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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Keeping Track.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?
(a) At Risk.
(b) Culturally deprived.
(c) Savages.
(d) Barbarians.

2. What type of questions make up the majority of the standardized test?
(a) Essay questions.
(b) Matching.
(c) Short answer questions.
(d) Multiple choice questions.

3. What grade levels were standardized testing banned around the nation?
(a) 2-5 grades.
(b) Kindergarten and 1st grade.
(c) 11th and 12th grade.
(d) Kindergarten- 2nd grade.

4. Who described a student as "ordinarily expressive and lively when talking about ideas and information"?
(a) Jessica Howard.
(b) Pat Carini.
(c) David Carroll.
(d) Maxine Greene.

5. Who underlined the importance of identity and broadening group affiliation with adolescents?
(a) Erik Erikson.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Abraham Maslow.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a fixed and unvarying oversimplified belief that carries negative undercurrents?

2. Who argued that good teachers incorporated all kinds of instructional strategies and are vigilant for "what works"?

3. Who assigns numbers to textbooks linking books to "grade-level"?

4. How old was Chesa when Ayers began caring for him?

5. What allows teachers to see what students are up to while asking them to do the work themselves?

(see the answer key)

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