Lisa Cheby
EPC496S
Summer 2004
Quiz #3
Test for
Chapters 3-5
Total points:
50 points
Multiple
Choice (1 point each)
1. Which
developmental factor in preschool children effects skills such as handwriting
or tying shoes?
a. small muscle
development
b. large muscle
development
c. cognitive
development
d. hand-eye
coordination
2. The knowledge
and skills related to reading that children usually develop from experience
with books and other print media before formal reading instruction begins is
a. whole
language
b. osmosis
c. oral language
d. emergent
literacy
3. Two children
are playing in the classroom. One is playing with trucks, the other with
blocks. The student with the cars gives
one car to the student with blocks to park in the garage he made. The student with the blocks gives some for
the other to make obstacles for her cars.
At times, they may take turns driving the cars through the obstacle
course. This an example of:
a. parallel play
b. cooperative
play
c. associative
play
d. prosocial play
4. For
elementary students, designing lessons that allow students to achieve and be
successful in a variety of tasks, especially in tasks requiring oral language
or social skills, assists students in developing their
a. self-concept
b. use of
concrete operations
c. self-esteem
d. a and c
5. Lesson plans
that ask students to think about their identity and to explore ways of self
definition taps into the adolescence development of
a. reflectivity
b. emotional
disorders
c. relationships
with peers
d. puberty
6. The most
significant obstacle for students from lower socioeconomic status in public
schools is
a. the
inconsistency between expectations in the home and in school
b. language
c. lack of money
for pens, pencils, and paper
d. under-representation
7. A person’s
identification with a group based on language, history, attitudes, and
traditions is
a. self-image
b. race
c. ethnicity
d. a minority
group
8. Two reasons
students from under-represented groups lag in achievement are
a. they tend to
come from lower economic classes and they lack motivation
b. they tend to
come from lower economic classes and their parents don’t care if they graduate
c. they come
from cultural backgrounds which are inconsistent with a middle class education
and they tend to come from lower economic classes
d. they come
from cultural backgrounds which are inconsistent with a middle class education
and do not try to really learn English
9. A major cause
of the failure of desegregation in public schools is
a. refusal to
redraw districts
b. residential
segregation
c. minorities
refuse to go to predominantly white schools
d. lack of
school buses
10. A language
minority is
a. a language
spoken by less than 20% of the population
b. a language
spoke by less than 50% of the population
c. a native
speaker of any language other than English
d. b and c
11. Elements of
bilingual education includes all except
a. teaching
students in their native language
b. teaching
students in English
c. sink or swim
d. dual
immersion
12. Including
cooperative learning in a school with a large population of Mexican American
students is primarily an example of using
a. empowering
school culture
b. content
integration
c. multiple
intelligences
d. equity
pedagogy
13. The first
step in multicultural education is
a. learning
about the diverse cultures of the students and evaluating school programs and
materials for any bias
b. including
books with a variety of cultural perspectives
c. reducing
prejudice between students
d. equity
pedagogy
14. Differences
in performance between males and females is due mostly to
a. chemical
differences in the brain
b. socioeconomic
status
c. different
cultural expectations or norms
d. boys are
louder than girls
15. Having
students design a soundtrack for a novel and a poster to sell the novel utilize
which of
a. musical and
interpersonal
b. spatial and
linguistic
c. Kinesthetic
and spatial
d. spatial and
musical
16. Cooperative
groups are important in accommodating which learning style:
a. field
independent
b. aptitude-treatment
c. field
dependent
d. naturalist
17. An
intentional teacher accommodates student diversity by
a. creating
plans to work with other parents and teachers to support student learning
b. drawing from
students’ backgrounds to help students interpret new material
c. allowing
students to choose ways to participate that coincide with their learning styles
d. all of the
above
18. Using
pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of a behavior is
a. the Skinner
box theory
b. classical conditioning
c. operant
conditioning
d. unconditioned
response theory
19. Only half the class turns in their homework on
a regular basis. In order to get the
entire class to turn in their homework, which would be the BEST set of
consequences to try to encourage all students to turn in work:
a. Positive
reinforcement for those who turn in their work; no reinforcement for those who
do not
b. Negative
reinforcement for those who turn in their work; Positive reinforcement for
those who do not
c. Positive
reinforcement for those who turn in their work; removal punishment for those
who do not (i.e. not using computers)
d. No
reinforcement for those who turn in their work; negative reinforcement for
those who do not
20. In order to get students to raise their hands
and wait quietly until called on, you should
a. acknowledge
all good comments
b. ignore
students who call out, regardless of if they are answering your questions or
not
c. ignore
students for a while, but then acknowledge their answers if they get louder and
more persistent
d. ignore all students
who call out for as long as it takes for the class to learn to raise their
hands
21. Shaping is a valuable tool in behavior control
and in increasing student performance.
Shaping calls for
a. modeling
tasks until student can do them on their own
b. hinting to
students what you want them to do until they can discover the task on their own
c. reinforcing
students at each step on the way to a larger goal
d. giving
students a rubric and then only grading the final product
22. Several
students regularly forget their books.
At first, wanting them to have the material for class, you let them go
to their lockers to get the books.
However, you realize it is disruptive and they are taking advantage of
your leniency. To change this behavior,
you would use
a. extinction
b. fixed-ratio
schedule
c. send the
students to the counselors for being unprepared
d. maintenance
23. Collaboration
between teachers so that concepts and behaviors are duplicated in various
classes and across disciplines helps students with
a. maintenance
b. multi-tasking
c. generalization
d. shaping
24. The four
features of observational learning, according to Bandura,
are
a. attentional, retention,
operational, motivational
b. prosocial, attentional, retention, motivational
c. attentional, retention, socioemotional, motivational
d. attentional, retention,
reproduction, motivational
True
False ( 1 Point
Each)
25. Preschool
children should be taught a lot of grammar because it is important for them to
have a lot of rules to develop language.
a. True
b. False
26. Since
language acquisition is dependent on an innate capacity to recognize language
patterns, whether words or signs, language is not dependent on speech.
a. True
b. False
27. Early
intervention programs are programs for all socioeconomic classes designed to
help children develop psychosocial and cognitive skills needed to be successful
in school.
a. True
b. False
28. In high
school, the most critical aspect of their socioemotional
development is that their relationships with teachers and peers overrides their
relationship with their parents
a. True
b. False
29. In low-income
communities, crime, lack of health services, and lack of role models take
resources from other programs or materials that could help increase student
achievement.
a. True
b. False
30. In order to
ease students’ conflicts with gender biases, teachers should take into consideration
a student’s gender when assigning roles or tasks in the classroom.
a. True
b. False
31. Binet created
tests to prove that intelligence is a single thing that could not be changed.
a. True
b. False
32. Spearman
continued Binet’s work and proposed that a general
intelligence factor, ‘g’, existed across all tasks, even if performance
fluctuated.
a. True
b. False
33. Both
behavioral learning theories and cognitive learning theories seek to explain
mental processes.
a. True
b. False
34. Reinforcement
which happens immediately after an action is always more effective than one
that happens much later.
a. True
b. False
35. It is ok to
take your time grading student work as the amount of time between them doing
the assignment and your feedback is irrelevant to their learning.
a. True
b. False
36. It is a
foolproof idea to use the highest level of reinforcement for all behaviors –
that way, you get the behavior you want immediately.
a. True
b. False
37. One way to
increase self-reinforcement and regulation is to gradually increase
reinforcement ratios, first reinforcing every correct answer then removing
reinforcements until students are able to complete a project independently.
a. True
b. False
38. A student’s
belief that his/her own efforts matter, or self-efficacy, is a major factor in
determining a student’s success in school.
a. True
b. False
Short constructed response (4 points each):
39. Describe Meichenbaum’s
steps to self-instruction. Provide
practical applications or examples of what these steps look like in the
classroom.
40. Your aim for
the new school year is to have a discipline plan which is integrated into your
instruction so that you do not have to take a lot of time and energy to deal
with discipline problems. You also want
to increase student production and participation. Explain ways that you may target typical
behavior problems with various types of reinforcement in your lesson plans.
41. You and a
teacher from another discipline are working to develop a unit on Native
Americans and their relationship to the natural world. You want to hit all 8 of the multiple
intelligences. List activities you could
include in this lesson.
Nice job with the test.
Thanks for the big font, it does help me out
when reading all of these.
Good mixture of T/F and MC, both very well
worded and constructed.
Like the essay questions 40 and 41, not too sure about 39.
25/25
Answer Key:
Scoring for essays
4: has all elements and clearly
understands concepts
3: has most elements and understands
concepts
2:
has some elements and/or vague understanding of
concepts
1: has a few elements and is familiar
with, but does not understand concepts