Curriculum and Instruction Exam Questions
and Answers
Goals - ANSWER>>General expressions of our values that give us a sense of
direction
Standards - ANSWER>>Express goals from the teacher's, learner's, or school's
point of view and thus identify what teachers must teach, students must learn,
and schools must do
Objectives - ANSWER>>Convey the specific behaviors to be attained, the
conditions under which the behaviors must be demonstrated, and the proficiency
level at which the behaviors are to be performed based on the learning histories,
abilities, and current levels of understanding of your learners
Five factors to consider when establishing goals for what should be learned -
ANSWER>>1. The subject matter we know enough about to teach.
2. Societal concerns, which represent what is valued in both the society at large
and the local community.
3. Student needs and interests and the abilities and knowledge they bring to
school.
4. Your school's educational philosophy and your community's priorities.
5. What instructional theory and research tells us can be taught in the classroom.
A thinking curriculum - ANSWER>>A curriculum that focuses on teaching learners
how to think critically, reason, and problem solve in authentic, real-world
contexts
Students need to meet these goals - ANSWER>>1. Be trained to live and function
in a technological world.
,2. Possess minimum competencies in reading, writing, and mathematics.
3. Possess higher-order thinking, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.
4. Be required to enroll in all the core subjects each school year, to the extent of
their abilities.
5. Be trained to work independently and to complete assignments without direct
supervision.
6. Improve in school attendance and be in school longer each day and year.
7. Be given more activities that provide practice in problem solving and decision
making and that require critical thinking and making value judgments.
Behavioral objective - ANSWER>>A written statement that achieves to convey the
two purposes of objectives.
1. To move standards toward classroom accomplishments by identifying the
specific classroom strategies through which standards can be achieved by your
specific learners.
2. To express teaching strategies in a formal that allows you to measure their
effects on learners.
Steps in preparing behavioral objectives - ANSWER>>1. Identifying a specific goal
that has an observable learning outcome.
2. Stating the conditions under which a learning outcome can be expected to
occur (e.g., with what materials, texts, and facilities and in what period of time)
3. Specifying the criterion level - that is, the degree of learning that will be
expected from your instruction under the specified conditions.
Learning outcome - ANSWER>>An observable and measurable behavior; the end
product of an instructional lesson or unit. (The ends)
Example: The student will identify pictures of words that sound alike.
The funneling of standards into instructional objectives - ANSWER>>1. The
educational wants and needs of society at the national level
2. are articulated by advocacy groups, professional associations, and the U.S.
Department of Education, which
, 3. are translated into educational standards by state education agencies and
departments, which are then
4. translated into school, classroom, and student objectives by superintendents,
principals, and teachers.
Learning activities - ANSWER>>The means of achieving learning outcomes. (The
means)
Example: The student will practice the multiplication tables.
Learning conditions - ANSWER>>The specific conditions under which learning will
occur.
Criterion level - ANSWER>>The degree of performance desired or level of
proficiency that will satisfy you that the objective has been met.
Example: Using short stories by John Steinbeck and Mark Twain, differentiate
their writing styles by selecting four passages from each author that illustrate
differences in their writing styles.
Expressive objective - ANSWER>>An objective that allows fro a variety of correct
responses or for students to express themselves in a variety of ways for which
there is no single correct ANSWER.
Three most important ingredients of well-written behavioral objectives: -
ANSWER>>1. Specify learning outcomes.
2. State conditions for learning.
3. Establish criterion levels.
(4. Keep them simple.)
Cognitive domain - ANSWER>>Development of intellectual abilities and skills
Affective domain - ANSWER>>Development of attitudes, beliefs, and values
and Answers
Goals - ANSWER>>General expressions of our values that give us a sense of
direction
Standards - ANSWER>>Express goals from the teacher's, learner's, or school's
point of view and thus identify what teachers must teach, students must learn,
and schools must do
Objectives - ANSWER>>Convey the specific behaviors to be attained, the
conditions under which the behaviors must be demonstrated, and the proficiency
level at which the behaviors are to be performed based on the learning histories,
abilities, and current levels of understanding of your learners
Five factors to consider when establishing goals for what should be learned -
ANSWER>>1. The subject matter we know enough about to teach.
2. Societal concerns, which represent what is valued in both the society at large
and the local community.
3. Student needs and interests and the abilities and knowledge they bring to
school.
4. Your school's educational philosophy and your community's priorities.
5. What instructional theory and research tells us can be taught in the classroom.
A thinking curriculum - ANSWER>>A curriculum that focuses on teaching learners
how to think critically, reason, and problem solve in authentic, real-world
contexts
Students need to meet these goals - ANSWER>>1. Be trained to live and function
in a technological world.
,2. Possess minimum competencies in reading, writing, and mathematics.
3. Possess higher-order thinking, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.
4. Be required to enroll in all the core subjects each school year, to the extent of
their abilities.
5. Be trained to work independently and to complete assignments without direct
supervision.
6. Improve in school attendance and be in school longer each day and year.
7. Be given more activities that provide practice in problem solving and decision
making and that require critical thinking and making value judgments.
Behavioral objective - ANSWER>>A written statement that achieves to convey the
two purposes of objectives.
1. To move standards toward classroom accomplishments by identifying the
specific classroom strategies through which standards can be achieved by your
specific learners.
2. To express teaching strategies in a formal that allows you to measure their
effects on learners.
Steps in preparing behavioral objectives - ANSWER>>1. Identifying a specific goal
that has an observable learning outcome.
2. Stating the conditions under which a learning outcome can be expected to
occur (e.g., with what materials, texts, and facilities and in what period of time)
3. Specifying the criterion level - that is, the degree of learning that will be
expected from your instruction under the specified conditions.
Learning outcome - ANSWER>>An observable and measurable behavior; the end
product of an instructional lesson or unit. (The ends)
Example: The student will identify pictures of words that sound alike.
The funneling of standards into instructional objectives - ANSWER>>1. The
educational wants and needs of society at the national level
2. are articulated by advocacy groups, professional associations, and the U.S.
Department of Education, which
, 3. are translated into educational standards by state education agencies and
departments, which are then
4. translated into school, classroom, and student objectives by superintendents,
principals, and teachers.
Learning activities - ANSWER>>The means of achieving learning outcomes. (The
means)
Example: The student will practice the multiplication tables.
Learning conditions - ANSWER>>The specific conditions under which learning will
occur.
Criterion level - ANSWER>>The degree of performance desired or level of
proficiency that will satisfy you that the objective has been met.
Example: Using short stories by John Steinbeck and Mark Twain, differentiate
their writing styles by selecting four passages from each author that illustrate
differences in their writing styles.
Expressive objective - ANSWER>>An objective that allows fro a variety of correct
responses or for students to express themselves in a variety of ways for which
there is no single correct ANSWER.
Three most important ingredients of well-written behavioral objectives: -
ANSWER>>1. Specify learning outcomes.
2. State conditions for learning.
3. Establish criterion levels.
(4. Keep them simple.)
Cognitive domain - ANSWER>>Development of intellectual abilities and skills
Affective domain - ANSWER>>Development of attitudes, beliefs, and values
