GACE 2

Determining responsibility is helpful when evaluating a website for which of the following criteria?

• Relevance

• Currency

• Authority

• Accessibility

Answer explanation

Correct Answer: C

Option (C) is correct The usual criteria for determining the authority of a website are reliant

on who is responsible for the content the website contains - the author, the author's

credentials, and the author's authority to speak on the subject

Which TWO of the following are important criteria to include in a checklist for evaluating the quality of instruction in a computer education class?

• The teacher provides activities that build critical thinking

• The teacher incorporates content and skills from other disciplines

• The teacher determines procedures far all laboratory work.

• The teacher encourages students to work independently to solve problems.

Answer explanation

Correct Answer: A, B

Options (A) and (B) are correct. The actions described in (A) and (B) are generally

recognized in state and national standards as practices of effective teachers.

Nino has been assigned a research report on rain forests. He types "rain'" in the search box of a search engine and receives many hits that do not relate to rain forests. Which of the following search skills has Nino not yet mastered?

• Narrowing a topic

• Identifying keywords

• Truncating

• Using Boolean operators

Answer explanation

Option (C) is correct Truncation allows a user to retrieve all variations of a root word in a

single search by using a special symbol to replace the word endings.

A high school teacher has instructed students to use scholarly resources to find information on their

research topics. Which of the following components of a URL will be most helpful to students trying to locate relevant websites?

• File name

• Transfer protocol

• Domain name

• Host name

Answer explanation

Correct Answer: C

Option (C) is correct A domain name is used to identify the originator of a website.

Evaluating the domain name in the address of an Internet site helps the user determine the

purpose of the site and the type of information provided there.

Mr. Lin, a science teacher, tells the instructional technology coordinator that he stores his class lessons on a computer and the lesson files are taking up all of his computer memory. Which of the following is the coordinator's best advice to Mr. Lin?

• Save the files as PDF files instead of as GIF files

• Compress the files in a zip folder

• Print out the files and save them in a folder

• Delete the files after they have been used

Answer explanation

Correct Answer: B

Option (B) is correct A zip file (.zip) compresses one or more items into a smaller archive. A

zipped file takes up little hard drive space and quickly transfers data to another computer

The most accurate visual representation depicting the concept behind Boolean operators is a

• flowchart

• spider web organizer

• Venn diagram

• T-chart

Answer explanation

Correct Answer: C

Option (C) is correct A Venn diagram represents the overlap of sets pictured as circles with

common elements of the sets being represented by the areas of overlap among the circles.

An instructional technology coordinator is planning a meeting to respond to parents' concerns that the

one-to-one (1 :1) computing program the district is considering is being implemented hastily and without

evidence of its success. Which of the following responses by the coordinator is most likely to alleviate

the parents' concerns?

• "We are acting in the interest of preparing students to succeed in the twenty-first

  century workplace "

• "We plan to pilot the 1:1 program on a small scale and assess the results before we

  proceed with any implementation "

• "We are inviting the manufacturer of the devices we are using to host an

  informational meeting for all interested partie-s."

• "We are implementing the 11 program with middle school and high school students

  only"

Answer explanation

Correct Answer: B

Option (B) is correct. Piloting the program with a small group of students allows the coordinator to gather data indicative of the program's potential success.

Which of the following statements is true when the logical operator "AND" is used in an online search?

• The more search terms linked with 'AND" the greater the number of returned records

• The more search terms linked with "AND" the fewer the number of returned records.

• All returned records will contain at least one of the search terms.

• No returned record will contain all of the search terms

Answer explanation

Correct Answer: B

Option (6) is correct. The boolean operator "AND' returns results that contain only both search terms.

A student reading the biography of Justin Timberlake on a website has clicked on the title "Cry Me A River" and is able to hear a recording of the song. Which feature of the website has the student accessed?

• Bookmark

• Flash animation

• Hashtag

• Hypermedia link

Answer explanation

A hypermedia link allows a user the ability to open new Web pages by clicking on text links within the Web page.

A teaching team leader asks the instructional technology coordinator for assistance in using technology in a project that involves the mathematics, social studies, language arts, and science teachers on the team. Such planning is an example of which of the following educational approaches?

• Thematic

• Project-oriented

• Interdisciplinary

• Comprehensive

Answer explanation

Interdisciplinary education combines or involves two or more academic disciplines or fields of study