Exam 21: Instruction

Which of the following assessment types allows teachers to assess student learning that is in progress and to, therefore, monitor and adjust learning activities and levels?

In what two forms is knowledge believed to be stored as humans learn?

Source materials and documents that provide original, unaltered statements or records in a variety of fields such as science, law, government, mathematics and history are commonly referred to as:

While working with his students to identify the major pretexts of the Civil War, Mrs. Williams wants her students to make connections between the events leading up to the war. Which of the following graphic organizers will guide the students to make these connections?

What type of instruction involves the teacher presenting the same content to an entire group while providing differing levels of support to each student based on individual needs?

Standards are the specific learning expectations that students must demonstrate knowledge of or be able to perform. Standards are typically adopted at the national, state or local levels and inform curriculum and instruction decisions. What are the two types of standards recognized by educators?

The SQ3R method is a commonly used instructional strategy that is used for:

Of the following objectives, which one is written so that students' progress toward mastery of the objective is easily measurable?

Graphic organizers are visual aids that help individuals identify relationships between concepts, ideas, key terms and facts. Which of the following isNOT a type of graphic organizer?

Which type of scores is based on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation of two?

What are the three measures of central tendency thata teacher may use to assess student performance as a group or class?

Anna is a first-grade student who is learning to sort objects based on single characteristics such as color, size and type. Her teacher gives her directions to create specific groups, for example, "Which of the objects are round?" and "Show me the objects that represent animals." As she works, Anna starts to make her own groups and is able to identify what characteristics she used to sort the group out. Of the following instruction strategies, which strategy is Anna's teacher using to help her learn how to make connections and classifications?

The National Council of Teachers of English, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Science Teachers Association are all examples of what?

Some concepts are too abstract to be reliably learned from representational sources. For example, if students are instructed to read a manual on the correct way to use litmus paper in order to determine whether a liquid is a base, neutral or an acid, it is probable that several of the students may not understand the written directions. What would be a more effective instructional strategy that would teach the students how to correctly use litmus paper to determine the acidity (pH) of a given liquid?

Before the school year began, Mr. Donegan went to a local pizza delivery store and asked the manager if he would donate fifteen unused pizza boxes so that he would have one for each of his students. During the first week of school, he had his students decorate them. Throughout that school year, Mr. Donegan had the students collect a variety of work products that he or they felt were demonstrative of their mastery levels, such as essays, self-evaluations, tests, work samples, and interdisciplinary products. At the end of the year, Mr. Doneganperformeda final evaluation of the portfolio using a rubric and student self-rating scale. This type of assessment is commonly referred to as a(n):

Mellano writes a list of five new vocabulary terms using the oa vowel combination on the board. She then shows them pictures of a foal, some coal and a soccer goal as she asks the students to provide their own explanations and descriptions of the images that match the words. Lastly, Mrs. Mellano gives the students fifteen minutes to draw their own pictures and scenes that include pictures associated with the five words. Mrs. Mellano most likely selected this instructional strategy in order to:

Direct instruction is a highly effective method for teaching. Which of the following statements is NOT descriptiveof the direct instruction model?

In order to teach her students the stages of the water cycle, Mrs. Nandulagives each of her students a Ziplock bag, a small plastic cup and colored water. They fill the cup with the colored water, carefully place it upright inside the bag and seal the bag closed leaving it sitting on a sunny window sill. Each day they record the changes which occur inside the back. Over time, the students notice that water droplets form inside the bag and then begin to pool in the bottom of the bag. Which instructional model is Mrs. Nandula using to teach her students the stages of the water cycle?

Essay questions are considered an excellent assessment type for determining student achievement at the several of the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Carter's fourth-grade students enter the door, they are divided into groups of four. While the students are not aware of the reasoning behind the groups, Ms. Carter engineered the groups to be homogenous based on specific skills. Once in his or her group, each student receives a number from one to four. Then, the students are directed to move into four groups by joining the others with the same number. Once in these groups, the students are assigned a portion of the lesson's instructional materials to become "experts" on. Once they have developed their expertise, they then return to their original groups and teach the content to their peers. This cooperative learning structure is often referred to as Numbered Heads Together. Ms. Carter's main purpose for using this structure is most likely: