ANSWER KEY
for
Educational Psychology: Active
Learning Edition, 14th edition
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Author (s): Anita Woolfolk
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, Cluster 1
Learning, Teaching, and Educational Psychology
Answer Key: Multiple Choice Questions
1. d Correct Answer: four
Feedback for Correct Answer: About 1 in 6 American children have a
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mild to severe developmental disability such as speech and language
impairments, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, or autism (CDC,
2013).
Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
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2. c Correct Answer: 6% as much wealth in typical Black households
Feedback for Correct Answer: Of those over 16 million, over 7 million
live in extreme poverty, The USA has the second highest rate of child
poverty among the economically advantaged countries of the world—
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only Romania has a higher rate of child poverty. Iceland, The
Scandinavian countries, Cyprus, and the Netherlands have the lowest
rates of child poverty, about 7% or less (UNICEF, 2012; U.S. Census
Bureau, 2011).
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Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
3. a Correct Answer: the teacher’s sense of efficacy.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Teachers’ sense of efficacy is defined as
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a teacher’s belief that he or she can reach even difficult students to help
them learn. This confident belief appears to be one of the few personal
characteristics of teachers that predict student achievement.
Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
RO
4. a Correct Answer: All students
Feedback for Correct Answer: The NCLB Act required all students to
reach proficiency by the end of the 2013–2014 school year. Schools also
had to develop AYP goals and report scores separately for several
groups, including racial and ethnic minority students, students with
VE
disabilities, students whose first language is not English, and students
from low-income homes.
Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
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5. d Correct Answer: Johana is in kindergarten and exhibits behavior
problems that include difficulty paying attention and regulating her
attention-getting behaviors.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Effective teachers who establish positive
relationships with their students appear to be a powerful force in those
students’ lives. Students who have problems seem to benefit the most
from good teaching.
Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
, 6. b Correct Answer: The state must provide evidence-based interventions.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Only schools at the bottom 5% of test
scores, schools that graduate less than two-thirds of their students, and
schools where subgroups consistently underperform will be considered
failing. The states must intervene in these schools with “evidence-based”
programs, but ESSA leaves the decisions about which interventions to
use to the state (Strauss, 2015).
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Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
7. c Correct Answer: Danielson’s Framework for Teaching
Feedback for Correct Answer: Danielson’s framework has four domains
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or areas of responsibility: Planning and Preparation, Classroom
Environment, Instruction, and Professional Responsibilities. Each
domain is further divided into components. Each domain is further
divided into 5 or 6 components, making a total of 22 components for the
entire framework.
IA
Text Reference: What Is Good Teaching?
8. d Correct Answer: Student gains on state tests
Feedback for Correct Answer: The project used student gains on state
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tests as a measure, but this measure was not used alone. It was used in
conjunction with student perceptions and classroom observations.
Text Reference: What Is Good Teaching?
9. b Correct Answer: How well did I present that new concept?
PP
Feedback for Correct Answer: With experience, hard work, and good
support, seasoned teachers can focus on the students’ needs and judge
their teaching success by the accomplishments of their students.
Beginning teachers are more likely to be concerned with their teaching
RO
performance (more focused on self). Experienced teachers are able to
shift from a focus on themselves to a focus on their students.
Text Reference: What Is Good Teaching?
10. b Correct Answer: Should the skill of summarizing be taught before
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students learn to identify the topic and main idea?
Feedback for Correct Answer: Educational psychology deals with the
order of learning and many other topics. Issues Plato and Aristotle
discussed—the role of the teacher, the relationship between teacher and
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student, methods of teaching, the nature and order of learning, the role of
emotion in learning—are still topics in educational psychology today.
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
, 11. c Correct Answer: John Dewey, founder of the Laboratory School at the
University of Chicago
Feedback for Correct Answer: G. Stanley Hall’s student, John Dewey,
founded the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago and is
considered the father of the progressive education movement.
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
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12. b Correct Answer: Descriptive study
Feedback for Correct Answer: Descriptive studies are studies that collect
detailed information about specific situations, often using observation,
surveys, interviews, recordings, or a combination of these methods.
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Austin Foley’s research is a descriptive study using surveys to collect
data.
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
13. d Correct Answer: Experimental
IA
Feedback for Correct Answer: Experimental studies allow educational
psychologists to go beyond predictions and actually study cause and
effect. Instead of just observing and describing an existing situation, the
investigators introduce changes and note the results.
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Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
14. c Correct Answer: Longitudinal
Feedback for Correct Answer: Many things that psychologists want to
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study, such as cognitive development, happen over several months or
years. Ideally, researchers would study the development by observing
their subjects over many years as changes occur. These are called
longitudinal studies.
RO
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
15. c Correct Answer: Quantitative
Feedback for Correct Answer: Quantitative research uses numbers,
measurement, and statistics to assess levels or sizes of relationships
among variables or differences between groups. Both correlational and
VE
experimental types of research generally are quantitative because
measurements are taken and computations are made.
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
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16. d Correct Answer: Action research
Feedback for Correct Answer: Action research involves systematic
observations or tests of methods conducted by teachers or schools to
improve teaching and learning for their students.
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
for
Educational Psychology: Active
Learning Edition, 14th edition
ST
Author (s): Anita Woolfolk
UV
IA
_A
PP
RO
VE
D?
, Cluster 1
Learning, Teaching, and Educational Psychology
Answer Key: Multiple Choice Questions
1. d Correct Answer: four
Feedback for Correct Answer: About 1 in 6 American children have a
ST
mild to severe developmental disability such as speech and language
impairments, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, or autism (CDC,
2013).
Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
UV
2. c Correct Answer: 6% as much wealth in typical Black households
Feedback for Correct Answer: Of those over 16 million, over 7 million
live in extreme poverty, The USA has the second highest rate of child
poverty among the economically advantaged countries of the world—
IA
only Romania has a higher rate of child poverty. Iceland, The
Scandinavian countries, Cyprus, and the Netherlands have the lowest
rates of child poverty, about 7% or less (UNICEF, 2012; U.S. Census
Bureau, 2011).
_A
Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
3. a Correct Answer: the teacher’s sense of efficacy.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Teachers’ sense of efficacy is defined as
PP
a teacher’s belief that he or she can reach even difficult students to help
them learn. This confident belief appears to be one of the few personal
characteristics of teachers that predict student achievement.
Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
RO
4. a Correct Answer: All students
Feedback for Correct Answer: The NCLB Act required all students to
reach proficiency by the end of the 2013–2014 school year. Schools also
had to develop AYP goals and report scores separately for several
groups, including racial and ethnic minority students, students with
VE
disabilities, students whose first language is not English, and students
from low-income homes.
Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
D?
5. d Correct Answer: Johana is in kindergarten and exhibits behavior
problems that include difficulty paying attention and regulating her
attention-getting behaviors.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Effective teachers who establish positive
relationships with their students appear to be a powerful force in those
students’ lives. Students who have problems seem to benefit the most
from good teaching.
Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
, 6. b Correct Answer: The state must provide evidence-based interventions.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Only schools at the bottom 5% of test
scores, schools that graduate less than two-thirds of their students, and
schools where subgroups consistently underperform will be considered
failing. The states must intervene in these schools with “evidence-based”
programs, but ESSA leaves the decisions about which interventions to
use to the state (Strauss, 2015).
ST
Text Reference: Learning and Teaching Today
7. c Correct Answer: Danielson’s Framework for Teaching
Feedback for Correct Answer: Danielson’s framework has four domains
UV
or areas of responsibility: Planning and Preparation, Classroom
Environment, Instruction, and Professional Responsibilities. Each
domain is further divided into components. Each domain is further
divided into 5 or 6 components, making a total of 22 components for the
entire framework.
IA
Text Reference: What Is Good Teaching?
8. d Correct Answer: Student gains on state tests
Feedback for Correct Answer: The project used student gains on state
_A
tests as a measure, but this measure was not used alone. It was used in
conjunction with student perceptions and classroom observations.
Text Reference: What Is Good Teaching?
9. b Correct Answer: How well did I present that new concept?
PP
Feedback for Correct Answer: With experience, hard work, and good
support, seasoned teachers can focus on the students’ needs and judge
their teaching success by the accomplishments of their students.
Beginning teachers are more likely to be concerned with their teaching
RO
performance (more focused on self). Experienced teachers are able to
shift from a focus on themselves to a focus on their students.
Text Reference: What Is Good Teaching?
10. b Correct Answer: Should the skill of summarizing be taught before
VE
students learn to identify the topic and main idea?
Feedback for Correct Answer: Educational psychology deals with the
order of learning and many other topics. Issues Plato and Aristotle
discussed—the role of the teacher, the relationship between teacher and
D?
student, methods of teaching, the nature and order of learning, the role of
emotion in learning—are still topics in educational psychology today.
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
, 11. c Correct Answer: John Dewey, founder of the Laboratory School at the
University of Chicago
Feedback for Correct Answer: G. Stanley Hall’s student, John Dewey,
founded the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago and is
considered the father of the progressive education movement.
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
ST
12. b Correct Answer: Descriptive study
Feedback for Correct Answer: Descriptive studies are studies that collect
detailed information about specific situations, often using observation,
surveys, interviews, recordings, or a combination of these methods.
UV
Austin Foley’s research is a descriptive study using surveys to collect
data.
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
13. d Correct Answer: Experimental
IA
Feedback for Correct Answer: Experimental studies allow educational
psychologists to go beyond predictions and actually study cause and
effect. Instead of just observing and describing an existing situation, the
investigators introduce changes and note the results.
_A
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
14. c Correct Answer: Longitudinal
Feedback for Correct Answer: Many things that psychologists want to
PP
study, such as cognitive development, happen over several months or
years. Ideally, researchers would study the development by observing
their subjects over many years as changes occur. These are called
longitudinal studies.
RO
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
15. c Correct Answer: Quantitative
Feedback for Correct Answer: Quantitative research uses numbers,
measurement, and statistics to assess levels or sizes of relationships
among variables or differences between groups. Both correlational and
VE
experimental types of research generally are quantitative because
measurements are taken and computations are made.
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
D?
16. d Correct Answer: Action research
Feedback for Correct Answer: Action research involves systematic
observations or tests of methods conducted by teachers or schools to
improve teaching and learning for their students.
Text Reference: The Role of Educational Psychology
