Chapter 9 Review
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- Q1Which of the following statements best describes curriculum?Learning goals based on students’ academic and social needsEverything teachers teach and students learn in schoolsEverything students learn in the formal classroom settingAll the academic knowledge and skills that teachers hope to have students reach30s
- Q2Which of the following best describes instruction?Learning goals and the philosophy on which the goals are based.Learning goals and the reasons the goals have been selectedLearning goals and a diagnosis of students’ needsThe ways teachers help students reach learning goals30s
- Q3You believe that learning to write persuasive essays is essential for students. You also believe that the only way that they’ll learn to write them effectively is with a great deal of practice. To begin, you display two sample persuasive essays on the overhead, one that is well written and one that isn’t. In a discussion you help them understand the characteristics of an effective persuasive essay. Of the following, which are curriculum decisions? 1. You believe that learning to write persuasive essays is essential for students. 2. You believe that the only way that they’ll learn to write them effectively is with a great deal of practice. 3. You display two sample persuasive essays on the overhead, one that is well written and one that isn’t. 4. In a discussion you help them understand the characteristics of an effective persuasive essay.1, 2, 312, 31, 230s
- Q4Of the following, which are decisions about instruction? 1. You believe that learning to write persuasive essays is essential for students. 2. You believe that the only way that they’ll learn to write them effectively is with a great deal of practice. 3. You display two sample persuasive essays on the overhead, one that is well written and one that isn’t. 4. In a discussion you help them understand the characteristics of an effective persuasive essay.2, 3, 43, 42, 4430s
- Q5Which of the following best describes the explicit curriculum?What students learn as communicated through the kinds of routines teachers establishWhat students learn through the ways teachers interact with themWhat students learn that is found in their textbooksWhat students learn in clubs and organizations (such as a science club)30s
- Q6Which of the following best describes the implicit curriculum?What students learn that is found in their textbooksWhat students learn in clubs and organizations (such as a science club)What students learn as communicated by the way teachers interact with themWhat students learn through curriculum guides and state standards30s
- Q7Topics teachers decide to leave out of courses of study are best described as making up which of the following?The missing curriculumThe explicit curriculumThe null curriculumThe implicit curriculum30s
- Q8Which of the following best illustrates an activity in the extracurriculum?Learning lines for your part in Our Town, the play your school is putting on in the springLearning, in an environmental science class, that global warming is becoming an increasing problemPracticing your saxophone for your jazz music classTrying to increase the number of sit-ups you’re able to do in a minute as part of your physical education class30s
- Q9Of the following, which most influences the curriculum?The individual teacherTextbooksProfessional organizationsStates and local districts30s
- Q10If you make decisions about using textbooks based on research examining their effective use, which of the following is your best decision?You should cover some of the topics in detail, de-emphasize or eliminate others, and add topics you feel are important.Since textbooks are written by experts in the field, you should cover the topics included in them and in the sequence in which they’re presented.You should cover the topics included in the textbooks and supplement those topics with other topics you feel are important.You should abandon textbooks completely and generate your own curriculum based on your professional judgment.30s
- Q11Documents published by states that typically include standards, learning activities, and performance expectations for students are best described as:target curricula.implicit curricula.lesson plans.curriculum guides.30s
- Q12Which of the following are arguments made by opponents of a national curriculum? 1. Local school and local district autonomy would be weakened. 2. A huge federal bureaucracy would be created. 3. A national curriculum would not be responsive to the diversity that exists in different states. 4. A national curriculum would lower the standards that exist in many states.3, 41, 2, 3, 41, 3, 41, 2, 330s
- Q13Of the following, which is the best description of evolution?A theory suggesting that all living things change in response to environmental conditionsA theory suggesting that organisms evolve because of the will of a supreme beingA theory suggesting that changes in living things are the result of work done by GodA theory suggesting that all organisms and events in the world change in response to a predetermined sequence30s
- Q14Of the following, which is the best description of creationism?The belief suggesting that the most righteous people on earth will have eternal life and the less righteous will notThe belief that the organisms that exist on the earth at a certain time are the result of environmental conditionsThe belief that all the events in the universe exist in a predetermined sequenceThe belief that the existence of the universe and all its parts are the result of work done by God30s
- Q15Which of the following is the best description of censorship?The process of requiring teachers to follow the specifications outlined in curriculum guidesThe process of not allowing the use of certain books or ideas in the school curriculumThe process of determining what knowledge students should have and what skills they should possess after completing a course of studyThe process of removing students from school for engaging in lewd or immoral behavior30s