EDF FINAL QUESTIONS WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS
_____ asserts that knowledge cannot be handed from one person to another
(from a teacher to a learner) but must be constructed by each learner through
interpreting and reinterpreting a constant flow of information. correct answer
Constructivism
_____ asserts that the purpose of education is to help children find the meaning
and direction in their lives, and it rejects the notion that adults should or could
direct meaningful learning for children. correct answer Existentialism
_____ examines the nature and the origin of human knowledge. correct answer
Epistemology
_____ is the idea that society is an ingenious "sorting" system, one in which the
more talented rise to the top, while those less deserving find themselves at the
bottom of the social and economic pecking order. correct answer Social
Darwinism
_____ organizes schools around the concerns, curiosity, and real-world
experiences of students. correct answer Progressivism
_____ promoted the doctrine of the Golden Mean, or the notion that virtue lies in
a middle ground between two extremes. correct answer Aristotle
A call for accountability in financing of schools means that _____. correct answer
the public wants to see academic progress for their tax dollars
,A key aspect of teaching in a constructivist classroom is _____. correct answer
gauging a student's prior knowledge and understanding
A key assumption of multicultural education is that: correct answer effective
teachers recognize that students learn in different ways.
A professor asks her students to discuss globalization for a paper on world affairs.
She asks students to make a presentation on how people from the East view
globalization and its impact on their culture and economy. This example is most
representative of the _____ approach to multicultural curriculum. correct answer
transformation
A scientific theory, such as the theory of evolution, is: correct answer a well-
founded scientific explanation.
A teacher who suspects that a child is the victim of child abuse: correct answer
has an ethical and legal responsibility to report the suspected abuse.
A teacher's right to freedom of speech as a citizen, regarding matters of public
concern is protected due to the holding in the: correct answer Pickering v. Board
of Education case.
A textbook covers twentieth-century U.S. history without mentioning the
continuing struggle for civil rights; and pictures throughout the text portray only
harmonious relations between the races. This is an example of a form of bias
known as: correct answer unreality
, Aaron is a young man in his early twenties. He just returned home after serving in
the U.S. Army for 3 years. Now he hopes to go to college at his state university to
become an engineer. Which of the following federal acts would help Aaron to do
so? correct answer Servicemen's Readjustment Act
According to _____, the way to determine if an idea has merit is simple: Test it. If
the idea works in the real world, then it has merit. correct answer pragmatism
According to Bloom's revised taxonomy, the highest level of questions is: correct
answer creating
According to demographic forecasting, what proportion of the school population
will be from non-European ethnic groups by 2030? correct answer About half of
the population
According to Donald McCarty and Charles Ramsey, authors of The School
Managers: Power and Conflict in American Public Education, a school board in a
community dominated by a few powerful figures will seek out a superintendent
who _____. correct answer has a functionary style
According to Gardner, if one wants to develop students who are willing to face
hard truths and value honest behavior, the stress should be on the: correct
answer ethical mind.
According to Goodlad, which statement is true regarding the patterns of
classroom interactions? correct answer Students are typically restrained in a
relatively small space during a period in which much of the activity is about
maintaining order.
ACCURATE ANSWERS
_____ asserts that knowledge cannot be handed from one person to another
(from a teacher to a learner) but must be constructed by each learner through
interpreting and reinterpreting a constant flow of information. correct answer
Constructivism
_____ asserts that the purpose of education is to help children find the meaning
and direction in their lives, and it rejects the notion that adults should or could
direct meaningful learning for children. correct answer Existentialism
_____ examines the nature and the origin of human knowledge. correct answer
Epistemology
_____ is the idea that society is an ingenious "sorting" system, one in which the
more talented rise to the top, while those less deserving find themselves at the
bottom of the social and economic pecking order. correct answer Social
Darwinism
_____ organizes schools around the concerns, curiosity, and real-world
experiences of students. correct answer Progressivism
_____ promoted the doctrine of the Golden Mean, or the notion that virtue lies in
a middle ground between two extremes. correct answer Aristotle
A call for accountability in financing of schools means that _____. correct answer
the public wants to see academic progress for their tax dollars
,A key aspect of teaching in a constructivist classroom is _____. correct answer
gauging a student's prior knowledge and understanding
A key assumption of multicultural education is that: correct answer effective
teachers recognize that students learn in different ways.
A professor asks her students to discuss globalization for a paper on world affairs.
She asks students to make a presentation on how people from the East view
globalization and its impact on their culture and economy. This example is most
representative of the _____ approach to multicultural curriculum. correct answer
transformation
A scientific theory, such as the theory of evolution, is: correct answer a well-
founded scientific explanation.
A teacher who suspects that a child is the victim of child abuse: correct answer
has an ethical and legal responsibility to report the suspected abuse.
A teacher's right to freedom of speech as a citizen, regarding matters of public
concern is protected due to the holding in the: correct answer Pickering v. Board
of Education case.
A textbook covers twentieth-century U.S. history without mentioning the
continuing struggle for civil rights; and pictures throughout the text portray only
harmonious relations between the races. This is an example of a form of bias
known as: correct answer unreality
, Aaron is a young man in his early twenties. He just returned home after serving in
the U.S. Army for 3 years. Now he hopes to go to college at his state university to
become an engineer. Which of the following federal acts would help Aaron to do
so? correct answer Servicemen's Readjustment Act
According to _____, the way to determine if an idea has merit is simple: Test it. If
the idea works in the real world, then it has merit. correct answer pragmatism
According to Bloom's revised taxonomy, the highest level of questions is: correct
answer creating
According to demographic forecasting, what proportion of the school population
will be from non-European ethnic groups by 2030? correct answer About half of
the population
According to Donald McCarty and Charles Ramsey, authors of The School
Managers: Power and Conflict in American Public Education, a school board in a
community dominated by a few powerful figures will seek out a superintendent
who _____. correct answer has a functionary style
According to Gardner, if one wants to develop students who are willing to face
hard truths and value honest behavior, the stress should be on the: correct
answer ethical mind.
According to Goodlad, which statement is true regarding the patterns of
classroom interactions? correct answer Students are typically restrained in a
relatively small space during a period in which much of the activity is about
maintaining order.
