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WGU C272 Foundational Perspectives of Education
REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS/ ALREADY GRADED A+
IDEA, which originated as Public Law 94-142, requires that students
with disabilities: ......ANSWER......have access to the same academic
curriculum as students without disabilities
Each of the following is a criticism of NCLB with the exception of:
A. it places too much emphasis on test preparation
B. it has caused the curriculum to narrow
C. the Federal Government has spent too much money funding it
D. the pressure on test results has encouraged schools to cheat on tests
......ANSWER......C. the Federal Government has spent too much money
funding it
True or False: The National Education Association (NEA) and American
Association of School Librarians (AASL) partnership developed the
framework for teaching and learning that stretches from preschool
through graduate school. ......ANSWER......True
True or False: Montessori schools reflect project based learning.
Select one:
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A. True
B. False ......ANSWER......False
Magnet schools were developed to:
Select one:
A. retain middle-class students in inner city schools
B. afford inner city students opportunities to attend well-funded
suburban schools
C. represent the transmission model of education
D. keep urban schools segregated ......ANSWER......A. retain middle-class
students in inner city schools
According to estimates, how many gay people are raising children?
Select one:
A. no reasonable estimate exists
B. 100,000
C. 1,000,000
D. 10,000,000 ......ANSWER......C. 1,000,000
In order to be an effective teacher for all of her students, Ms. Carson
spends a great deal of time in the community learning about the
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students' life experiences and the resources they bring to her
classroom. She views their life experiences as assets which will help
enrich the classroom and connect what they know to what they need to
learn. Ms. Carson is working to achieve:
Select one:
A. Professional Commitment #1- Learning from Multiple Sources of
Knowledge
B. Professional Commitment #3 - Crossing Your Own Familiar Borders to
Embrace Diversity
C. Professional Commitment #4- Meeting the Needs of Individual
Students in the Context of the Classroom and the School
D. Professional Commitment #5- Contributing Actively to the Profession
......ANSWER......B. Professional Commitment #3 - Crossing Your Own
Familiar Borders to Embrace Diversity
True or False: Charter schools are private schools.
Select one:
True
False ......ANSWER......False
Jerome Bruner ......ANSWER......Believes children encounter a series of
developmental stages as they mature
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Ella Flagg Young ......ANSWER......First female president of the National
Education Association
Jean Piaget ......ANSWER......Four stage theory of cognitive
development: 1. sensorimotor, 2. preoperational, 3. concrete
operational, and 4. formal operational
Booker T. Washington ......ANSWER......African american educator who
founded Tuskegee institute
B.F. Skinner ......ANSWER......behavioral theory
Robert Havighurst ......ANSWER......Believes children must master
specific developmental tasks to develop normally
Benjamin Bloom ......ANSWER......Predict Learning Outcomes
Frederick Douglass ......ANSWER......Improved vocational education
Maria Montessori ......ANSWER......Developed theory and methods for
educating young children. independent work. child size furniture
Lev Vygotsky ......ANSWER......social development theory (of child
cognitive development)
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WGU C272 Foundational Perspectives of Education
REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS/ ALREADY GRADED A+
IDEA, which originated as Public Law 94-142, requires that students
with disabilities: ......ANSWER......have access to the same academic
curriculum as students without disabilities
Each of the following is a criticism of NCLB with the exception of:
A. it places too much emphasis on test preparation
B. it has caused the curriculum to narrow
C. the Federal Government has spent too much money funding it
D. the pressure on test results has encouraged schools to cheat on tests
......ANSWER......C. the Federal Government has spent too much money
funding it
True or False: The National Education Association (NEA) and American
Association of School Librarians (AASL) partnership developed the
framework for teaching and learning that stretches from preschool
through graduate school. ......ANSWER......True
True or False: Montessori schools reflect project based learning.
Select one:
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A. True
B. False ......ANSWER......False
Magnet schools were developed to:
Select one:
A. retain middle-class students in inner city schools
B. afford inner city students opportunities to attend well-funded
suburban schools
C. represent the transmission model of education
D. keep urban schools segregated ......ANSWER......A. retain middle-class
students in inner city schools
According to estimates, how many gay people are raising children?
Select one:
A. no reasonable estimate exists
B. 100,000
C. 1,000,000
D. 10,000,000 ......ANSWER......C. 1,000,000
In order to be an effective teacher for all of her students, Ms. Carson
spends a great deal of time in the community learning about the
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students' life experiences and the resources they bring to her
classroom. She views their life experiences as assets which will help
enrich the classroom and connect what they know to what they need to
learn. Ms. Carson is working to achieve:
Select one:
A. Professional Commitment #1- Learning from Multiple Sources of
Knowledge
B. Professional Commitment #3 - Crossing Your Own Familiar Borders to
Embrace Diversity
C. Professional Commitment #4- Meeting the Needs of Individual
Students in the Context of the Classroom and the School
D. Professional Commitment #5- Contributing Actively to the Profession
......ANSWER......B. Professional Commitment #3 - Crossing Your Own
Familiar Borders to Embrace Diversity
True or False: Charter schools are private schools.
Select one:
True
False ......ANSWER......False
Jerome Bruner ......ANSWER......Believes children encounter a series of
developmental stages as they mature
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Ella Flagg Young ......ANSWER......First female president of the National
Education Association
Jean Piaget ......ANSWER......Four stage theory of cognitive
development: 1. sensorimotor, 2. preoperational, 3. concrete
operational, and 4. formal operational
Booker T. Washington ......ANSWER......African american educator who
founded Tuskegee institute
B.F. Skinner ......ANSWER......behavioral theory
Robert Havighurst ......ANSWER......Believes children must master
specific developmental tasks to develop normally
Benjamin Bloom ......ANSWER......Predict Learning Outcomes
Frederick Douglass ......ANSWER......Improved vocational education
Maria Montessori ......ANSWER......Developed theory and methods for
educating young children. independent work. child size furniture
Lev Vygotsky ......ANSWER......social development theory (of child
cognitive development)
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