Asking a student to understand the plight of a Jewish family while under Nazi
occupation is an example of
a) prejudice reduction.
b) equity pedagogy.
c) knowledge construction.
d) content integration.
Someone who supports full inclusion would advocate:
a) mainstreaming without pull-out.
b) hiring only teachers who are certified in special education.
c) use of pull-out strategies as the primary intervention.
d) keeping students with disabilities in separate classes for an entire day.
What is the term used for evaluations that simulate the use of abilities in real-life
situations?
a) Goal setting
b) Authentic assessment
c) Formative evaluation
d) Standardized tests
Generally speaking, the biggest change as a result of wide spread adoption of the
Common Score State Standards:
a) is related to standards and the assessments based on them.
b) will be the new procedures for the hiring of teachers
c) is the emphasis on social sciences and science instruction
d) is the that all 50 states are now in agreement on standard objectives
Ms. Davis is a first year teacher with a lot of enthusiasm. Which of the following
strategies should she adopt to best enhance student motivation?
a) Provide extrinsic rewards to motivate student participation.
b) Motivate students to attend classes.
c) Discover and sustain students’ motivation to learn.
d) Create a climate conducive to learning for unmotivated students.
When children enter middle school or junior high school, self-esteem is:
a) At its peak
b) At its lowest
c) Holding steady
d) Not as important as academic achievement
What is the Joplin Plan?
a) A plan of instruction that enable all students to achieve instructional objective by
varying allocated time
b) A regrouping methods in which students are grouped across grade levels for reading
instruction
c) A focus on providing adequate social interaction between mixed-ability groups to
improve academic achievement
d) Tailoring instruction precisely to a student’s needs
A student learns to add blocks and later transfers this skill to adding
sticks, and checkers. Educational psychologists would say that the
student is demonstrating:
a) discrimination.
b) the Premack Principle.
c) generalization.
d) shaping.
Which of the following correctly describes the substance use of contemporary
adolescents, as they complete high school?
a) Fewer than 10 percent have tried marijuana.
b) 80 percent drink alcohol.
c) About one-third drink alcohol.
d) Most have tried marijuana.
Group contingencies can be especially effective with predelinquent students because:
a) they involve the students’ families.
b) these students need to be singled out for special treatment.
c) they reverse the effects of tracking.
d) they can deprive students of peer support for misbehavior.
A recommended procedure for writing multiple-choice items is to:
a) list alternatives horizontally rather than vertically.
b) make the stem as short as possible.
c) include at least one implausible choice for each item.
d) use letters rather than numbers to identify choices.
Which of the following is the lowest level of objectives in Bloom’s taxonomy of
educational objectives?
a) Knowledge
b) Application
c) Synthesis
d) Comprehension
Research on instructional pace suggests that most teachers could:
a) increase their pace of instruction considerably, even if that means that some students
will not be able to be successful.
b) slow down a moderate amount in their instruction.
c) increase the pace of instruction as long as degree of understanding is not sacrificed.
d) slow down considerably.
Mr. Clements is a returning fifth-grade teacher who plans creative lessons based on
grade level expectations and his students’ current level of readiness. He is careful to
plan the lessons in ways which appeal to his students and encourages participation
using carefully thought out questions and prompts. Mr. Clements is surprised when this
year’s students are not mastering the content. Which area of Slavin’s QAIT model
should Mr. Clements address?
a) Quality of instruction
b) Appropriate level of instruction
c) Incentive
d) Time
A teacher can use which element of the QAIT model to adapt the pace of instruction to
meet individual student needs?
a) Appropriate level of instruction
b) Quality of instruction
c) Incentive
d) Time
If individuals do not grow during the generativity stage, a sense of stagnation and
interpersonal impoverishment develops. This leads to:
a) intimacy or competition.
b) doubt.
c) self-absorption or self-indulgence.
d) confusion.
The purpose of a behavior content matrix is to:
a) show the levels of learning that each part of a lesson addresses.
b) organize a lesson presentation.
c) identify affective outcome levels.
d) facilitate the collection of reinforcement data.
In Pavlov’s experiments with dogs, which of the following best
characterizes the role of the bell (or tone), prior to conditioning?
a) Conditioned response
b) Unconditioned response
c) Neutral stimulus
d) Unconditioned stimulus
English language learners are typically taught in the most common instructional
placement, which is called:
a) three-way bilingual education, which involves English speaking and
non-English-speaking students and their teachers.
b) English immersion, referred to as a “sink-or-swim” approach.
c) paired bilingual education is which students study with a partner.
d) transitional bilingual education in which children are taught in both their native
tongue and English together.
Our text describes six class groupings in the United States. Which of these accurately
represents the income category for the working class?
a) 20,000 or less
b) 20,000-40,000
c) 40,000-63,000
d) 63,000-100,000
The concept that provides a legal (Student Teams-Achievement Divisions), is referred
to as:
a) least restrictive environment.
b) cooperative learning.
c) integration.
d) grouping.
A seventh-grade middle school science teacher wants students to know a particular
organism they studied under a microscope. Based on the dual code theory, what is the
best strategy for students to use?
a) Naming it and repeating the name
b) Touching it
c) Viewing it at different magnifications under the microscope
d) Seeing it and naming it
Adolescents attempt to develop a sense of identity by:
a) hiding feelings that are not complimentary toward another person.
b) trying out a variety of roles to test their fit.
c) focusing on their present experiences without much concern about past or future.
d) ignoring any indications by others that they are being viewed negatively.
After considering the goals and strategies of evaluation, the text author concludes that
teachers must choose different types of evaluation for different purposes. At a
minimum, how many types of evaluations should be used to assess student learning?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
Criterion-referenced evaluations focus on:
a) assessing student mastery of specific skills.
b) selected-response test items.
c) comparisons of a student’s scores to those of other students.
d) affective and psychomotor objectives.
Dave took an intelligence test and received an IQ score of 62. He was classified as
intellectually disabled. Of the following, which is the best-informed reaction to Dave’s
classification?
a) It will be important to look also at Dave’s adaptive skills.
b) Dave was correctly classified.
c) The classification is incorrect because Dave’s IQ is in the normal range.
d) The classification is invalid because measurement of IQ is irrelevant.
Research on the gifted and talented student supports which of the following
conclusions?
a) More can be gained through enrichment.
b) More can be gained through acceleration.
c) More can be gained from isolation.
d) More can be gained from peer interaction.
Which of the following is an example of removal punishment?
a) Response cost
b) Loss of recess
c) Seatbelt buzzer
d) Fine
Two-year-old Lizzie encounters a squirrel and calls it “mouse.” Which of Piaget’s terms
best describes her thinking?
a) Accommodation
b) Assimilation
c) Immature
d) Sensorimotor
What is the first step in the process of planning a task analysis?
a) Find adequate means to measure the attainment of the desired skills.
b) Identify what skills students should have before the new lesson is taught.
c) Discover what portions of the lessons are likely to interest students.
d) Assemble the subskills into a hierarchy.
A student who needs a reward from a teacher to complete a task at hand is exhibiting
the need for what type of motivation?
a) extrinsic
b) intrinsic
c) authentic
d) intangible
In designing an achievement test for students, a teacher’s major concern should be that
the test:
a) measures what students are capable of doing rather than what they have done.
b) includes both objective questions and essay questions.
c) matches the instructional objectives for the material covered.
d) include items for each of the six levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.
What is the term for considering all possibilities before trying out a solution?
a) Suspension of disbelief
b) Suspension of judgment
c) Ends-means analysis
d) Means-ends analysis
A student is classified as having ADHD. Which of the following is true?
a) The student will have difficulty attending to the teacher.
b) The student will qualify for special education services because he or she has ADHD.
c) The student is probably female.
d) The student’s IQ will probably be in the 80″95 range.