MERCEDES PPR STUDY GUIDE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
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 - ANS d. Increasing student's comprehension
level
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 articles 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.
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,d. Establishing systems and procedures in each class that emphasize teacher flexibility regarding
expectations for student behavior and learning - ANS c. Leading a discussion into their own
classrooms aimed at examining the various causes of individuals' decisions to join a gang.
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 - ANS a. forecast team who analyze and complies
students' predictions
which of the following types of assessment does the broadcast best illustrate
a. reflective
b. diagnostic
c. mastery learning
d. performance based - ANS d. performance based
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 - ANS c. storyboard
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, 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 - ANS d. multiple intelligence
Which of the following does not contribute to developing pro social behaviors in early
elementary students
a. role model
b. one on one interactions
c. independent play
d. active play - ANS c. independent play
Which of the following is an instructional objective?
a. students will complete a worksheet operating and factoring
b. students will finish homework to solve quadratic equations
c. students will use fractions to describe the results of an experiment
d. students will participate in a district - ANS c. students will use fractions to describe the
results of an experiment
An elementary teacher uses a full inclusion model in which students with disabilities are fully
integrated into the regular/general education classroom. Compared with traditional approaches
to educating students with special needs, which of the following is most likely to be an
important advantage of the model?
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
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 - ANS d. Increasing student's comprehension
level
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 articles 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.
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,d. Establishing systems and procedures in each class that emphasize teacher flexibility regarding
expectations for student behavior and learning - ANS c. Leading a discussion into their own
classrooms aimed at examining the various causes of individuals' decisions to join a gang.
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 - ANS a. forecast team who analyze and complies
students' predictions
which of the following types of assessment does the broadcast best illustrate
a. reflective
b. diagnostic
c. mastery learning
d. performance based - ANS d. performance based
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 - ANS c. storyboard
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, 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 - ANS d. multiple intelligence
Which of the following does not contribute to developing pro social behaviors in early
elementary students
a. role model
b. one on one interactions
c. independent play
d. active play - ANS c. independent play
Which of the following is an instructional objective?
a. students will complete a worksheet operating and factoring
b. students will finish homework to solve quadratic equations
c. students will use fractions to describe the results of an experiment
d. students will participate in a district - ANS c. students will use fractions to describe the
results of an experiment
An elementary teacher uses a full inclusion model in which students with disabilities are fully
integrated into the regular/general education classroom. Compared with traditional approaches
to educating students with special needs, which of the following is most likely to be an
important advantage of the model?
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