FIRE AND LIFE EDUCATOR STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ALL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What two successful programs for children done by the NFPA? - ✔✔Learn not to
Burn
The Pre-school Program
✔✔The form that a message takes is sometimes called its ___ or ____. - ✔✔Medium
communication vehicle
✔✔____ are particularly popular with elementary age children; the educator make a
statement and then asks the class to signal silently whether they agree with the
statement. - ✔✔Signaled responses
✔✔What are the 4 types of questions that fire and life safety educators use? - ✔✔Direct
question
Overhead questions
Rhetorical questions
Relay questions
✔✔____ questions are aimed at one person in the audience. - ✔✔Direct
,✔✔____ question are aimed at the whole group; anyone is free to respond; these
questions are particularly helpful in starting thinking or discussion or in bringing our
ideas and opinions. - ✔✔Overhead
✔✔____ questions are very similar to overhead questions the answer is not expected. -
✔✔Rhetorical
✔✔_____ questions are questions from the audience that the educator sends back to
the audience; using these types of questions is a good technique for opening
discussions. - ✔✔Relay
✔✔What is the number one concern with demonstrations? - ✔✔Safety
✔✔_____ is a classroom method in which a group of instructors work together. -
✔✔Team teaching
✔✔_____ objectives deal with changes in the audience's value, feelings, or opinions. -
✔✔Affective
✔✔What are some instructional methods effective in reaching affective objectives? -
✔✔Surveys
Questionnaires
Group Discussion
Role play
Case Studies
✔✔____ objectives deal with changes in what the audience knows or understands. -
✔✔Cognitive
✔✔What are some instructional methods effective in reaching cognitive objectives? -
✔✔Lecture
Illustration
Guided discussion
Conference discussion
Case study
✔✔_____ objectives are changes in skills, in what the audience can do to increase their
safety. - ✔✔Psychomotor
✔✔What are some instructional methods effective in reaching psychomotor objectives?
- ✔✔Illustrations
Demonstration and drill
Role playing
, ✔✔____ are very important tools in getting and keeping the attention of the audience. -
✔✔Effective materials
✔✔Materials alone do not make an educational program; materials used by the fire and
life safety educator fall into what 3 broad categories based on their intended purpose? -
✔✔Awareness materials
Informational materials
Educational materials
✔✔According to some estimates what percentage of what people learn comes to them
visually? - ✔✔75%
✔✔What estimated percent of all human knowledge is gained through hearing? -
✔✔13%
✔✔What estimated percent of knowledge comes form a combination of smell, taste,
and touch? - ✔✔12%
✔✔___ are objects that the audience can see, touch, smell, and hear. - ✔✔Props
✔✔At a minimum when should educational materials be evaluated? - ✔✔Before their
first use
✔✔After the first evaluation educational materials should be re-evaluated how often? -
✔✔Every year
✔✔What is the typical reading level for adults in the U.S. ? - ✔✔7th and 8th grade
✔✔There are several indexes used to measure how easy a passage is to read, what
are the 2 commonly used indexes? - ✔✔The Flesch Reading Ease/Flesch Grade Level
Index
The Gunning FOG Index
✔✔Which index is based on a 100 word passage of written material; counts the average
number of words per sentence; the average number of syllables in the passage; the
average sentence has 9 words; 100 word passage contained 155 syllabus which is
slightly higher than the standard seventh and eight grade level of 147? - ✔✔Flesch
Reading Ease and Grade Level Index
✔✔Which index states that the average sentence has 9 words; a passage included 13
difficult words would be rated between 8th and 9th grade level? - ✔✔Gunning FOG
Index
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What two successful programs for children done by the NFPA? - ✔✔Learn not to
Burn
The Pre-school Program
✔✔The form that a message takes is sometimes called its ___ or ____. - ✔✔Medium
communication vehicle
✔✔____ are particularly popular with elementary age children; the educator make a
statement and then asks the class to signal silently whether they agree with the
statement. - ✔✔Signaled responses
✔✔What are the 4 types of questions that fire and life safety educators use? - ✔✔Direct
question
Overhead questions
Rhetorical questions
Relay questions
✔✔____ questions are aimed at one person in the audience. - ✔✔Direct
,✔✔____ question are aimed at the whole group; anyone is free to respond; these
questions are particularly helpful in starting thinking or discussion or in bringing our
ideas and opinions. - ✔✔Overhead
✔✔____ questions are very similar to overhead questions the answer is not expected. -
✔✔Rhetorical
✔✔_____ questions are questions from the audience that the educator sends back to
the audience; using these types of questions is a good technique for opening
discussions. - ✔✔Relay
✔✔What is the number one concern with demonstrations? - ✔✔Safety
✔✔_____ is a classroom method in which a group of instructors work together. -
✔✔Team teaching
✔✔_____ objectives deal with changes in the audience's value, feelings, or opinions. -
✔✔Affective
✔✔What are some instructional methods effective in reaching affective objectives? -
✔✔Surveys
Questionnaires
Group Discussion
Role play
Case Studies
✔✔____ objectives deal with changes in what the audience knows or understands. -
✔✔Cognitive
✔✔What are some instructional methods effective in reaching cognitive objectives? -
✔✔Lecture
Illustration
Guided discussion
Conference discussion
Case study
✔✔_____ objectives are changes in skills, in what the audience can do to increase their
safety. - ✔✔Psychomotor
✔✔What are some instructional methods effective in reaching psychomotor objectives?
- ✔✔Illustrations
Demonstration and drill
Role playing
, ✔✔____ are very important tools in getting and keeping the attention of the audience. -
✔✔Effective materials
✔✔Materials alone do not make an educational program; materials used by the fire and
life safety educator fall into what 3 broad categories based on their intended purpose? -
✔✔Awareness materials
Informational materials
Educational materials
✔✔According to some estimates what percentage of what people learn comes to them
visually? - ✔✔75%
✔✔What estimated percent of all human knowledge is gained through hearing? -
✔✔13%
✔✔What estimated percent of knowledge comes form a combination of smell, taste,
and touch? - ✔✔12%
✔✔___ are objects that the audience can see, touch, smell, and hear. - ✔✔Props
✔✔At a minimum when should educational materials be evaluated? - ✔✔Before their
first use
✔✔After the first evaluation educational materials should be re-evaluated how often? -
✔✔Every year
✔✔What is the typical reading level for adults in the U.S. ? - ✔✔7th and 8th grade
✔✔There are several indexes used to measure how easy a passage is to read, what
are the 2 commonly used indexes? - ✔✔The Flesch Reading Ease/Flesch Grade Level
Index
The Gunning FOG Index
✔✔Which index is based on a 100 word passage of written material; counts the average
number of words per sentence; the average number of syllables in the passage; the
average sentence has 9 words; 100 word passage contained 155 syllabus which is
slightly higher than the standard seventh and eight grade level of 147? - ✔✔Flesch
Reading Ease and Grade Level Index
✔✔Which index states that the average sentence has 9 words; a passage included 13
difficult words would be rated between 8th and 9th grade level? - ✔✔Gunning FOG
Index
