EDCI 301 FINAL CH. 11-15

Which of the following posters is most likely to promote cognitive behavior modification?

"Does this make sense?"

In her seventh grade pre-algebra class, Ms. Cornelius gave a standardized exam prepared by the district math department. Students' scores on the exam were as follows: 100, 98, 98, 96, 96, 96, 94, 92, 88, 82. What is the mean score?

94

Mr. Mack presented the following objective: "Watch the video and respond to the main character's dilemma as though you were walking in her shoes." This objective fits the taxonomy of what domain?

Affective domain

Which of the following theorists is most closely associated with social cognitive theory?

Albert Bandura

Educational psychologists talk about five possible outcomes of observational learning. Which of the following scenarios most directly illustrates one of the outcomes?

Alena read a true story about girls in Africa who are not allowed to go to school, and she developed anger toward the girl's culture

Mr. Maxwell prepared two unit tests in algebra. Valinda's group averages 95% on test A and 96% on test B. What does this confirm about the tests?

Alternate-form reliability

Jimar is a six-year-old African American boy who wants to learn how to dribble a basketball and do it so well that his eight-year-old brother can't steal the ball from him when he runs up the driveway to shoot a basket. Observational learning is a good way for him to begin to reach his goal. Which of the following people is probable the best model for him?

An Asian boy about his age who plays basketball better than any of the other kids his age

Mrs. Carson wants her students to learn how to summarize as they read. She models the behaviors for the students and talks about each step she uses to summarize part of a story. For Mrs. Carson's students to begin to learn by observing her modeling, what elements of observational learning do they need to exhibit?

Apply triarchic reciprocal causality

How will value-added measures most likely help solve any problems associated with high-stakes testing?

Assess the actual growth a student achieved compared to their expected level of growth

Which of the following teachers is using strategies that encourage student motivation?

At Mr. Thomas's centers, students use measuring cups and measuring spoons to learn about volume

Ms. Jovanovic encourages her first graders to complete their reading assignment before lunch in order to receive a sticker. Which approach of motivation is she using?

Behavioral approach

Mr. Franks creates a classroom environment in which his elementary students work productively at centers and engage in group activities to apply principles they are learning. His established routines help students stay on track and maximize learning time. Which aspect of Robert Pianta's model is most closely associated with these characteristics of Mr. Franks' teaching?

Behavioral dimensions

Which of the following students has an incremental view of ability?

Cassidy is trying different strategies for learning her vocabulary words. She is sure she will find a strategy that works for her.

Which of the following procedures is most closely associated with cognitive behavior?

Change of behavior through self-talk

Sanya spent hours preparing her presentation for Tuesday's assignment in speech class. When she gave her speech to her group, she failed to make eye contact with her audience, and she fidgeted with her hair. She had reminded herself to exhibit these specific skills, but lost points for failing to follow through during her presentation. She had the same problem with previous speeches. What basic need is not being met?

Competence

Which of the following statements illustrates measurement (as defined in assessment terminology)?

Connor answered 14 out of 15 questions correctly

Which of the following students is most likely to have the highest motivation to achieve?

Connor overestimates his ability to bat left-handed, but his self-efficacy is high and he is optimistic about helping his team win

Ms. Carpenter created a test to measure students' skill in identifying subjects and verbs in sentences. All test items directly related to unit objectives -- identification of subjects and verbs in simple and compound sentences. Based on this information, Ms. Carpenter's test may be said to have:

Content-related evidence of validity

Mrs. Ramirez is giving a test to identify the top students in her physics class. The top three or four students will be invited to participate in an event related to their unit of study at a local university. What type of grading should she use to meet this goal?

Criterion-referenced grading

Which of the following student appears to demonstrate performance avoidance goals?

Deon skimmed the chapter quickly and decided on a few comments he could make during group discussions tomorrow. He doesn't want to look stupid when his group meets and starts to discuss the new material.

When teachers want to influence students to develop self-regulation and efficacy for learning, they should do all of the following EXCEPT:

Design basic tasks that address a single goal, incorporate one step at a time, and are completed in a short time

Based on the following attributions, which student is most likely to be motivated to choose more difficult academic tasks?

Duke said he didn't study for the algebra test. He said he's just good at math.

According to Bloom's taxonomy of the cognitive domain, identify the level of the following objective: Assess the author's skill in implementing the literacy device of allegory.

Evaluating

Braden is worried about the grade he'll receive on his essay. Mr. Tompkins encourages him not to worry about his grade. He tells Braden to focus on learning from his past mistakes and improving his writing on the essay. Mr. Tompkins is encouraging which type of motivation?

Extrinsic

Traditional testing can be used effectively and efficiently to assess which of the following?

Facts and concepts

Ms. Casella has scheduled three days for students' persuasive speeches in her high school class. Which of the following practices is most likely to improve reliability in evaluating her students' oral presentations?

Focus raters' attention on a few dimensions of the presentation

Which type of goals is most likely to enhance motivation and persistence?

Goals that can be reached fairly soon

During the social studies unit about poverty in the United States, Mr. Lambert presents facts and asks students to read two non-fiction articles on the topic. After students read the articles, Mr. Lambert wants to hear what they have to say about the issues surrounding people in poverty and the plight of children growing up in poverty. What teaching approach is most appropriate for his purpose?

Group discussion

Mr. Darnell walks around the classroom monitoring students as they work on the new skill of adding fractions. He stops at Ada's desk and praises her effort and persistence. Ada has been struggling to understand fractions, but is using the manipulative to try to get the right answers. Her answer is wrong, but her explanation of her process is on target. Why does Mr. Darnell praise Ada even though her answer is wrong?

He holds an incremental view of ability and believes Ada can improve

Ms. Strauss made the decision to delay the class field trip. Students verbalized their frustration and disappointment. Which teacher response supports self-determination and autonomy?

I recognize your frustration with my decision to delay the field trip

Jana practiced her lines for the play and watched movies in which gifted actors portrayed characters similar to her character in the high school play. After her performance, her teacher and other adults and students told her she gave a stellar performance. She said she worked really hard to develop the character's wacky disposition. She attributed her success to:

Internal locus

In his creative writing unit, Mr. Hembre wants to use portfolios to collect students writings. Which of the following steps should he include in the process of creating these portfolios?

Involve students in selecting the writing pieces to include in their portfolios

Miranda missed the class period when her teacher introduced the steps for analyzing a speech. During class students practiced the skill and got feedback from the teacher to help them perform the skill with competence. Now Miranda needs to teach herself and catch up with the rest of the class. This self-regulated learning will involve all of the following factors EXCEPT:

Knowledge

Brenden is a student in Mrs. O'Donnell's high school algebra class. He barely passed math last year and knows he won't be able to succeed in algebra. He says he doesn't have the brains to do math no matter how much he works at it. The teacher offers to help him after school, but Brenden says it won't help. He's tried tutors before. Brenden's beliefs about himself illustrate:

Learned helplessness

Based on research about teacher expectations, which of the following high school students is likely to sustain the highest expectations from teachers?

Lei is an Asian American boy

Mr. Zimmer wants to discourage Mario's disruptive behavior. Mario often drums his pencil on his desk while Mr. Zimmer is reading aloud to the class. Based on social cognitive theory, which of the following is most likely to help Mr. Zimmer reach his goal?

Let Mario see Mr. Zimmer punish Mario's friend Carlos when Carlos makes disruptive noises

Ian is a student in Mr. Duma's ninth grade class. When Mr. Dumas announces that there will be a science test on Friday, Ian begins to dread Friday. He wonders whether his will be able to pass the science test. He didn't do well on the previous test, and he struggles with the concepts in this chapter about natural selection. Ian's doubts about his ability to do well on the science test is representative of his:

Low self-efficacy

Mrs. Kohler asks Brady easy questions, gives him very few prompts, and praises his answers, even when they are not quite correct. Brady is most likely a:

Low-ability student

Ms. Dominguez is middle school science teacher who consistently gets high student reviews. Her students claim they learn more in her class than in any other class. Based on research about teacher effectiveness, Ms. Dominguez most likely does all of the following EXCEPT:

Maintain distant, reserved relationships with students

You and the other fifth grade teachers at your school are preparing your students for state standardized tests. What advice should you and your colleagues follow?

Make sure students know how to use all test materials

Kai's goal for her history assignment is to learn as much as she can about Navajo Indian culture by reading books and Internet sources and then visit the reservation near he hometown in New Mexico. Kai's goal for this assignment is:

Mastery

Which of the following situations illustrates sustaining expectation effect?

Megan usually makes low grades in math, but she actually understands fractions. On the fractions unit, she made one of the highest scores, but the teacher thought it was a fluke and wondered whether Megan cheated. Megan didn't try very hard on the next unit.

Alan's art project is due tomorrow. He and all other fifth graders in his school have the opportunity to submit drawings, and one of them will be chosen as the yearbook cover. Alan loves to draw and wants his picture to be chosen. He knows his idea is good and that he has the drawing skills to submit one of the best drawings, but he keeps playing his video games. What is lacking in Alan's case?

Motivation

Think about students' needs in the classroom. Based on studies, which of the following high school teachers is most likely to have students with greater conceptual learning and higher school attendance?

Mr. Andrus allows his students to choose among three types of projects they will do as a culminating activity in the history unit

Which of the following teachers uses a constructivist approach in instructional planning?

Mr. Anthony and his students discussed their unit about crustaceans and decided to create centers that integrated science knowledge, writing skills, and vocabulary

Which of the following strategies is LEAST likely to build student interests and curiosity in the subject?

Mr. Brown relates content objectives to his own experiences in his science class

Which of the following teachers uses backward design?

Mr. Browning begins to develop his math unit by looking at the state standards and aligning key elements of the lesson with the standards. He thinks about the important end results students need to achieve in the unit

Which teacher is most likely to INCREASE anxiety for students who experience academic anxiety?

Mr. Carlisle often uses competition and encourages students to see who can complete the most problems correctly in the shortest amount of time

Based on the information provided in the following descriptions of four teachers, which of them most likely has the highest sense of efficacy about teaching?

Mr. Gimenez has worked with a small group of English learners and helped them raise their reading level from grade 2 to grade 4

Which of the following is most likely to be identified as an authentic assessment?

Mr. Kuhar's students are developing solutions to the problem of industrial toxins being dumped into their community's drinking water source

Which of the following teachers is taking a humanistic approach to motivation?

Mrs. McKenzie gives students three choices for their history project. She stresses how much they will learn and grow as they work on the tasks involved.

Which of the following teachers is using direct instruction?

Mrs. Wiggins uses centers with one unit to integrate writing, science, and math

The following teachers are using various types of assessments. Which one is most likely used for formative purposes?

Ms. Allen is giving a pretest before she begins instruction on a new unit in geometry

According to cognitive evaluation theory, which of the following classroom events is most likely to increase students' intrinsic motivation to learn?

Ms. Carlson writes on the board the due date for science projects and suggests that students transfer the information to their notebooks

The following teachers all assigned essay writing in their middle school English classes. Today they returned students' papers. Based on the following information, which of these teachers is most likely to have students who are motivated to pursue learning goals in the classroom?

Ms. Compton returned the essays and asked students to compare this draft with their first draft to see how much progress they had made

Which teacher is using seat work most appropriately?

Ms. Cranfield gives students a word puzzle to complete at their seats. They just finished reviewing the vocabulary words for the integrated reading and writing unit

Which one of the following examples illustrates appropriate us of high-stakes testing?

Ms. Davis used high-stakes testing as the basis for recommending remedial work for students who failed in specified subjects

Which of the following teachers is most likely to encourage emotional self-regulation in the classroom?

Ms. Travis avoids listening to Melba's tattle tales about a classmate during a group activity and encourages Melba to focus on performing her role in the group

Which of the following assessments is most likely to be viewed as an objective test of students' skills and knowledge?

Multiple-choice test

The following situations exhibit different aspects of social and emotional skills that contribute to an individual's emotional self-regulation. Which of these students most closely demonstrates social awareness?

Nikki read about a family who lost everything in a fire, and she told her parents she wanted to get a new backpack for the little girl in that family

Six-year-old Ana saw her big brother take cookies from the cookie jar without permission. He didn't get caught or scolded. Ana decided she wanted cookies too and copied her brother's behavior. The children's mother has told them to ask before getting cookies, but they took cookies without asking. Based on triarchic reciprocal causality, what three kinds of influences are working together to explain Ana's behavior?

Personal, environmental, and behavioral

Ms. Moreno uses observation learning effectively in her fifth grade classroom. She most likely does all of the following EXCEPT:

Point out positive consequences experienced by story characters as a result of their positive behavior

Mrs. Carmike gives students three options for their projects at the end of a geometry unit. These projects will assess students' knowledge and skills on the basis of the objectives she presented at the beginning of each lesson in the unit. Which of the following is Mrs. Carmike most likely to do in developing a rubric for grading the projects?

Provide a category for grading each student's project on the basis of a peer teacher's judgment

Mr. Evans is a new teacher who wants to avoid the negative effects of teacher expectations. If he follows the guidelines of expert educators, he will do all of the following EXCEPT:

Provide support without challenging students

Ms. Pringle is writing a test for the unit on persuasion in her high school speech class. Based on guidelines for using instructional objectives, her test questions should:

Relate to her objectives

Miguel moved to a new school around Thanksgiving. In his third grade class he is shy and has not made friends by Valentine's Day. What unmet need is likely interfering with his learning?

Relatedness

Ms. Valentino could tell from the first day of school that Javier was going to be one of her struggling Latino students. He came to school wearing worn clothes. No parent accompanied him, and he acted withdrawn and shy. By the end of the first grading period, she confirmed her impressions. Javier's grades were low. This scenario most likely illustrates:

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Mr. Nguyen gives the following feedback to Shawna: "You are creating interesting slides. Check your rubric to see if you have met all the criteria for the assignment." What type of feedback is this?

Self-regulation feedback

In the self-regulated learning model (the cycle of self-regulated learning, Winne and Hadwin model), what stage follows the stage of analyzing the learning task?

Set goals and devise plans

Mrs. Hernandez wants to help her fourth grade students improve their performance and increase their self-efficacy for conveying emotion in their personal narrative writing. With this goal in mind, she is most likely to:

Set short-term goals related to the task

A few days ago, Mr. McKay worked with students to develop a rubric for assessing their projects in the historical fiction unit. The class has worked on the unit for more than a week, and students know the expectations for they projects. Today Mr. McKay paired students to work together and review their work using the rubric as a guide. This scenario is an example of:

Shared regulation

Mrs. Martinez is a new third grade teacher. Before school started, she reviewed the entire math text and planned her approach for the year. Now she moves methodically from lesson to lesson and hopes to cover all chapters by the end of the year. She knows the subject of math very well and has never had problems understanding math concepts. This week, she began teaching the lesson for week nine. She presented the new concept, and students seemed to be confused. She didn't see how they could be confused, but she repeated the same presentation. After her presentation, most of her students were unable to complete the practice problems. What is most likely the problem with Mrs. Martinez's lesson?

She most likely overplanned and lacked flexibility

Which of the following students appears to be intrinsically motivated?

Shonda takes her mystery book to all of her classes and reads a few more pages whenever she gets a chance

Various perspectives on learning in the diverse views and theories that form the four pillars for teaching: behavioral, cognitive, constructivist, and social cognitive. Which perspective views the teacher's role as on of model, motivator, and facilitator of learning as well as model of self-regulated learning?

Social cognitive

Which view of motivation is based on intrinsic and extrinsic sources of motivation and is characterized as expectancy x value?

Social cognitive

Ms. Porter is the favorite teacher of tenth grader Alejandro. During today's writing assignment, she reminds him how well he did on the previous essay and helps him set goals for each step of the new writing task. She assures him that he can succeed with this essay. This is an example of:

Social persuasion

All of Mr. Barclay's evaluation practices are likely to support self-regulated learning EXCEPT:

Students take a unit exam that includes multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and essay questions

In which of the following situations is success attributed to stable causes?

Success attributed to inherited intelligence

Is Maslow's hierarchy, what are the deficiency needs?

Survival, safety, belonging, self-esteem

Nadia has high self-efficacy for completing her assignments and making good grades in German class. All of the following likely contribute to her self-efficacy in German class EXCEPT:

Taking first place in a painting contest

Mrs. Simms reviewed her class role and read the permanent files of her incoming fourth grade students before school started in August. She noticed that Gabs had poor grades in several subjects last year, and his second and third grade teachers left notes about his bad conduct in the permanent file. When school started, Mrs. Simms told Gabs she was happy to have him her her class and said she knew he would like fourth grade subjects and lear a lot. Throughout the year, Mrs. Simms encourages Gabs and expressed her belief in his ability to learn. In the spring, Game scored in a higher percentile on his district's standardized tests then he had the previous year. His gains were much hight than expected. This is an example of:

The Pygmalion effect

What is a common criticism of traditional testing?

Traditional tests do not test knowledge as it is applied in real-world situations

Mr. Castillo's second grade class is quite diverse, and his students represent a wide range of abilities. He believes that flexible grouping is the most effective way to differentiate and reach the most students. In order to use flexible grouping effectively and follow the recommended guidelines of experienced educators, Mr. Castillo should do all of the following EXCEPT:

Use flexible grouping and group by ability for all subjects

Staci stopped running in the hallway at school after seeing two other students receive after-school detention for running. What element of observational learning is illustrated by her stopping this behavior?

Vicarious reinforcement

In her literature class, Ms. Campos wants her students to engage in divergent thinking about the book they are reading. Which of the following questions is she most likely to ask?

What do you think the main character was feeling when he closed the door?

Which of the following statements expresses behavioral objective?

When students are given a short grade-level passage, they will be able to identify the main idea 80% of the time

Identify the question that contains assessment bias:

Which of the following men is the greatest hero of the Civil War?

Ms. Boudreaux is choosing math tutorials to use in her inclusive fourth grade classroom. Should she choose programs with universal design? Why or why not?

Yes, universal design considers the needs of all users and works for students with disabilities

Carson's achievement in fifth grade has been remarkable. Last year in fourth grade, he has occasional problems with distractions and difficulty understanding what was expected, but this year he has no such problems. Based on studies of factors related to student achievement, which of the following factors most likely makes the largest impact on Carson's success?

his teachers knowledge and skill in classroom mgmt