PPR Practice Questions with correct answers

During the middle school years, young adolescents' need for an increasing sense of autonomy can best be met by: A. Designing activities and assignments to permit student choice among a range of options. B. Using democratic processes to make decisions affecting the whole class (where to go on a field trip). C. Routinely including blocks of instructed time in students' daily schedules. D. assigning grades based primarily on students' self-evaluations of their performance. CORRECT ANSWER A. Designing activities and assignments to permit student choice among a range of options. A teaching team in a middle school class is planning an assignment in which students will spend several weeks examining the costs and benefits of various human activities. Examples of topics studied by students in the past include (Dirt Biking in Wilderness Areas) (The Use of Pesticides on Crops, and Watching Television). The teachers will help students identify an activity they are interested in, develop an appropriate plan for collecting information, and decide what type of presentation to make to the class at the end of the project. The requirement to examine both the costs and benefits of a particular activity is a valuable exercise for middle school students primarily because it: A. Eliminates the misconception that there is always one ideal solution to any problem. B. Promotes students growing capacity to consider a topic from more than one point of view. C. ensures that students final conclusions will be based on reason rather than an opinion.