PPR Practice Questions and Answers
Already Graded A
During the middle school years, young adolescents' need for an increasing sense of autonomy
can best be met by:
A. Designing activities and assignments to permit student choice among a range of options.
B. Using democratic processes to make decisions affecting the whole class (where to go on a
field trip).
C. Routinely including blocks of instructed time in students' daily schedules.
D. assigning grades based primarily on students' self-evaluations of their performance. ✔✔A.
Designing activities and assignments to permit student choice among a range of options.
A teaching team in a middle school class is planning an assignment in which students will spend
several weeks examining the costs and benefits of various human activities. Examples of topics
studied by students in the past include (Dirt Biking in Wilderness Areas) (The Use of Pesticides
on Crops, and Watching Television). The teachers will help students identify an activity they are
,interested in, develop an appropriate plan for collecting information, and decide what type of
presentation to make to the class at the end of the project. The requirement to examine both the
costs and benefits of a particular activity is a valuable exercise for middle school students
primarily because it:
A. Eliminates the misconception that there is always one ideal solution to any problem.
B. Promotes students growing capacity to consider a topic from more than one point of view.
C. ensures that students final conclusions will be based on reason rather than an opinion.
D. requires students to generate ideas on their own rather than simply making use of received
information. ✔✔A. Eliminates the misconception that there is always one ideal solution to any
problem.
Joshua is a three-year old boy who often chooses to play in the block corner during free play
time. For several weeks, Joshua's block constructions have consisted primarily of repetitive rows
made by placing the blocks end to end horizontally or by stacking them vertically. Based on this
information, the BEST assessments of Joshua's play with the blocks is that he is:
,A. Too limited in his approach and needs to be stimulated to explore other types of block
construction.
B. Passing through a predictable stage in his exploration of the block medium.
C. Exhibiting signs of cognitive delay and should be tested for possible cognitive deficits.
D. Showing the effects of a home environment in which materials other than blocks are used to
provide cognitive stimulation. ✔✔B. Passing through a predictable stage in his exploration of the
block medium.
A preschooler has a pitcher of milk. After pouring milk from the pitcher into three cups, the
preschooler announces that she now has more milk. The teacher's best assessment of this incident
would be that the student:
A. Appears to be showing signs of a developmental delay.
B. Has not grasped the concept of conservation of volume.
, C. Appears to be showing signs of a visual disability.
D. Has not developed the concept of object permanence. ✔✔B. Has not grasped the concept of
conservation of volume.
The students in an 8th grade class represent a wide range of levels of cognitive development,
from concrete operational to formal operational thought. The teacher's best strategy for adapting
instruction to accommodate this degree of cognitive variation among students would be to:
A. Make use of experiential and hands on activities to complement and illustrate more abstract
content.
B. Group students as much as possible according to level of cognitive development.
C. Plan to work with students one on one to the greatest extent possible.
D. Target instruction at the average level of cognitive development represented by the class
overall. ✔✔A. Make use of experiential and hands on activities to complement and illustrate
more abstract content.
Already Graded A
During the middle school years, young adolescents' need for an increasing sense of autonomy
can best be met by:
A. Designing activities and assignments to permit student choice among a range of options.
B. Using democratic processes to make decisions affecting the whole class (where to go on a
field trip).
C. Routinely including blocks of instructed time in students' daily schedules.
D. assigning grades based primarily on students' self-evaluations of their performance. ✔✔A.
Designing activities and assignments to permit student choice among a range of options.
A teaching team in a middle school class is planning an assignment in which students will spend
several weeks examining the costs and benefits of various human activities. Examples of topics
studied by students in the past include (Dirt Biking in Wilderness Areas) (The Use of Pesticides
on Crops, and Watching Television). The teachers will help students identify an activity they are
,interested in, develop an appropriate plan for collecting information, and decide what type of
presentation to make to the class at the end of the project. The requirement to examine both the
costs and benefits of a particular activity is a valuable exercise for middle school students
primarily because it:
A. Eliminates the misconception that there is always one ideal solution to any problem.
B. Promotes students growing capacity to consider a topic from more than one point of view.
C. ensures that students final conclusions will be based on reason rather than an opinion.
D. requires students to generate ideas on their own rather than simply making use of received
information. ✔✔A. Eliminates the misconception that there is always one ideal solution to any
problem.
Joshua is a three-year old boy who often chooses to play in the block corner during free play
time. For several weeks, Joshua's block constructions have consisted primarily of repetitive rows
made by placing the blocks end to end horizontally or by stacking them vertically. Based on this
information, the BEST assessments of Joshua's play with the blocks is that he is:
,A. Too limited in his approach and needs to be stimulated to explore other types of block
construction.
B. Passing through a predictable stage in his exploration of the block medium.
C. Exhibiting signs of cognitive delay and should be tested for possible cognitive deficits.
D. Showing the effects of a home environment in which materials other than blocks are used to
provide cognitive stimulation. ✔✔B. Passing through a predictable stage in his exploration of the
block medium.
A preschooler has a pitcher of milk. After pouring milk from the pitcher into three cups, the
preschooler announces that she now has more milk. The teacher's best assessment of this incident
would be that the student:
A. Appears to be showing signs of a developmental delay.
B. Has not grasped the concept of conservation of volume.
, C. Appears to be showing signs of a visual disability.
D. Has not developed the concept of object permanence. ✔✔B. Has not grasped the concept of
conservation of volume.
The students in an 8th grade class represent a wide range of levels of cognitive development,
from concrete operational to formal operational thought. The teacher's best strategy for adapting
instruction to accommodate this degree of cognitive variation among students would be to:
A. Make use of experiential and hands on activities to complement and illustrate more abstract
content.
B. Group students as much as possible according to level of cognitive development.
C. Plan to work with students one on one to the greatest extent possible.
D. Target instruction at the average level of cognitive development represented by the class
overall. ✔✔A. Make use of experiential and hands on activities to complement and illustrate
more abstract content.
