Curriculum and Instruction GACE
UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Analytical (Analytic) Scoring - CORRECT ANSWER - Calls for teachers to provide
feedback on written assignments. Assigns individual scores to separate aspects of writing quality.
(Multiple scores)
Holistic Scoring - CORRECT ANSWER - A single, overall assessment score for the paper
as a whole.
Raw Scoring - CORRECT ANSWER - The number of items answered correctly without
adjustment for guessing. (Ex: If there are 15 problems and 11 are answered correctly, the raw
score is 11).
Developmental Scoring - CORRECT ANSWER - Have been transformed from raw scores
and reflect the average performance at age and grade levels.
Title IX of Education Act of 1972 - CORRECT ANSWER - Prohibited gender inequalities
in federally funded education, including athletics.
Title I Act - CORRECT ANSWER - Funding to schools to support education of low-
income students
I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - CORRECT ANSWER - A law that
makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities
throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to children.
No Child Left Behind Act - CORRECT ANSWER - 2001 law that set high standards and
measurable goals for education. States that regardless of race, family background, or disability,
every child will learn. Increased the federal role in holding schools accountable for academic
progress.
, Action Research - CORRECT ANSWER - Research carried out by educators in their own
classrooms or schools. Used to help the teacher fine tune their own practice by amassing
information.
Descriptive Research - CORRECT ANSWER - Type of research that aims to observe and
record behavior. Research that focuses on describing the behavior and the situation within which
it occurs. (Not manipulated).
Experimental Research - CORRECT ANSWER - Control and manipulate variables.
Randomly assign individuals to various treatment categories.
Maslow - CORRECT ANSWER - Hierarchy of Needs. People are motivated to achieve
certain needs and that some needed tag precedence over others. Our most basic need is for
physical survival, and this will be the first thing that motivates our behavior.
Thorndike - CORRECT ANSWER - Law of Effect. Behavioral responses to specific
stimuli are established through a process of trial and error that affects neural connections
between the stimuli and the most satisfying responses.
Erikson - CORRECT ANSWER - Theory of Psychosocial Development. Considers the
impact of external factors, parents, and society on personality development from childhood to
adulthood.
Watson - CORRECT ANSWER - Behaviorism. An approach to psychology that , in his
view, was restricted to the objective, experimental study of the relations between environmental
events and human behavior.
Bloom's Taxonomy - CORRECT ANSWER - Knowledge, comprehension, application,
analysis, synthesis, evaluation. A tool to classify learning from lower level thinking to very high
level thinking.
UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Analytical (Analytic) Scoring - CORRECT ANSWER - Calls for teachers to provide
feedback on written assignments. Assigns individual scores to separate aspects of writing quality.
(Multiple scores)
Holistic Scoring - CORRECT ANSWER - A single, overall assessment score for the paper
as a whole.
Raw Scoring - CORRECT ANSWER - The number of items answered correctly without
adjustment for guessing. (Ex: If there are 15 problems and 11 are answered correctly, the raw
score is 11).
Developmental Scoring - CORRECT ANSWER - Have been transformed from raw scores
and reflect the average performance at age and grade levels.
Title IX of Education Act of 1972 - CORRECT ANSWER - Prohibited gender inequalities
in federally funded education, including athletics.
Title I Act - CORRECT ANSWER - Funding to schools to support education of low-
income students
I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - CORRECT ANSWER - A law that
makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities
throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to children.
No Child Left Behind Act - CORRECT ANSWER - 2001 law that set high standards and
measurable goals for education. States that regardless of race, family background, or disability,
every child will learn. Increased the federal role in holding schools accountable for academic
progress.
, Action Research - CORRECT ANSWER - Research carried out by educators in their own
classrooms or schools. Used to help the teacher fine tune their own practice by amassing
information.
Descriptive Research - CORRECT ANSWER - Type of research that aims to observe and
record behavior. Research that focuses on describing the behavior and the situation within which
it occurs. (Not manipulated).
Experimental Research - CORRECT ANSWER - Control and manipulate variables.
Randomly assign individuals to various treatment categories.
Maslow - CORRECT ANSWER - Hierarchy of Needs. People are motivated to achieve
certain needs and that some needed tag precedence over others. Our most basic need is for
physical survival, and this will be the first thing that motivates our behavior.
Thorndike - CORRECT ANSWER - Law of Effect. Behavioral responses to specific
stimuli are established through a process of trial and error that affects neural connections
between the stimuli and the most satisfying responses.
Erikson - CORRECT ANSWER - Theory of Psychosocial Development. Considers the
impact of external factors, parents, and society on personality development from childhood to
adulthood.
Watson - CORRECT ANSWER - Behaviorism. An approach to psychology that , in his
view, was restricted to the objective, experimental study of the relations between environmental
events and human behavior.
Bloom's Taxonomy - CORRECT ANSWER - Knowledge, comprehension, application,
analysis, synthesis, evaluation. A tool to classify learning from lower level thinking to very high
level thinking.
