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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Discussion (November 26, 2024) Flashcards

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  1. Which of the following is NOT a purpose of assessment?
    a. Mechanism for review
    b. Motivator
    c. To create stress and anxiety
    d. Feedback
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c. To create stress and anxiety

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  1. Informal assessments should be used when ____.
    a. The teacher wants to determine if students have met course objectives
    b. The teacher wants to make observations of students’ social interaction with other children
    c. The teacher has provided advanced notice to the students to study
    d. The students should demonstrate their performance in a given area
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b. The teacher wants to make observations of students’ social interaction with other children

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  1. Which of the following is an example of a performance-based assessment?
    a. Use of scantron answer sheet in chemistry class
    b. Written book report in English class
    c. Oral presentation in history class
    d. A True/False exam in history class
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c. Oral presentation in history class

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  1. Which of the following situations is most appropriate for a performance-based assessment?
    a. A science teacher wants to assess his students’ ability to identify their position on the periodic table and writing a paper describing the findings
    b. A math teacher wants to assess her students’ ability to multiply equations on a quiz
    c. An art teacher wants to assess her students’ ability to differentiate between still life and portraits by creating a charcoal drawing of each
    d. A music teacher wants to assess his students’ knowledge of treble and bass clef using a written test
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c. An art teacher wants to assess her students’ ability to differentiate between still life and portraits by creating a charcoal drawing of each

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  1. An assessment used to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction at the end of a specific course is referred to as a _____ assessment.
    a. Formative
    b. Summative
    c. Scholastic aptitude
    d. General aptitude
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b. Summative

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  1. Mrs. Gregg uses an assessment to evaluate children’s knowledge and abilities formed in pre-school and in the home. She is using ___ assessment.
    a. Specific aptitude
    b. Scholastic aptitude
    c. School readiness
    d. Formative
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c. School readiness

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  1. An assessment that uses the same or similar questions and is evaluated using the same criteria for all test-takers is referred to as a ____ assessment.
    a. Standardized
    b. Summative
    c. Proctored
    d. Formative
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a. Standardized

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  1. A student complains that only 10 questions on a 100-question test were taken from the material assigned to study for the test. The students are questioning the test’s ____.
    a. Standardization
    b. Reliability
    c. Validity
    d. Usability
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c. Validity

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A school principal wants to know the cost and the length of time needed to administer an exam. This refers to the ____ of the exam.
a. Validity
b. Practicality
c. Standardization
d. Reliability

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b. Practicality

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  1. A parent is confused by her child’s score on two exams testing knowledge of musical terminology. On the first test, the child scored a 90. On the second test, the score was 30. What aspect of the test is the parent questioning?
    a. Usability
    b. Validity
    c. Standardization
    d. Reliability
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d. Reliability

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  1. A ___ is an attribute such as self-esteem, motivation and language proficiency that is inferred from consistent behavior.
    a. Construct
    b. Personality
    c. Soft skill
    d. Pattern
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a. Construct

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  1. Which of the following validity coefficients would indicate a highly predictive assessment?
    a. -0.21
    b. 0.21
    c. 0.80
    d. -0.80
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c. 0.80

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  1. A school wants to determine if an assessment has reliability over time. They administer the same assessment at the beginning of a school year and at the end. The school is assessing ___ reliability.
    a. Test-retest
    b. Internal consistency
    c. Inter-rater
    d. Parallel-form
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a. Test-retest

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  1. Three raters compared their individual scores in order to assess ___ reliability.
    a. Parallel-form
    b. Internal consistency
    c. Test retest
    d. Inter-rater
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d. Inter-rater

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  1. Mr. Hunt has been emphasizing the use of performance- based assessments in his science class. What type of performance assessment is he most likely to use to grade his students on their knowledge of the principles of gravity?
    a. Experiment which involves dropping different objects to assess the rate of descent
    b. Asking the students to state the principles of gravity
    c. True or false questions about the principles of gravity
    d. Multiple choice test about the principles of gravity
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a. Experiment which involves dropping different objects to assess the rate of descent

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  1. What type of performance assessment allows the teacher to determine what the students are capable for long periods of time?
    a. Static performance assessment
    b. Extended performance assessment
    c. Group performance assessment
    d. Dynamic performance assessment
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b. Extended performance assessment

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  1. Mr. Yaki gives his students a test where scores can range from 0 to 10. The scores result in a normal distribution. Given this information, what was probably the most common score on the test?
    a. 10
    b. 5
    c. 2
    d. 8
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b. 5

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  1. When the shape of distribution has a large rounded peak tapering away at each end, it is called ___.
    a. Standard distribution
    b. Scatterplot
    c. Bell curve
    d. Skewed distribution
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c. Bell curve

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  1. A group of ten students take a test and they all get an F. What type of distribution would result considering the full possible range on the test was anywhere from an F to and A?
    a. A skewed distribution
    b. A mean distribution
    c. A normal distribution
    d. A median distribution
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a. A skewed distribution

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  1. Scores that indicate the level of knowledge or skills a student possess in a specific area that are referred to as ____.
    a. Criterion-referenced
    b. Raw
    c. Norm-referenced
    d. Valuable
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a. Criterion-referenced

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  1. A raw score represents the ____.
    a. Number of items on an assessment answered correctly
    b. Number of items on an assessment answered incorrectly
    c. Percent of items on an assessment answered incorrectly
    d. Percent of items on an assessment answered correctly
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a. Number of items on an assessment answered correctly

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  1. A percentile rank of 60 indicates that ____.
    a. A student has gotten 60% of the test items correct
    b. A student has scored worse than 60% of his or her peers
    c. A student has scored better than 60% of his or her peers
    d. A student has gotten 60% of the test items incorrect
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c. A student has scored better than 60% of his or her peers

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  1. Study the examples of below, and choose which one is the most appropriate for use of the mode, instead of the mean or median.
    a. Test scores that range between 20-100
    b. Comparing ice cream flavors to see which one is the most popular
    c. Number of times middle aged women have been in a car accident
    d. Number of cars speeding on a high way
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b. Comparing ice cream flavors to see which one is the most popular

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  1. What is the best reason to use a median summary score instead of a mean summary score?
    a. There are outliers in the data.
    b. The data are categorical instead of numerical
    c. The data were not obtained ethically
    d. There are questions about the validity of the data
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a. There are outliers in the data.

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  1. The first time Joe complimented his grandmother, she smiled and gave him a hug, a consequence he enjoyed. He learned that every time he is nice to his grandmother, she rewards him in a similar way. Now, he’s more likely to be nice every time he sees his grandmother, due to this anticipated reward. What kind of learning did Joe use in this example?
    a. Classical conditioning
    b. Cognitive
    c. Observational
    d. Operant Conditioning
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d. Operant Conditioning

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Megumi is currently in finals week, and she has to study for six different subjects in school. Her favorite subject is English, and her least favorite subject is psychology. In order to motivate herself to study psychology, she tells herself that after studying psychology, she’ll be able to skip right to English. Megumi is motivating herself using what concept from psychology?
a. Piaget’s stages of cognitive development
b. Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences
c. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
d. The Premack Principle

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d. The Premack Principle

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  1. Which of these is not a step in the shaping process?
    a. Reinforcing any response that resembles the terminal behavior
    b. Reinforcing a response that closely approximates the terminal behavior
    c. Punishing behavior that deviates from the terminal behavior
    d. Stopping the reinforcement of previous reinforced responses
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c. Punishing behavior that deviates from the terminal behavior

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  1. Which of the following assumptions is a characteristic of social constructivism?
    a. Individuals create meaning through interactions with others
    b. Reality is invented jointly by members of society
    c. Knowledge is constructed through human activity
    d. All the answers are correct
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d. All the answers are correct

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  1. How can a mediated learning experience help a child advance his/her level of cognitive development?
    a. During a mediated learning experience, the interaction with a peer helps a child make sense of a phenomenon or event
    b. During a mediated learning experience, the interaction with an adult helps a child make sense of a phenomenon or event
    c. During a mediated learning experience, a child can make sense of a phenomenon or event through experimentation
    d. During a mediated learning experience, a child learns independently without the intervention of an adult
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b. During a mediated learning experience, the interaction with an adult helps a child make sense of a phenomenon or event

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  1. The actions that cause harm toward others are known as ___ transgressions, while the actions that violate a culture’s social norms are known as ___ transgressions.
    a. Conventional; moral
    b. Moral; conventional
    c. Moral; cultural
    d. Conventional; cultural
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b. Moral; conventional

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  1. A child who shares her lunch snack with a classmate she wants to make friends with is in ____ of moral development.
    a. The second conventional stage (stage four)
    b. The first conventional stage (stage three)
    c. The first post conventional stage (stage five)
    d. The first pre-conventional stage (stage one)
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b. The first conventional stage (stage three)

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  1. Alice and her friend used up all the paint in the art room. When the instructor confronted them, Alice didn’t say a word and let her friend take the blame. Which stage of moral development in Gilligan’s Ethics of Care theory was Alice demonstrating?
    a. Conventional
    b. Pre-conventional
    c. Extended Morality
    d. Post-conventional
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b. Pre-conventional

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  1. Lamar is a university student and is confident in his ability to make sound moral judgements. Which of the following perspectives would Gilligan expect Lamar to use?
    a. Male-dominant morality
    b. Egocentric-based morality
    c. Care-based morality
    d. Justice-based morality
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d. Justice-based morality

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  1. Jessica often allows her friends to copy her science homework. She’s fully aware she could be punished, but she wants her friends to do well in class. Jessica appears to be at what stage of moral development according to Gilligan’s Ethics of Care theory?
    a. Post-conventional
    b. Pre-conventional
    c. Extended morality
    d. Conventional
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d. Conventional

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  1. The client-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers is defined as ____.
    a. Counseling approach that requires the client to make a draft of the treatment plan
    b. A counseling approach that requires the client to take an active role in his or her treatment
    c. A counseling approach where the therapist will try a new theory on the client
    d. A counseling approach where the therapist is in charge of all the aspects of the treatment
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b. A counseling approach that requires the client to take an active role in his or her treatment

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  1. During a therapy session, Dr. Garcia listens to the client carefully and then summarizes the thought and feelings of the client and repeats them back to her. What technique is Dr. Garcia using to show the client that has been listening carefully?
    a. Projection
    b. Reflection
    c. Deflection
    d. Self-actualization
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b. Reflection

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  1. Client-centered therapy is also known as ____.
    a. Person-centered therapy
    b. Non-directive therapy
    c. Rogerian therapy
    d. All of the answers are correct
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d. All of the answers are correct

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  1. A politician who excels at remembering names, fostering cooperation and inspiring those around him exhibits ___.
    a. Intrapersonal
    b. Interpersonal
    c. Linguistic
    d. Logical
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b. Interpersonal

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  1. A person with a heightened self-awareness has a high level of ___.
    a. Bodily
    b. Naturalistic
    c. Interpersonal
    d. Intrapersonal
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d. Intrapersonal

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  1. A master chess player employs ____.
    a. Logical
    b. Intrapersonal
    c. Visual
    d. Interpersonal
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a. Logical

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  1. A person who learns mathematics better when they physically work through a problem themselves instead of listening to a lecture utilizes ____.
    a. Linguistic
    b. Kinesthetic
    c. Interpersonal
    d. Naturalistic
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b. Kinesthetic

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  1. Sasha gets a low grade on her math homework. Normally, her parents would take away her allowance and explain why math is important. However, on this occasion, they listen when Sasha explains that she was distracted because she was ill, so they decide not to punish her. What kind of parenting style is this?
    a. Mixed modelling
    b. Authoritative
    c. Neglecting
    d. Indulgent
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b. Authoritative

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  1. When Samir accidentally breaks a glass plate while washing dishes, her parents immediately scream that he’s a bad kid and beat him. Which behavior is Samir likely to exhibit in school as a result of his parents’ authoritarian parenting style?
    a. Aggressiveness, selfishness, and impulsiveness
    b. Independence but with low trust levels
    c. Trust, compliance, and friendliness towards strangers
    d. Low self-esteem and an inability to conceptualize what is morally right or wrong
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d. Low self-esteem and an inability to conceptualize what is morally right or wrong

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  1. According to educational psychologists, which parenting style is considered to be ideal—most often resulting in children with high self-esteem, good social skills, and success at school?
    a. Authoritarian
    b. Indulgent
    c. Neglecting
    d. Authoritative
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d. Authoritative

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  1. Jonah is supposed to play video games for only 15 minutes per day, but one day, he plays for 30 minutes. His parents do nothing and allow him to play as long as her wants with no punishment, and instead, they praise him for getting to level 10 in the game. What parenting style are Jonah’s parents using?
    a. Mixed modelling
    b. Indulgent
    c. Neglecting
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b. Indulgent

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  1. Anita gets all Ds and Fs on her report card. Her parents don’t seem to care and tend to avoid spending time with her. They give Anita neither positive nor negative attention. What kind of parenting style is this?
    a. Mixed modelling
    b. Indulgent
    c. Authoritative
    d. Neglecting
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d. Neglecting

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  1. The ability to use learned knowledge and experience is the definition of which basic type of intelligence?
    a. Spatial
    b. Interpersonal
    c. Crystallized
    d. Fluid
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c. Crystallized

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