1. Wait time 2 is defined as the _____.
a. time period before the teacher asks a question
b. time period between the student's initial
response and the teacher's reaction
c. time period between the lesson and the exam
d. time period between the teacher's question and
the student response
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2. What level of Bloom's Taxonomy is
demonstrated by a student explaining the main
idea of a short story?
a. Remembering (knowledge)
b. Analyzing
c. Applying
d. Understanding (comprehension)
3. Carlos needs to develop a website for his
computer technology class. What level of Bloom's
taxonomy is demonstrated by this assignment?
a. Remembering (knowledge)
b. Creating (synthesis)
c. Understanding (comprehension)
d. Analyzing
4. Miss Saylor is about to teach her second grade
class about firefighters. Before she begins, she asks
her students to write down what they already know
and what they want to know about firefighters.
Then, she asks them to write down what they've
learned throughout the lesson. This is an example
of a(n) _____.
a. metaphor
b. analogy
c. Venn diagram
d. KWL chart
5. Steven's parents have always wanted him to be
a doctor. He accepted this preference and went to
medical school even though he never really
thought about whether he wanted to be a doctor.
Which of Marcia's identity statuses applies to
Steven?
a. Foreclosure
b. Identity Diffusion
c. Identity Achievement
d. Moratorium
6. Bryan has autism, and often seems aloof and
standoffish. According to experts, this is because
_____.
a. he doesn't adequately understand emotions and
empathy
b. his hearing is impaired
c. he finds other people's conversation stupid
d. he doesn't care about other people
7. A child with Asperger syndrome would likely
experience difficulty in all the following situations
EXCEPT which one?
a. Following clearly written instructions to
assemble a remote-control helicopter
b. Playing the role of a talking animal in a school
play
c. Understanding the sarcastic humor of a
classmate
d. Participating in a group conversation without
interrupting
8. How did Renzulli theorize that giftedness arises?
a. Through the interaction of three human traits: above
average abilities, task commitment and creativity.
b. Through the interaction of three human traits: above
average abilities, task indifference, and creativity.
c. Through the interaction of three human traits:
average abilities, task commitment and creativity.
d. Through the interaction of three human traits: below
average abilities, task commitment and creativity.
9. According to Renzulli, at the _____ of above-
average ability, task commitment, and creativity
you will find gifted behavior.
a. end
b. crossroads
c. intersection
d. roundabout
10. How is a gifted child considered different from
a normal child?
a. They have outstanding abilities and are capable
of high performance.
b. They have outstanding abilities and are capable
of average performance.
c. They have average abilities and are capable of
high performance.
d. They have average abilities and are capable of
average performance.
11. Laura had an IQ of 100, which is considered _____.
a. above average
b. gifted
c. average
d. below average
12. José wants to calculate a correlation; which of
the following graphs should he use?
a. Pie chart
b. Line graph
c. Scatter plot
d. Histogram
13. Dr. Goldberg does a study in which he
observes Jerome, a child who has been identified
as having a rare disorder. Jerome is the only
subject in the study. Which type of research design
is Dr. Goldberg using?
• a study conducted with a scientific
a. Experiment approach using two sets of variables
b. Case study • also aims to establish a cause-and-
effect relationship between an
c. Survey study independent and dependent variable.
d. Quasi-experiment However, subjects are assigned to
groups based on non-random criteria.
14. Mr. Freeman randomly gives half of the
children in his class an extra dessert over the lunch
hour; the other half gets no dessert. After lunch, he
tests the children's levels of resentment toward
each other. Which type of research design is Mr.
Freeman using?
a. Case study
b. Quasi-experiment
c. Experiment
• researchers repeatedly examine the same
d. Longitudinal individuals to detect any changes that
might occur over a period of time
15. Dr. Patel does an experiment in which she
shows people either a happy movie, a sad movie,
or no movie in a classroom. Then, she asks them to
fill out a survey assessing their feelings about
whether they want to adopt a pet from the animal
shelter. In this experiment, what is the
INDEPENDENT variable?
a. The type of movie viewed
b. The classroom location
c. Their feelings about pet adoption
d. The participants
Which type of water would make the
tomatoes grow fast?
Which battery brand lasts the longest?
16. Dr. Patel does an experiment in which she shows
people either a happy movie, a sad movie, or no
movie in a classroom. Then, she asks them to fill out
a survey assessing their feelings about whether they
want to adopt a pet from the animal shelter. In this
experiment, what was the control group?
a. The people who watched no movie
b. The group of pets who are currently in the animal
shelter
c. The people who watched the happy movie
d. The larger population of people who live in that town
17. Dr. Marion wants to conduct an experiment that
involves the distribution of a questionnaire. She has
only enough copies for half of the students. She
decides who will participate by pulling names out of
a hat and choosing ten students from each of the
four grades in the school. What constitutes the
sample in this experiment?
a. Only the first ten students she chooses
b. The students who are not chosen to participate
c. Only the students who actually participate
d. All of the students in the school
18. A school principal wants to conduct an experiment
that involves the distribution of a questionnaire. She
has only enough copies for half of the students. She
decides who will participate by pulling names out of a
hat and choosing ten students from each of the four
grades in the school. What constitutes the population
of this experiment?
a. The students who are not chosen to participate
b. Only the students who actually participate
c. Only the first ten students she chooses
d. All of the students in the school
19. A teacher wants to compare the reading
comprehension skills of children with learning
disabilities and children without learning
disabilities. Which statistical test should she use to
make this comparison?
a. Regression • tovariable
estimate the effect of one or more continuous variables on another
(cause and effect)
b. p-test • P value is defined as the probability under the assumption of no effect
or no difference (null hypothesis), of obtaining a result equal to or more
c. t-test extreme than what was actually observed (random chance)
• comparing the means of precisely two groups
d. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
• used when comparing the means of more than two
groups
20. A teacher wants to compare children of high,
medium, and low family incomes on their
satisfaction with the school lunch program. Which
statistical test should be used to make this
comparison?
a. Regression
b. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
c. p-test
d. t-test
21. On which of the following cases would an
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) be useful?
a. Testing whether girls enjoyed hearing a certain
story read aloud
b. Finding the average score of a group in a
Spanish test
c. Testing whether children in Iowa, California, and
New York have different learning skills
d. Comparing the language acquisition skills of two
different groups
22. A researcher asks a group of students to complete a
survey that measures maturity. She finds that the average
score for girls is higher than the average score for boys,
with a p-value of 0.03. What should she conclude from
this p-value?
a. There's a ninety-three percent chance that the scores in the
study are due to random chance.
b. There's a three percent chance that the scores in the study
are due to random chance.
c. Three percent of the girls are more mature than the boys, on
average.
d. Ninety-three percent of the girls are more mature than the
boys, on average.
23. Which of the terms below refers to a piece of
paper that explains to you, in detail, everything
that will happen in a research study before it
begins? • institutional Review Board (IRB) is an
a. IRB review form administrative body established to
protect the rights and welfare of human
b. Confidentiality form research subjects
• non-disclosure agreement or secrecy
c. Deception form agreement
d. Informed consent form
24. If a laboratory rat is conditioned to push a
feeder bar for a food pellet after seeing a candy
apple red light flash in its cage, according to the
principles of stimulus generalization the rat would
likely also push the feeder bar following the flash
of a _____ light.
a. maroon
b. blue
c. black
d. yellow
25. Stimulus generalization occurs when a stimulus
similar to a(n) _____ elicits a similar _____ to the
conditioned stimulus.
a. unconditioned stimulus, reward
b. unconditioned stimulus, response
c. conditioned stimulus, response
d. conditioned stimulus, pattern
26. You coach a basketball team, and one of your
players asks you if he's shooting the ball correctly.
You model the correct form and explain the
technique to him. This is an example of _____.
a. expository instruction • an expert explains
• when two or more
b. interactive instruction
teachers work togethe
c. sports instruction
d. collaborative instruction
27. Mr. Jones wants to incorporate an authentic activity
to teach his students how to recognize maple trees.
Which of the following is his best option?
a. Show the students pictures of a maple tree leaf and
have students draw one
b. Take the students outside to show them a maple tree
and point out the differences between the maple and
other trees
c. Give each student a bag of seeds and give a
presentation about how maple trees grow
d. Show the students a video on the growth of maple
trees
28. Trisha wrote an unfamiliar math problem on the
board. She then asked her students to brainstorm
and discuss with each other possible solutions to
the problem while she observed. This is an
example of _____.
a. common instruction
b. discovery instruction
c. direct instruction
d. expository instruction
29. Which type of instruction puts the teacher in
the role of controller or organizer?
a. Direct instruction
b. Discovery instruction
c. Dominant instruction
d. Common instruction
30. The material that students are supposed to
learn is referred to as _____.
a. procedure
b. process
c. content
d. product
