"Given a paragraph, the student will identify all the nouns with 90 percent accuracy." This
statement is an example of a(n)
A. affective objective
B. cognitive objective
C. psychomotor objective
D. reflective objective - ANS-B
A fifth-grade student has a grade equivalent score of 7.6 on a standardized reading test. The
student's grade equivalent score indicates that the student
A. Is ready for seventh-grade reading material.
B. Is in the top 7.6 percent of students who took the test.
C. Did as well on the test as an average seventh-grader in the sixth month of the school year
would do on a standardized seventh-grade reading test.
D. Did as well on the test as an average seventh-grader in the sixth month of the school year
would do on the same standardized reading test that the fifth-grade student took. - ANS-D
A fifth-grade teacher plans a unit designed to strengthen students' skills in pattern recognition
and critical thinking. The teacher plans to use appropriate instructional activities in whole-group
and small-group settings. As part of the initial planning process, the teacher's first step in
defining instructional objectives for the new unit should be to
A. select appropriate instructional activities for fostering growth in pattern recognition and critical
thinking.
B. analyze the benefits and limitations of various whole-group and small-group instructional
strategies
C. assess students' general areas of strengths and needs in pattern recognition and critical
thinking
D. implement procedures for promoting positive and productive group interactions. - ANS-C
A first-grade teacher is concerned about Joaquin's self-concept. He does not have many friends
because he insists on being in charge at play time. Which of the following actions by the teacher
would be most effective in helping Joaquin change his behavior and in improving his
self-concept?
A. Privately praise him when he plays cooperatively with others at play time.
B. Tell him he has to let other children be in charge at play time.
C. Send him to timeout when he starts demanding to be in charge at play time.
D. Suggest to him that he play alone at play time. - ANS-A
A first-grade teacher is working with the children on a learning project about the significant
aspects of the lives and accomplishments of selected men and women in the period of history
before 1880 (for example, Sacajawea, George Washington, Betsy Ross, Abraham Lincoln, and
,Harriet Tubman). Which of the following activities related to the project would be of greatest
benefit to the children?
A. having the children play a game in which they name a historical figure when their turn comes
B. reading aloud a children's biography of a historical figure of the relevant time period
C. having the children color pictures of historical figures of the relevant time period to post on
their classroom wall
D. showing a video about the Revolutionary War or the Civil War - ANS-B
A first-grade teacher wants to help students develop reading comprehension as they begin to
read. To achieve this goal, the teacher plans to explicitly teach and model reading
comprehension skills. In general, which of the following skills would be most appropriate for
beginning instruction in reading comprehension skills?
A. making inferences
B. making predictions
C. recalling details
D. summarizing - ANS-C
A former K-12 grade English Language Learner (ELL) student who exited the English for
Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program more than 2 years ago is coded as
A. LF
B. LP
C. LYD. LZ - ANS-D
A fourth-grade teacher has observed that Winoma, who has natural artistic talent, is rushing
through her class work so that she can spend time in the creative arts center. Which of the
following is the best way for the teacher to deal with this situation?
A. Have Winoma bring her work to the teacher to check over before she can go to the creative
arts center.
B. Tell Winoma she can go to the creative arts center if she promises to complete her class work
properly at home.
C. Provide Winoma a checklist that she must complete before going to the creative arts center.
D. Give Winona a lower grade for class work not finished properly. - ANS-C
A high school biology teacher is having students engage in a cooperative learning group activity.
After the students complete the activity, each student group will make a presentation to the
entire class to share the group's results. The teacher plans for the presentations to take place
during the last 15 minutes of class, so the group activity must not run over into this time period.
Which of the following would be the best way for the teacher to remind the students about the
time, so that the group activity is completed in time for the presentations to take place?
A. Remind them at the very beginning of the activity.
B. Remind them every 5 minutes
C. Remind them every 10 minutes
D. Remind them 5 minutes prior to the necessary end time for the activity. - ANS-D
A high school economics teacher has students work as members of an investment team in a
stock market simulation activity over a period of weeks. At the end of the simulation activity,
each team must summarize its activities and present a report to the entire class. After the
reports have been presented, the teacher asks the students to write a journal entry in which
they assess the effectiveness of their investment team's decision making during the stock
, market simulation. Which of the following is a primary benefit of having the students reflect on
the effectiveness of their team's decision making?
A. It will promote a healthy, competitive spirit among the students
B. It will allow the teacher to reward those students who exhibited leadership skills
C. It will provide a means for the teacher to assess the students' ability to apply decision-making
skills
D. It will promote self-assessment on the part of the students - ANS-D
A high school economics teacher is planning a unit on the development of a market economy.
Which of the following would be most effective for assessing students' prior knowledge about
the unit topic?
A. using an advance organizer
B. giving students time to do some reading on the topic
C. having small-group discussions
D. inviting in a guest speaker - ANS-A
A high school teacher has a student who seems especially unmotivated and has been
performing poorly in class. Before talking with the student, which of the following should the
teacher do first to find out additional information that would help in dealing with the student?
A. review the student's educational records
B. discuss the problem with the school counselor
C. talk with the student's friends
D. hold a conference with the student's parents. - ANS-A
A key goal of a teacher's classroom management strategy should be to
A. Provide an environment that eliminates unfamiliar or unexpected occurrences.
B. Motivate students to proceed from simple to complex in their approach to learning
C. Encourage students to monitor and self-manage their own behavior
D. Allow students to decide which topics will be studied and for how long. - ANS-C
A kindergarten child is shown a tall, thin jar and a short, wide jar, both of which hold exactly one
pint.
When questioned about the two jars, the child's answers indicate that the child believes the
taller container holds more liquid. Based on this evidence, the child's teacher likely would
conclude that the child
A. is developmentally delayed
B. has a vision problem
C. lacks the ability to conserve
D. needs to be evaluated by an Exceptional Student Education specialist - ANS-C
A kindergarten teacher has the students sitting in a circle on the carpet while the teacher passes
around a bag containing plastic letters. Each student is to reach in the bag, remove a letter,
show the letter to the group, and then say the name of the letter and its sound. That concept is
the teacher working on with these children?
A. alphabetic principle
B. decoding
C. fluency
D. print awareness - ANS-A
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