Foundations of Education Review Questions
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Foundations of Education explores the historical, philosophical, social, and psychological underpinnings of educational theory and practice. Students will examine how education has evolved over time, the roles of key thinkers and movements, and the relationships between schools and society. The course encourages critical reflection on the purpose of education, educational equity, and current issues shaping classrooms today, equipping learners with the conceptual tools to understand and engage with contemporary educational challenges.
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Educational Psychology Active Learning Edition 12th Edition by Anita Woolfolk
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Chapter 1: Learning, Teaching, and Educational Psychology
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Q1) When a correlation coefficient of -0.80 is found between factor A and factor B,the most accurate interpretation is that
A)a decrease in factor A is strongly related to a decrease in factor B.
B)a decrease in factor A is strongly related to an increase in factor B.
C)there is NO significant relationship between the two factors.
D)there is a very weak relationship between the two factors.
Answer: B
Q2) What type of research participants should researchers use for studies of cause-and-effect relationships?
A)Controlled samples
B)Random samples
C)Related samples
D)Skilled samples
Answer: B
Q3) A correlation coefficient of 0.90 indicates that
A)one event has been caused by another event.
B)one event is strongly related to another event.
C)the two events are related 10 percent of the time.
D)the two events are related 90 percent of the time.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Development
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Q1) The development of language is associated with the concrete operational stage.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Based on the above assessment of Trip's situation,what teaching approaches would Piaget's ideas suggest for making the principles of fractions more understandable to Trip?
Answer: The teacher will want to provide Trip with hands-on learning experiences.For example,the teacher could give Trip two apples to cut into pieces.Trip could cut one apple into five pieces and the other apple into three pieces.He could then compare the combined physical amount of two of the pieces from the five-piece cut apple to two of the pieces from the three-piece cut apple.
Q3) What is the hallmark of Piaget's stage of formal operations?
A)Semiotic function
B)Hypothetical-deductive reasoning
C)Organized thinking of dependent elements
D)Reversible thinking
Answer: B
Q4) The specialization of the two hemispheres of the brain is called ________.
Answer: lateralization
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Chapter 3: The Self, Social, and Moral Development
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Q1) According to Erikson,the main conflict for adolescents involves the search for
Answer: identity
Q2) A "punishment-obedience" orientation characterizes Kohlberg's stage of moral reasoning known as ________.
Answer: preconventional
Q3) The way that children resolve the autonomy vs.shame and doubt crisis influences their later sense of
A)attachment to the family.
B)confidence in their own abilities.
C)cooperation in groups.
D)evaluation of new ideas.
Answer: B
Q4) The legal definition of child abuse in many states now includes neglect and failure to provide adequate care and supervision.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Learner Differences and Learning Needs
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Q1) Zero reject is a basic principle meaning
A)children with disabilities who come from low income families must receive more federal funding than those who come from high income families.
B)aggressive children who bully other children must be removed from the class immediately.
C)it is acceptable to write an IEP for children with profound disabilities every other year rather than on an annual basis.
D)no students with a disability can be denied a free public education.
Q2) Carroll's intelligence model contains over 70 specific abilities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Woolfolk's position on the issue of labeling exceptional students is that such practices
A)are clearly detrimental and should not be continued.
B)are far more beneficial than harmful and definitely need to be continued.
C)have both positive and negative effects and need to be exercised cautiously.
D)should be used only with physical handicaps that do not affect mental or emotional functioning.
Q4) What other interventions would you suggest to help Micah?
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Chapter 5: Language Development, Language Diversity, and Immigrant Education
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Q1) A student who has mastered phoneme-grapheme correspondence has good _____________skills.
Q2) Teachers must also pay attention to _____________,which are the different ways of talking for males and females.
A)genderlects
B)sheltered language
C)heritage language
D)code-switches
Q3) When a student understands language and how it works,the student is said to have ________.
Q4) According to Woolfolk,the most desirable approach to the "language problem" in today's bilingual schools is to
A)divide students into separate language classes according to the primary language that they speak.
B)try to make students fluent in both languages.
C)employ monolingual educational strategies.
D)try to make students at least semi-lingual in their second language.
Q5) Individuals who speak only one language are referred to as ________.
Q6) Individuals who speak two languages are said to be ________.
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Chapter 6: Culture and Diversity
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Q1) Aronson and Fried identified "a social predicament rooted in the prevailing American image of African-Americans as intellectually inferior" as being a(n)________.
Q2) Membership in a particular group determines behavior as well as increases the probability of certain types of behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The majority of poor children in the schools of the United States are African-American.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Segregation was declared illegal by the Brown vs.Board of Education of Topeka ruling.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Organized bodies of knowledge about groups of people that affect how we react to them are called ________.
Q6) Discrimination and prejudice are the same negative behaviors.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Behavioral Views of Learning
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Q1) What schedule of reinforcement is most likely to be involved when teachers give "pop" quizzes?
A)Fixed-interval
B)Fixed-ratio
C)Variable-interval
D)Variable-ratio
Q2) The law of effect in Thorndike's theory of learning is related to the concept of A)antecedents.
B)consequences.
C)patterns.
D)punishments.
Q3) Cognitive behavior modification adds what to the management process?
A)Parent intervention
B)Response cost
C)Self-instruction
D)Self-reinforcement
Q4) In Pavlov's experiment,the conditioned stimulus was the tuning fork tone.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Contingency contract
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Chapter 8: Cognitive Views of Learning
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Q1) Stacey is trying to learn the abbreviations and names for the chemical elements,such as Au (gold).He connects the Au with a mental picture of Auric Goldfinger,the villain in a James Bond novel.This is an example of using what learning strategy?
A)Chaining
B)Keyword
C)Loci
D)Metacognitive
Q2) Only about 14 items may be stored in short-term memory at any given time.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Items can typically be stored in working memory for approximately how long?
A)About 20 seconds
B)A day
C)One minute
D)One week
Q4) The typical student who "crams" the night before an important exam is attempting to use massed practice.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Complex Cognitive Processes
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Q1) Gwen,the class Vice President,suggested that they organize committees that would be responsible for (1)checking the calendar to see if the program could be held on two consecutive nights; (2)checking with other junior or senior high schools in the community to find out about availability of their facilities;and (3)checking on the possibility of using the high school's football stadium to construct a stage and lighting system for an outdoor program.
A)Analogical thinking
B)Brainstorming
C)Means-end analysis
D)Response set
E)Working backwards
Q2) According to Woolfolk,bringing in familiar cultural folk tales with diverse students is not a good use of a teacher's time because students regardless of their cultural backgrounds typically bring similar beliefs and prior knowledge to the classroom.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Functional fixedness is a strategy for using an object in an unconventional way.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Learning Sciences and Constructivism
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Q1) How might the use of cooperative learning strategies help students to overcome the diverseness in their science backgrounds?
Q2) Vygotsky's notion that learning is inherently social and embedded in a particular cultural setting is consistent with
A)guided learning.
B)relativistic learning.
C)situated learning.
D)sociological learning.
Q3) In their writing group,Aron has become the expert on how to write an introductory sentence.When students teach other students about the part in which they have expertise,they are engaged in what type of cooperative learning structure?
A)Jigsaw
B)Group work
C)Reciprocal questioning
D)Service learning
Q4) Ms.Beck,the teacher in the adjacent room,complained that the noise in Mr.Hutch's class (during the group exercises)is too loud and very distracting.If you were Mr.Hutch,how would you handle this situation?
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Chapter 11: Social Cognitive Views of Learning and Motivation
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Q1) Mr.Jacoby is very effective at encouraging his students to become self-regulated learners because he includes the following in his teaching:
A)Direct instruction on the aspects of self-regulated learning
B)Minimal feedback so that his students can evaluate their own work
C)Cooperative learning activities
D)Opportunities for students to develop their creative abilities
Q2) Research on self-efficacy and achievement suggests that school achievement is improved and self-efficacy is increased when students
A)accredit their successes to luck or to the intervention of others.
B)advocate controllable activities rather than tasks that are beyond their abilities.
C)develop high expectations even in the face of difficulties.
D)receive rewards or other reinforcements based on the quality of their performances.
Q3) A student who has good follow-through for completing a task is said to have volition.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Self-regulated learners are ________ to learn.
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Chapter 12: Motivation in Learning and Teaching
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Q1) Weiner believes that there are two important dimensions that have important implications for motivation: (1)responsibility and (2)stability.
A)True B)False
Q2) Research exists to support the claim that students' emotions are related to their learning goal orientation.
A)True B)False
Q3) Maria spent many hours trying to complete her geometry proofs.A cognitive interpretation of Maria's motivation is that Maria
A)knows a good grade will result in a reward from her parents.
B)is attempting to acquire understanding of how the different theorems work.
C)is trying to feel fulfilled in her accomplishment in order to raise her self-esteem. D)wants her friends to be more likely to accept her than they have so far.
Q4) Students whose sense of self-worth and self-efficacy deteriorate become ________ students.
Q5) What is meant by the term "bounded choice" and how does it influence student learning?
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Chapter 13: Creating Learning Environments
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Q1) According to Woolfolk,the best answer to school violence is ________.
Q2) What term did Adams and Biddle use to designate the area in a classroom where the greatest number of verbal exchanges takes place?
A)Action zone
B)Fishbowl area
C)Personal territories
D)Zone of proximal development
Q3) One of the best ways to prevent classroom management problems is to make sure the students are cognitively ____________.
Q4) In Gordon's "no-lose method" of conflict resolution the needs of both the teacher and the students are taken into account.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Gordon's "no lose" method of dealing with conflicts involves
A)having both the teacher and the students participate in the solution.
B)having students vote on the best solution to the problem.
C)imposing a solution for the problem on the students.
D)using empathetic listening to help the students discover the solution on their own.
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Chapter 14: Teaching Every Student
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Q1) Students' self-fulfilling prophecy effects seem to be stronger in the early grades.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Teachers who use systematic instruction for teaching mastery of basic skills,facts,and information are using active or explicit teaching,or ________ instruction.
Q3) Teacher clarity is a characteristic that is fairly simple to define objectively.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The revision of Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy has an added dimension of four levels of conceptual knowledge.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Rather than using specific objectives to guide planning,constructivist teachers have overall goals to guide learning.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A classification scheme for educational objectives is called a(n)________.
Q7) One way of incorporating active learning into lectures is to use ________.
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Chapter 15: Classroom Assessment, Grading, and Standardized Testing
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Q1) The amount of measurement error in the score distribution is acceptable.
A)The conclusion in this item's statement is NOT supported by the above data.
B)The conclusion in this item's statement is supported by the above data.
C)There are insufficient data presented to warrant this conclusion.
Q2) Identify the type of objective test item that is most appropriate for measuring the following specific learning outcome: "Select the best reason for a specific action from a given list of alternatives."
A)Essay
B)Multiple-choice
C)Short-answer
D)True-false
Q3) The relationship between the standard deviation and test scores is that the larger the standard deviation,the
A)greater the variability in the distribution.
B)higher the central tendency.
C)lower the variability in the distribution.
D)narrower the distribution of scores.
Q4) A type of authentic assessment in which students' work is collected to demonstrate progress and achievement in a particular area is a(n)__________.
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