Introduction to Teaching Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
Introduction to Teaching offers a foundational exploration of the principles, roles, and responsibilities of educators within diverse learning environments. The course introduces students to the history and philosophy of education, effective instructional strategies, classroom management techniques, and assessment methods. Emphasizing both theoretical frameworks and practical applications, it provides insight into the challenges and rewards of the teaching profession, the importance of inclusivity and cultural responsiveness, and the ethical considerations that guide educators. Through reflective activities and observational experiences, students begin to develop their own teaching identities and gain a clearer understanding of pathways within the field of education.
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Educational Psychology 6th Canadian Edition by Anita Woolfolk
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Chapter 1: Learning, teaching, and Educational Psychology
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Q1) Theories explain and predict all occurrences in a given field.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Each person is given an equal opportunity to be in a treatment or control group by means of ________ sampling.
Answer: random
Q3) Action research is a form of educational research typically conducted by anthropologists.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) If researchers wanted to study the development of students over many years as change occurs,they would likely be conducting a ______________ study.
Answer: longitudinal
Q5) Correlations may be included within a descriptive study.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Development and Language
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Q1) Vygotsky viewed children's private speech to be helpful for cognitive development.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) An increasingly influential view of cognitive development proposed by Vygotsky is based on
A)concrete experiences.
B)creation of complex schemes of thought.
C)culture and socioculture theory.
D)mastery of scientific thinking
Answer: C
Q3) What part of the brain coordinates and orchestrates skilled movements?
A)Cerebellum
B)Cortex
C)Cerebrum
D)Frontal lobe
Answer: A
Q4) The basis of formal operations is ________.
Answer: hypothetical-deductive reasoning
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Chapter 3: Self and Social and Moral Development
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Q1) Jerry has become active with a group working to save America's topsoil.He believes that steps must be taken to prevent food shortages 100 years from now.George's situation represents Erikson's concern for A)generativity.
B)integrity.
C)isolation.
D)self-absorption.
Answer: A
Q2) Seventeen-year-old Carl has considered several career options and has developed a firm career goal.Carl is experiencing identity A)achievement. B)diffusion.
C)foreclosure.
D)moratorium.
Answer: A
Q3) Ethnic heritage and pride are especially important influences on self-esteem. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Learner Differences and Learning Needs
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Q1) The theory that defines intelligence as encompassing at least eight separate kinds of intelligence is
A)Binet's theory of school-related intelligences.
B)Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
C)Spearman's g factor concept.
D)Sternberg's components view of intelligence.
Q2) The use of labels to describe exceptional children has both positive and negative consequences.Discuss those consequences in terms of their impact on the students and the regular classroom teacher.
Q3) Approximately what percent of the general population scores over 100 on a standardized IQ test?
A)20
B)50
C)70
D)80
Q4) Which of the following is the best example of "people-first" language?
A)Learning disabled students
B)High ability learner
C)Students receiving special education
D)At-risk student
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Chapter 5: Language, language Diversity, and Immigrant Education
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Q1) Researchers have found the best time for one to learn a second language on one's own is
A)during middle childhood
B)adolescence
C)early childhood
D)adulthood when cognitive skills are developed
Q2) Which one of the following statements is TRUE?
A)Contemporary educational psychologists reject the cultural deficit model.
B)Researchers have just started to investigate the cultural deficit model in the United States during the past five years.
C)The cultural deficit model is useful for designing bilingual education programs.
D)Educational psychologists today rely upon the cultural deficit model to understand student achievement.
Q3) The period considered to be the most sensitive for language development occurs
A)after puberty.
B)about the time of puberty.
C)during the first year of life.
D)during early childhood.
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Chapter 6: Culture and Diversity
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Q1) Resilient children typically have parents who are supportive but have low expectations of their success.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A group of people who are discriminated against by the dominate culture is called a(n)________ group by sociologists.
Q3) What are some things schools and teachers can do to accommodate cultural diversity?
Q4) Which student is most likely to succeed academically?
A)Susannah,an Italian-Canadian,who lives in an elite community in West Vancouver
B)Jill,a Caucasian,who lives in an urban low-income townhome in Sudbury
C)Charles,a First Nations student,who lives on a middle-class farm in Manitoba
D)Thomas,a Greek Canadian,who lives in a middle-class suburban apartment building in Calgary
Q5) The pragmatics of a classroom involves different activity rules that are called participation structures.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The commonly used index of wealth,power and influence is _________.
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Chapter 7: Behavioural Views of Learning
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Q1) The teacher says to Marty,"Good job," but frowns as he looks at her.According to O'Leary and O'Leary,the teacher's praise is NOT
A)believable.
B)contingent.
C)identified with the behaviour.
D)salient.
Q2) According to the above case study.Explain why (or why not)such strategies as token reinforcement and contingency contracting might help Kelly's situation.
Q3) Operant conditioning differs from classical conditioning by
A)dealing primarily with reflexive types of responses.
B)focusing on animal behaviour to a much greater extent than on human behaviour.
C)focusing on the consequences of voluntary behaviour.
D)treating learners as passive rather then active agents.
Q4) Ethical questions related to the use of the strategies described in this chapter are comparable to those raised by any process that seeks to influence people.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is functional behavioural assessment (FBA)and how would a teacher use FBA?
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Chapter 8: Cognitive Views of Learning
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Q1) When we intentionally try to learn something new,we are involving what type of long-term memory?
A)Crystallized memory
B)Episodic memory
C)Working memory
D)Explicit memory
Q2) Dr.Beach used to be a typical 'absent minded professor.' However,she found that she could remember the things her husband asked her to pick up at the grocery store by imagining the items she needed placed on her desk,bookshelf,and file cabinet.The mnemonic device that she used is
A)an acronym.
B)chunking.
C)the keyword method.
D)the loci method.
Q3) ________ memories involve knowledge that we can deliberately recall when we need the information.
Q4) The smallest unit of knowledge that can be judged true or false is called a
Q5) Information regarding events of our lives is stored in ________ long-term memory.
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Chapter 9: Complex Cognitive Processes
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Q1) Ray learned about divergent rays in physics class when he was studying the effects of lenses.Later,in his psychology class,he immediately understood the concept of "divergent thinking." What learning experience did Ray have?
A)A response set
B)Functional fixedness
C)General transfer
D)Negative transfer
Q2) Metacognition is best defined as A)knowledge about our own thinking processes.
B)the mechanism that primarily guides all problem-solving.
C)"self-talk" that guides thinking.
D)a heuristic used to promote retention in long term memory.
Q3) A student who breaks down a task into several intermediate goals is using a ______________________ approach to solving a problem.
Q4) When students do not have existing schemas that suggest an immediate solution to the problem,they must take a schema-driven route to solve the problem.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Learning Sciences and Constructivism
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Q1) Teachers who want to encourage dialog in reciprocal questioning should not begin sentences with the word "why."
A)True
B)False
Q2) When students are confronted with real situations that have meaning for them,the learning is ________.
Q3) In cooperative learning groups,the primary role of the materials monitor is to select the material to be studied.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The principle characteristics of constructivist teaching are complex,real-life learning environments and
A)guided discovery.
B)inquiry methods.
C)social negotiation.
D)testing hypotheses.
Q5) The role of the ________ in a cooperative learning group is to explain concepts when needed.
Q6) What are some of the disadvantages of group learning?
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Chapter 11: Social Cognitive Views of Learning and Motivation
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Q1) In Roger Azevedo's research a self-regulation "coach" is
A)the person who explains to a student why his or her solution to the problem is incorrect.
B)the instructional aide responsible for designing cooperative learning groups.
C)the individual who grades the students' work.
D)someone who helps students plan their learning and monitor their understanding.
Q2) Zimmerman's performance phase is most similar to which phase of Winne and Hadwin's model?
A)Analyzing the task
B)Setting goals and designing plans
C)Enacting tactics and strategies
D)Regulating learning
Q3) Students who have good learning skills and can control their own thoughts and behaviours are referred to as ________.
Q4) The notion that students have the capacity to exercise influences over their life events and coordinate their own learning,motivation,and emotions is referred to as
Q5) Self-regulated learners are ________ to learn.
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Q6) Beliefs about our ability to accomplish tasks in a given situation is ________.
Chapter 12: Motivation in Learning and Teaching
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Q1) Students who focus on learning goals because they value achievement and see their ability as being improvable are said to be ________ students.
Q2) Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been criticized because
A)cognition plays a lesser role than the hierarchy acknowledges.
B)people frequently attend to needs in different orders than the hierarchy predicts.
C)survival needs receive too much emphasis relative to safety needs.
D)the hierarchy overemphasizes the role of reinforcement as a motivator.
Q3) Sara attributes failures to internal causes.Consequently,she is likely to blame her poor mark in science on her
A)bad luck.
B)lack of effort.
C)parents' pressures to succeed.
D)teacher's difficult tests.
Q4) In general,performance is low when the level of anxiety is high.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How an individual's explanations,justifications,and excuses influence motivation is ________ theory.
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Chapter 13: Creating Learning Environments
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Q1) A teacher who is skilled in overlapping can monitor several classroom events at the same time.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Mr.Crain experiences a discipline problem with Joe.In imposing penalties,Mr.Crain should
A)discuss the situation with Joe immediately after the infraction occurs.
B)negotiate the level of punishment with Joe.
C)re-establish a positive relationship with Joe as quickly as possible.
D)reprimand Joe publicly in order to gain the support of the group.
Q3) Research has shown that approximately half of the time allocated for school turns out to be academic learning time.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the best way to deal first with a defiant,hostile student?
A)Be consistent in applying established consequences.
B)Give the student a chance to cool down and save face.
C)Have a conference with the counselor and parents.
D)Make sure that the school office is aware of the incident.
Q5) Activities that are accomplished in the classroom are described as ________.
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Chapter 14: Teaching Every Student
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Q1) In the constructivist perspective,it is important for students to have a role in designing objectives for learning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A classification scheme for educational objectives is called a ________.
Q3) A teacher who uses flexible grouping should seldom assess students' performance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The questions on the objective test that you are taking right now are what type of question?
A)Analytical
B)Convergent
C)Divergent
D)Evaluation
Q5) A frequent criticism of seatwork as a classroom learning strategy is that it A)is often overused.
B)may require learning skills that students might not possess.
C)places the student in a passive mode.
D)tends to reduce student motivation.
Q6) The revised cognitive taxonomy has an added dimension of four kinds of
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Chapter 15: Classroom Assessment,grading,and Testing
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Q1) According to the above case study.Identify how authentic testing could be used in a course of that type.Specifically,what types of authentic "performances" might be evaluated and how could they be evaluated?
Q2) According to the above case study.Identify the type of grading system that Ms.Rogers is using.What are its general advantages and disadvantages?
Q3) Exhibitions differ from portfolios because exhibitions
A)are authentic assessments.
B)involve an immediate audience.
C)use criterion-referenced standards.
D)use norm-referenced standards.
Q4) When a test actually measures what it purports to measure,the test is said to be A)credible.
B)reliable.
C)usable.
D)valid.
Q5) When test performances are compared to standards rather than to scores of others,the test is said to be ________ referenced.
Q6) A test that measures what it is supposed to is considered to be ________.
Q7) The spread of scores around the mean is the ________.
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