Early Childhood Education Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Early Childhood Education explores the foundational principles, theories, and practices essential to the development and learning of young children from birth through age eight. This course examines the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional aspects of early childhood development, emphasizing the importance of responsive caregiving, play-based learning, and inclusive environments. Students will learn about diverse educational settings, developmentally appropriate curriculum planning, observation and assessment strategies, and the critical role of family and community partnerships in fostering holistic growth and school readiness for young children.
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Art and Creative Development for Young Children 8th Edition by J. Englebright Fox
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Chapter 1: Understanding Creativity
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Q1) Adults tend to value creative products or creative process for all of the following reasons except:
A) they are the essence of creativity.
B) a finished product often tells what the child did at school today.
C) a finished product may justify the child's presence in the school.
D) a finished product can indicate a child's fine motor and perceptual skills.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of Gardner's multiple intelligences is most closely related to young children's engagement in art?
A) logical-mathematical
B) musical-rhythmic
C) visual-spatial
D) intrapersonal
Answer: C
Q3) Children with disabilities cannot be identified as gifted and talented.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Creative Thinking
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Q1) Schools that do not value creativity are set up to support:
A) left-brain functions.
B) right-brain functions.
C) connections between the hemispheres.
D) divergent thinking.
Answer: A
Q2) Space is needed to facilitate creative thinking in an early childhood classroom so that:
A) children have room to lay out materials.
B) children have places in the classroom to work alone to complete their plans and projects.
C) children have places in the classroom to work with a partner or a small group to complete their plans and projects.
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q3) Explain what the term "whole learning" means in an early childhood classroom.
Answer: The response should mention that curriculum should balance learning goals and activities between the two hemispheres of the brain.
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Chapter 3: Creative Experiences
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Q1) Which of the following is a developmentally appropriate music experience for a seven- to eight-year-old child?
A) learning a complicated folk dance taught by an adult
B) learning to read music notation
C) singing a duet with a friend
D) taking formal lessons to play a musical instrument
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following describes the progression of children's singing?
A) tagging on, listening, joining in, independent singing
B) listening, tagging on, joining in, independent singing
C) listening, tagging on, improvising, independent singing
D) listening, echoing, tagging on, improvising
Answer: B
Q3) A picture book is defined as a book that:
A) creates powerful visual messages through text.
B) communicates meaning only through illustrations.
C) encourages the reader to produce mental pictures of the story.
D) depends on pictures as much as, if not more than, the text.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Art and the Developing Child
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Q1) According to Piaget's theory, which of the following best describes the relationship between thought and language?
A) The development of language precedes the development of thought.
B) Thinking enhances language, but is not its source.
C) Children can only verbalize what they know and understand.
D) Language enhances thinking, but is not its source.
Q2) Art therapy is:
A) encouraging young children to express their fears and frustrations through vigorous art production activities such as fingerpainting, modeling with clay, and shredding paper.
B) the psychotherapeutic use of art for emotional understanding and healing.
C) appropriate only for young children, not adults.
D) a primarily verbal method of understanding an individual's emotional state and level of cognitive development.
Q3) By age five, a young child's brain has attained:
A) approximately 75% of its adult weight.
B) the ability to think abstractly.
C) approximately 90% of its adult weight.
D) 100% of its adult weight.
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Chapter 5: Childrens Artistic Development
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Q1) A more accurate name for finger painting is:
A) paint spreading.
B) hand spreading.
C) hand painting.
D) brushless painting.
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the theories of artistic development discussed in the text?
A) psychomotor explanation
B) emotional explanation
C) perceptual explanation
D) cognitive explanation
Q3) In Kellogg's (1969) theory of the development of artistic expression, children age two years are at what stage?
A) scribbling
B) mark-making
C) sensory motor
D) placement
Q4) Culture and religion do not influence a child's artistic development.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: The Elements of Art
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Q1) hue
A)the purity of light reflected from a surface
B)the lightened value of any color made by adding white
C)the color name
D)the relative lightness or darkness of a hue
E)the darkened value of any color made by adding black
Q2) List the thermal qualities of color.
Q3) Purple is an example of a(n):
A) primary color.
B) intermediate color.
C) secondary color.
D) neutral color.
Q4) List the nine elements of art discussed in Chapter 6.
Q5) In art, a line is all of the following except:
A) a representation of an edge.
B) simple or complex.
C) a continuation of a dot.
D) nonexistent in nature.
Q6) List the possibilities and personalities of color as described in Chapter 6.
Q7) List three warm colors.
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Chapter 7: Aesthetics
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Q1) Using watercolor paints can be difficult for young children because:
A) fine motor control is required.
B) smaller brushes are harder to manage.
C) watercolors tend to be wet and runny.
D) all of the above
Q2) Which of the following is not an example of an aesthetic experience?
A) sitting in wet sand and splashing in the waves on the shore
B) noticing the wood grains in a row of blocks
C) arranging the furniture to make the best use of space in a room
D) watching the colors of the flames in a campfire
Q3) It is a good idea to use reproductions of paintings and sculptures from local museums because:
A) it demonstrates support of the local museums.
B) local museums are more likely to donate curricular materials to your program.
C) young children will be more familiar when they visit the museum to see the original.
D) young children will learn about local artists and artisans.
Q4) Explain why aesthetics are important in the early childhood curriculum and environment.
Q5) List the three elements of aesthetics.
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Chapter 8: Sensory Experiences
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Q1) A young child with a tactile-kinesthetic strength tends to be good at:
A) using his or her hands and body to learn.
B) learning by listening to others.
C) thinking holistically.
D) discussing what he or she knows.
Q2) Active listening is best described as:
A) listening while engaging in other activities.
B) concentrated listening.
C) multitasking.
D) the hearing young children most often do.
Q3) Which of the following best describes how an early childhood teacher should address learning styles in the classroom?
A) teaching to the dominant learning style in the classroom
B) using his or her own dominant learning style because it will be the most effective and efficient avenue for communicating
C) teaching in ways that will honor a variety of learning styles
D) teaching only in ways that will assist children in developing their weaker learning modalities
Q4) List the three basic sensory modalities preferred by children.
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Chapter 9: The Complete Early Childhood Art Program
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Q1) prehistoric art
A)Children paint a person or animal on a smooth stone.
B)Encourage children to draw toys just as they are.
C)Children use straws to blow globs of paint around on paper.
D)Children make a mobile.
E)Children use markers to make a picture of different-colored dots.
F)Children make an outdoor painting by dabbing pain with an index finger
Q2) Faith Ringgold
A)Pop art
B)Pointillism
C)folk art
D)Realism
E)Surrealism
F)Impressionism
Q3) Froebel believed that the arts were an important part of education because they were:
A) part of the all-sided nature of each human being.
B) able to lift mankind to a higher spiritual level.
C) a wholesome way for the individual to spend free time.
D) so closely aligned with the goals of a classical education.
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Chapter 10: Child-Centered Art Versus Teacher-Directed Projects
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Q1) Crafts for young children are considered to be:
A) developmentally appropriate.
B) child-centered.
C) teacher-directed.
D) open-ended.
Q2) In a teacher-directed art project, the teacher:
A) gives specific directions for the completion of the project.
B) models the project for the children, but does not give verbal directions.
C) accepts the children's input and decisions throughout the project.
D) encourages the children to make their own decisions during the project.
Q3) Finger painting.
A)art project (a)
B) craft project (c).
Q4) Viewing several reproductions of Claude Monet's water lily paintings and then attempting a painting of a pond.
A)art project (a)
B) craft project (c).
Q5) Humans are born with a biological need to create art.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Art
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Q1) Teachable moments are planned to initiate high interest and bursts of learning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) creatively combining clay forms
A)Stage 1
B)Stage 2
C)Stage 3
D)Stage 4
Q3) canned
A)missed opportunities for teachable moments
B)loosely planned curriculum based on the children's interests and activities
C)units and lessons taught by the teacher in previous years
D)teacher-proof
Q4) Which of the following is not part of the 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 Rule for curriculum development?
A) independent activities
B) technology activities
C) whole-group activities
D) small-group activities
Q5) List the three components of early childhood curriculum development.
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Chapter 12: The Art Center 1
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Q1) Which of the following is not an issue in teaching children to make crafts from other cultures?
A) Attempts to teach children to make crafts result in a teacher-directed approach.
B) Some crafts are not only difficult but also dangerous for children.
C) Exposing children to cultural artifacts without an intense study of the culture may result in misconceptions.
D) There is a risk that the craft may not reflect the total cultural group.
Q2) doing a Mother's Day collage of things we like to do with our mothers
A)speaking
B)writing
C)science
D)social studies
E)mathematics
Q3) According to Fox (2010), when children draw what they see in their science observations, they:
A) add fantasy elements to what is actually there.
B) are much more likely to report details and observable facts.
C) are distracted by the art activity.
D) demonstrate more advanced fine motor skills.
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Chapter 13: The Art Center 2
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Q1) Explain why it is important to periodically evaluate the art center in your classroom.
Q2) The art center is best located near the:
A) book center.
B) science center.
C) manipulatives center.
D) dramatic play center.
Q3) Frequent changing of art materials or introducing of new art materials may influence young children's art in what way?
A) It is likely to enhance their creativity because they will not become bored with the materials.
B) It will encourage social interaction as children share ideas on how to use the materials.
C) It may stand in the way of a child's mastering the materials enough for creative expression.
D) It will have no effect.
Q4) Social interaction is a key consideration in planning the classroom art center.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Art Experiences Through Technology
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Q1) Computers are one of many tools in a developmentally appropriate classroom.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Appropriate use of the computer has been found to facilitate which area of the development of young children?
A) cognitive
B) psychomotor
C) logical-mathematical
D) socio-emotional
Q3) A___________ is a tiny unit of color in a digital photograph.
Q4) In Logo, _________________is a futuristic-looking object that beeps, walks, and turns on typed commands from the keyboard.
Q5) Children's access to computers in the classroom should be closely supervised by adults.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In computer art, the___________ qualities of the media are missing.
Q7) Restricting children's computer use to drill-and-practice software is likely to reduce their___________ .
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Chapter 15: Roles, Responses, and Strategies to Support
Childrens Art
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the artistic elements?
A) color
B) line
C) content
D) texture
Q2) As a teacher, it is appropriate to confess doubts about your own abilities as an artist to your students.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As art specialists, early childhood teachers do not really need to:
A) be artists.
B) know about art and artists.
C) know about the artistic elements.
D) know about developmentally appropriate art activities.
Q4) It is developmentally inappropriate to ask children to identify and describe the art materials they are using.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) List four of the five reasons early childhood teachers should take art dictation.
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Chapter 16: Art Assessment
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Q1) Checklists require teachers to make judgments about the behaviors they are seeing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) With planning and organization, teachers should be able to observe and record the behaviors of all children in their classes in a single session.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Observation is descriptive and based on fact; analysis and interpretation are based on:
A) teacher knowledge.
B) inference.
C) environment.
D) chronological age.
Q4) Portfolios should only contain the best samples of children's work.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain why it is important for children to learn to self-assess their artwork.
Q6) Discuss the importance of assessment in an early childhood program.
Q7) List four of the five reasons for studying an individual child.
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