ED 435 Ch 3-6

Which of these is closest to the approximate wait-time reported in this chapter?

2-3 seconds

According to the authors, the quickest and possibly most reliable way to find out if students in a discovery-oriented classroom are learning is to assess them using which of the following techniques?

A conference

A teacher who is interested in obtaining a snapshot of a student's recall of information would most likely use which of the following assessment strategies?

A quiz

Which of the following is considered to be an example of a traditional assessment technique?

A quiz

A teacher who provides scores of 1, 2, 3, or 4 for defined criteria related to a student's performance has used which of the following assessment strategies?

A rubric

For which of the following assessment techniques is the use of a rubric necessary to serve as a guide to evaluate student understanding and achievement?

A science notebook

Which of the following is not a component of a performance objective?

A statement of assumption about prior knowledge

By definition, probes include a simple question that seeks which of the following?

A two-part answer

A teacher decides that a unit on arachnids should follow a unit on insects. In previous years, arachnids were taught first. Which of the following best describes what the teacher has done?

Affected the sequence of the curriculum units

Which of the following was suggested in this chapter as being a use for the "concept mapping" assessment technique?

As a tool for assessing self-learning

Which of the following is an essential part of successful cooperative group work emphasized in this chapter?

Assigning particular roles to students in the group

If your instructional techniques included teaching children to learn to confront the differences between what they believe and what they discover with their own senses so that their existing mental model must be modified, which of the following principles would be employed?

Assimilation

The authors suggest that children develop a repertoire of specific reading and writing process skills that enable them to carefully observe and react to what they experience through which of the following?

Attending to information obtained through their senses

Which of the following best fits the classification system for questions advocated in this chapter?

Convergent, divergent, evaluative

In which stage of the 5E learning cycle would a teacher most likely present the essential question?

Engagement

Which of the following is an active listening technique the authors suggest should be taught to students in the science classroom?

Enumerating the speaker's recall questions

Which of the following is not included as one of the stages in the 5E learning cycle?

Enumeration

A child receives a new bicycle for her birthday. As part of a writing project you challenge her to identify and tell about the simple machines within it. To which of the following writing forms is the assignment most closely related?

Exposition

Which of the following is an important component to successful cooperative group work emphasized in this chapter?

Fostering individual accountability

Which of the following would most likely be considered a lesson topic?

How the Human Lung Works

According to the authors, the use of end-of-chapter homework as an assessment strategy accomplishes which of the following?

Informing students that the teacher is serious about the content being taught

Which of the following considerations of the place of science in the overall curriculum describes how learning is most optimized?

Making content relevant for the learners in the classroom

Which of the following principles is centered on the premise of providing learners with various ways of acquiring information and knowledge?

Multiple means of representation

Formative assessment techniques can be best described by which of the following statements?

Occurs during the teaching of the unit

Through integration with which of the following parts of the school curriculum could science content related to time, space, and force be most easily enhanced?

Physical Education

Which of the following aspect of mathematics provides an example of making science and mathematics connections using data collection and expression?

Predicting how fast salt will melt ice

Which of the following describes an ideal characteristic of science discovery centers?

Provide challenge questions to be explored

According to the authors, answer keys are mot helpful in accomplishing which of the following?

Revealing student knowledge when clearly defined answers are required

If you were planning a year's worth of science for children and debating whether to include the study of mammals, which of these terms would best summarize the curriculum issue with which you were dealing?

Scope

Which of the following work space provisions do the authors suggest for the science classroom?

Semiprivate group work spaces

Attitude and value development is an important dimension that can easily be integrated with science from which of the following curriculum areas?

Social studies

In this chapter, an analogy was made that related the use of integrated units in science teaching to which of the following?

Superglue

The Next Generation Science Standards provide strong guidance for integrating science and engineering across disciplines through the use of themes, one of which is "systems." Which of the following describes a teaching strategy related to this theme?

Teaching children that a whole object is made of parts that affect the whole

The authors recommend that elementary teachers consider teaching science using different curricular subjects in addition to which of the following best practices?

Teaching fundamental concepts of science inherent in these subjects

To which of the following ideas is curriculum scope most related?

The integration of earth/space, life, and physical sciences

The idea of wait-time/think-time is most closely related to which of the following?

The time between the asking of a question by a teacher and the acceptance of a student's response

Which of the following is the main reason for conducting science demonstrations?

To show students phenomena they cannot safely discover for themselves

Which of the following techniques do the authors suggest should be used by teachers in order to improve the questions asked in the science classroom?

Video recording lessons as they are taught

Identifying and pronouncing science terms before science teaching are techniques most closely associated with which one of the following?

Vocabulary building

During pre-reading experiences, around which three topics should a teacher focus discussion of the material students are preparing to read from science-related texts?

What, why, how