WorksheetsGACE 2
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Determining responsibility is helpful when evaluating a website for which of the following criteria?
Relevance
Currency
Authority
Accessibility
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.
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
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
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
The most accurate visual representation depicting the concept behind Boolean operators is a
flowchart
spider web organizer
Venn diagram
T-chart
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"
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
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
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
For which of the following applications is database software most appropriate?
Budget forecasting
Document preparation
File management
Graphics layout
A middle school teacher asks the instructional technology coordinator to arrange for students to hear and see a favorite author over the Internet. Which of the following is necessary to meet the request?
Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)
Virtual private network (VPN)
Common gateway interface (CGI)
Internet message access protocol (IMAP)
A school has recently instituted a student information system (SIS) to gather and organize a variety of data about student performance. Which of the following is the most effective way for an instructional technology coordinator to encourage teachers to use the information in the SIS?
Keeping records of how and when each teacher uses the SIS data
Providing teachers with training on how to locate, manipulate, and store the SIS data
Emphasizing how weak student performance affects the school's ability to make adequate yearly progress (AYP)
Making public data showing the achievement of students in individual teachers' classes
Which of the following is the greatest challenge an instructional technology coordinator faces when organizing a student-managed project involving technology?
Making sure all students can operate the technology
Making sure all technology operates as expected
Matching instruction to the student abilities
Keeping all students engaged in the activity
A middle school subscribes to an educational website that provides animated, curriculum-based content, lessons, and quizzes The instructional technology coordinator designs a survey to gather input from teachers on the usefulness of the site. The following is a sample of the questions on the survey.
How often do your students use this resource in your classroom?
a. Rarely or never
b. Sometimes
c. Often
d. Always
Which of the following revisions is most likely to make the survey question more useful?
Eliminating one of the answer choices to make the question more concise
Clarifying the responses by providing quantitative measures, for example, 25% of the time
Rewriting as an open-ended question so teachers can elaborate
Narrowing the question by including content-specific areas
A district is introducing an automated system for taking student attendance that requires teachers to perform tasks that were previously done by office personnel. Which of the following actions by the instructional technology coordinator is most likely to help staff members accept the change?
Providing teachers with as much information about the new system as possible before introducing it
Pointing out the savings in time and money that result from the change to the system
Giving teachers training manuals to consult as they learn the new system
Designating one teacher in each school who is thoroughly trained in the new system to act as a resource for others
A teacher asks the instructional technology coordinator for advice on how to make her class Web page user-friendly. The best recommendation the coordinator can give the teacher is to
include a brief biography
follow conventions common in most other websites
include a link to the school's website
use many colorful graphics
Which of the following peripherals enables a student with a visual impairment to use a computer?
Joystick
Touchpad
Scanner
Screen reader
Which of the following is an appropriate way for students to use Wikipedia when conducting research?
To use as a model of exemplary expository writing
o conduct primary source research
To identify authorities in a field
To locate relevant online and print resources.
A teacher contacts the instructional technology coordinator for a solution to the error message "New Hardware Not Found" that appears when the teacher tries to connect a new peripheral to a computer. The coordinator's best advice to the teacher is to
install the device driver
reboot the computer and try the installation again
disable the network firewall
open the Help icon and type the error message in the search box
The most important benefit of networking all digital resources in a school district is
enabling schools to develop their collections of resources collaboratively
increasing the number of resources available to individual schools
increasing the total funding available for acquiring resources
reducing the amount of time required to review and select resources
Which of the following is a window that requires information to be entered before software can execute a command?
Toolbar
Drop-down menu
Dialog box
Dashboard
Aside from a computer and an Internet connection, which of the following is necessary for communicating by Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)?
Flash drive
Web cam
Microphone
Network card
Which of the following extends the capability of a computer browser by enabling additional functions, such as viewing a video or listening to a recording?
Dashboard
Widget
Macro
Plug-in
Which of the following is a computer network for a local geographical area that allows PCs to communicate with each other?
LAN
FTP
OCR
WAN
