information.

This view contrasts with approaches where the teacher is the sole source of information, where learners passively receive knowledge, or where knowledge is seen as fixed and unchanged by experience. Those ideas don’t fit with how constructivism explains learning as an evolving, socially situated process of meaning-making.