GACE Curriculum and Instruction Exam
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Analytical (Analytic) Scoring - ✔✔Calls for teachers to provide feedback on
written assignments. Assigns individual scores to separate aspects of writing
quality. (Multiple scores)
Holistic Scoring - ✔✔A single, overall assessment score for the paper as a whole.
Raw Scoring - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Have been transformed from raw scores and
reflect the average performance at age and grade levels.
Title IX of Education Act of 1972 - ✔✔Prohibited gender inequalities in federally
funded education, including athletics.
Title I Act - ✔✔Funding to schools to support education of low-income students
I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - ✔✔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.
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, No Child Left Behind Act - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Control and manipulate variables. Randomly assign
individuals to various treatment categories.
Maslow - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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.
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Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Analytical (Analytic) Scoring - ✔✔Calls for teachers to provide feedback on
written assignments. Assigns individual scores to separate aspects of writing
quality. (Multiple scores)
Holistic Scoring - ✔✔A single, overall assessment score for the paper as a whole.
Raw Scoring - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Have been transformed from raw scores and
reflect the average performance at age and grade levels.
Title IX of Education Act of 1972 - ✔✔Prohibited gender inequalities in federally
funded education, including athletics.
Title I Act - ✔✔Funding to schools to support education of low-income students
I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - ✔✔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.
Page 1 of 12
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, No Child Left Behind Act - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Control and manipulate variables. Randomly assign
individuals to various treatment categories.
Maslow - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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.
Page 2 of 12
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
