Chapter 5 Test Items
Chapter 5 Multiple-choice Items
1. Which of the following is a characteristic of desktop publishing software that differentiates it from word
processing software?
A) Flows pages in a continuous stream of text
B) Creates documents as separate pages
C) Contains graphics and text in one document
D) Makes full use of desktop features and capabilities
2. Which of the following is an accepted design criterion for desktop-published documents?
A) Avoid overuse of type styles
B) Make maximum use of colors
C) Use a variety of different fonts
D) Use serif and sans serif fonts
3. The function of an IEP generator is to:
A) assist students with special needs in their homework
B) generate rubrics for IEP teachers
C) automatize grading scales for IEP programs
D) assist teachers in preparing student IEPs
4. Which of the following software tools can be used to design web-based lessons?
A) web page editors
B) web page browsers
C) webquest software
D) web-based designers
5. Notebook and ActivStudio are examples of what kind of software tool?
A) web page development software
B) online student response systems
C) interactive whiteboard activity software
D) interactive data analysis software
6. Which kind of software tool would a teacher choose in order to develop a test item bank?
A) data analyzer
B) item analyzer
C) rubric generator
D) test generator
7. This software permits creating, viewing, and sending documents as images so they appear in the format in
which they were created.
A) PDF software
B) IEP software
C) image software
D) draw software
8. In a student database, this is the term for all the data elements related to one student.
A) field
B) record
C) cell
D) mine
9. A teacher could use this kind of software to analyze and do descriptive statistics on student responses in an
action research project.
A) student response system
B) assessment analysis package
C) test item generator
D) statistical software package
10. If a social studies teacher wanted to poll students anonymously about their opinions on a local issue, she might
use this tool to gather their data.
A) voter analysis tool
B) test generation software
C) statistical analysis software
D) online survey tool
11. These two software tools have some overlapping functions.
A) online survey tools and test generators
B) databases and student response systems
C) computer-based testing systems and test generators
D) electronic gradebooks and databases
12. These software tools allow parents online access to their child’s grades and attendance information from any
location, including home.
A) online survey tools
B) student information systems
C) statistical analysis software
D) student response systems
13. Which of these tools would be of most use to geography teachers?
A) GPS systems
B) CAD systems
C) CBL systems
D) MIDI systems
14. Which of these tools would be of most use to music teachers?
A) CAD systems
B) GPS systems
C) MIDI systems
D) CBL systems
Chapter 5 Short-Answer Items
1. What is the term coined in 1984 by Paul Brainerd to mean using a combination of software, microcomputers,
and printers to allow individuals to be their own publishers?
2. What is another word for typefaces used in desktop publishing documents?
3. What is another term for web design software?
4. This alternate name for Microcomputer-based Labs (MBL s) and derives from the sensors that are attached to ʹ
the devices to collect data.
5. A teacher could use this tool rather than a spreadsheet to maintain and calculate grades from tests and other
work.
6. This is a commonly-used alternate term for student response systems and is so-called because of the buttons
students use to give answers.
7. These are collections of pre-drawn pictures that may be inserted into documents.
8. This is a term for analyzing elements in an information database to look for hidden data patterns.
9. A teacher could use this kind of software to create a word-search game to help students review vocabulary
words.
10. This reading tool provides passages of text with words missing in a given pattern (e.g., every fifth word or every
tenth wor
D), which students do as a fill-in exercise.
11. This term refers to the standard adopted by the electronic music industry for controlling devices that play music.
12. This software tool would be very helpful in vocational-technical classrooms that teach architecture and/or
engineering skills.
13. These tools create a graphic arrangement of words from a text passage that shows the words that occur most
frequently as bigger than the others.
14. This software tool allows users to input sentences and paragraphs of text in one language and get a translation
into another language.
Chapter 5 Essay Items
1. Give examples of at least four criteria for effective desktop-published documents, and tell how each helps
improve the product.
2. Describe some of the recent developments in software support tools that have made them even more useful in
the classroom.
Chapter 5 Test Item Answer Key
Chapter 5 Multiple-choice Items
Chapter 5 Short-Answer Items
Chapter 5 Essay Items
