A research study indicating that teachers who use concrete examples to illustrate their topics have ...

A research study indicating that teachers who use concrete examples to illustrate their topics have students who achieve higher than teachers who represent the ideas abstractly best illustrates what kind of research?
 
  a. Descriptive research
  b. Correlational research
  c. Experimental research
  d. Longitudinal research

Ques. 2

Bob has been teaching fifth grade for five years. He knows his students have difficulty understanding the different potential geologic plate movements of the earth. Knowing this, he has developed a series of hand movements the children can use to illustrate the different potential relationships among plates. By recognizing that his students have difficulty with this concept and by finding a way to better assist their learning, Bob is specifically illustrating his:
 
  a. domain-specific prior knowledge.
  b. general pedagogical knowledge.
  c. general prior knowledge.
  d. pedagogical content knowledge.

Ques. 3

Which of the following best explains why the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) was developed?
 
  a. Analysis of standards from different states identified significant variations in expectations, rigor, and content.
  b. Our federal government wanted to create a national curriculum that would be competitive with other advanced nations.
  c. States in our country wanted standards to focus to a much greater extent on the impact of technology on learning and teaching.
  d. Educational leaders wanted to create standards that would level the playing field for students who are members of cultural minorities.

Ques. 4

Explain why standards and accountability are so much a part of teaching in today's schools in our nation.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Ques. 5

Which of the following best describes the differences between effective and ineffective teachers in elementary schools?
 
  a. Students who had highly effective teachers in 1st and 2nd grades scored higher than students who had ineffective teachers in the same grades, but the differences largely disappeared by the time the students reached 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades.
  b. Students who had highly effective teachers in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades scored as much as 50 percentile points higher on standardized math tests than students who had ineffective teachers in the same grades.
  c. Students taught by highly effective teachers learn to be better readers than students taught by ineffective teachers, but differences in other content areas are minimal.
  d. The differences between effective and ineffective teachers are slight, because student achievement largely depends on the socioeconomic status of parents.

Ques. 6

Which of the following best describes expert teaching?
 
  a. Expert teaching is essentially instinctive, and it is virtually impossible to acquire the skills needed to be an expert teacher in the absence of a great deal of natural ability.
  b. Some teachers possess more natural ability than others, but expertise can be acquired through study and practice.
  c. Expertise in teaching is acquired solely through experience in classrooms, and formal study of teaching is largely a waste of time.
  d. Expert teaching in elementary schools can be developed with study and practice, but expert teaching in middle and secondary schools depends primarily on teachers' knowledge of content.

Ques. 7

Of the following, what is the best description of a theory?
 
  a. A series of related patterns that can be used as a basis for explanation and prediction.
  b. A large body of information that has limited value in the real world.
  c. An abstract description of events taking place primarily in the sciences.
  d. A series of descriptions and conjectures that don't have any basis in fact.

Ques. 8

Of the following, the best description of the use of theories is to:
 
  a. rehearse and reflect.
  b. describe and correlate.
  c. explain and predict.
  d. inquire and experiment.

Ques. 9

Jack Ryan, a math teacher, uses lecture as his primary instructional strategy, and if his students are confused, he tries to explain the content even more clearly. Lucas Walsh, also a math teacher, uses a great deal of questioning with his students, varies his activities, and works hard to represent the content he teaches in ways that students can understand.
  Of the following, which is the most likely explanation for the differences between Jack's and Lucas's approaches to teaching?
 
  a. Lucas has more experience than does Jack.
  b. Lucas understands math better than does Jack.
  c. Lucas has more native ability than does Jack.
  d. Lucas possesses more professional knowledge than does Jack.

Ques. 10

Which of the following best describes the trends in our country with respect to family income?
 
  a. States on our country's east and west coasts are experiencing rising rates of low-income students, whereas the rest of the country is remaining fairly stable.
  b. States with large rural populations are experiencing rising rates of low-income students, whereas the rest of the country remained fairly stable.
  c. The rates of low-income students throughout our country have remained fairly stable over the last 20 years.
  d. All states in our country have experienced rising rates of low-income students to this point in the 21st century.