Kirsten Gregg

Dr D.

Educ 209

Summative Evaluation

Multiple Choice

1. What is the theory that involves students being an active part of their learning while gaining
new knowledge by their own discovery and breaking down complex information for themselves.

A. Constructivism

B. Behaviorism

C. Cognitivism

D. Social and Contextual

2. What process of teaching allows students to work with a complex problem and figure out what
they need to be able to solve it?

A. Scaffolding

B. Peer Tutoring

C. Bottom-Up

D. Top-Down

3. Which one is not part of the Problem-Solving Process?

A. Explore possible strategies

B. Identify problems and opportunities

C. Anticipate outcomes and act

D. Define goals and respect the problem

E. Look back and learn

4. According to the text what is the most worthwhile way to teach children how to problem
solve?

A. By giving them worksheets to keep them working on problems throughout the day.
 B. By providing students with feedback on their process and solution.

C. By providing problems that are slightly too difficult.

D. By having the teacher working through every problem with the student.

5. An example of cooperative learning would be…

A. Paring students together to think and discuss a question or problem.

B. Having groups of students of different levels work together on an in class assignment.

C. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

D. Students in pairs taking turns being the teacher and the learner.

E. All of the above.

Constructed Response

1.A child who is working in their________________ is able to work on a slightly more difficult
task with the assistance of a peer or teacher.

Answer: Zone of Proximal Development

2.__________________ is a name for students working together to in groups to learn about and
discover new concepts.

Answer: Cooperative Learning or Peer-Assisted Learning

3. Through this process, two or more students talk out as many ideas as they can think of
regardless of their validity in order to find the best solution. __________________ is one way to
come up with a solution to a problem.

Answer: Brainstorming

4. Lev Vygotsky is the theorist whose 4 principles include: __________________, the zone of
proximal development, cognitive apprenticeship, and mediated learning.

Answer: social learning

5. Student Teams–Achievement Divisions are made up of a mixture of students including

students from different genders, a mix of ethnicities and _________levels which allows the
students to work with an array of different thoughts and ideas.

Answer: Performance
Reflection:

As I look back over my questions that I have created, I feel that I have successfully been
able to come up with appropriately constructed multiple choice and constructed response
questions. According to the text on page 368 in the section called “Multiple- Choice Items”, it
explains that multiple choice questions needs to be formed in the appropriate way so that anyone
taking the test is not able to just guess the answer, even people who has no read the text.
Furthermore, it says that answers should all be written in a similar way to not give away the
answer. I feel that I stayed consistent throughout my choices in my questions which would
require students to have actually read the text to earn a high score on this test. Also in “Multiple-
Choice Items” it says to have four to five possible answers which include the distractor answers.
I think that I was able to offer answers that could be possible and would make it difficult for a
student who has not read the text to just guess the answers. As for the constructed response
questions that I created, followed along the lines of what is talked about on page 370 of the text
book. Under the heading “Writing Constructed-Response Items” it talks about using fill in the
blank questions as one option for writing this type of question. Using this type of questioning
allows for the student to answer themselves, which can make the test more difficult for student,
because they have to supply their own answer. Using fill in the black format for the test
questions, “can reduce the element of test wiseness to near zero”(Fill-in-the-Blank Items) This
meaning that students are not going to have the advantage of using the format to help them get a
higher grade. This is going to be one way that my tests can foster learning, because students will
know that they need to study for the tests and actually learn the material rather than just
overview the material and make guesses. Offering different kinds of questions on a test will help
students be able to apply their knowledge not just pick an answer. This allows teachers to see
how the students are really doing and what they understand compared to what they are not. This
will allow the teacher to adjust their teaching as needed to benefit students and foster learning.
The teacher can then take their new data and make a plan to reteach the lesson or topic that
students seem to be lacking in which is discussed on page 353 in the textbook.