Mary is a 9th grade math teacher who has employed the Concept Development Model
for many years. She is ready to refine and strengthen her use of this instructional model.
Teaching Models: Designing Instruction for 21stCentury Learnerscan help Mary
transform her practice for 21st century learners by:
a. Narrowing her approach to a set of strategies that have worked well for the majority
b. Differentiating instruction only if absolutely necessary for only a few students
c. Using technology to make her instruction more efficient, effective, and engaging
d. Learning to follow pre-packaged curricular materials more carefully in her work.
Which of the following questions best initiates a Problem-Based Learning lesson plan?
a. What are characteristics of healthy fats?
b. How much would it cost to fly our class to Egypt to study the pyramids?
c. What are the attributes of a habitat?
d. How does air temperature affect air pressure?
In the Socratic Seminar model, “talking tokens” refer to:
a. tokens awarded to students each time they speak, with the most tokens given to those
who speak the most.
b. tokens awarded to students who speak the least during a Socratic Seminar, with the
most tokens given to those who speak the least.
c. tokens taken from students each time they violate a guideline for the Socratic
Seminar.
d. tokens given to students at the start of the seminar, and taken from students each time
they speak to ensure equitable participation.
Which of the following “rules can help students learn via the Concept Attainment
model?
a. Students should list the attributes of the concept, as examples and nonexamples are
shared.
b. Students should list the attributes of the concept, as examples only are shared.
c. A student should shout out any hypothesis as soon as it is considered.
d. Students should stick to their initial hypotheses, and not worry about peers views.
The formal introduction of Cooperative Learning models was inspired by:
a. the need for students to develop a deep understanding of words.
b. growing awareness of the theory of group dynamics and a desire to promote racial
integration.
c. the belief that almost all cognitive activity involves categorizing.
d. the primary goal to promote students ability to think and reason.
The Integrative model was designed primarily to promote students ability to:
a. analyze and make generalizations about data from organized bodies of knowledge.
b. develop a refined understanding for a concept by grouping and labeling.
c. attain a deep understanding for academic language and vocabulary.
d. examine divergent and convergent properties of concepts explored.
To provide students with a variety of supports for developing technological
competence, the ISTE developed a set of National Education Technology Standards
(NETS) for which following set of groups?
a. coaches (NETS-C), administrators (NETS-A), teachers (NETS-T), students
(NETS-S)
b. policy makers (NETS-P), administrators (NETS-A), teachers (NETS-T), students
(NETS-S)
c. business leaders (NETS-B), administrators (NETS-A), teachers (NETS-T), students
(NETS-S)
d. administrators (NETS-A), teachers (NETS-T), students (NETS-S), parents (NETS-P)
Which of the following statements is true about the International Society for
Technology in Education (ISTE)?
a. The ISTE is a group of education leaders from the U.S.
b. Members of the ISTE have been working together for roughly five years.
c. The ISTE seeks to improve education through innovative and effective uses of
technology.
d. The ISTE primarily achieves this goal through textbooks resourced out to teacher
educators.
Which of the following statements describes an educational designer?
a. An educational designer approaches instructional planning with purpose and clear
objectives.
b. An educational designer possesses more general than specific knowledge that may be
applied broadly.
c. An educational designer depends on outside support to recognize difficult
instructional challenges.
d. An educational designer addresses educational challenges by using tools that have
worked in the past.
The Problem-Based Learning model was initiated by:
a. an educator seeking to expand students understanding of concepts.
b. a lawyer/philosopher who challenged traditional deductive approaches to learning.
c. faculty preparing doctors to apply professional skills and knowledge in real-world
settings.
d. a cognitive psychologist studying how humans think and learn.
Taking in new information and learning to articulate it on paper or another medium best
exemplifies the benefit of using the Concept Development model to:
a. help students exercise creative thinking.
b. help teachers learn more about their students.
c. promote active hands-on learning.
d. aid student expression.
In the Integrative model, poor selection of resources for analysis may result in:
a. misconceptions.
b. rudimentary understanding of the topic studied.
c. stereotypes or biases.
d. All of the above.
Which of the following practices will help make a pre-assessment more effective?
a. Only allowing instructors access to pre-assessment results so that students do not
become discouraged about how much they already know or do not know about a topic.
b. Documenting student understanding only for teachers to refer back to.
c. Using an “advanced organizer” to introduce to students the anticipated learning.
d. Integrating instructional technologies, whether they support pre-assessment, or not.
The Cooperative Learning models foster students positive development in:
a. relationships among diverse peer populations.
b. self-esteem.
c. Inclusivity.
d. All of the above.
Key questions to ask during the third step of reviewing and summarizing the dialogue
in the Socratic Seminar model include all except the following:
a. How has this dialogue challenged your understanding of the concept held before the
dialogue?
b. Did we achieve the correct view of the subject discussed?
c. How does what we have learned in the process change our understanding of the
subject or influence our future actions?
d. What did we learn during this dialogue?
Planning to teach with the Vocabulary Acquisition model should involve
a. engaging students with the most relevant uses of vocabulary only.
b. selecting resources in which the vocabulary occurs in the most useful of contexts
only.
c. using one medium of instruction that the majority of students are most comfortable
with.
d. engaging students in reading and studying the use of the word in several different
contexts and using a variety of media types.
Differentiating instruction at the application level means allowing students to:
a. influence the selection of lesson materials.
b. offer feedback on how the lesson is presented initially in class.
c. choose how they will show their learning and the tools they will use to do so.
d. select online learning tools to help them engage in divergent thinking.
How long has research on differentiating instruction been demonstrating its
effectiveness?
a. 1-2 years
b. Decades
c. Centuries
d. Research has not demonstrated the effectiveness of differentiating instruction.
Classroom-based assessments:
a. are focused and purposeful communication with students about important dimensions
of the learning process at key stages.
b. compare student achievement against “norms and measure students proficiency
against grade-level standards.
c. have the primary purpose of promoting student evaluation over student learning
within the classroom in the academic content areas.
d. do not involve communicating assessment outcomes with students.
In the Integrative model, teachers engage learners in exploring organized bodies of
knowledge, or:
a. information presented without a particular structure to it.
b. a large body of information that entails intentional analysis to understand it.
c. information that students already understand or have processed.
d. information that is not too large in scope, to maintain a sense of organization.
Key questions to ask during the evaluation of the dialogue in the Socratic Seminar
model include all except the following:
a. Were students allowed to speak as often and as long as they wanted to contribute?
b. How well did our class accomplish the learning goals during the dialogue?
c. How did you contribute individually?
d. What can we use from this experience to improve future Socratic Seminar model
lessons?
A “needs assessment,” which often takes place in the Analysis Phase of ADDIE,
involves:
a. determining the desired status of the audience achieved via the product being
designed;
b. determining the actual status of the audience before interaction with the product
being designed;
c. analyzing the gap between the desired status and actual status.
d. all of the above.
Which academic field did the Inquiry model originate?
a. The Arts
b. Literature
c. Science
d. History
Two strategies for developing and asking questions in the Socratic Seminar model
include:
a. Using the Revised Blooms taxonomy and asking direct questions with one right
answer.
b. Not asking guiding question, and allowing students to share whatever they would like
to.
c. Using the Revised Blooms taxonomy and “clustering questions.”
d. Asking students questions, and allowing students most familiar with the topic to
respond.
The Concept Attainment Model is a
a. a rigorous, assessment-centered teaching model that developments rote memory.
b. a dynamic, interactive teaching model that supports development of conceptual
knowledge.
c. a traditional, standards-based teaching model that emphasizes memorization of key
content.
d. a collaborative, group-centered teaching model that develops knowledge via group
interaction.
The key steps involved in the instructional design process are to:
a. Instruct, revise, instruct, revise, instruct, revise, etc.
b. Develop, implement, evaluate
c. Observe, practice, evaluate, revise
d. Design, develop, implement, evaluate, manage
Which of the following describes how digital technologies are distinct from mechanical
ones of the past?
a. Digital technologies are manually powered.
b. Digital technologies perform functions confined to a limited local space.
c. Digital technologies often connect to some type of data network.
d. Digital technologies have little impact on our understandings of community.
Guiding students with feedback while they practice diagramming sentences with paper
and pencil, or a word processor, or a tablet is to integrate technology into which step of
the Direct Instruction model?
a. Introduction
b. Presentation/Demonstration
c. Guided Practice
d. Independent Practice
A primary use of the Direct Instruction model is to:
a. engage students in applying new concepts in complex contexts.
b. teach procedural knowledge with clearly defined steps and concepts with clear
attributes.
c. create new foundational knowledge.
d. cultivate theoretical knowledge via critical reflection.
Which of the following is one of the ISTEs National Education Technology Standards
for Students (NETS-S)?
a. Traditional Approaches to Teaching
b. Individual Approaches to Teaching
c. National Citizenship
d. Research and Information Fluency
Which type of the following concept maps represents concepts using graphics, pictures,
or drawings?
a. Flow chart
b. Hierarchical
c. Pictorial
d. Web, spider, bubble, or cluster
Scaffolding student instruction in the Vocabulary Acquisition model may involve
a. prescriptive phases in which instruction should or should not be scaffolded.
b. an introduction of the etymology and/or morphology of a word.
c. the teacher withholding any modeled uses of the word, so students can figure out the
words meaning independent of the teacher.
d. student memorization of word definitions, without interacting further with word use.
In teaching with the Integrative model:
a. the teacher should ensure learning goals are compatible with the Integrative model.
b. the teacher must not pre-determine what critical understandings students may attain.
c. the teacher should allow students to interact with the data without being constrained
by graphic organizers.
d. the teacher should not pre-select the data sources, but allow students to find their own
data sources for examination.
Transformation of instructional models from the past may be achieved through which of
the following?
a. increased use of technology to plan, implement, and conduct assessment
b. integration of differentiated instruction principles and practices within the
instructional models
c. the application of systematic thinking and processes to design instruction for students
d. all of the above
The Vocabulary Acquisition model is best utilized by:
a. multiple types of learners
b. visual learners
c. interpersonal learners
d. kinesthetic learners