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1. Plato proposed children be directed toward specific roles. Which of the following roles was
not included?
2. Prior to Tier-Three interventions, an eligibility committee must do all of the following except:
3. Most high schools have the following tracks based on educational and career goals:
4. In order to support differentiation of instruction teachers need to:
5. The primary characteristics of the open classrooms popularity during the late 1960s and early
1970s include all but the following:
6. The short life of the open classroom movement was primarily due to:
7. Self-paced learning typically includes which of the following components:
8. Adaptive Learning Environments Model (ALEM) is:
9. Cooperative learning models emphasize all but one of the following characteristics:
10. Which of the following is not a part of the research literature supporting learning style
instructional approaches?
11. The concept of the parallel curriculum as applied to the gifted learner includes the overall or
umbrella curriculum along with all but one of the following:
12. The Curriculum of Identity for gifted learners is designed to do which of the following:
13. The Connective Curriculum for gifted learners is designed to do which of the following:
14. The Curriculum of Practice for gifted learners is designed to do which of the following:
15. The Discovery Method or Socratic instructional method suggests that learning occurs best
when:
16. Within the Triad/RDIM Model there are three types of enrichment activities. They are:
17. The chapter discussed What Works Clearinghouse (US Department of Education) evaluation
of early literacy interventions according to:
18. Inclusion suggests that
19. Response to Intervention was designed to do all but the following:
21. Differentiated instruction is
22. Differentiated instruction believes
23. Elements that do not guide differentiation are:
24. When looking at the content of differentiated instruction, which of the following does not
belong?
25. During flexible grouping, which of the choices below is not happening?
26. True or False. One of the benefits of involving students in the development of the curriculum
is increased engagement in the topics studied.
27. True or False. An early attempt at individualization of instruction occurred in the one-room
schoolhouses.
28. True or False. The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education was the first official support
for curriculum tracking in American Education.
29. True or False. The controversy of how to balance student educational goals, essential goals,
and student interests is best resolved through prescribed curricula.
30. True or False. Curriculum tracking is cited within research as an effective way to respond to
individual differences.
31. True or False. A typical weakness of self-paced learning programs is that its adaptation is
limited to time rather than content or level of instructional challenge.
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32. True or False. A key obstacle to developing adaptive change in the classroom curriculum is a
lack of awareness and willingness to actually restructure and realign to meet student needs.
33. True or False. Stress can reduce a student’s enjoyment and desire to read.
34. True or False. Adaptive models of instruction can be used equally effective in educating the
gifted and talented.
35. True or False. Advanced Placement Classes and Examinations are examples of Acceleration
as an adaptive curriculum strategy.
36. True or False. A major challenge facing our schools today is not the diversity of students.
37. True or False. Students will learn best when learning opportunities are natural.
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38. True or False. A sense of community in the classroom makes little difference in students’
learning.
39. True or False. Initial and on-going assessment of student readiness and growth are essential
to differentiated instruction.
40. True or False. Differentiated does not mean providing separate, unrelated activities for each
student.
Type: F
41. An educational process that arranges the conditions and materials of learning to meet
individual learner differences is an______________________.
42. A ________________and integrated curriculum has the capacity to support learning and
developmental needs of all children.
43. Early American educators were more concerned about identifying the _____________ than
consideration of possible elective studies.
44. The _________________was probably the first group to recognize curriculum tracking as a
desirable practice.
45. Exposure to reading of a variety of texts within a self-paced learning program typically
enhanced the student’s ____________________.
46. The Mastery Learning Model was first suggested by _____________________________.
47. An integrated balanced curriculum is receiving less emphasis due to the pressure for showing
_________________ in reading and math.
48. Who suggested that gifted education should consider a focus beyond just cognitive
development and address social constructive issues?
49. ____________________assists gifted learners to avoid having to review material already
mastered and provide opportunities for academic challenge.
50. One key to __________________________ is to make curriculum meaningful through
engaging problem solving projects, and stimulations that challenge the learner.
51. Attempts to ________________ education in the US go back to colonial times.
52. The Standards-based expectations for many schools still seem to mandate a ______________
approach to education.
53. Classroom ______________ benefits students and teachers to operate an effective classroom.
54. In differentiated instruction, items to which students respond may be differentiated so that
different students can _________________ or _____________ their knowledge and
_____________________ in different ways.
55. Describe the curriculum indicators suggested by the National Association for the Education
of Young Children that would enhance not only student involvement in the development of their
curriculum, but also involve them in design of study methods and assessment.
56. Discuss the recommendations in the Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education in 1918.
57. What is one of the primary objections to curriculum tracking as an ineffective way of
responding to individual differences?
Type: E
58. The authors describe principles for differentiating instruction (from Tomlinson) that would
foster learning for academically diverse students. What are they and describe their
implementation.
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59. “Mini-courses” were attempted as a strategy for individualizing education. Why were they
popular and what contributed to their demise as an approach to give students options?
60. Tomlinson suggests that there is no conflict between effective standards-based instruction
and differentiation of instruction. How does she define curriculum and differentiation?
61. Construct an essay on the important factors from Carbo with her five effective reading
strategies and how you might implement these into a classroom.
62. Discuss the four elements suggested for brain-based learning in gifted education.
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63. Construct an essay that describes Tomlinson’s three stages for curriculum compacting.
64. Describe how technology might support the adaptive strategy of acceleration within the
curriculum.
65. Discuss the rationale for the development of Response to Intervention for academically
challenged.
66. What are some of the key factors in early intervention for teaching all children how to read
according to Taylor?
67. The author describes three tiers of intervention within the Response to Intervention process.
Construct an essay that contrasts the activities conducted at each level.
68. The challenges of social and economic considerations require resolution of several problems.
Discuss two possible solutions suggested by the authors.
69. Response to Intervention may require the restructuring the roles of professionals in
education. List some of these professionals and discuss how their roles might be changed.
70. Tomlinson describes the steps of planning and implementing differentiated instruction.
Please construct an essay that outlines and provides examples of these steps.
71. Renzulli now believes he would make different recommendations for how to identify
students for special program services. Describe each of these recommendations and how they are
different from what is now in place.
