EDU 100 final exam
The first public manual training high school was opened in 1884 in what city?
Baltimore
Which of the following represent a technology that enables teachers and students to interact using equipment ranging from simple keypads to computers?
Immediate Response Devices
Since the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 2004, states have been mandated to consider assistive technologies for all children with _____ and to document a student's assistive technology needs in the plan
Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
The concept of year-round schools involves what change?
It redistributes the days students spend in school each year (but adds none).
Which of the following represents one conceptual block that the text suggests serves to keep school design essentially the same as it has always been?
Large rooms will always be filled with large classes.
The text suggests that school today is largely the same as school was hundreds of years ago with two major exceptions. Which of the statements below is one of those two exceptions?
Reform is now part of the institution of education.
The issue of use of school facilities contends that on the one hand schools are established and funded for the purpose of education but on the other hand, there is a problem. What is it?
Schools sit idle in the evenings, on the weekends, and during the summer
While discussing "flow" in a school setting, the text discusses the matter of moving teachers rather than moving students. What is the rationale?
There are fewer teachers than there are students.
What happens to students involved in organized extracurricular activities?
They develop teamwork and persistence.
What advantages does the text not list for the use of interactive whiteboards?
Type size can be changed by the user, thus preventing eye strain.
According to the text, when considering Program Development, if a program has been tested in other schools, what is the next question?
Were those schools similar to your school?
Which of the following represents the largest poverty group among children?
Whites
A digital file of a lesson or lecture that can be downloaded from the Internet onto a device such as a computer or MP3 player is known as _____ .
a podcast
Abuse as a child increases by 30 percent the likelihood that a person will be arrested for:
a violent crime
In recent years bullying has been addressed not only as an example of school violence but also as _____ .
abuse
In recent years bullying has been addressed not only as an example of school violence but also as:
abuse
Which of the following is not among the five levels of environmental influence discussed by Bronfenbrenner?
academic achievement, particularly underachievement
The use of mentoring programs in schools, either as teacher with beginning teacher or adult with student, would be categorized as what type of intervention?
administrative/conceptual
What is the name for a family structure that includes the presence of several generations, which can include aunts and uncles or other relatives as well as grandparents?
an extended family
A key feature of immediate response devices (IRD) in classroom use is that it provides a degree of _____ to the responses given by students.
anonymity
Applications that are intended to improve the educational experience for students with special needs are known as which of the following?
assistive technologies
Electronic technology has been particularly useful in providing services to children with special needs and is known by what term?
assistive technology
A family structure in which the children may be his from a prior marriage, hers from a prior marriage, and theirs is known by which of the following terms?
blended family
Which of the following does the text not mention as a way business is involved in education policy?
business leaders as guest lecturers in high school classes
The work of technologists _____ information to make new products or processes that extend our capabilities.
combines.
Establishing benchmarks delineating what students are to learn is representative of which type of reform?
curricular
Implementation of the Common Core State Standards is an example of which of the following?
curricular reform
The more recent phenomenon of _____ is the use of electronic media to provide a "distance" between the bully and bullied and even a level of anonymity rather than face-to-face confrontations.
cyber-bullying
The text suggests that the impetus for reform in education has historically been due to which of the following?
dissatisfaction with the prevailing condition of education
Delivery of instructional programs to people in sites remote from the school setting is referred to as which of the following?
distance education
Schools can now offer course work to students who are homebound or in remote sites or even as an alternative to being in a school building through a system known as:
distance education (also known as virtual schools)
Which of the following is not one of the four categories of child maltreatment recognized today?
environmental deprivation
This chapter considers student diversity in terms of each of the following categories except which one?
ethnicity
An approach to education that seeks ways to make what is taught as part of school as realistic as possible is known as which of the following?
experiential education
Research has shown that children of never-married mothers have been subject to which of the following?
greater disadvantage academically than children of divorced parents
The question of "Who will do the work?" is part of which category of considering an educational reform?
implementation
The question of what materials will be needed to conduct a particular program should be answered in which phase of program evaluation?
implementation
The reform evaluation model indicates that the question of costs involved for a program should be considered in which stage of considering a proposal?
implementation
The text suggests that perhaps most apparent in the consideration of business and education is that business can significantly affect a school district through which of the following?
increasing the tax base that it provides to the community
The text suggests that we should conceptualize the Internet moving from the _____ age to the _____ age.
information / problem-solving
Programs to help improve reading achievement among struggling students would be categorized as which of the following?
instructional intervention
The use of SmartBoards and individual response technology would be considered as which of the following?
instructional reform
Character education efforts would fall under which of the following categories?
intervention
Enrichment programs under the heading of "gifted and talented" fall under which of the following categories?
intervention
Some effort that supplements normal procedure, either by providing remediation or enrichment or by extending or reducing responsibility or authority, is known as which of the following?
intervention
According to the text, divorce can affect children in all but which one of the following ways?
loss of dependable transportation to athletic and social events
In states that require the reporting of suspicion of child abuse, teachers are held immune from prosecution arising from making such a report because they are considered as which of the following?
mandated reporters
One of the issues in the use of technology among children is what Richard Louv refers to as:
nature-deficit disorder
A family structure consisting of two parents and one or more children in the household is known as which of the following?
nuclear family
Which of the following offers the very real potential for cyber-bullying?
online social networking
Public Law 100-77 (The reauthorized McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 2002) includes requirements that constitute a bill of rights for homeless children. They have the right to all of the following except:
receive mentoring services provided by the school district
A program that seeks to replace some aspect of the current educational operation is referred to as which of the following?
reform
If a school district superintendent announces that the district will switch to a new reading instruction program, she is speaking of which of the following?
reform
The terms resiliency and intentionality are of particular importance for which type of family structure?
same-sex relationships
A common theme from many authors and school technology specialists is the goal of _____ of technology in the schools.
seamless integration
Which of the following is among the promising approaches to addressing the problems of teen pregnancy?
strengthening the family and support structure for the teen and her baby
The text suggests that with regard to education, an experience that virtually all adult members of the society share, policy decisions are often made by people with a minimal understanding of the _____ of education and with little thought toward the long-term effects of those decisions.
structure
According to the text, what term is used to refer to the combining of information to make new products or processes that extend our capabilities?
technology
The text cites which of the following as a current movement which has not typically been referred to as a reform?
technology
Which factor is not one of those found by a major study to increase the likelihood of school violence?
the number of teachers who had taught fewer than three years in the school
