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| What strategy is most effective if a teacher wishes to communicate high expectations to all students | giving all students assignments at an appropriate level of challenge |
| giving all students assignments at an appropriate level of challenge is effective because: | While it is important for the teacher to adhere to grade level expectations outlined in the curriculum, it is also important to be sure students are provided with the appropriate accommodations and modifications that will help them be successful. |
| What strategy would be most appropriate for an English teacher to use if her goal is to help students improve their ability to make inferences? | Reading a passage aloud and asking the students to write down what they can infer from the passage |
| Being able to infer: | One of the TAKS objectives at all levels of the reading assessment is to be able to infer. If the teacher reads a selection aloud the students are not required to decode, but to explain the literal meaning of the author’s words. |
| What information does a criterion-referenced test provide about students? | mastery of a defined body of content |
| criterion references test: | s designed to determine specific content objectives. These are often administered when a special education referral is being competed for a student to determine where they are academically. |
| A high school teacher is likely to be most effective in introducing students to various career options by using what resources? | informational brochures from a wide range of local businesses |
| Why informational brochures are so important | Students may lack information about specific careers and not consider them as a possibility for their future. The brochures could be used to clarify and stimulate interest in areas the student’s had not previously considered. |
| Which aspect of a learning environment will help students develop a positive attitude about school? | Assessing students on individual progress |
| Assessing students on their individual progress will help them develop a positive attitude about school because | Students who know that their efforts are recognized and that are treated as individuals demonstrate a higher level of positive thinking regarding school. |
| A tenth grade teacher wants to reduce the aggressive behaviors exhibited by some of her students and encourage the development of positive social skills. The teacher is most likely to achieve this goal by providing students with what opportunity? | Offer training and practice in peer mediation:Current research shows that peers often have more effect in resolving others differences than adult interventions. |
| Which of the following evaluation technique would be most appropriate for assessing oral presentations at the end of a unit. | Assessing each presentation using a checklist of relevant criteria |
| In order to evaluate oral presentations the teacher must consider | outside factors such as how comfortable each student might be in that type of assessment setting. By developing a rubric designed around what the students are expected to present the individual student’s delivery of the oral report is not factored in to the grading content. Each student is evaluated on the same scale. |
| A high school English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher develops a program in which new immigrant students will be paired with second-year peer tutors. What steps does the teacher need to take to facilitate success of this program? | Providing the students who will serve as tutors with explicit training before and after the program begins |
| A formerly high achieving school student is no longer achieving at his full academic potential because he is influenced by a new group of friends who do not take school seriously. The teacher is most likely to be able to encourage the student to return to his former academic level by: | Discussing ways of handling and responding to negative peer pressure.The student may not have the needed skills to deal with pressures from his peers. By spending the time with the student and bringing these difficulties out in to the open, the teacher has the opportunity to provide needed assistance that the student needs but can’t verbalize. |
| In order for students to recall previously learned information a teacher should use what strategy? | Make sure the students have an opportunity to apply learned information in a meaningful way |
| Making sure students have an opportunity to apply learned information in a meaningful way is important because | If students are given repeated opportunities to apply previously learned skills to new concepts the students will have more success in recalling the prior learning. |
| A social studies teacher gives a ten-question, multiple-choice quiz at the end of every unit in the textbook. The teacher is concerned that the quizzes might not be sufficiently reliable. What practice would be most likely to enhance the reliability of these assessments? | Give several different versions of each quiz drawn from a large pool of questions |
| In order to determine the validity of the questions used at the end of every unit textbook the teacher needs to | draw from a variety of test questions. Some direct knowledge questions may offer more valid information regarding mastery of concepts than other questions which ask for more interpretation of information. |
| A new teacher is struggling to work effectively with students from culturally diverse backgrounds in her AP English class. What should be the teacher’s first step toward resolving this issue? | Determining how students’ cultural differences are likely to manifest themselves in the classroom |
| By learning about the different cultures represented in a classroom: | the teacher can work to overcome these barriers by acknowledging the student's feelings. Often cultural issues come out in the class when students are asked to make oral presentations or work with a group |
| A group of high school Social Studies teachers has developed a new unit of study. After all the teachers have finished teaching the unit, they decide to meet to refine the unit. What teacher action during the meeting is likely to be most helpful for this purpose? | Comparing the level of engagement exhibited by different classes |
| Infer: | Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements. |
