When Mr. Conrad's high school students asked him to allow them to get into their groups and talk ...

When Mr. Conrad's high school students asked him to allow them to get into their groups and talk about the upcoming field trip rather than discussing the chapter, Mr. Conrad said, I'm going to invoke the Premack principle. What did he most likely do?
 
  a. Tell students to promise to do a good job of discussing the chapter if he allowed them to talk about the field trip first.
  b. Tell students to discuss the field trip in groups and agree to do the chapter questions for homework.
  c. Tell students to stop asking for class time to talk about the field trip if they still want to go on the field trip.
  d. Tell students they must discuss the chapter first and then get into groups to talk about the field trip.

Ques. 2

Russ broke the rule about using outdoor equipment outdoors only. He threw the baseball and put a dent in the trashcan. Now he is giving up his baseball privileges for two weeks as a result of his infraction.What method of punishment is being used?
 
  a. Social isolation
  b. Response cost
  c. Negative reinforcement
  d. Premack principle

Ques. 3

Cristal rushes through her spelling assignments and her seatwork. She likes to finish first and read, but she makes careless mistakes and turns in incomplete work. Her teacher has tried several strategies that have not worked with Cristal. Now she plans to use applied behavior analysis. She tells Cristal that the goal is for her to complete the seatwork with fewer than three errors and no incompletions. She tells Cristal she will give her a token each time she meets the goal. If she achieves five tokens in a week, she will choose a reward from the surprise basket. Now what does the teacher need to do?
 
  a. Change the goal every time Cristal earns a token.
  b. Alter the intervention every week to keep Cristal interested.
  c. Keep a record of Cristal's results and modify the plan if necessary.
  d. Offer the same intervention and incentives to all children in the class.

Ques. 4

Mr. Thibodaux teaches in a large middle school with students from all socioeconomic levels and a wide range of racial and ethnic diversity. He is examining the standardized test scores of his students in an effort to determine their areas of strength and weakness. If his students represent national averages, where will he find the greatest gaps in academic achievement?
 
  a. The gaps between scores of wealthy and poor students
  b. The gaps between scores of White and African American students
  c. The gaps betweenscores of White and Hispanic students
  d. The gaps between scores of White and Asian American students

Ques. 5

A group of people constructs a program for living and communicates the program, its values, norms, traditions, self-definitions, and rules to its members. This program for living is the group's:
 
  a. social foundation.
  b. value system.
  c. ethnic identity.
  d. culture.

Ques. 6

It is the second day of school. Which of the following teachersappears to stereotype Hispanic students in his or her class?
 
  a. Mrs. Ringwald instructs Renata to complete the first half of the problem set before going to her special education class.
  b. Ms. Sims tells Gorge to surprise her and complete the problems in the problem set without giving up.
  c. Ms. Caruthers asks Eduardo to work with his partner to complete the problem set before the bell rings.
  d. Mr. Montero tells Camilla to stop talking until she finishes the problem set and copies the homework assignment.

Ques. 7

Which of the following children of poverty is most likely to perform well in school?
 
  a. Amy's teacher understands that she is embarrassed about being poor. He seldom calls on her during class, but provides scaffolding if Amy asks for help.
  b. Jeb's teacher calls on him frequently and expresses high expectations of his academic performance.
  c. Natalie's teacher knows how difficult it is for Natalie to do school work at home, and he accepts incomplete homework from Natalie.
  d. Ding's teacher allows him to sleep during class, knowing that he helps his younger siblings at home and stays up late most nights.

Ques. 8

Juanita is from a low-SES family. Her friends are also from low-SES families, though most of their peers are from middle class families. Jerita has decided that school is a dead end and does not want to succeed academically. Her Spanish teacher believes Juanita could make high grades in Spanish and some of her other classes. The teacher encourages Juanita to turn in homework and raise her grades, but Juanita does not want to sell out and act like the middle class kids. She seems to have become part of:
 
  a. a rebel gang.
  b. a resistance culture.
  c. aself-imposed poverty culture.
  d. a school-imposed exclusion.