Education Exam

Identify the best example of a teacher praising a student that is more likely to boost student achievement.

"Melanie! Your answer demonstrates a good approach toward critical analysis."

Which statement would most likely be made by a proponent of Common Core Standards?

"What is great about the Common Core Standards is that students will encounter more demanding assignments, and the end result will be a less superficial and more in-depth education in America!"

Which of the following statements best reflects the beliefs of James Coleman?

"When we carefully analyze private schools, we can clearly see that they do a better job than public schools. Perhaps private schools are the way to fix education."

The current reform efforts in education can be traced back to:

A Nation at Risk

Imagine a school where teachers do not have daily contact with one another and act independently, the school administration does not give due importance to effective communication with the students' families about the school's goals and expectations. They are vague about the goals of the school and focus on maintaining the status quo. This represents a failure of which element of the "five-factor theory of effective schools"?

A clear school mission

Identify an accurate statement about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

A high-stakes testing culture was created.

In loco parentis

A school official can search a students locker if there is reasonable suspicion that it contains something illegal and dangerous

Which of the following cases best be demonstrates the U.S Supreme Court's position on the "separation of church and state

A student decides to start a Christian club that will meet on school grounds. and is given permission by the school administration, which also offers space on school grounds for non-religion clubs and other student groups to meet.

Which of the following examples of student expression would be protected under the First Amendment?

A student protesting the war in Afghanistan wears a black armband to his classes and refuses to speak during the course of the day.

The phenomenon represented by the test-tampering scandal in Atlanta, Georgia, is most closely associated with:

Campbell's law.

Which of the following is a characteristic of charter schools?

Charter schools can be closed down if they do not meet expectations.

self-gratification

Commercialism Promotes

Identify an accurate statement in the context of use of computer-based technologies in schools.

Computer-based drills and tutorials in science, social science, and math may be effective in helping students show increased performance on standard multiple-choice tests.

Serrano v. Priest

Court case that led to advent of Robin Hood Reformers

A teacher asks a student to grade her own research paper and to justify her grade. Identify the level of this task on Bloom's taxonomy.

Evaluation

Which of the following comments is most likely to be made by an opponent of censorship?

I really feel that, while schools should protect children from blatantly inappropriate ideas, 'inappropriate' is a pretty subjective term."

Which of the following examples of a teacher's speech would most likely be considered a "matter of public concern"?

I was reading some of the environmental data on the site where our new school is being built. It sits right next to a chemical cleanup zone controlled by an environment protection agency. I think people need to know about this."

muncipial overburden

In funding schools, urban areas struggle the most suffering not only from lower property values but also from the need to use those limited resources to fund more police officers, hospitals, subways, and other services than their suburban counterparts. This phenomenon is called ______________

personal income tax

Is collected through payroll deductions, money deducted even before on receives salary

Textbook publishers are under pressure to dumb down textbooks. Hence, authors are asked to avoid the use of difficult words and long sentences. What is the consequence of dumbing down books in this manner?

It can make books harder to read rather than easier to read.

One of the founders of the school reform movement, the economist, who argued that competition creates better schools and weak local public schools existed because neighborhood families were a "trapped" clientele was:

Milton Friedman.

Andy was teaching a unit on Tennyson in his British Literature class, and he came across an essay about the poet that would really "bring the man to life." He made copies of the essay and distributed them to the students. Based on the information presented here, did Andy violate copyright laws?

No, because he can do so under the fair use policy for up to nine instances per class per semester.

Which of the following pairs of states, besides Texas and California, have the most influence on textbook creation and adoption?

North Carolina and Florida

Why have many courts rejected educational malpractice lawsuits?

Not all schools have the resources to provide an "adequate education."

who is mostly likely to be considered in the hidden school government

Parents

Which of the following represents a way in which a teacher might informally influence curriculum?

Paula decides to include literature from the African continent in her high school English class apart from the prescribed texts from American literature.

Foundation Probram

States have used different programs to try to equalize finding. In the __________________ the state provides funds to ensure that each student receices a minimal level of education services

Identify an accurate statement about the Buckley Amendment.

Student grades do not become private and part of students' educational records until they are recorded in a teacher's grade book.

Identify an accurate statement about open enrollment.

Students become eligible to enroll in any public school with available space.

zero-tolerance policy

Students who are removed fro school are at increased risk for low achievement and of bringing presently entangled in the "schools-to-prision" pipeline

San Antonio vs. Rodriguez

The court stated that preserving local control was a legit reason to use the property tax system

Why are first classes important for teachers?

The first class creates a first impression.

In the context of the report from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, titled The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools, identify an accurate statement.

The nation's gross domestic product would be $1.3 to $2.3 trillion higher if achievement gaps did not exist.

Identify an accurate statement about using a student's test score to assess the teacher

This a flawed approach because one test score is an inadequate measure of student growth, much less student effectiveness.

Which statement would most likely be made by a critic of schools' efforts to transmit culture?

When schools transmit culture, they tend to transmit a narrow perspective about other cultures and chauvinistic feeling of cultural superiority."

A scientific theory, such as the theory of evolution, is:

a well-founded scientific explanation.

In Alice's classroom, the great majority of her students do well academically. When she is asked about why she feels she is such a successful teacher, she says that she structures her instruction in such a way that her students can do well either way, Working with her directly or on their own. She says that her students often do even better working on their own than with her. Alice's classroom best exemplifies:

academic learning time.

You have just been assigned to teach a class that has several management problems. A good strategy to reduce or eliminate these problems would be to:

actively teach procedures, routines, and rules along with the academic curriculum.

a school board dominated by a few powerful figures will seek out a superintendent who _____________

acts as an advisor

Teachers should ask higher order questions when students:

are involved in a creative or affective decision.

Bella feels that her students deserve a safe, orderly classroom in which they can learn. She lets her students know her rules and the consequences for breaking those rules. When students do misbehave, she enforces her consequences quickly, fairly, and with minimal disruption to the class. The main focus of her model of classroom management is:

assertive discipline.

Title IX of the Education Amendments (1972):

bars discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

Elaine was homeschooled for most of her life before heading to college at a state university. Based on what is known of homeschooled students in college, we can conclude that Elaine is most likely to:

be well thought of by many of her professors because professors describe homeschooled students as more self-directed and willing to take risks.

School boards are often criticized for

being in the backseat when it comes to educational change and reform.

When schools move away from traditional autocratic teaching styles, students embrace "Habits of Goodness". To develop these habits teachers should:

communicate to students that even though they don't understand the reasons for every rule, rules are very important to follow.

For students, the problem with an "okay classroom" is that the teacher:

does not provide specific feedback, which is not the best way to enhance student achievement.

The development of common core state standards that have been adopted in most states reflect the influence of:

education commissions and committees.

The Supreme Court case Franklin vs Gwinett Country Public Schools was important because it

extended the reach of title IX, so the students could sue a school district for monetary damages if they sere sexually harassed

the influence of the business community in American's schools can be best characterized as

extensive

During classroom discussions, Juan never names a student before asking a question. He always asks a question first and then names the student whom he wants to answer the question. According to Kounin, this is an example of:

group alerting.

adequate educational guarantees

guarantees that every student receives a efficient education

The next major growth area in technology enabled education appears to be:

hybrid or blended courses delivered neither completely online nor entirely face -to-face.

zero-tolerance policy

ia child who is expelled for bringing a pocketknife to school os probably funding the consequence of

Jean and Stephen were concerned about the quality of education that their son, Galen, was receiving in the neighborhood school. They believed it would not be sufficient to impart religious and moral values to their son. Hence, they chose to homeschool Galen for the rest of his educational career. This religion-based motivation on the part of Galen's parents to homeschool him is a characteristic of:

ideologues

By beginning a lesson with a challenging riddle or an anecdote, a teacher is trying to:

inspire motivation.

In the context of Mary Budd Rowe's research on wait time, teachers should:

learn to increase their wait time from one second to three to five seconds.

Schools that offer high quality programs for talented students and have been used as a method of voluntary racial desegregation are known as:

magnet schools.

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marketing of a product using unconventional means

Paul Pratfall was a teacher was great but could be easily led off task. When the school dismissal bell rang, Paul's job was to make sure that the children walked safely from the classrooms to the waiting school buses just beyond the front entrance. One day, one of Paul's colleagues called out to him. At first, Paul hesitated, but then, went into his friend's classroom to talk. Paul had just begun to talk when he heard a loud crash and an anguished cry. He and his colleague ran into the hall to find little Jeannie lying on the floor with her leg obviously broken. Based on this scenario, Paul would most likely be guilty of

nonfeasance

The Chief State School Officer is responsible for

performing administrative task

Full-service schools:

remain open most of the day and 11 months a year.

What do teachers and principles give high priority to

repairing light and air conditioners

In the cooperative learning model of effective instruction:

rewards and recognition are based upon student performance.

White

school board determine educational policy, and majority of their members tend to be ________________

trustee representatives

school board members view themselves as this

Economic reconstructionist believe that:

schools are tools of oppression.

Alexis is a teacher who feels strongly about the importance of preparing students to live in a democracy. She tries her best to teach civic learning to students, at par with other academic subjects. Alexis's ideas conform with those of:

social democratic reconstructionist.

On the subject of teaching creationism, evolution, or intelligent design in schools, a large segment of the public feels that:

students should be exposed to competing theories in schools., not fact.

In the context of classroom behavior management, a teacher who is a good behavioral manager should:

teach standards or norms of student behavior actively and directly

Direct teaching model of effective instruction is:

teacher presentation of new material followed by student practice and feedback.

As a student in college, Luisa was shocked at some of the things she was learning in her Survey of American History course. Although she had studied American history before, her teachers had completely omitted many of the things that she was learning for the first time. Luisa's experiences most closely reflect the effects of:

the null curriculum.

"A call for accountability in financing schools" means

the public wants to see academic progress for their tax dollars

When a teacher's private life is called into question by the courts, a governing principle that determines whether or not the teacher may be dismissed is often based on whether:

there is substantial disruption of the educational process.

One of the primary reasons that the No Child Left Behind Act was revamped was that:

there was a push to return schools to the control of the taxpayers in their local districts and reduce the role of the federal government in schools.

School Superintendent

they are the most powerful education officer in the school district

Students were often very distracted in Agnes's classroom. Whenever they seemed to engage in an activity, she would just seem to say or do something totally random that had nothing to do with the lesson assigned. For example, during a review game for the test the following day, just when the students were getting into the activity, she blurted out, "Does anyone know who we are playing this Friday night"? Well, of course, the interruption stopped the game while all the students answered her question. Agnes's behavior would best fit the phenomenon of:

thrusts

Robin Hood reformers

took funds from wealthy districts and redistributed the monies to the poorer districts

A textbook covers twentieth-century U.S. history without mentioning the continuing struggle for civil rights; and pictures throughout the text portray only harmonious relations between the races. This is an example of a form of bias known as:

unreality

Generally, courts have ruled that teachers may be fired for:

using profanity and abusive language toward students.

At a recent school board meeting, a group of parents spoke out on the issue of the poor quality of the district's schools. They demanded the formation of charter schools that emphasized a rigorous, traditional curriculum and teacher centered classrooms. These parents most closely resemble:

zealots

Identify an advantage of being a textbook adoption state.

. It provides for a common statewide curriculum.

The student who is typically given the most wait time by a teacher is the:

. high achieving white male.

Participation in the extracurricular activities has been connected with:

. higher student self-esteem.

categorical grants

Federal grants for specific purposes, such as building an airport

A teacher's right to freedom of speech as a citizen, regarding matters of public concern is protected due to the holding in the:

Pickering v. Board of Education case.

educational outcomes

The Abbott case in NJ contributed to a new line of litigation focusing on _______________

Which constitutional amendment is at the heart of the controversies surrounding intelligent design, creationism, and evolution?

The First Amendment

Which of the following is an argument used to support character education programs?

The core attributes of a moral individual should be directly taught as part of the school curriculum

Maryland

The state with the purest example of adequate education approach is ____________________________

According to the Fourteenth Amendment, which of the following is an accurate statement in case of suspension of a student for indiscipline or misbehavior?

The student is entitled to tell his side of the story in self-defense

Which of these is an accurate feature of virtual schools

They provide learning over long distances by means of television, the internet, and other technologies.

Which statement is true regarding voucher programs?

Voucher programs have been less effective than expected and their impact sounds better in theory than it is in fact.

After having attended a workshop on problem-based learning, you decide to try it out. You realize that a key teacher role in this approach is to:

identify activities that fuel a student's interest.

The role of state governments in curricular decisions has:

increased through state standards and tests, and frameworks for all schools to follow.

In the first step of the pedagogical cycle, a teacher:

introduces the topics.

According to educator Hilda Taba, learning in school is different than learning in life because the former:

is formally organized.

Courts have ruled that a teacher's right to academic freedom:

is not absolute as students should learn only appropriate subject matter.

For-profit schools are a good idea because they will:

offer focused programs and investor oversight will lead to academic success.

Differentiated instruction:

offers multiple options for instruction and assessment.

Molly is a recent college graduate, who is giving an interview for a job at the same elementary school where she was a student. Which of the following questions would be appropriate for the principal to ask Molly during the course of the job interview?

What made you decide to major in early childhood education in college?"

. Mastery learning is based on the premise that:

all students can learn—if given the right tools and the opportunity to work at their own pace.

Lower order questions

can be answered through memory and recall

When a teacher is breaking down (or "chunking") information to explain the concept more effectively to students, he is engaged in:

clarification

propery tax

colonial towns and districts assessed an ________________

State department of Education

conducts educational research and development

According to Bloom's revised taxonomy, the highest level of questions is:

creating

Intelligent design:

credits an unnamed intelligence for aspects of nature unexplained by science.

Goss vs Lopez

deal with the proper procedures involving, the discipline and suspension of students would fall under the 14th Amendment

School teachers who participate in strikes are:

prohibited from doing so in over 30 states, but are rarely prosecuted or penalized.

As an economic reconstructionist, Paulo Freire claimed that:

schools often miseducate and oppress the poor.

In response to an informal complaint, a school librarian quietly removes a book from the library shelf and pretends that the book is out of stock. This is an example of:

self-censorship.

The study of the "saber-tooth curriculum" brings us to the conclusion that:

slavish devotion to the content of past times can result in a curriculum obsolete in the face of contemporary realities.

Some studies on school size have determined that:

students in smaller schools are more likely to resort to violence

Andrew is a student in the class Rebecca teaches. While Andrew is not in the lowest percentile of the class, he isn't in the highest, either. In fact, Andrew could go either way in terms of passing or failing. Rebecca will spend

the most amount of time on him because he is a "bubble kid."

When students, parents, and teachers were asked to rate goals of schooling in a study by John Goodlad:

vocational, personal, academic, social, and civic goals were all rated "very important."