What is the primary reason for teachers to collect assessment data?
a. Add to a child’s portfolio
b. Prevent children from dropping out of school
c. Inform instruction
d. Preserve cultural bias.
What statement best describes the role of families in the early education process?
a. Parents follow the lead of professionals in educating children.
b. The role varies as children mature.
c. Families are considered children’s first teachers.
d. How involved parents are in their child’s program depends on the parents’ education.
What intelligence fits this description? “Grace is reflective and sensitive to her inner
moods.”
a. Musical learner
b. Intrapersonal learner
c. Logical-mathematical learner
d. Interpersonal learner
Which of the following strategies is a simplification of a fine-motor plan in which
children will trace leaf shapes with markers?
a. Children use their fingertips to trace the leaves.
b. The children read a book about leaves.
c. The children use watercolors to paint within the lines of leaf shapes.
d. Children go outside and gather leaves and other things that grow on trees.
Transitions from a community preschool to a public Kindergarten are:
a. very automatic as long as the parents register their children in the right district
school.
b. the responsibility of the parents or other family members, not the preschool teacher.
c. easier on children and family members if preschool teachers provide information.
d. the responsibility of the preschool teacher, not the family members.
What would be typical of a preschooler in describing his or her uniqueness?
a. “I can run faster than my friend Martin.”
b. “I”m a girl, and I live in a pretty house.”
c. “I help clean up during clean-up time.”
d. “I think boys are mean.”
Which strategy is NOT required as part of a brainstorming group time about insects?
a. Read a factual book about insects to the children.
b. Invite children to talk about what they know about insects.
c. Discuss how children want to find out new things about insects.
d. Record what children want to learn about insects.
Mr. Nowaske intended to provide an opportunity to practice balance with a moderate
level of challenge for a group of six-year-old children. Which of the following activities
do you think is the best choice? Direct the children to:
a. Walk to the center backwards, turn, leap twice and return backwards on a balance
beam 12″ off the floor.
b. Walk forward and turn around on a balance beam 3″ off the floor.
c. Walk forward and turn around on a taped line on the floor.
d. Walk forward, squat down, turn around, and return backwards on a balance beam 3″
off the floor.
When deciding what rules to make for the classroom, teachers should ask themselves
which of the following questions?
1) “Is the child’s behavior irritating to me?”
2) “Is the child’s behavior violating someone’s rights?”
3) “Is the child’s behavior unsafe?”
4) “Is the child’s behavior damaging to property?”
a. Irritation and rights questions
b. Irritation, rights and safety questions
c. Irritation, rights, safety and property questions
d. Rights, safety and property questions
What is true about the learning that occurs in families?
a. It is most significant during the first three years of life.
b. It is an important element of children’s education.
c. It is significant for social learning, but has little impact on academics.
d. It is often of lower quality than the learning children experience in school.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) guidelines say that:
a. Rote memorization will allow broad application of numerical operations to a number
of fields.
b. Rote memorization is obsolete.
c. Rote memorization helps children work through problems by applying the rules
d. Rote memorization must have well developed methodologies for improving
children’s memory strategies.
An early childhood educator has been given a set of colorful, attractive posters that she
would like to display. However, she is concerned by the lack of gender balance
depicted. Which of the following would be an appropriate solution to this dilemma?
a. Discard the poster.
b. Ask parents of the children to decide whether or not they mind having the posters
displayed in the classroom.
c. Show children the posters as they are, then talk with children about the imbalance
and how they might address it.
d. Make sure there are mixed gender books nearby where the poster is displayed
In the block area, Ms. Halliwell noticed that Su Min was making another enclosure to
put the animals in. As she knelt beside her, she asked Su Min to tell her about her
structure. “House,” Su Min replied. Ms. Halliwell said, “It is a good thing you are
building a house, as it might rain today. Will the people in your house get wet?” What
roles or strategies did Ms. Halliwell use?
a. Directing
b. Scaffolding
c. Monitoring for safety
d. Analyzing the task
Which of the following is NOT an accurate description of children’s social
development?
a. Children’s social competence influences their academic achievement.
b. Children naturally know how to make friends and influence people.
c. In our society, a high level of social competence means that a child exhibits
responsible, friendly, cooperative, purposeful, and self-controlled behavior.
d. Social development can be looked at as the foundation on which other types of
learning takes place.
Nicholas first examined the magnets and then arranged them carefully, talking to
himself. What kind of play is this most likely to be?
a. Construction with natural materials
b. Role play
c. Pretend with objects
d. Pretend time and place
Which of the following scenarios provides an example of scaffolding?
a. A teacher reading a story book to a group of children.
b. Two three-year-olds playing side by side in the water table.
c. A kindergartner rolling out balls of modeling dough.
d. A first-grade child encouraging a three-year-old to name farm animals in a picture
book.
Which of the following statements is NOT supported by the research?
a. When children are taught to think prosocially, prosocial behaviors follow
automatically.
b. When children demonstrate high levels of prosocial behavior, they are more likely to
be viewed as potential friends by their peers.
c. When children behave prosocially they contribute to classrooms characterized by
friendly interactions and productive group efforts.
d. When children have chances to be helpful, they develop increased feelings of
competence.
What is the advantage of observational assessment?
a. It is not intrusive.
b. It has on-the-spot utility for improving instruction.
c. Information cannot be gathered in natural settings.
d. It does not yield hypotheses that can be evaluated later on.
Which of the following does the “Word Wall” strategy involve?
a.The selection and posting of 5-10 high frequency words per week.
b. The teaching of spelling patterns in unfamiliar words.
c. The alphabetic listing of difficult spelling words.
d. Having children go around the room to read environmental print.
Which of the following children is demonstrating active learning?
1) Tom is talking to himself as he tries to solve a problem.
2) LaTesha is counting each jump as she jumps rope.
3) Raymond is wandering around the room, looking for something to do.
a. Tom, LaTesha and Raymond
b. Tom only
c. Tom and LaTesha, but not Raymond
d. LaTesha and Raymond only
When a classroom has more than one adult, what should the adult who is NOT leading
the group time be doing?
a. Answering messages on his/her phone
b. Preparing the next activity
c. Supporting the children who are easily distracted or who have difficulty attending
d. Wiping tables, sweep floors, general room maintenance
Which of the following is less likely to achieve an effective two-way communication
between the program and the families?
a. Create a notebook that family members and staff communicate as it is sent back and
forth between the child’s home and the program.
b. Carry out home visits to get to know children and family members in the home
environment.
c. Structure family conferences to emphasize collaborations between members and
teachers.
d. Send home a regular newsletter.
Which activity would an effective teacher do during the body of a group time?
a. Sing several familiar songs.
b. Start by handing each child a flannel board piece to hold until the group sings “There
was an old lady who swallowed a fly” at the end of group time.
c. Demonstrate to children how to use the side of the crayon to create rubbings, which
is one of the activities in learning centers for the day.
d. Remind children that there is no talking during group time unless you raise your hand
and the teacher calls on you
Which of the following is an example of a project approach activity for a preschool
class?
a. A class spends several days on various activities about the plumbing in their building,
including a field trip to the basement to see how the water heater works.
b. At 9 AM every day, half the children in the class do sorting and counting activities
while the other half work on an art project. After 20 minutes the groups switch.
c. All the children who are ready for literacy activities work in a group; those who are
not ready play with the blocks.
d. The children work together painting a large cardboard box that they can use in
pretend play to represent anything they want.
When are children who live with overly critical or controlling adults particularly
vulnerable?
a. During the first year of life when they are developing a sense of trust.
b. During years 2 and 3 when they are exercising increased autonomy.
c. During elementary school when involved in real task completion.
d. When they have easy temperaments.
e. Just as they enter kindergarten.
Which of the following is likely to be the appropriate age range for this description of
friendship? Tom and David are good friends who play together often. They take turns
and share toys and materials comfortably. One day, Ian approached Tom and said, “I
want to be your friend.” Tom replied, “You can”t be my friendDavid is my friend!”
a. 2 to 3
b. 5 to 9
c. 10 to 12
d. 13 to 15
Authoritative teachers do all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Explain why some behaviors are appropriate and acceptable and others are not.
b. Inform children of expectations.
c. Encourage and reward certain behaviors.
d. Focus their comments to children on what children have done wrong.
When children rely on outside controls to guide their actions they are operating at what
level of self-regulation?
a. Amoral.
b. Adherence.
c. Identification.
d. Internalization
Which of the following would constitute an example of alliteration?
a. The beautiful moon rose over the sleepy town.
b. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
c. Susy sells seashells down by the seashore.
d. Teensy, Weensy Spider went up the waterspout.
In scoring an oral reading tape for the child’s reading accuracy, which is the correct
procedure?
a. Subtract the number of correct words read from the total. Divide the total number of
words read.
b. Multiply the total number of words read by the number of uncorrected mistakes.
c. Subtract the number of uncorrected mistakes from the total. Divide by the total
number of mistakes.
d. Subtract the number of uncorrected mistakes from the total. Divide by the total
number of words read.
Megan and Jerome have been warned that if they continue to throw sand they will have
to go to another area to play. You observe them throwing sand again. In this situation
what would an authoritative adult do?
a. Escort the children to a different area.
b. Give the children a second warning of what will happen if they continue.
c. Explain that the sand is blowing in other children’s eyes.
d. Ask children what they think should happen as a result of their actions.
Professional teachers and administrators do not tend to blame family members for the
behavior of children in school.
How do children develop a sense of inferiority and what happens as a result?
In responding to children’s art, teachers should show preference for realistic art.
It is best to start group time after all the children have arrived at the circle and are
sitting quietly.
What are three challenges facing early childhood education today?
One-to-one correspondence ability means that we can count objects accurately, using
one and only one number name for each number counted.
What constitutes the “emotional repertoire” that we all need in order to contend with
everyday life challenges?
Children from three to five years old have considerable difficulty in judging the speed
of a moving object.
Parents rarely blame the schools for lack of children’s success.
Despite errors that children make, conceptualization in the early years is fairly
systematic and non-intuitive.
Generally, low income parents do not have much information that is useful for teachers
to know.
Parents have become less critical to the education process than they used to be.
Young children are particularly good subjects for observation because they haven”t yet
learned how to mask their feelings.
Children who attend high quality early childhood programs are more likely to continue
in school longer than is true for children in poor quality programs.
Showing the children fruit in a fruit basket prior to playing the game “Upset the Fruit
Basket” could be used as a group time transition.
Why should children be encouraged to care for their learning environment?
Discussion of alcohol should be left to the upper grades to introduce unless a child
brings the topic up.
In terms of logical consequences, what is the difference between restitution and
rehearsal? Give an example of each.