Multiple Choice

1. Pop quizzes are valid and effective tools to keep students on their toes.
True
False

2. You're having students use a K-W-L activity. They're brainstorming everything they know about nouns. Among other things, some students say nouns are action words, or describing words, or words that always end a sentence. What do you do?
Begin another column for the K-W-L called "misconceptions".
Tell students not to list things that are obviously not correct.
Leave the incorrect words in the list and ignore them.
Remind students that they're talking about nouns, not other terms.

3. Which of the following is the best reason for using a Dictogloss activity with your students?
Build students' ability to identify key points and take notes.
Build students' ability to recognize syntax and proper grammar.
Build students' ability to form coherent opinions in English.
Build student's ability to follow classroom instructions.

4. Why would a teacher use a cooperative learning activity when it might be faster for her to just tell the students what they should know?
Making students work together will help them internalize ideas and learn better.
If you tell them everything then there will be nothing to do in class.
Students may not have the listening skills to understand the teacher.
Co-operative learning activities appeal to more learning styles than teacher explanations.

5. Your class has been studying the culture of Malaysia. Working in groups of three, each group has been looking at language, food customs, clothing, religious practices, or family life. What cooperative learning teaching tool can you use to have students share this information?
A "K-W-L" activity
A "Dictogloss" activity
A "Say Something" activity
A "Jigsaw" activity

6. Your class is struggling with today’s lesson. You think you’ve taught it well but they just don’t get it. You’re frustrated. The students are frustrated too and are becoming disengaged. Which of the following is NOT an ideal strategy for dealing with this classroom difficulty?
Re-focus and tell the students what they have done well so far.
Move along and help struggling students during group work.
Break the main points down into smaller chunks and re-present the material.
Take a poll on what students do and don't understand. 

7. Julie is very athletic - plays on the school volleyball and basketball teams - and is a member of the city’s swim team. She’s always tapping her fingers in class and has fine motor-coordination. Julie’s mother has enrolled her in a dance program and Julie loves to show her classmates her latest steps. What intelligence best describes Julie?
Logical-Mathematic
Interpersonal
Bodily-Kinaesthetic
Visual-Spatial

8. What type of question is this:

In your opinion, explain what might have been a more appropriate response.
Evaluative question
Literal question
Inferential question
Close-ended question

What activity is described below?

9. Work with a partner to read this passage aloud. At the end of each paragraph, take turns asking a question, making a clarification, or predicting what will happen next.
Say Something
Dictogloss
Dictodraw
Summarizing

10. What activity is described below?

Listen for main points and supporting points as I read this passage twice. The first time, just listen. The second time, take notes.
Say Something
Diagramming
Dictogloss
It says/I say/And so


11. Which principles of assessment (valid, educative, explicit, fair, comprehensive) are NOT represented in the following scenario?

Your class has been looking at causes and effects of events. As a project, the class has taken their topic, healthy living, and prepared pamphlets for other students in the school and for the parent community on topics like obesity, healthy eating, exercise regimes, sports, walking, and so on.

Explicit
Valid
Educative
Fair
Comprehensive

12. At the end of the unit, you've decided that the final assessment will be one-on-one interviews with each student. Students will report on what they've learned and will give responses orally to questions that they've prepared beforehand.

What principles of assessment does this meet?
Valid
Educative
Explicit
Fair
Comprehensive
None of the above

13. What type of question is this:

Even though it's not explicitly stated, what do you imagine happened next?
Close-ended question
Evaluative question
Inferential question
Literal question

14. Differentiated approaches to support student learning always require different texts.
True
False

15. A portfolio assignment usually meets all the criteria for a comprehensive assessment.
True
False

16. The first step in the teaching-learning-assessment cycle is planning.
True
False

17. You’re having students use a K-W-L activity. They’re brainstorming everything they know about nouns. Among other things, some students say nouns are action words, or describing words, or words that always end a sentence. What do you do?
Tell students that they are incorrect and have them repeat the activity.
Devise an activity to practise the difference between nouns and verbs.
Add another column call "Misconceptions" or "Other Terms".
Do the K-W-L activity one more time.

18. In the teaching, learning, assessment cycle, the "reflecting" part means that the teacher is not only reflecting on how well students have performed, but on how effective his/her teaching has been.
True
False

19. Is the following question close-ended or open-ended:

“Is climate change irreversible?”
Close-ended
Open-ended
20. On a Friday morning, you decide to give the students a pop quiz on what you covered yesterday in class. The students have had no warning, and if anyone was absent yesterday, that’s their bad luck.

What principles of assessment does this meet?
Valid
Educative
Explicit
Fair
Comprehensive
None of the above

21. You want students to connect today’s lesson to information that they’ve learned yesterday. Do you…
Give students a short test on yesterday's lesson.
Review all of yesterday's main points before beginning today's lesson.
Ask students to take out their notebooks to review what they did yesterday.
Conduct a 3-2-1 activity.


23. Jamal likes school. He enjoys reading and even though his first language is Spanish, he is learning English quickly. He has an extensive vocabulary, spells well, and is a good communicator. He particularly enjoys books, word and board games, and drama. What intelligence best describes Jamal?
Linguistic
Interpersonal
Bodily-Kinaesthetic
Visual-spatial

24. Classroom management is always a difficult task for new teachers. Effective classroom managers make explicit the codes (rules) and conventions (practices) of their classrooms. Students need to know what to expect and how to behave.
True
False

25. Jose is curious about how things work so he loves science and anything technological. He can do arithmetic in his head, is on the chess team, and carries a book of Sudoku puzzles with him. His head is often buried in his I-phone playing games. What intelligence best describes Jose?
Linguistic
Logical-Mathematical
Interpersonal
Visual-spatial