Content enhancements serve all of the following purposes, EXCEPT:
a. helping students understand major concepts, ideas, and vocabulary.
b. helping students comprehend content by watering down material.
c. helping students with knowledge acquisition, organization, and retrieval.
d. helping students understand major vocabulary.
[Ques. 2] Content enhancements include all the following tools, EXCEPT:
a. graphic organizers.
b. semantic maps.
c. guided notes.
d. curriculum-based assessments.
[Ques. 3] __________________ teaches by demonstrating a skill, and is probably the most natural of all the teaching techniques.
a. Modeling
b. Shaping
c. Forward and backward chaining
d. Mnemonics
[Ques. 4] To ensure that students learn them thoroughly and generalize their use, it is generally best to teach ____________ learning strategies at a time.
a. as many as possible
b. only a few
c. at least eight
d. several
[Ques. 5] _________ strategies are clear, concise, explicit steps used to present and learn content.
a. Concurrent
b. Concomitant
c. Conspicuous
d. Continuous
[Ques. 6] WebQuests are conceptually analogous to:
a. paper and pencil quizzes.
b. downloading music from the web.
c. scavenger hunts.
d. written book reports.
[Ques. 7] In a ClassAct Portal the goal is to:
a. assist teachers in maintaining control over the scope and depth of student projects.
b. encourage students to become immersed in a topic that can be linked to goals and objectives.
c. limit the focus of student projects to one academic discipline area only.
d. teach students to conduct research using only low tech research methods.
[Ques. 8] Which of the following is NOT a benefit of anchored instruction?
a. Pacing of instruction remains a constant
b. Grouping options
c. Opportunities for individualized work
d. Increased student motivation
[Ques. 9] Anchored instruction contains all the following elements, EXCEPT:
a. real life problem-solving situations from a shared perspective.
b. other subject areas can be incorporated around the anchor.
c. teacher serves as investigator.
d. an authentic learning approach that applies UDL principles around big ideas.
[Ques. 10] In _______________ learning, isolated topics are incorporated into the real world and connected.
a. strategic
b. authentic
c. classroom
d. factual