Kate, a fourth grade teacher, asks students a lot of questions and provides plenty of practice with learning tasks. What might you guess about the performance of her students?
a. The practice will bore most of them.
b. The under-prepared students will do well, but the better-prepared ones will not.
c. The students would perform better if she allowed them to do more group work.
d. Her students probably learn more than those who have teachers who do not do these things.
Question 2The reaction range is:
a. the genetically determined range of outcomes for development.
b. how a child will react to different visual and motor stimuli.
c. the outcome of development based on one's environment.
d. the upper limit of development when one has a great deal of environmental stimulation.
Question 3Teachers should:
a. accept students' performance at whatever level they are.
b. not worry about being good role models; only parents are needed for that.
c. communicate values.
d. only use punishment to alter students' behavior.
Question 4Hopi children who spend their first year strapped to a cradleboard:
a. are usually at least one year behind in learning to walk.
b. walk sooner than children from other cultures.
c. may never learn to walk.
d. learn to walk at about the same time as children from other cultures.
Question 5Which of the following has been found to be important in increasing achievement in mathematics and reading in the primary grades?
a. class size c. ratio of boy to girl students
b. school size d. ratio of male to female teachers
Question 6When it comes to motor development:
a. it is simply a process of unfolding genetic tendencies (maturation).
b. it depends solely upon experience and the environment.
c. it is dependent upon a combination of maturation and experience.
d. There is no way to answer this question.
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