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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who founded the Workshop Center at City College in New York?
(a) Joan Cenedella.
(b) Alice Jefferson.
(c) John Holt.
(d) Lillian Weber.
2. According to Ayers, what are standardized tests?
(a) A great measurement tool.
(b) Good.
(c) Excellent.
(d) Bad.
3. In Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," what is the process of narrowing, punishing, and controlling from the outside that too often passed for assessment?
(a) Assessed.
(b) Factory-produced.
(c) Universalized.
(d) Standardized.
4. Who was critically injured in a mountain climbing accident and struggled to walk?
(a) Malik.
(b) Andrew.
(c) David.
(d) John.
5. According to Ayers, what consumes millions and millions of education dollars?
(a) Failing school districts.
(b) Successful school districts.
(c) The testing industry.
(d) Textbook companies.
6. How do students often meet the curriculum as suggested by Ayers?
(a) Happily.
(b) With excitiment.
(c) With indifference.
(d) Upset.
7. According to Ayers, what are tests surrounded by?
(a) Extreme colored borders.
(b) Stereotyping.
(c) Rituals.
(d) Untrue statements.
8. What do many teachers, according to Ayers, keep in a file cabinet or shelf that became part of a "museum"?
(a) Anecdotal records.
(b) Student work.
(c) Checklists.
(d) Tape recordings.
9. As suggested in Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," who requires standardized tests to comply with state law?
(a) Principals.
(b) Parents.
(c) Teachers.
(d) School district leaders.
10. Who believed that "human beings spent their lives weaving webs of significance"?
(a) June Jordan.
(b) Gilbert Ryle.
(c) Gomer Pyle.
(d) Lisa Delpit.
11. Who spent most of the summer designing a "core study" for students?
(a) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(b) Joan Cenedella.
(c) Alice Jefferson.
(d) John Holt.
12. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," who suggested to "go into yourself"?
(a) Addams.
(b) Dewey.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Stanislavsky.
13. What does great teaching demand according to Ayers?
(a) An openness to standardized testing.
(b) Unique perspectives.
(c) An openness to something new.
(d) An close-mind.
14. Which score from a sample group was the norm as suggested by Ayers?
(a) The middle score.
(b) The lowest score.
(c) The highest score.
(d) The middle score divided by 2.
15. Ayers believes that what is more than pieces of information, more than subject matter, more even than the disciplines?
(a) Life.
(b) Curriculum.
(c) Course work.
(d) School.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Ayers say could be life-saving in the teaching experience?
2. Who must be autobiographers and be authentic suggested by Ayers?
3. Who founded the Hull House?
4. In Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum," which college was referenced in a conversation Zelma participated in?
5. How does Ayers feel about standardized tests?
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