Chapter 1
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Raye Lakey, Lakey Associates
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Early Childhood Education
15th Edition
pl
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George S. Morrison
University of North Texas
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uv
ia
@Aplusstuvia
, Chapter 1: You and Early Childhood Education
Chapter 1 Learning Outcome Quizzes
Learning Outcome 1.1: Explain who an early childhood professional is and how the profession
is changing.
[Q1]
Callie has been a kindergarten teacher for ten years. She loves her job and believes in the
success and achievement of all children. Callie is continually improving her skills and expanding
her knowledge. Parents share how much they value the supportive relationships Callie develops
with the children in her classroom. Based on this information, we might most accurately
describe Callie as:
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1. An inclusion specialist
2. An expert in early childhood standards
3. An early childhood professional [correct]
4. A perfectionist
[Feedback for Answer Choice 1]
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Though Callie believes in the success and achievement of all children, she is not identified as
an inclusion specialist on the basis of this description. Other aspects of Callie’s teaching point to
a broader identity.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 2]
Standards are an important aspect of early childhood programming, but Callie’s implementation
us
of high standards as a kindergarten teacher does not make her an expert in early childhood
standards.
[Feedback for Correct Answer 3]
Callie is most accurately described as an early childhood professional. Early childhood
professionals successfully teach all children (ages birth to 8 years), promote high personal
standards, and continually expand their skills and knowledge about the profession.
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[Feedback for Answer Choice 4]
Callie’s effectiveness as a kindergarten teacher does not identify her as a perfectionist. She is
described as continually improving.
[Q2]
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Monica Wilson received an email from a parent asking why it is necessary to have well-qualified
early childhood teachers in preschool programs. Based on your knowledge of early childhood
professionals, Monica likely responds with which of the following explanations?
1. They need to know more than babysitters
2. It is hard work looking after young children
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3. It is a requirement of the federal government
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, 4. They can ensure quality learning experiences are provided [correct]
[Feedback for Answer Choice 1]
While it is true that early childhood teachers should know more than babysitters, it is misleading
to suggest that this is the reason to have qualified early childhood teachers.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 2]
The qualifications for early childhood professionals are not based on the difficulty of the task.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 3]
The qualifications needed to teach in early childhood programs vary by state. Currently, there is
no federal requirement regarding the qualifications of teachers in preschool programs.
[Feedback for Correct Answer 4]
The quality of early childhood education and child care directly influence children’s development
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and learning. More than 75% of all 4-year-olds attend some kind of preschool program. They
need well-qualified teachers to ensure that quality learning experiences are provided. Teachers
need to know what children should know and be able to do at each developmental level.
[Q3]
Katie Boatwright has decided on a career in teaching but she is not sure what age she should
teach. Her college advisor shares that the field of early childhood education serves children:
pl
1. Birth through age 8 [correct]
2. Birth through age 4
3. Ages 3 through 5 years
4. Ages 6 through 8 years
us
[Feedback for Correct Answer 1]
The field of early childhood education serves infants through age 8. Early childhood education
courses in college typically cover this age range (although some may concentrate on pre-
kindergarten through grade 3).
[Feedback for Answer Choice 2]
st
The field of early childhood education typically includes birth through age 4. However, the age
range served is broader.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 3]
The field of early childhood education typically includes ages 3 through 5 years. However, the
age range served is broader.
uv
[Feedback for Answer Choice 4]
The field of early childhood education typically includes ages 6 through 8 years. However, the
age range served is broader.
[Q4]
Based on findings from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project, high-quality education in the
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early years has the greatest positive and lasting benefits for what group or groups of students?
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, 1. Particularly children from high-income families
2. Particularly children from low-income families [correct]
3. Children from middle-class families but not children from low-income families
4. Children from high-income families but not children from lower-income families
[Feedback for Answer Choice 1]
Children from high-income families do not appear to receive the greatest benefit.
[Feedback for Correct Answer 2]
Influential research, such as the HighScope Perry Preschool Project, validates the fact that
high-quality education in the early years has positive and lasting benefits for children,
particularly for children who come from low-income families.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 3]
@A
Children from middle-class families experience positive and lasting benefits, but they are not
identified as the group that receives the greatest benefit.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 4]
Children from high-income families experience positive and lasting benefits, but they are not the
only group or even the group that receives the greatest benefit.
pl
[Q5]
Early childhood education is undergoing significant reform. According to studies, when do
children begin to learn from research-based programs and curricula such as the HighScope
curriculum?
1. By the time they begin preschool at the age of 4
us
2. By the time they are 3 years old
3. By the time they are 2 years old
4. From the beginning of life [correct]
[Feedback for Answer Choice 1]
st
Children begin to learn from research-based programs and curricula at an earlier age.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 2]
According to studies, the age of 3 years is not the beginning of children’s learning from
research-based programs and curricula.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 3]
uv
According to studies, the age of 2 years is not the beginning of children’s learning from
research-based programs and curricula.
[Feedback for Correct Answer 4]
According to studies, the development of research-based programs and curricula enables
children to learn literally from the beginning of life.
ia
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Test Item File
Raye Lakey, Lakey Associates
@A
Early Childhood Education
15th Edition
pl
us
George S. Morrison
University of North Texas
st
uv
ia
@Aplusstuvia
, Chapter 1: You and Early Childhood Education
Chapter 1 Learning Outcome Quizzes
Learning Outcome 1.1: Explain who an early childhood professional is and how the profession
is changing.
[Q1]
Callie has been a kindergarten teacher for ten years. She loves her job and believes in the
success and achievement of all children. Callie is continually improving her skills and expanding
her knowledge. Parents share how much they value the supportive relationships Callie develops
with the children in her classroom. Based on this information, we might most accurately
describe Callie as:
@A
1. An inclusion specialist
2. An expert in early childhood standards
3. An early childhood professional [correct]
4. A perfectionist
[Feedback for Answer Choice 1]
pl
Though Callie believes in the success and achievement of all children, she is not identified as
an inclusion specialist on the basis of this description. Other aspects of Callie’s teaching point to
a broader identity.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 2]
Standards are an important aspect of early childhood programming, but Callie’s implementation
us
of high standards as a kindergarten teacher does not make her an expert in early childhood
standards.
[Feedback for Correct Answer 3]
Callie is most accurately described as an early childhood professional. Early childhood
professionals successfully teach all children (ages birth to 8 years), promote high personal
standards, and continually expand their skills and knowledge about the profession.
st
[Feedback for Answer Choice 4]
Callie’s effectiveness as a kindergarten teacher does not identify her as a perfectionist. She is
described as continually improving.
[Q2]
uv
Monica Wilson received an email from a parent asking why it is necessary to have well-qualified
early childhood teachers in preschool programs. Based on your knowledge of early childhood
professionals, Monica likely responds with which of the following explanations?
1. They need to know more than babysitters
2. It is hard work looking after young children
ia
3. It is a requirement of the federal government
1
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, 4. They can ensure quality learning experiences are provided [correct]
[Feedback for Answer Choice 1]
While it is true that early childhood teachers should know more than babysitters, it is misleading
to suggest that this is the reason to have qualified early childhood teachers.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 2]
The qualifications for early childhood professionals are not based on the difficulty of the task.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 3]
The qualifications needed to teach in early childhood programs vary by state. Currently, there is
no federal requirement regarding the qualifications of teachers in preschool programs.
[Feedback for Correct Answer 4]
The quality of early childhood education and child care directly influence children’s development
@A
and learning. More than 75% of all 4-year-olds attend some kind of preschool program. They
need well-qualified teachers to ensure that quality learning experiences are provided. Teachers
need to know what children should know and be able to do at each developmental level.
[Q3]
Katie Boatwright has decided on a career in teaching but she is not sure what age she should
teach. Her college advisor shares that the field of early childhood education serves children:
pl
1. Birth through age 8 [correct]
2. Birth through age 4
3. Ages 3 through 5 years
4. Ages 6 through 8 years
us
[Feedback for Correct Answer 1]
The field of early childhood education serves infants through age 8. Early childhood education
courses in college typically cover this age range (although some may concentrate on pre-
kindergarten through grade 3).
[Feedback for Answer Choice 2]
st
The field of early childhood education typically includes birth through age 4. However, the age
range served is broader.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 3]
The field of early childhood education typically includes ages 3 through 5 years. However, the
age range served is broader.
uv
[Feedback for Answer Choice 4]
The field of early childhood education typically includes ages 6 through 8 years. However, the
age range served is broader.
[Q4]
Based on findings from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project, high-quality education in the
ia
early years has the greatest positive and lasting benefits for what group or groups of students?
2
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, 1. Particularly children from high-income families
2. Particularly children from low-income families [correct]
3. Children from middle-class families but not children from low-income families
4. Children from high-income families but not children from lower-income families
[Feedback for Answer Choice 1]
Children from high-income families do not appear to receive the greatest benefit.
[Feedback for Correct Answer 2]
Influential research, such as the HighScope Perry Preschool Project, validates the fact that
high-quality education in the early years has positive and lasting benefits for children,
particularly for children who come from low-income families.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 3]
@A
Children from middle-class families experience positive and lasting benefits, but they are not
identified as the group that receives the greatest benefit.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 4]
Children from high-income families experience positive and lasting benefits, but they are not the
only group or even the group that receives the greatest benefit.
pl
[Q5]
Early childhood education is undergoing significant reform. According to studies, when do
children begin to learn from research-based programs and curricula such as the HighScope
curriculum?
1. By the time they begin preschool at the age of 4
us
2. By the time they are 3 years old
3. By the time they are 2 years old
4. From the beginning of life [correct]
[Feedback for Answer Choice 1]
st
Children begin to learn from research-based programs and curricula at an earlier age.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 2]
According to studies, the age of 3 years is not the beginning of children’s learning from
research-based programs and curricula.
[Feedback for Answer Choice 3]
uv
According to studies, the age of 2 years is not the beginning of children’s learning from
research-based programs and curricula.
[Feedback for Correct Answer 4]
According to studies, the development of research-based programs and curricula enables
children to learn literally from the beginning of life.
ia
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