True or False. Adaptive models of instruction can be used equally effective in educating
the gifted and talented.
a. true
b. false
Which of the activities described below might exemplify self-directed learning?
A. Class Field Trips
B. Participation in seminars
C. Creation of webinar for other peers
D. Design of an action research project
True or False. With respect to the supported curriculum, states do not have much
influence.
a. true
b. false
Prominent features of NCLB include:
A. Accountability, student expectations, annual testing, proficiency.
B. Accountability, proficiency, block scheduling, set times for classes.
C. Accountability, annual testing, deficiencies standards, definition of proficiency.
D. Accountability, annual rate of improvement, deficiencies standards, annual testing.
A yearly planning matrix, with respect to being , can be used in all of the following
cases except
A. Present the yearly matrix to a supervisor
B. Have the institutional leader and teacher confer about the plan
C. The teacher should not bring the matrix to all supervisor or evaluation sessions, just
when s/he is asked to
D. Post it in the classroom so students and visitors are informed.
In evaluating a field of study, there are several questions to be asked. Each of the
questions below is appropriate except
A. How much time will be allocated?
B. What human, fiscal, and material resources will be needed?
C. What courses of study should be evaluated?
D. What constituencies will be asked for input?
True or False. According to the text students should write from one or two perspectives
in order to master English / language arts skills.
a. True
b. False
The benefits of using the NETS include:
A. Improving thinking skills, problem solving, criterial thinking, and creativity
B. Prepare teachers for the global job market
C. Design classroom learning environments
D. Create collaborative places of learning
Which of the following is not a goal of CCSS?
a. Draw from research to inform standards
b. Draw on evidence of what college and career readiness is
c. Maintain a global focus
d. Force all states to use the same assessment of students
True or False. Coaching is acceptable as part of an intensive development program.
a. True
b. False
If a supervisor uses cognitive coaching, one of the goals is
A. Develop teacher autonomy
B. Improve cognitive knowledge of the teacher
C. Implement action research projects
D. Encourage teacher attendance at conferences
When looking at the content of differentiated instruction, which of the following does
not belong?
A. flexible grouping
B. instruction is concept-focused and principle driven
C. several elements and materials are used
D. tasks and objectives are aligned to learning goals
Diversity Education does not refer to which of the following?
a. race
b. gender
c. social class
d. age
In a goal-based model of curriculum planning:
A. First you must organize for planning
B. A planning framework is established based on national standards
C. A needs assessment is conducted by an outside agency
D. Blend district level and school level decisions together
True or False. Make the new course “our course” rather than “my course.”
a. True
b. False
Which factors are not impacting the recommended curriculum?
a. Decline in achievement in American Schools
b. Technology
c. NCLB
d. Teachers’ pre-service training
True or False. According to Margaret Evens, schools are in a poor position to model
diverse communities.
a. True
b. False
Most contemporary philosophers of science have three legitimate purposes. Which of
the following is not one of those purposes?
a. to predict
b. to explain
c. to analyze
d. to describe
In a Sioux Falls study it was found that you could identify effective teachers based on
normative tests. Fourteen categories of instructional performance were examined. Of
the categories below, which showed the greatest impact on a student’s performance?
A. Re-teaching
B. Positive self-concept
C. Age
D. Providing feedback
Functions of curriculum leadership should not include:
A. Chair district advisory council
B. Develop a curriculum-planning calendar
C. Provide leadership in staff development
D. Ensure state department people are kept informed of changes
True or False. The controversy of how to balance student educational goals, essential
goals, and student interests is best resolved through prescribed curricula.
a. true
b. false
If you were appointed a district director of curriculum, in your initial discussions with
school leaders it is most important to
a. Admonish building administrators if you do not see uniformity
b. Ascertain the names of the best teacher in each department
c. Examine student achievement records
d. Probe to see if there are clear goals understood by everyone
When a new curriculum is ready, before it is used, there should be staff development.
Which of the following is not characteristic of a good staff development program?
A. District “A” planned an ongoing and continuous program
B. District “B” made sure there were extensive “hands-on activities”
C. District “C” made certain teachers know the “theoretical base” of new skills
D. District “D” made extensive use of outside consultants
A unit planning chart should include all but which of the following?
A. Mastery Objectives
B. Themes
C. Length
D. Depth of knowledge (Bloom’s levels)
Which of these activities is not a specific thinking skill?
A. Finding and defining problems
B. Critical Thinking
C. Locating and evaluating sources
D. Making predictions
True or False. Exit outcomes are the same as instructional objectives.
a. True
b. False
Those who believe in the “Received View” of scientific theories maintain that a theory
must have which of the following characteristics?
a. Deductively connected bundles of laws
b. Based on a large number of concepts
c. Axioms need not show relationships
d. Experimentally determined
Which of the following example demonstrates competent listening skills?
A. Speaking
B. Writing
C. Reading
D. Begins to discriminate what is heard
True or False. Cognitive coaching is essentially a form of clinical supervision.
a. True
b. False
A variety of countries are known to have outpaced the United States in student
achievement as well as the area of evaluation and assessment. After researching
evaluation approaches in Finland, Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Canada, Williams and
Engel (2012-2013) determined which of the following?
A. In particular, standardized testing of students, a primary and growing component of
teacher evaluation in the U.S., is generally administered and used differently in other
countries
B. Teacher evaluation is used for only accountability.
C. There is not a growing trend to use student test results and metrics to inform
accountability for schools, principals, and teachers, instructional improvement in
classrooms, and schools, and reform at the system level.
D. Assessment is the most important factor in student success.
True or False. Independent thinking is a distinct thinking skills strategy.
a. True
b. False
If the teacher expects the students to evaluate the quality of information included in a
specific website on civil war events using strategies previously learned about primary
and secondary sources of history, she is using an:
A. Integrated Lesson Approach
B. Focused Lesson Approach
C. Self Managed Learning Approach
D. Self-Directed Learning Approach
Which of the following is most likely a mastery objective?
a. Correctly balance an equation for a composition reaction
b. Develop positive attitudes toward inquiry
c. Practice appropriate safety precautions
d. Study regularly to maximize learning
True or False. The naturalistic model can be used both for elementary and secondary
schools.
a. True
b. False
When a principal uses a skills based rating observation form, meets with a teacher for a
conference, and then they outline a professional development plan, this is called:
A. formative evaluation
B. summative evaluation
C. walk through
D. tenure
The best time to develop and write the scope and sequence is ___________________.
Describe the staff development model called intensive development.
Of the eleven creative professional development strategies, choose three of the eleven
and explain (using examples) how they could integrated into the professional
development program.
Identify three advantages to the decentralization of new course development.
In selecting learning activities they should be ________________________based.
_____________ models are being touted as the next big solution to school
accountability.
Describe the second through fourth steps in the process of developing a new K-12
curriculum using a subject-specific program committee.
The text discusses the steps in structuring a subject-specific program committee.
Describe step one and indicate who would be on the committee. Include what is meant
by a cooperative approach among districts and what type of program that would be
easiest to implement.
The Hunter model was liked by teachers and administrators, but not by professors.
Construct an essay explaining why practitioners liked it, why professors did not, and
how Hunter answered her critics.
Students are expected to acquire ___ percent of the knowledge they have by listening.
One characteristic that a curriculum evaluation plan must have is that both quantitative
and qualitative measures be used. Why is this guideline an essential aspect?
Charter schools, school vouchers, and __________ movements are becoming
commonplace in American education.
The most useful definition of curriculum should meet two criteria, one of which is
being useful in making operational distinctions; the other is ____________.
Once completed and approved, what can a district-planning calendar be used for?
Explain how you would carry out the various specific planning activities using the
Goal-Based Curriculum Planning Model.