Three of the following are accurate statements about how classroom assessments either directly or indirectly affect students' learning and achievement. Which statement is not accurate?
A) The nature of assessment tasks influence how students study classroom material.
B) Students are more motivated to study classroom material when they know their knowledge of the material will be assessed.
C) Studying for an assessment facilitates students' memory even for information that they do not specifically study.
D) Assessments can provide valuable feedback about what students know and what they need to work on.
Ques. 2Midway through a unit on how mountains are formed, Mr. McDonald gives a brief quiz to find out what students do and don't understand. He plans to focus the next few classes on the things about which students are most confused. Which one of the following does Mr. McDonald's quiz exemplify?
A) A norm-referenced test
B) Authentic assessment
C) A performance assessment
D) Formative assessment
Ques. 3David is continually fighting with other children. Devise a plan to eliminate the fighting by using a combination of both reinforcement of incompatible behavior and punishment. In your discussion, be sure to explain: a. What incompatible behavior(s) you will reinforce b. What reinforcer you will use, and why c. What punishment you will use, and why
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 4Sam is a very talented dancer; he also shows considerable creativity in his artwork. He finds math and science classes very difficult, but he loves to tell stories and jokes to his many friends. Which view of intelligence is best reflected in Sam's abilities?
A) The concept of g
B) Gardner's multiple intelligences
C) Piaget's theory of cognitive development
D) Distributed intelligence
Ques. 5A fourth-grade teacher says, All of my students have strengths in certain areas. For example, some of them are really good at solving math problems. Others are really fast readers. Still others have a marvelous ability to make connections among seemingly very different ideas. And a couple of them are 'walking encyclopedias' of facts about the world. With which one of the following theoretical perspectives is the teacher's statement most consistent?
A) Cattell's concept of fluid intelligence
B) Spearman's general factor in intelligence
C) The Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory of cognitive abilities
D) Distributed intelligence
Ques. 6Marissa seems to be a born leader. As president of the school service club, she can often persuade her classmates to get involved in school and community service activities. Given this information, we could conclude that Marissa has a strength in which one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?
A) Interpersonal
B) Spatial
C) Naturalistic
D) Bodily-kinesthetic
Ques. 7James is talking about how much better the world would be if everyone simply agreed to love one another and make peace, not war. In Piaget's view, James is most likely to be:
A) 4 years old.
B) 7 years old.
C) 10 years old.
D) 14 years old.
Ques. 8Which one of the following statements best characterizes the development of expertise in a particular subject area?
A) The development of expertise is characterized by the acquisition of more and better-integrated knowledge about a topic.
B) The development of expertise is characterized by a series of five stages of increasingly abstract problem-solving strategies.
C) Children develop expertise primarily by learning certain skills and then practicing them over and over until they can perform the skills almost without thinking.
D) Children develop expertise primarily by changing verbal information into complex visual images.
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