Mercedes PPR Study Guide
1. Which of the following is the primary purpose of activating students' prior
knowledge before they read a text?
a. Enhancing students self-monitoring skills
b. Increasing effective student collaboration
c. Promoting active student problem solving
d. Increasing student's comprehension level: d. Increasing student's
compre-hension level
2. Teachers in a high school are aware of a local gang problem and wish to
influence the students in their school to reject gang membership. The teacher
can best facilitate achievement of this goal by emphasizing which of the
following approaches?
a. Ensuring that all students have access to information from reports, new ar-
,ticles and other credible sources that objectively examine gang membership.
b. Creating a learning environment where students feel a sense of belonging
and have opportunities to experience success
c. Leading a discussion into their own classrooms aimed at examining the
various causes of individuals' decisions to join a gang.
d. Establishing systems and procedures in each class that emphasize teacher
flexibility regarding expectations for student behavior and learning: c.
Leadinga discussion into their own classrooms aimed at examining the various
causes of individuals' decisions to join a gang.
3. A 4th grade teacher is planning a unit on weather. Students will record
temperature, daily weather conditions etc. Using data recorded in the charts
the students will create web-based broadcasts of the weather. To complete the
project, the teacher will divide the class into groups.
a. forecast team who analyze and complies students' predictions
b. a script writing team who writes the actual broadcast script
c. a technology team who films the broadcast
d. a design team who creates the set: a. forecast team who analyze and
compliesstudents' predictions
4. which of the following types of assessment does the broadcast best illus-
,trate
a. reflective
b. diagnostic
c. mastery learning
d. performance based: d. performance based
, 5. To best help students create transition in the broadcasting of the weather
report, the teacher should demonstrate how to use which of the following
graphic organizer
a. cluster
b. Venn diagram
c. storyboard
d. cause and effect chart: c. storyboard
6. The end of unit broadcast primarily incorporates which of the following
elements in learning
a. self-assessment
b. open ended questions
c. community involvement
d. multiple intelligence: d. multiple intelligence
7. Which of the following does not contribute to developing pro social behav-
iors in early elementary students
a. role model
b. one on one interactions
1. Which of the following is the primary purpose of activating students' prior
knowledge before they read a text?
a. Enhancing students self-monitoring skills
b. Increasing effective student collaboration
c. Promoting active student problem solving
d. Increasing student's comprehension level: d. Increasing student's
compre-hension level
2. Teachers in a high school are aware of a local gang problem and wish to
influence the students in their school to reject gang membership. The teacher
can best facilitate achievement of this goal by emphasizing which of the
following approaches?
a. Ensuring that all students have access to information from reports, new ar-
,ticles and other credible sources that objectively examine gang membership.
b. Creating a learning environment where students feel a sense of belonging
and have opportunities to experience success
c. Leading a discussion into their own classrooms aimed at examining the
various causes of individuals' decisions to join a gang.
d. Establishing systems and procedures in each class that emphasize teacher
flexibility regarding expectations for student behavior and learning: c.
Leadinga discussion into their own classrooms aimed at examining the various
causes of individuals' decisions to join a gang.
3. A 4th grade teacher is planning a unit on weather. Students will record
temperature, daily weather conditions etc. Using data recorded in the charts
the students will create web-based broadcasts of the weather. To complete the
project, the teacher will divide the class into groups.
a. forecast team who analyze and complies students' predictions
b. a script writing team who writes the actual broadcast script
c. a technology team who films the broadcast
d. a design team who creates the set: a. forecast team who analyze and
compliesstudents' predictions
4. which of the following types of assessment does the broadcast best illus-
,trate
a. reflective
b. diagnostic
c. mastery learning
d. performance based: d. performance based
, 5. To best help students create transition in the broadcasting of the weather
report, the teacher should demonstrate how to use which of the following
graphic organizer
a. cluster
b. Venn diagram
c. storyboard
d. cause and effect chart: c. storyboard
6. The end of unit broadcast primarily incorporates which of the following
elements in learning
a. self-assessment
b. open ended questions
c. community involvement
d. multiple intelligence: d. multiple intelligence
7. Which of the following does not contribute to developing pro social behav-
iors in early elementary students
a. role model
b. one on one interactions
