OPTE 6-12 UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
1. What is an effective interaction technique related to individual student age differences for
teachers to accomplish communication goals? - CORRECT ANSWER - Give students
concepts and vocabulary slightly above their current levels at all ages.
Which of the following social behaviors typically appears in early adolescense?
A) During friendship as a mutual relationship based on trust
B) Organizing peer groups based on proximity and similarity and gender and ethnicity
C) Demonstrating awareness of gender stereotypes and personality traits
D) Forming small groups of peers with similar family backgrounds, attitudes, and values -
CORRECT ANSWER - Forming small groups of peers with similar family backgrounds,
attitudes, and values.
Teachers in a middle school provide students with opportunities to participate in regular
exploratory activities designed to introduce them to a variety of specialized subjects. These
activities are likely to be most effective in helping students to address which challenges?
A) Developing a sense of self efficacy as learners
B) Forming an accurate perception of their abilities
C) Making decisions about their future education and career's
D) Becoming independent and goal oriented in their learning - CORRECT ANSWER -
Making decisions about their future education and careers.
In which of the following situations is the teacher's strategy most likely to promote students'
ability to regulate their own learning?
A) A teacher shows students how to maintain a log of each book they read for recreation during a
grading period.
,B) A teacher helps Each student identified weekly goals that target the student specific academic
needs.
C) A teacher uses the results of regularly administering interest inventories to select reading
materials for classroom activities
D) A teacher offers after school review sessions before test, but allows students to decide for
themselves whether to participate - CORRECT ANSWER - A teacher helps each student
identify weekly goals that target the student specific academic needs.
Which of the following situations most clearly illustrates how a student's development in one
domain (cognitive, linguistic, physical, social, emotional) can affect development and/or
performance in another domain?
A) A student with severe physical disabilities exhibit strong verbal and conceptual skills in her
academic work
B) A student who is a talented athlete is also one of the highest achievers and her school and
science and math
C) A student with low self-esteem refuses to attempt new or challenging learning task before he
is sure he will fail.
D) A student who is bilingual shows similar skills and confidence in both languages in which he
is proficient. - CORRECT ANSWER - A student with low self esteem refuses to attempt
new or challenging learning tasks because he is sure he will fail.
Which of the following approaches is likely to be most effective in facilitating middle school's
students knowledge construction?
A) Ensuring that students have access to information resources on a broad range of topics
B) Quizzing students frequently a new concepts and vocabulary
C) Providing students with opportunities to use new learning in authentic and meaningful
contexts.
D) Allowing students to establish their own goals and pace for learning - CORRECT
ANSWER - Providing students with opportunities to use new learning in authentic and
meaningful context.
, What is the sensorimotor stage? - CORRECT ANSWER - in Piaget's theory, the stage
(from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their
sensory impressions and motor activities
What is the preoperational stage? - CORRECT ANSWER - Children are developing
language skills. Use symbols to represent objects. They will be able to follow directions, but they
will not be able to reverse them, They have difficulty dealing with more than one problem at a
time and they have difficulty seeing things from another person's point of view (aka
Egocentrism).
2. According to cognitive information processing theory, in which of these do people receive
input from the environment? - CORRECT ANSWER - Sensory Memory
How do experts advocate that teachers communicate with their students' parents? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Asking each student's parents which forms of communication work best for
them
What accurately reflects effective teacher verbal communication strategies with all students? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Teachers get attention, show transitions, and enable processing via
strategic pauses.
Which of these most accurately reflects expert recommendations of effective strategies for
resolving classroom conflicts? - CORRECT ANSWER - Have students track conflicts over
time and discuss reactions.
Relative to assessment, what is a definition of statistical reliability? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Consistency in a test's results across repeated administrations
Among the developmental stages Freud identified in his theory of psychosexual development,
which ones occur during infancy and early childhood through elementary ages? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Oral, Anal, Phallic
CORRECT Answers
1. What is an effective interaction technique related to individual student age differences for
teachers to accomplish communication goals? - CORRECT ANSWER - Give students
concepts and vocabulary slightly above their current levels at all ages.
Which of the following social behaviors typically appears in early adolescense?
A) During friendship as a mutual relationship based on trust
B) Organizing peer groups based on proximity and similarity and gender and ethnicity
C) Demonstrating awareness of gender stereotypes and personality traits
D) Forming small groups of peers with similar family backgrounds, attitudes, and values -
CORRECT ANSWER - Forming small groups of peers with similar family backgrounds,
attitudes, and values.
Teachers in a middle school provide students with opportunities to participate in regular
exploratory activities designed to introduce them to a variety of specialized subjects. These
activities are likely to be most effective in helping students to address which challenges?
A) Developing a sense of self efficacy as learners
B) Forming an accurate perception of their abilities
C) Making decisions about their future education and career's
D) Becoming independent and goal oriented in their learning - CORRECT ANSWER -
Making decisions about their future education and careers.
In which of the following situations is the teacher's strategy most likely to promote students'
ability to regulate their own learning?
A) A teacher shows students how to maintain a log of each book they read for recreation during a
grading period.
,B) A teacher helps Each student identified weekly goals that target the student specific academic
needs.
C) A teacher uses the results of regularly administering interest inventories to select reading
materials for classroom activities
D) A teacher offers after school review sessions before test, but allows students to decide for
themselves whether to participate - CORRECT ANSWER - A teacher helps each student
identify weekly goals that target the student specific academic needs.
Which of the following situations most clearly illustrates how a student's development in one
domain (cognitive, linguistic, physical, social, emotional) can affect development and/or
performance in another domain?
A) A student with severe physical disabilities exhibit strong verbal and conceptual skills in her
academic work
B) A student who is a talented athlete is also one of the highest achievers and her school and
science and math
C) A student with low self-esteem refuses to attempt new or challenging learning task before he
is sure he will fail.
D) A student who is bilingual shows similar skills and confidence in both languages in which he
is proficient. - CORRECT ANSWER - A student with low self esteem refuses to attempt
new or challenging learning tasks because he is sure he will fail.
Which of the following approaches is likely to be most effective in facilitating middle school's
students knowledge construction?
A) Ensuring that students have access to information resources on a broad range of topics
B) Quizzing students frequently a new concepts and vocabulary
C) Providing students with opportunities to use new learning in authentic and meaningful
contexts.
D) Allowing students to establish their own goals and pace for learning - CORRECT
ANSWER - Providing students with opportunities to use new learning in authentic and
meaningful context.
, What is the sensorimotor stage? - CORRECT ANSWER - in Piaget's theory, the stage
(from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their
sensory impressions and motor activities
What is the preoperational stage? - CORRECT ANSWER - Children are developing
language skills. Use symbols to represent objects. They will be able to follow directions, but they
will not be able to reverse them, They have difficulty dealing with more than one problem at a
time and they have difficulty seeing things from another person's point of view (aka
Egocentrism).
2. According to cognitive information processing theory, in which of these do people receive
input from the environment? - CORRECT ANSWER - Sensory Memory
How do experts advocate that teachers communicate with their students' parents? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Asking each student's parents which forms of communication work best for
them
What accurately reflects effective teacher verbal communication strategies with all students? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Teachers get attention, show transitions, and enable processing via
strategic pauses.
Which of these most accurately reflects expert recommendations of effective strategies for
resolving classroom conflicts? - CORRECT ANSWER - Have students track conflicts over
time and discuss reactions.
Relative to assessment, what is a definition of statistical reliability? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Consistency in a test's results across repeated administrations
Among the developmental stages Freud identified in his theory of psychosexual development,
which ones occur during infancy and early childhood through elementary ages? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Oral, Anal, Phallic
