In Mr. Marshall's fourth-grade class, students who acquire 20 points in one day can have a half hour of free time at the end of the day. Mr. Marshall awards points to his students for good behavior and deducts points when they misbehave. The deduction of points for misbehavior is known as:
A) Time-out.
B) A logical consequence.
C) Response cost.
D) In-school suspension.
Ques. 2As a teacher, you are apt to find that the parents of a few of your students will have little involvement in their children's education. Three of the following statements are accurate with regard to such parents. Which statement is not accurate?
A) Inadequate child care may prevent them from getting involved in school activities.
B) They may have had bad experiences at school when they themselves were children.
C) Their lack of involvement usually reflects a lack of interest in their child's academic performance.
D) They may think that they shouldn't bother school personnel with their questions and concerns.
Ques. 3Which one of the following alternatives best describes a sense of school community, as educators define the term?
A) A common set of rules shared by classrooms throughout the school building
B) The joining of two or more classes on a daily basis, with the teachers of those classes team-teaching a subject area
C) A shared understanding that teachers and students are all working together to promote learning and achievement
D) A system in which students have increasing involvement in school decision making as they advance through the grade levels
Ques. 4Which one of the following examples is most consistent with the textbook's definition of assessment?
A) Having a student swim two laps using the breast stroke
B) Asking a student to form a mental image of a nine-sided polygon
C) Having a student describe how long she studied
D) Asking a high school student to read the first two chapters of a college-level textbook
Ques. 5To be most effective, teachers should keep in regular contact with parents about how their children are performing and progressing in the classroom. Describe four different strategies that you might use to open and/or maintain lines of communication with your students' parents.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 6Intervention strategies for students at risk for aggression and violence in the classroom are most effective when they:
A) Do not emphasize the social benefits of prosocial behavior.
B) Include intensive individual counseling and therapy.
C) Are tailored to students' unique characteristics and needs.
D) Focus largely on reinforcement for desirable behaviors, rather than on punishment for undesirable behaviors.
Ques. 7Three of the following students show warning signs of possible violent behavior. Which one does not?
A) Adam speaks about terrorist groups with obvious affection.
B) Barbara rarely arrives at school before 10:00, despite repeated disciplinary actions by the assistant principal.
C) Cora becomes irate each time a peer unintentionally acts in a way that she perceives as being hostile or harmful.
D) After his girlfriend breaks up with him and begins dating Russell, Daniel asserts, I'll make that guy sorry he was ever born
Ques. 8Which one of the following alternatives best describes positive behavioral interventions and supports?
A) Teaching students to monitor their own classroom behavior using a checklist taped to the tops of their desks
B) Meeting regularly with a student in one-on-one discussions of chronic behavior problems, with the goal of bringing about more productive behavior
C) Creating conditions that enable students to meet their needs through appropriate rather than inappropriate behaviors
D) Using only reinforcementnever punishmentto improve students' classroom behavior
Ques. 9Diane frequently complains of terrible headaches and so ends up at the nurse's office several times a week. Yet two different physicians have been unable to find a cause for Diane's headaches, and Diane's parents report that their daughter rarely has headaches at home. Diane is falling further and further behind in her schoolwork, so her teacher and parents meet with the nurse and school psychologist to brainstorm possible solutions to her problem. The school psychologist suggests that the teacher keep track of the occasions when Diane complains about a headache. Two weeks later, the teacher reports that all of Diane's complaints occur just before a test or difficult assignment. Suddenly the teacher and parents begin to suspect that perhaps Diane complains of headaches as a way of getting out of difficult schoolwork. This situation illustrates an approach known as:
A) The use of incompatible behaviors.
B) Logical consequences.
C) Cognitive behavioral analysis.
D) Functional analysis.
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