EDU
Q: Detracking high school students (eliminating the separation of academic, general, and vocational tracks) had which of the following effects?
A: Detracking raised the performance of low-achieving students
Q: To whom is the notion of multiple intelligences attributed?
A: Gardner
Q: PL - 192, a law that was passed originally in 1975, whose purpose was to enhance the learning of disabled students is
A: IDEA
Q: How are math and science taught in the U.S. in comparison to how they are taught in other countries?
A: In the U.S. many more topics are covered, but less time is devoted to each topic.
Q: A strategy whose purpose to catch struggling children early, provide appropriate instruction, and prevent the need for children to be tested for special education services is called
A: RTI
Q: Which of the following is not a characteristic of an effective school?
A: Teacher autonomy to work in isolation
Q: Why are teenage mothers particularly vulnerable to poverty?
A: They do not usually complete their education to get marketable skills.
Q: Which country has the highest teen-age birthrate among the world's developed countries?
A: United States
Q: Schooling can best be described as ________.
A: a specific, formalized process
Q: One strategy for serving gifted and talented students is
A: acceleration
Q: Student cheating is done exclusively by ________.
A: all types of students
Q: The process of incorporating an immigrant group into the mainstream culture is often referred to
A: assimilation
Q: The term _____ refers to the array of devices and services that help people with disabilities perform better in their daily lives.
A: assistive technology
Q: Alcohol and drug abuse affects students ________.
A: at any age and both when the student or a family member is involved in the substance abuse
Q: Children who are not living in two parent homes, who receive welfare benefits, and who are living below the poverty line can be considered ________.
A: at-risk students
Q: In the shopping mall high school, which group of students may be neglected?
A: average students
Q: The main reason teachers choose to teach is ________.
A: because they love teaching and get a great deal of satisfaction from it
Q: Cultural literacy or Core Knowledge as defined by E. D. Hirsch involves ______
A: being aware of the central ideas and notable personalities of the culture
Q: school cultures _______.
A: can be positive or negative, leading to good results or bad ones
Q: Apprenticeship program is an example of____.
A: career and technical education
Q: Glasser's theory that posits that students have certain needs within themselves, and if they understand and identify these needs they can make conscious choices best how to meet them is called
A: choice theory
Q: Current research in the area of reading instruction indicates that reading is best taught using a ________.
A: combination of phonics and whole language
Q: A teacher who presents students with real life scenarios and teaches them to create solutions is teaching ________.
A: critical thinking
Q: A relatively new form of bullying which involves bullying through text messages, email, and chat rooms is referred to as ________.
A: cyberbullying
Q: Throughout the generations, the primary motivation for teaching has been ________.
A: desire to work with young people
Q: Good citizenship as envisioned by Dewey in the 1930s can be appropriately interpreted as ________.
A: education to deal with real-life situations
Q: Project 2061, an initiative of The American Association for the Advancement of Science is recommending schools to ________
A: emphasizes a hands-on experiential approach in science curriculum
Q: The work schedule in teaching that allows for personal time is a(n) _______
A: extrinsic reward
Q: ADA stands for Adaptation of Developmental Abilities
A: false
Q: After lagging behind men for many years, women now hold a similar number of jobs in science and mathematics fields.
A: false
Q: Although cheating in school has received much media attention, it only occurs with moderate frequency
A: false
Q: Although our schools have many purposes, all agree that developing intellectual skills is the clear, primary purpose.
A: false
Q: Bilingual education has come so far in the United States that there are hardly any controversies surrounding it anymore.
A: false
Q: By law a student's LRE must be the same as every other student's.
A: false
Q: Part of being a student in an elementary classroom is having to experience "denial of desire," which is frustrating, unnecessary, and detrimental.
A: false
Q: Schooling and education are the same thing.
A: false
Q: Teachers who suspect that a student in his or her class has suffered child abuse must use discretion in deciding whether to file a report.
A: false
Q: The diversity of students in our schools has slowed down in the past 10 years
A: false
Q: Social reconstructionists see the role of schools as ________.
A: forming students into agents of change and participating in how society needs to change
Q: Based on the newer trends in math instruction, which of the following will most likely occur in math classes?
A: greater integration of a variety of math skills being taught within one course
Q: A successful cooperative learning activity would include ________.
A: group goals and individual accountability
Q: A reward system used in the classroom to promote positive behavior would be an example of ________.
A: hidden curriculum
Q: The increase in single-parent homes and in both parents working outside the home has caused ________.
A: increase in children spending time at home alone without parental involvement
Q: Teaching a unit on health which would combine lessons and skills in language arts, math, science and social studies is an example of ________.
A: interdisciplinary curriculum
Q: Education differs from schooling in that ________.
A: it is a lifelong all inclusive process of human growth, development, and change
Q: One of the downfalls of school acculturation is that ________.
A: it leads nations and individuals to adopt an attitude of cultural superiority which causes them not to respect others and commit foolish actions
Q: The Common Core State Standards was developed in 2010 to define national achievement benchmarks for ________.
A: language arts and math in grades k-12
Q: A term that takes into account whether a student learns better using vision, auditory, or kinesthetic learning is called
A: learning styles
Q: Which of the following is an intrinsic reward of teaching?
A: making a positive contribution to society
Q: Cultural pluralism is a newer term for what used to be called
A: melting pot
Q: Administrators view new teachers as ________
A: motivated and energetic
Q: According to our text, one approach to meeting the educational needs of an increasingly diverse population is
A: multicultural education
Q: U.S. high school students spend much of their day in ________.
A: non-academic activities such as counseling, gym, pep rallies, and homeroom
Q: The intellectual purpose of schools is ________.
A: one of the four basic purposes of a school and a necessary component of any school
Q: Children living in single parent homes are more likely to be ________
A: poor
Q: What is the primary goal of any sex education program?
A: preventing teenage pregnancy
Q: The motivations to teach and the rewards for teaching can generally be defined as _______.
A: primary extrinsic rewards
Q: When seeking guidance from others in order to determine if teaching is right for you, you should ________.
A: receive advice openly, but follow it cautiously
Q: Real school encounters, guidance, and vicarious experiences will not be beneficial unless one ________.
A: reflects upon these experiences and think seriously about them
Q: Over the past 35 years motivations through which people choose to teach has ________.
A: remained the same
Q: Which of the following was the least cited source of motivation for teaching?
A: salary
Q: The purpose of "School Turnaround Grants" instituted in 2010 by President Obama is to decrease ________.
A: school dropouts
Q: All of the following are risk factors contributing to the high rate of children living in poverty except ________.
A: school systems built by and for the wealthy
Q: School policies such as automatic expulsion for carrying weapons, student uniforms, mandatory sign-in for visitors, and metal detectors and law enforcement were all measures implemented in order to decrease ________.
A: school violence
Q: When a student is able to exist productively in a rule-bound system and can read, write, and compute, it is probably the result of his or her ________.
A: schooling
Q: Which of the following is a vicarious experience related to determining your interest in eventually becoming a teacher?
A: seeing a film about an exceptional teacher
Q: The psychological effects of abuse on a child can lead to ________.
A: serious learning difficulties for the child
Q: In one high school, students are given freedom to choose from a broad selection of courses in the fine arts, the sciences, literature, vocational areas, and athletics. This high school probably represents the ________.
A: shopping mall school
Q: When schools teach concepts such as sharing, and putting forth best effort they are emphasizing the _______
A: social purposes of the school
Q: The study of American law and government, issues in contemporary society and questions of character and values is known as ________.
A: social studies
Q: By the end of the first year, a student knows how to behave in class, on the playground, and in the lunchroom, and as a result is well liked by the teachers. This appropriate behavior is probably a result of successful
A: socialization
Q: Which one of the following terms is NOT one of the intelligences in the multiple intelligences theory?
A: summarizing ability
Q: For those in generational poverty, the hidden rules that prioritize decision making are ________.
A: survival, entertainment, and relationships
Q: Which group of people does the public perceive as providing the greatest benefit to society?
A: teachers
Q: New teachers most often feel that -------
A: teaching demands a high level of energy and effort
Q:Teachers can help in renewing society by ________.
A: teaching students to be good citizens
Q: Volunteering, substituting, or working as a teacher's aide is one of the best ways to ________.
A: test your interest in and aptitude for teaching
Q: Economic Reconstructionist argue that ________.
A: the goal of schools should be d to prepare students for lucrative professions
Q: Community Service projects, student government and citizen education programs are all examples of ________.
A: the political and civic purpose of schools
Q: When a teacher emphasizes on a particular subject or one aspect or facet of the subject, what may happen as an effect?
A: the students can become uninterested and become disengaged
Q: High school students view their teachers as ________.
A: the top contribution to society's well-being
Q: A common extrinsic reward associated with teaching is ________.
A: the work schedule, which allows for a lot of flexibility
Q: The current trend in the teaching of foreign languages is ________.
A: to make foreign language study more attractive by linking it with international and multicultural education
Q: The task of passing on a society's culture to the young is called ________
A: transmission
Q: An IFSP (Individualized Family Services Plan) is written for children from ages birth to age 2 who are developmentally delayed
A: true
Q: ELL refers to students and ESL refers to a method of teaching them
A: true
Q: In the term "gifted and talented," "gifted" refers to intellectual ability and "talented" refers to skills.
A: true
Q: LGBT is an acronym that refers to the sexual orientation of students and people in general
A: true
Q: Mainstreaming and inclusion are both ways to immerse handicapped students into classrooms with their non-handicapped peers
A: true
Q: More than four-fifths of the states have adopted a common core of academic standards in math and language arts.
A: true
Q: Most children receiving special education services do so in separate classrooms with special education teachers
A: true
Q: Over 40 percent of students in public elementary and secondary schools are from minority groups
A: true
Q: Teenage mothers often live in poverty through their adult years.
A: true
Q: The majority of English language learners were born in the United States and are U.S. citizens
A: true
Q: The most successful schools have a high degree of parental involvement.
A: true
Q: The term "equal" refers to treating students fairly.
A: true
Q: Three-fourths of today's children live in families where either both parents or the only parent works full time.
A: true
Q:The United States has a higher percentage (almost half) of children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation.
A: true
Q: Adolescent suicide attempts are highest amongst _________.
A: white females
Q: Research shows that academically effective schools are good at remaining independent of parental involvement
A; false
