MEGA SUBTEST II
Which of the following lists describes three major steps in the research process in the order in which they should be performed?
1. Defining the problem 2. Formulating a hypothesis 3. Selecting a research design
Which of the following phrases accurately describes the syllable in English?
A unit of phonological structure that has one vowel phoneme and may also begin or end with consonants sounds
During the late eighteenth century, conflicts between British authorities and North American colonist stemmed primarily from differing conceptions about which of following issue?
Britain's authority over Colonial affairs
A teacher who is beginning a social studies project employing inquiry-based learning should begin by helping students with:
Formulating questions that require more than factual answers.
A young child demonstrates the awareness of some phonological structures in spoken English but has not yet developed phonemic awareness. Which of the following activities would most likely be beyond the child's level of skill development?
Identifying the final speech sound in a spoken word
A fifth-grade class has been studying the social and economic development of the United States during the Glided Age (1870s-1900). The teacher could best help students understand the distinguishing characteristics of this era of the U.S. history by guiding them through which of the following sources from the period?
Journalistic accounts of the practices of large business enterprises.
As part of a unit on civics and government, a fourth-grade teacher wants to measure student learning about citizenship. Which of the following activities is the most effective way of assessing student understanding of that concept?
Leading a guided discussion about the differences between the constitutional rights, legal duties, and general responsibilities of citizenship.
The principles of popular sovereignty, federalism, and checks and balances were all incorporated into the U.S. Constitution primarily to achieve which of the following objectives?
Limiting the powers of government
A third-grade teacher is explaining economic resources to students. Which of the following examples would be appropriate for the teacher to use to illustrate capital resources?
Machinery
During the late nineteenth century, rising immigration from southern and Eastern Europe to the United States had the greatest impact:
Manufacturing cities of the Northeast and upper Midwest
Which of the following responses best describes the main economic objective of recently freed African Americans in the South immediately after the Civil War?
Obtaining land on which to establish their own farms.
A fourth-grade teacher is planning a social studies unit on the historical context for the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Which of the following teaching strategies would best promote the students' understanding of the content-specific vocabulary related to this topic?
Providing explicit contextual information about each term's meaning
As part if a fourth-grade social studies unit on the American Revolution, a teacher wants to increase students' awareness of the human perspectives that influenced participants in the struggle for independence. Which of the following student activities is best designed to achieve that learning goal?
Reading a set of historical fiction stories centering on events of the revolution.
An upper-elementary social studies teacher is planning a series of lessons on the major principles, values, institutions, and practices of constitutional government and citizenship. Which of the following learning experiences would most appropriately come last in the instructional sequence?
Students will defend positions on issues in which fundamental values and principles related to the U.S. Constitution are in conflict.
Which of the following statements describes an example of the operation of the system of checks and balances in the Missouri State government?
The House of Representatives initiates impeachment proceedings against a state judge.
Which of the following factors most contributed to the tensions that led to the outbreak of the Mexican War of 1846-1848?
The U.S. annexation of Texas
A sixth-grade social studies teacher wants to begin a unit on the development of the republican forms of government in the modern era. Instruction on which of the following premodern topics would be most important to deepen students' understanding in this unit?
The circumstances leading to the Magna Carta in the thirteenth century.
A teacher uses a word game to informally assess the literacy development of individual students in the class. In the game, the teacher says the sounds in a familiar word slowly and continuously (e.g., pronouncing the word sat at ssssaaattt) and then prompts the student to identify the word. This procedure would most effectively provide a measure of students' development in which of the following areas of emergent literacy?
phonemic awareness
Under the U.S Constitution, which of the following powers is reserved solely for the federal government?
raising armed forces
Economic resources
the human, natural, and manmade physical resources
When providing instruction on how distances between locations are represented on a map, a teacher of early elementary grades should explain which of the following map features?
the scale
Which of the following conditions is most essential to ensure the effectiveness of formative assessments of students' progress in a social studies course?
the teacher provides prompt and specific feedback tailored to each student.
Which of the following statements describes the most important reason why Martin Luther King Jr. based his movement for African American equality and civil rights on principles of nonviolence?
to seize the moral high ground in the fight to overcome prejudice and discrimination
capital resources
tools, machinery, and other equipment
Which of the following environmental problems has been the main cause of the reduction of Earth's biological diversity in recent decades?
tropical deforestation
A first-grade teacher is planning a social studies unit about the significance of national symbols. Which of the following practices would be most effective in supporting the student's understanding of the concept of symbolic significance?
Using visual thinking strategies to critically consider the origins and meanings of symbols.
Which of the following developments best describes an important consequence of the interaction between French traders and Native American nations in North America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
Warfare between Native Americans to satisfy the French demands for animal furs
A fifth-grade teacher is designing a social studies unit on the consequences of World War II on women's roles in the workforce. Which of the following instructional activities would be most effective for the teacher to include in the unit to promote the students' understanding of this topic?
comparing women's jobs prior to the war and during the war using a Venn diagram.
Which of the following instructional activities would be most effective to support second-grade student's understanding of how Thanksgiving traditions have changed over time?
creating a linear timeline of thanksgiving customs from the early colonial period to the current day.
A second-grade teacher plans to introduce students to the economic concept of goods and services. Which of the following instructional strategies would likely be most effective in supporting the teacher's goal?
creating a marketplace in which students sell tangible items on some days and provide consumers with some form of assistance on other days
A teacher observes a fourth-grade student say, "My mom is a police officer and she has the right to go wherever she wants whenever she wants, even in someone's home. That is how important her work is in our system." Which of the following questions would most effectively address the student's misconception?
"What does the Bill of Rights say about what police can do?"
