Educational Strategies Quiz

Michael, a middle school student diagnosed with an emotional disturbance, has difficulty controlling behaviors that interfere with his academic growth and development. Which of the following is the most effective teacher strategy for helping Michael focus on academics?

• Offering the student a wide variety of alternate assignments and projects

• Limiting rules to a few general guidelines to assist the student with developing positive social relationships

• Minimizing visual and auditory stimuli for the student and clearly outlining areas where specific behaviors are expected

• Accepting the student’s behaviors with minimal acknowledgement unless the student poses a safety threat

A teacher wants to learn how to implement an instructional strategy for the upcoming school year. Which of the following professional development practices will best help the teacher?

• Taking a graduate course

• Joining a learning community

• Obtaining an internship

• Attending a workshop

Which of the following best explains why grade-equivalent scores are useful?

• They determine whether a student can handle advanced content and should be accelerated to a higher grade.

• They compare a student’s performance with the average performance of students at other grade levels.

• They provide a reliable way to interpret a student’s growth in skills and concepts over a school year.

• They give parents an accurate picture of a student’s class ranking in a content area.

Which of the following is the most reasonable statement based on the self-determination theory?

• Teachers should enable students to be successful either through extrinsic motivation or intrinsic motivation, but never both.

• Students who are prodded and able to accept help from others will display the most self-determination in school.

• Self-determination is achieved when students transfer intrinsic motivation to extrinsic motivation regarding academics.

Mr. Burgess is creating a lesson for his eighth-grade English class to introduce a new novel. The novel has vivid descriptions of a historical event that some students have no prior knowledge of. He needs to establish the historical background to engage students in a preliminary dialogue about the event before they read the novel. Which of the following strategies uses the most appropriate resource for introducing the new content?

• Creating research groups to access information about the event on the Internet

• Showing an educational video on the event to the class

• Providing a textbook in which students can look up content vocabulary

• Reviewing surveys of student content knowledge

Which of the following best describes the type of scoring that applies many criteria at the same time to evaluate an end-of-course project and results in a single grade?

• Task-specific scoring

• Analytic scoring

• Developmental scoring

• Holistic scoring

A seventh-grade language arts teacher plans an instructional unit based on a novel that students will read in class. Which of the following activities is most appropriate to include in the unit if the students are in the formal operational stage of cognitive development?

• Writing an explanation about the symbolism found in the novel

• Sketching drawings of the sequence of the major events in the novel

• Working with other students to role-play scenes from the novel

• Matching main ideas with the details that support them in the novel

Which of the following approaches is the best way to establish and foster positive relationships between the school and families?

• Meeting and greeting families as they arrive to school events

• Communicating important school information to families electronically

• Asking families to volunteer at school events several times during the year

• Holding parent-teacher conferences during the school day

Which of the following instructional activities best requires students to engage in the complex cognitive process of detecting bias?

• • Analyzing keywords used in a news article to determine the point of view of the author

• • Accumulating information about a topic to decide on a personal course of action

• • Studying various novels by the same author to find common themes

• • Examining a narrative of events to draw conclusions about the correct order of occurrence

Which of the following is an example of analyzing keywords used in a news article to determine the point of view of the author?

• Accumulating information about a topic to decide on a personal course of action

• Studying various novels by the same author to find common themes

• Analyzing keywords used in a news article to determine the point of view of the author

• Examining a narrative of events to draw conclusions about the correct order of occurrence