Learning Outcome Quizzes 1

Test Bank Social Studies in Elementary Education Sixteenth Edition Terence A. Beck Walter C. Parker By 1 / 4

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Social Studies Education: What and Why Learning Outcome Quizzes1 Application Exercises11 Test Items17 Test Answer Key20 3 Copyright © 2022, 2017 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2 / 4

Chapter 1: Social Studies Education: What and Why Chapter 1 Learning Outcome Quizzes Learning Outcome 1.1 Explain how the social studies subgoals of knowledge, values and attitudes, and skills help teachers achieve the two main goals of social studies.[Q1] The social studies curriculum is aimed at which two goals?

1.Social understanding and civic competence [correct] 2.Adult employment and democratic citizenship 3.Personal fulfillment and social knowledge 4.Marketable skills and social understanding [Response to Answer Choice 1 (correct)] Social studies aims to teach social understanding so that students might be able to participate effectively in making informed and reasoned decisions for the public good. In other words, students come to understand the social and physical world in order to participate as democratic citizens.[Response to Answer Choice 2] It is hard to argue that holding a job as an adult isn’t important. However, it isn’t one of the primary goals of social studies.[Response to Answer Choice 3] We want students to be personally fulfilled. However, it isn’t one of the primary goals of social studies.[Response to Answer Choice 4] It is hard to argue that having marketable skills as an adult isn’t important. However, it isn’t one of the primary goals of social studies.[Q2] What subgoal of social studies are teachers primarily addressing when they ask students to consider the big ideas contained in historical documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance?

1.Critical thinking and problem solving 2.Chronological understanding 3.Power, authority, and governance 4.Attitudes and values [correct] [Response to Answer Choice 1] 1 Copyright © 2022, 2017 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 3 / 4

Critical thinking and problem solving are important and it is often necessary for students to think critically as they come to understand the big ideas in historical documents. Yet, a focus on critical thinking can avoid the larger subgoal that teachers should address when considering the big ideas in historical documents.[Response to Answer Choice 2] We want students to develop chronological understanding. But, this is not the subgoal that we are primarily addressing.[Response to Answer Choice 3] The theme of power, authority, and governance is clearly related to exploring the big ideas in historical documents. But, this theme is not the subgoal teachers are addressing when they invite students to engage in thinking about the big ideas in historical documents.[Response to Answer Choice 4 (correct)] The big ideas in our historical documents often represent the attitudes and values necessary for democratic citizenship. Social studies is concerned with democratic attitudes and values that help students develop civic competence. One way teachers foster a commitment to our public values by carefully considering the values as they appear in historical documents.[Q3] How do the authors believe that the subgoal of skills in social studies is related to knowledge?

1.Knowledge must be learned before skills 2.Skillful behavior is supported by knowledge [correct] 3.Skills determine knowledge 4.Skills are learned first followed by knowledge [Response to Answer Choice 1] It’s true that knowledge supports skills. However, it isn’t true that students must have all the knowledge before they begin to apply skills. Applying skills requires knowledge (and knowledge is often gained by applying skills). As the authors write, “skillful behavior is skillful because of the knowledge that supports it.” Thus, skillful behavior (such as creating a timeline) is supported by knowledge of the timeline’s subject.[Response to Answer Choice 2 (correct)] Skills require knowledge (and knowledge is often gained by applying skills). As the authors write, “skillful behavior is skillful because of the knowledge that supports it.” Thus, skillful behavior (such as creating a timeline) is supported by knowledge of the timeline’s subject.[Response to Answer Choice 3] Skills are related to knowledge, but not because they determine knowledge. Rather, applying skills require knowledge (and knowledge is often gained by applying skills). As 2 Copyright © 2022, 2017 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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