GACE Curriculum & Instruction Review Exam
Questions and Answers
Analytical (Analytic) Scoring - Answer-Calls for teachers to provide feedback on written
assignments. Assigns individual scores to separate aspects of writing quality. (Multiple
scores)
/.Holistic Scoring - Answer-A single, overall assessment score for the paper as a whole.
/.Raw Scoring - Answer-The number of items answered correctly without adjustment for
guessing. (Ex: If there are 15 problems and 11 are answered correctly, the raw score is
11).
/.Developmental Scoring - Answer-Have been transformed from raw scores and reflect
the average performance at age and grade levels.
/.Title IX of Education Act of 1972 - Answer-Prohibited gender inequalities in federally
funded education, including athletics.
/.Title I Act - Answer-Funding to schools to support education of low-income students
/.I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - Answer-A law that makes
available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities
throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to children.
/.No Child Left Behind Act - Answer-2001 law that set high standards and measurable
goals for education. States that regardless of race, family background, or disability,
every child will learn. Increased the federal role in holding schools accountable for
academic progress.
/.Action Research - Answer-Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms
or schools. Used to help the teacher fine tune their own practice by amassing
information.
/.Descriptive Research - Answer-Type of research that aims to observe and record
behavior. Research that focuses on describing the behavior and the situation within
which it occurs. (Not manipulated).
/.Experimental Research - Answer-Control and manipulate variables. Randomly assign
individuals to various treatment categories.
/.Maslow - Answer-Hierarchy of Needs. People are motivated to achieve certain needs
and that some needed tag precedence over others. Our most basic need is for physical
survival, and this will be the first thing that motivates our behavior.
, /.Thorndike - Answer-Law of Effect. Behavioral responses to specific stimuli are
established through a process of trial and error that affects neural connections between
the stimuli and the most satisfying responses.
/.Erikson - Answer-Theory of Psychosocial Development. Considers the impact of
external factors, parents, and society on personality development from childhood to
adulthood.
/.Watson - Answer-Behaviorism. An approach to psychology that , in his view, was
restricted to the objective, experimental study of the relations between environmental
events and human behavior.
/.Bloom's Taxonomy - Answer-Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis,
synthesis, evaluation. A tool to classify learning from lower level thinking to very high
level thinking.
/.Occupational Therapist - Answer-Support social skills, math, reading and writing,
behavior management, recess, participation in sports, self-help skills,
prevocational/vocational participation, and transportation.
/.Norm-Referenced Tests - Answer-The purpose of a norm-referenced test is to
compare the performance of groups of students typically of the same age or grade level.
Tests comparing one child's result with the results of other children.
/.Criterion-Referenced Tests - Answer-Used to compared a child's score with a
predetermined criterion. (Ex: Concise, written descriptions of what students are
expected to know and be able to do at a specific stage of their education).
/.Summative Test - Answer-Evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit
by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. (Ex: Midterm and final project).
/.Ability Test - Answer-Timed, standardized, designed to measure natural abilities which
we are born with, normed.
/.Aptitude Test - Answer-Determines an individuals natural tendency to succeed in a
given activity. Assume that individuals have inherent strengths and weaknesses, and
are naturally inclined toward success or failure in certain areas based on their innate
characteristics.
/.Achievement Test - Answer-A standardized test designed to assess what a person has
learned in a given grade level.
/.Behavioral Theory - Answer-Leaders are made, not born. Theory of learning based on
the idea that all behaviors are required through conditioning. Conditioning occurs
through interaction with the environment.
Questions and Answers
Analytical (Analytic) Scoring - Answer-Calls for teachers to provide feedback on written
assignments. Assigns individual scores to separate aspects of writing quality. (Multiple
scores)
/.Holistic Scoring - Answer-A single, overall assessment score for the paper as a whole.
/.Raw Scoring - Answer-The number of items answered correctly without adjustment for
guessing. (Ex: If there are 15 problems and 11 are answered correctly, the raw score is
11).
/.Developmental Scoring - Answer-Have been transformed from raw scores and reflect
the average performance at age and grade levels.
/.Title IX of Education Act of 1972 - Answer-Prohibited gender inequalities in federally
funded education, including athletics.
/.Title I Act - Answer-Funding to schools to support education of low-income students
/.I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - Answer-A law that makes
available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities
throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to children.
/.No Child Left Behind Act - Answer-2001 law that set high standards and measurable
goals for education. States that regardless of race, family background, or disability,
every child will learn. Increased the federal role in holding schools accountable for
academic progress.
/.Action Research - Answer-Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms
or schools. Used to help the teacher fine tune their own practice by amassing
information.
/.Descriptive Research - Answer-Type of research that aims to observe and record
behavior. Research that focuses on describing the behavior and the situation within
which it occurs. (Not manipulated).
/.Experimental Research - Answer-Control and manipulate variables. Randomly assign
individuals to various treatment categories.
/.Maslow - Answer-Hierarchy of Needs. People are motivated to achieve certain needs
and that some needed tag precedence over others. Our most basic need is for physical
survival, and this will be the first thing that motivates our behavior.
, /.Thorndike - Answer-Law of Effect. Behavioral responses to specific stimuli are
established through a process of trial and error that affects neural connections between
the stimuli and the most satisfying responses.
/.Erikson - Answer-Theory of Psychosocial Development. Considers the impact of
external factors, parents, and society on personality development from childhood to
adulthood.
/.Watson - Answer-Behaviorism. An approach to psychology that , in his view, was
restricted to the objective, experimental study of the relations between environmental
events and human behavior.
/.Bloom's Taxonomy - Answer-Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis,
synthesis, evaluation. A tool to classify learning from lower level thinking to very high
level thinking.
/.Occupational Therapist - Answer-Support social skills, math, reading and writing,
behavior management, recess, participation in sports, self-help skills,
prevocational/vocational participation, and transportation.
/.Norm-Referenced Tests - Answer-The purpose of a norm-referenced test is to
compare the performance of groups of students typically of the same age or grade level.
Tests comparing one child's result with the results of other children.
/.Criterion-Referenced Tests - Answer-Used to compared a child's score with a
predetermined criterion. (Ex: Concise, written descriptions of what students are
expected to know and be able to do at a specific stage of their education).
/.Summative Test - Answer-Evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit
by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. (Ex: Midterm and final project).
/.Ability Test - Answer-Timed, standardized, designed to measure natural abilities which
we are born with, normed.
/.Aptitude Test - Answer-Determines an individuals natural tendency to succeed in a
given activity. Assume that individuals have inherent strengths and weaknesses, and
are naturally inclined toward success or failure in certain areas based on their innate
characteristics.
/.Achievement Test - Answer-A standardized test designed to assess what a person has
learned in a given grade level.
/.Behavioral Theory - Answer-Leaders are made, not born. Theory of learning based on
the idea that all behaviors are required through conditioning. Conditioning occurs
through interaction with the environment.
