PLT- 5622

Which of the following assessments can a teacher use to best determine whether a student is reading on grade level?

• Aptitude

• Ability

• Achievement

• Unit

Which of the following examples best represents analytical scoring on an essay?

• Giving a numerical grade of 87%

• Rating the work as 4 out of 5 using a rubric

• Assigning a B for content and an A for mechanics

• Providing general comments

Students are given assignments on the basis of their ability levels and provided with frequent opportunities for success.

Industry vs. Inferiority

"to encourage industry, students need to feel successful and work at their level."

• Watson

• Maslow

• Erikson

• Thorndike

Students are encouraged to eat if hungry, provided with a safe environment, and made to feel accepted in the classroom.

Basic physiological needs--food and shelter, safety, and feeling of belonging.

• Watson

• Maslow

• Erikson

• Thorndike

Students are given a reward for positive behavior and academic success and a consequence for negative behavior and lack of academic progress.

Centered around reward and punishment (positive and negative reinforcement).

• Watson

• Maslow

• Erikson

• Thorndike

Students are assessed and encouraged to work at their own pace as they are introduced to new information one step at a time.

Centered on the "law of effect"

"when a connection between a stimulus and a response is positively rewarded it will be strengthened, and the the more the stimulus-response bond is practiced, the stronger it becomes"

• Watson

• Maslow

• Erikson

• Thorndike

Which of the following actions complies with the fair use provisions of copyright law?

• Allowing students to read a scanned copy of a complete textbook that the teacher found online

• Providing students with multiple copies of a short story by a contemporary author

• Permitting several groups of students to watch a portion of a teacher-purchased movie

• Copying a CD of a recorded novel and distributing

Makayla, a sixth-grade student, received a grade-equivalent score of 7.2 on a recent standardized reading test. Which of the following interpretations of the data is most accurate to communicate to Makayla’s parents?

• Makayla is ready to be placed in a seventh-grade reading classroom immediately.

• Makayla’s reading comprehension score is equivalent to that of a student who is seven years and two months old.

• Makayla’s overall reading ability is comparable to that of a student who is in the second month of seventh grade.

• Makayla performed better than seven out of ten students in the sixth grade.

A teacher sets up an interactive Web site that allows students to post comments about the book that the class is currently reading and to read one another’s posts. The teacher is most likely using technology in this way to

• improve students' composition skills

• support students' inquiry of various topics

• enable students to develop a product

• encourage students' expression of ideas

According to the second stage of Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, which of the following is true of students who exhibit characteristics of preconventional moral development?

• They abide by the law and respond to the obligation of duty.

• They believe in acting in their own best interests.

• They seek to obtain the approval of others.

• They behave according to personally developed moral guidelines.