SEDU 183 - Test 2 Flashcards
Computer software can be divided into three major categories: administrative, operational, and academic.
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False
Administrative software assists an educator in accomplishing the administrative, professional, and management tasks associated with the profession.
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True
A wise approach for educators to take in selecting academic software is identifying reliable software evaluators to recommend the software that should be purchased.
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False
The process of evaluating and making effective use of software yourself is a time consuming one because it involves evaluation, acquisition, installation, and training.
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True
There are three main types of administrative software: productivity, management support, and business application.
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False
It is helpful to use rubrics that give you specific tasks to accomplish when reviewing software to judge its usefulness.
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True
Office productivity software that has helped to increase efficiency in the business workplace may also be helpful in the school office environment.
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True
Productivity software can be purchased as individual programs or several programs incorporated together into an application suite.
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True
Freeware does not have to be paid for until you have tried it out and decided that it will work for you.
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False
A rubric helps to bring objectivity to an evaluation task.
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True
The most commonly used computer application is word processing.
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True
Electronic spreadsheets generally have the capability to check grammar and spelling.
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False
When you highlight a block of text and then press the right mouse button, the highlighted material will be cut.
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False
Electronic spreadsheet software is to numeric data what word processing software is to text.
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True
A significant feature of database management software is the ability to locate a single piece of data from thousands of items in a database.
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True
Productivity software is typically business software that has been adapted for an educator’s administrative and professional tasks.
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True
In word processing, templates allow the user to easily archive and print classroom documents.
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False
Electronic spreadsheet software is useful in helping students to gather, organize, sort, and look for targeted data.
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False
Classroom management support software packages often contain a word processor, a desktop publisher, and an electronic spreadsheet.
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False
In using a word processor, it is possible to command the software to check both the grammar and spelling in a document you have created.
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True
Clip art includes ready-made graphics stored in an electronic library for user by the components of a productivity software suite.
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True
In using a spreadsheet, data are stored in cells that can be used in formulas and altered for what-if analyses.
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True
Charting in spreadsheets creates and displays visual representations of selected data.
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True
Database management software collects and organizes data that can then be queried, sorted, and reported on.
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True
In creating a presentation using presentation software, slides are typically fixed in design, animation, and sequence, but you can change the data.
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False
In preparing a lecture, the productivity software that is most likely to be useful is a spreadsheet.
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False
At the district level, management support software typically collects attendance data and grades and generates and tracks budget and financial information.
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True
Careful evaluation of productivity software is critical because of the direct and indirect costs of its acquisition and implementation.
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True
While useful for display, presentation software is limited in the types and styles of print materials that can be generated from slides.
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False
Productivity software is actually generic:
Business application software.
Which of the following is NOT one of the four major types of productivity software found in most school and business environments?
Electronic whiteboards.
A license from a software company that lets the software be used legally on all of the computers at the organization’s location is known as a
Site license
Software that you can request or download and try out without charge, paying a usually small fee only if you decide you like the software, is known as
Shareware
Modern word processing software can
All of the above (Edit documents and graphics, Develop web pages, Create documents Create graphics)
Which of these is NOT one of the three main features of a word processor?
Autoformatting.
The ability to find a desired piece or pieces of data from a database that holds thousands of pieces of information is known as
A query.
In addition to organizing numeric information, spreadsheet software can manipulate numeric data easily because the software has built-in
Formulas
One of the great advantages of an electronic spreadsheet is that you can relate cells to each other so that changing data in one cell will make changes
in all cells that are related to each other.
Syllabi, class outlines, and discipline reports are practical applications of
Word processing packages.
A category of one kind of information in a database program, such as lock number assignments, is a
Field
Information about just one item or person, such as the name, address, telephone number, and parents’ names of one student in a database program is a
Record
One of the key advantages of electronic spreadsheets over their manual counterpart is
Their accuracy
An intriguing feature of spreadsheets is their unique ability to help forecast the results of changing conditions, such as developing a budget. This feature is known as
What-if analysis
The advantages enjoyed by database management systems (DBMS) over manual systems are best exemplified by
electronic card catalogs
The word processing feature that is a mini-program to create customized documents is a
Wizard
The type of software that uses fields, records, and files to organize and display data is
Database management software.
The administrative software that may include hypermedia features that allow the user to link and jump to other documents is
A presentation software package.
The difference between freeware and shareware is that
freeware is offered without charge, while shareware must be paid for after being tried.
The software that is typically included in a productivity package is
word processing, spreadsheet, database management, and presentation.
In terms of document preparation and editing in a word processor, the software provides the capability to
format and enhance text as well as check spelling.
When database management is applied to teaching and learning tasks, the software assists students in
learning to categorize or demonstrate logic when creating a query.
Included in academic software are programs that help the teacher to teach and the learner to learn.
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True
Multimedia systems developed by a teacher using an authoring system can be use din large and small groups, with individuals for review and reinforcement, or to study a missed lesson.
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True
The term “clip art” comes from the days of manual page layout using scissors and paste.
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True
Many clip art images are available on the Internet free of charge.
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True
Unfortunately, when you input a clip art image, you have to use it the way it is because you usually cannot manipulate it.
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False
B.F. Skinner is associated with problem-solving software.
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False
Reference software is the kind of software Joe Kim will use to find biographical information on First Ladies for his research project on the topic “First Ladies in the White House and Afterward.”
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True
Lt. Col. Roddy Arnheim, a flight instructor for the Junior ROTC at Brooks High school, should use tutorial software to put the students into a virtual cockpit to prepare them for their private pilot’s rating.
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False
Software that has an audio component to convey text that appears on the monitor to students with hearing disabilities is backup software.
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False
A networked management system that features standards, frameworks, and tests incorporated into a curriculum, as well as progress tracking and reporting, is referred to as an integrated learning system.
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True
Computers tend to freeze up when they are forced to repeat information for a learner many, many times.
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False
Draw programs let the user create and manipulate digital pictures with electronic pens and brushes and even spraypaint can tools.
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False
Using a paint program, you can modify or print individual pieces of artwork.
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True
Desktop publishing software enables teachers to create complex illustrations and graphic images.
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False
When creating their own multimedia tutorials for students, teachers generally use authoring software.
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True
Academic software includes the software that can be used to enrich the teaching and learning environment for both teachers and students.
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True
Draw programs use tools that simulate drawing and painting tools to create images.
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False
In education, reference software is useful because it can provide internet search engines to find targeted data.
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False
While tutorials present new material, drill-and-practice software is designed to reinforce previously learned content.
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True
Educational games, because of their entertainment value, have little application in a classroom.
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False
Hardware and software combinations designed to assist students in learning target objectives are referred to as integrated learning systems.
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True
Concept mapping software helps students to visually organize ideas and their relationships.
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True
The advantage of problem-solving software is that it addresses the needs of students who have a physical or learning disability.
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False