Test Bank Answers at the end

Test Bank (Answers at the end) For Child Development and Education Seventh Edition Teresa M. McDevitt Jeanne Ellis Ormrod, 1 / 4

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CONTENTS

Overview of Test Items Chapter 1 Introduction to Child Development 1 Chapter 2 Research and Assessment 16 Chapter 3 Family, Culture, and Society 30 Chapter 4 Biological Beginnings 48 Chapter 5 Physical Development 58

Chapter 6 Cognitive Development: Piaget and Vygotsky 70

Chapter 7 Cognitive Development: Cognitive Processes 91

Chapter 8 Intelligence 110 Chapter 9 Language Development 127 Chapter 10 Development in the Academic Domains 145 Chapter 11 Emotional Development 162 Chapter 12 Self and Social Understanding 180 Chapter 13 Self-Regulation and Motivation 196 Chapter 14 Moral Development 217 Chapter 15 Peers, Schools, and Society 230 Answer Keys 246 2 / 4

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OVERVIEW OF TEST ITEMS

This test bank provides multiple-choice, essay, and developmental trends questions for Chapters 1–15 of the textbook. The items have been developed with a variety of possible instructional objectives in mind. We urge you to consider the objectives you have for your own students and to select items that best match your objectives.

Providing Directions for the Test Items

Although most of your students are apt to be familiar with both multiple-choice and essay formats, a few of them may not know exactly what you expect them to do. Accordingly, it is usually a good idea to provide specific directions for how to respond to your questions. Here are

examples of various test directions you might use:

Multiple-Choice Items

• Read each question and all alternatives carefully. Choose the best answer in each

case. [Choose appropriate format for your test, and modify as necessary, based on possibilities such as the following.]

• Indicate your choice by clicking on the oval beside the best answer.
• Indicate your choice by circling the letter to the left of your choice.
• Indicate your choice by blackening the corresponding circle on the

answer sheet.If you have questions about any item, please seek clarification.

• For each item, circle the letter corresponding to the single best answer. Whenever

you wish to do so, you may explain your choice in the margin beside the item.Such explanations are optional and will be evaluated only in cases where answers are otherwise “incorrect.”

• For each question, choose the single best answer. Mark all answers on the answer

sheet. Please do not mark the test booklet. You may provide a written justification for any question you wish on the back of the answer sheet.

Essay Questions

• Answer each of the following short answer and essay questions clearly and

concretely. Be sure to answer all parts of each question. There are __ points possible, including __ points on the closed book portion and __ points on the open book portion.

• Answer each question as clearly and completely as you can. Please speak with

me if: (1) you don’t understand what a question is asking you to do, or (2) you’re not sure if one of your responses communicates what you want it to. Although I 3 / 4

Copyright © 2020, 2016, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.vi cannot tell you if you are right or wrong while you are still taking the exam, I can tell you if you are answering the questions I have asked and are communicating your ideas clearly.

In addition, it is helpful for students to know the specific point values you plan to assign to each part of an essay question; you may want to insert these directly into the essay questions you ask.

Guidelines for Scoring Tests

Scoring criteria are provided for each item. Scoring responses to the multiple-choice questions should be relatively simple. If you allow students to defend their choices in the margins, you will have some subjective judgments to make about the appropriateness of their reasoning behind what are otherwise incorrect choices. Scoring responses to the essay questions will naturally be more difficult and time-consuming, but the scoring criteria provided with each question should help you score them consistently and reliably.

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