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NES (051) Part 2 Exam Questions And
Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
Assessments - Answer✔The process of collecting, quantifying, and qualifying student
performance. Teachers use these as checkpoints for understanding, to see if there are
roadblocks to success, and to give students an opportunity to see where they feel comfortable
and where they are still lacking understanding.
Two most traditional assessments - Answer✔Formative and Summative
Formative - Answer✔There are merely checkpoints along the way to test understanding.
Examples: Self-reflections/peer reflections, pre-tests, concept maps/graphic organizers, giving
students a chance to turn in a draft prior to final, classwork, homework.
Summative - Answer✔A commutative, and often more formal. Examples: quizzes, test, running
records for assessing early readers, state tests, projects, papers.
Portfolio Assessment - Answer✔A collection of students work. These show growth over a long
period of time.
Open-ended Assessment - Answer✔Require students to explain their answer, and often is more
than one answer.
Norm-Reference Test - Answer✔Measures a test taker's performance against another peer's
performance. How do other students of this age perform with this skill?
Measureable Objectives - Answer✔Are those you find in the state standards and in any
summative assessment.
Criterion-Referenced Tests - Answer✔Measures the performance of a child's skill acquisition.
Has the child learned what she set out to learn? Examines specific student learning goals and
performance compared to a norm group of student learners.
Performance Based Assessment - Answer✔Found most commonly in standardized exams and
breaks the skill down into various levels of proficiency. How well has the child learned the
information?
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Differentiated Instruction - Answer✔Finding the instructional practice that matches the
students' unique learning styles. Varied centers, varied tasks, students engaged and focused on
many inquiry based or students centered activity.
Bloom's Taxonomy - Answer✔Recognizes the various levels of understanding ranging from
basic recall to higher level of understanding.
Authentic Engagement - Answer✔If you give students new information, and then allow
traditional practice through worksheets, partner work, homework, and complete the unit with
a project that brings the concept to life and allows for authentic engagement.
Howard Gardener's theory of multiple intelligences - Answer✔Listed these as Basic Unique
Learning Needs
-Linguistic
-Logical Mathematical
-Musical
-Kinesthetic
-Visual Spatial
-Interpersonal
-Intrapersonal
-Nationalistic
Vygotsky - Answer✔Examined how social interaction takes place in learning. 3 zone phases
First Zone of Vygotsky - Answer✔Independent Work - what a student can do on own.
Second Zone of Vygotsky - Answer✔Zone of proximal development - the instructor aids the
student to move him toward higher levels of thinking.
Third Zone of Vygotsky - Answer✔The ideas that a child does not yet understand
John Dewey - Answer✔Theory of experience. This theory argued that humans learn from
experiences and that past experiences influence how someone reacts and relates with new
situations. Educators may call this background schema.
zone of proximal development - Answer✔Instructor is aiding the student to move him/her
toward a higher level of thinking.
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NES (051) Part 2 Exam Questions And
Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
Assessments - Answer✔The process of collecting, quantifying, and qualifying student
performance. Teachers use these as checkpoints for understanding, to see if there are
roadblocks to success, and to give students an opportunity to see where they feel comfortable
and where they are still lacking understanding.
Two most traditional assessments - Answer✔Formative and Summative
Formative - Answer✔There are merely checkpoints along the way to test understanding.
Examples: Self-reflections/peer reflections, pre-tests, concept maps/graphic organizers, giving
students a chance to turn in a draft prior to final, classwork, homework.
Summative - Answer✔A commutative, and often more formal. Examples: quizzes, test, running
records for assessing early readers, state tests, projects, papers.
Portfolio Assessment - Answer✔A collection of students work. These show growth over a long
period of time.
Open-ended Assessment - Answer✔Require students to explain their answer, and often is more
than one answer.
Norm-Reference Test - Answer✔Measures a test taker's performance against another peer's
performance. How do other students of this age perform with this skill?
Measureable Objectives - Answer✔Are those you find in the state standards and in any
summative assessment.
Criterion-Referenced Tests - Answer✔Measures the performance of a child's skill acquisition.
Has the child learned what she set out to learn? Examines specific student learning goals and
performance compared to a norm group of student learners.
Performance Based Assessment - Answer✔Found most commonly in standardized exams and
breaks the skill down into various levels of proficiency. How well has the child learned the
information?
1
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Differentiated Instruction - Answer✔Finding the instructional practice that matches the
students' unique learning styles. Varied centers, varied tasks, students engaged and focused on
many inquiry based or students centered activity.
Bloom's Taxonomy - Answer✔Recognizes the various levels of understanding ranging from
basic recall to higher level of understanding.
Authentic Engagement - Answer✔If you give students new information, and then allow
traditional practice through worksheets, partner work, homework, and complete the unit with
a project that brings the concept to life and allows for authentic engagement.
Howard Gardener's theory of multiple intelligences - Answer✔Listed these as Basic Unique
Learning Needs
-Linguistic
-Logical Mathematical
-Musical
-Kinesthetic
-Visual Spatial
-Interpersonal
-Intrapersonal
-Nationalistic
Vygotsky - Answer✔Examined how social interaction takes place in learning. 3 zone phases
First Zone of Vygotsky - Answer✔Independent Work - what a student can do on own.
Second Zone of Vygotsky - Answer✔Zone of proximal development - the instructor aids the
student to move him toward higher levels of thinking.
Third Zone of Vygotsky - Answer✔The ideas that a child does not yet understand
John Dewey - Answer✔Theory of experience. This theory argued that humans learn from
experiences and that past experiences influence how someone reacts and relates with new
situations. Educators may call this background schema.
zone of proximal development - Answer✔Instructor is aiding the student to move him/her
toward a higher level of thinking.
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