Chapter 4 Test Items
Chapter 4 Multiple-choice Items
1. This is one of the controversies surrounding use of word processing in schools.
A) effects of word processing on students’ handwriting
B) effects of word processing on quality of student compositions
C) whether 10-finger keyboarding is more important in language arts than in other content areas
D) how fast students’ 10-finger keyboarding should be at each grade level
2. This software is sometimes credited with starting the “microcomputer revolution” in schools, because it was the
first software package available for home computers.
A) desktop publishing
B) word processing
C) database
D) spreadsheet
3. This is the term for a row-column position in a spreadsheet.
A) item
B) record
C) cell
D) entry
4. What is the general term for software whose source code is made available for free and permits users to use,
change, and improve it?
A) shareware tools
B) open source
C) open software
D) sourceware tools
5. Since the release of products such as this, teachers and students in different locations can now use software
tools to create, edit, and share documents at the same time over the Internet.
A) Office Suite
B) Google Docs
C) open source
D) cloud computing
6. Which of the software tools in the “basic suite” would be helpful for preparing flyers and newsletters?
A) word processing
B) spreadsheets
C) presentation software
D) all of the above
7. These tools take over the task of doing arithmetic functions so that students can focus on higher level
mathematics concepts.
A) word processing
B) problem solving
C) simulations
D) spreadsheets
8. This feature of modern productivity tools makes it possible for files created in one company’s program to be
opened in another program.
A) file integration features
B) file-exchange compatibility
C) cloud-computing capability
D) integrated software features
9. This would be an example of a word processing template that a teacher might keep on hand to update and reuse
each year.
A) club budget
B) grade report
C) book report
D) welcome letter
10. This built-in feature of many word-processing programs can create problems if it replaces words with ones the
user did not intend.
A) correction command
B) auto insertion
C) auto correction
D) replacement command
11. This software would be useful to illustrate a numerical concept such as the difference between electoral votes
and popular votes.
A) word processing program
B) spreadsheet program
C) presentation program
D) graphics program
12. The most popular use of these tools is for supporting and strengthening classroom lectures and focusing student
attention during explanations of important concepts.
A) word processing software
B) spreadsheet software
C) presentation software
D) database software
13. Which of the following tools is not considered part of the “basic suite” of software tools?
A) word processing software
B) spreadsheet software
C) presentation software
D) graphics software
14. Though using this kind of software does not assure an organized, coherent talk or lecture, its emphasis on
breaking information into component parts can promote a more organized approach.
A) presentation software
B) graphics software
C) outlining software
D) analysis software
Chapter 4 Short-Answer Items
1. Which kind of software tool in the “basic suite” could help a teacher who is a club sponsor keep track of the
club’s budget?
2. What is the product called that contains several separate software tools in the same package?
3. Word-processing programs produce documents as a stream of text, whereas this kind of software produces them
as individual pages.
4. This is another term besides “spreadsheet” for the product of spreadsheet software.
5. What is the term for one page of a product created by presentation software?
6. This kind of software, though a brand name, is frequently used to mean any presentation software.
7. This is another word for a link inserted into a presentation that lets users jump to any location in the
presentation.
8. This software is the one component in the basic software suite that is the most commonly used in education.
9. Whether or not students need instruction in this to make effective use of word processing remains controversial.
10. This is another word for calculation commands given in a spreadsheet.
11. This kind of software can make it easier for students to get started writing, as well as to revise and improve their
writing.
12. Of the software components currently in the “basic software suite,” this is the one that makes it feasible for
teachers and students to pose “what if” questions and to answer them quickly and easily.
13. This kind of software can be used to create “practice screens” of spelling or vocabulary words or objects to
identify (e.g., lab equipment, famous names or places) to run automatically in the classroom.
14. This kind of software used to be part of the “basic suite” and is still used in education.
Chapter 4 Essay Items
1. Discuss some of the reasons that teachers choose to use software suites over non-computer tools.
2. Discuss some of the common instructional integration strategies for spreadsheets.
Chapter 4 Test Item Answer Key
Chapter 4 Multiple-choice Items
Chapter 4 Short-Answer Items
Chapter 4 Essay Items