Research on talent and expertise suggests that in order to increase student expertise, schools should
a. carefully select the most innately talented students for special programs.
b. encourage students to practice a lot more and provide good coaching and feedback.
c. avoid the use of tests or performances to identify talented youth.
d. use the Flynn effect to combat the achievement gap.
Question 2The intelligence-achievement discrepancy definition of a learning disability refers to which of the following?
a. genetic causes of learning disabilities
b. lower achievement than what you would expect based on measured intelligence
c. response to intervention models in which there are three tiers of intervention
d. focusing on the relevant aspects of Sternbergs Theory of Successful Intelligence
Question 3Ms. Torque teaches her class using high quality curriculum materials. A few low achieving students receive extra help in her classroom, and two low achieving students receive intensive one-on-one intervention. What model is Ms. Torque using in her classroom?
a. disability services
b. direct instruction
c. response to intervention
d. cognitive overload intervention
Question 4In order to apply multiple intelligences to the classroom, you should do which of the following?
a. give the same tasks to all learners so that they can use their unique intelligences
b. plan lessons that engage multiple intelligences by using different approaches to learn the same material
c. consider incorporating additional intelligences like sports intelligence and astronomy intelligence
d. teach each lesson using each of the eight intelligences, for example include learning through movement in every lesson
Question 5The Flynn effect refers to which of the following?
a. a reduction in the achievement gap between children of color and White children
b. the pattern of todays children having more anxiety than their parents and grandparents
c. a cultural emphasis on concrete reasoning rather than abstract reasoning
d. a huge gain in measured intelligence in many countries of the world
Question 6The search for culture-free intelligence tests has led to
a. the realization that there may be no such thing as a culture-free test.
b. several tests on which nearly all cultural groups (Congolese, Korean, African-American, French, etc.) receive the same average scores.
c. the discovery that African Americans are actually favored on several prominent intelligence tests.
d. culture-free tests like the Ravens matrices.
Question 7Which of the following is most true about average gender differences in intelligence?
a. Boys tend to be superior in general intelligence scores.
b. Boys tend to be superior in spatial ability.
c. Girls tend to be superior in mathematical ability.
d. Boys and girls tend to be equal in all measures of intelligence.
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