Which statement about the use of knowledge questions is NOT correct?
a. Teachers tend to overuse knowledge questions.
b. Students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds achieve more in classrooms characterized by a high frequency of knowledge questions.
c. Requiring students to memorize information is a waste of time and effort.
d. Answering knowledge questions correctly does not necessarily demonstrate real understanding.
[Ques. 2] Which words are frequently found in evaluation questions?
a. Apply, classify, choose, employ, show
c. Describe, compare, contrast, rephrase
b. Judge, argue, assess, rate, conclude
d. Define, recall, identify, recite, name
[Ques. 3] What do synthesis questions ask students to do?
a. Recall information
b. Apply a rule or process to a problem
c. Demonstrate sufficient understanding to organize and arrange material mentally
d. Perform original and creative thinking
[Ques. 4] Which of the following is an example of a knowledge question?
a. Describe in your own words what the cartoonist is saying in this cartoon.
b. In each of the following cases, which of Newton's laws is being demonstrated?
c. What is the capital of Peru?
d. What evidence can you cite that indicates global warming is or is not occurring?
[Ques. 5] What type of question always has more than one correct answer and is usually higher order?
a. Convergent
b. Divergent
c. Direct
d. Knowledge
[Ques. 6] Which of the following is an example of a delving or probing question?
a. Who was the first U.S. president to visit communist China?
b. Describe any wilderness experiences you've had like those of the main character in this novel.
c. What was Hamlet's fatal flaw?
d. What are your reasons for selecting that answer?
[Ques. 7] What is the term for questions that connect both with student interests and with their personal experience?
a. Differentiated questions
c. Authentic questions
b. Delving or probing questions
d. Scaffolding questions
[Ques. 8] For each of the following descriptions, decide which specific use of the planned ending the teacher is employing.
a. reviewing major points of teacher-centered presentation
b. providing summary of student discussion
c. allowing students to practice what they have learned
d. drawing students attention to a closing point in the lesson
e. relating lesson to original organizing concept
6. The teacher verbally reviews the three main branches of the federal government using an outline developed during the lesson.
7. After explaining the concept of division by two numbers and presenting specific examples, the teacher provides the students with problems for students to do at their seats.
8. Following a lecture on the circulatory system, the teacher reviews the major points on the overhead projector.
9. After students have discussed the possible reasons for Hamlets strange behavior the teacher summarizes all of the important points made on the chalkboard.
10. The teacher says, Before we leave this important concept, lets see if we fully understand what is happening here.
[Ques. 9] For each of the following descriptions, decide which specific use of a planned beginning the teacher is employing.
a. focusing student attention
b. providing a structure or framework
c. aiding in clarifying goals
d. providing smooth transitions
e. evaluating learned material before the study of new material
1. The teacher introduces her unit on ecology with a film about the preservation of our natural resources.
2. The teacher initiates her lesson on subtraction by having students act out a purchase in a store.
3. The teacher uses students knowledge of simple sentences to demonstrate the structure of a compound sentence.
4. The teacher verbally reviews with the students what they should be able to do at the end of the lesson.
5. The teacher provides a worksheet to test student understanding of material covered in the past two days.
[Ques. 10] Teaching new content right up to the final bell is the most effective use of instructional time.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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