1 | P a g e WGU D307 OA EXAM / WGU D307 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM TEST BANK 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A Maslow's hierarchy of needs is important for teachers to understand. Describe how Maslow's hierarchy of needs impacts a child's educational experience. - ANSWER- Maslow's theory postulated that all humans have multiple needs. All of these needs must be satisfied before students are able to focus their attention toward maximizing their potential. Students who are hungry, tired, or feel unsafe cannot focus on their schoolwork. A teacher asks students, "Who was the first person to walk on the moon?" Which level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy is the teacher asking students to use? Understanding Creating Analyzing Remembering - ANSWER- Remembering True or False 2 | P a g e A teacher who wants to measure the progress of the entire class as a whole should use a norm-referenced assessment. - ANSWER- False True or False Before beginning a lesson on the three branches of government, a social studies teacher wants to find out how much his or her students already know about the subject. This teacher should administer a diagnostic assessment. - ANSWERTrue A music teacher wants to assess the progress each student in the band has made from the beginning to the end of the year. As part of this assessment, he records each band member playing an individual piece of music at the end of every month. Which kind of assessment strategy would be suitable, given the teacher's goal? Select all that apply. Performance or authentic assessment Objective assessment Standardized assessment Criterion-referenced assessment - ANSWER- Criterion-referenced assessment Performance or authentic assessment Which theory of learning most closely aligns with cooperative and collaborative learning? - ANSWER- Constructivism 3 | P a g e Which theory of learning most closely aligns with direct instruction? - ANSWER- Behaviorism In Ms. Martinez's 10th-grade science class, the students participated in a round-robin discussion that focused on whether astronauts will successfully land on Mars. During the discussion, Ms. Martinez made sure that each student had a chance to participate in the conversation and share their opinion with the group. According to Maslow, ensuring students were able to participate and share their opinions would fulfill which need? - ANSWER- love and belonging A teacher makes sure to say something positive to each student after they give their speech in class. Which need is the teacher trying to meet? - ANSWER- love and belonging Children at this age need frequent opportunities for physical activity, like a short walk to collect leaves to use in an art lesson or a "music and march" time to begin the day. - ANSWER- preschool You have noticed that a few of your preschool children do not seem to be engaged with the outdoor play equipment. What can you do to make the outdoor environment more appealing? Place jump ropes outside. Have a monkey bar set outside. Support children as they create their own games. 4 | P a g e Add bicycles to the toys outside. - ANSWER- Support children as they create their own games. Thomas was saddened to see a big letter F on his latest math test. Maslow would say Thomas is most likely deficient in which need? - ANSWER- esteem Mr. Jackson's 5th grade Language Arts students created posters for a book they had read in class. After the posters were finished, Mr. Jackson hung the posters on the wall for all of the class to see. According to Maslow, hanging the posters on the wall would fulfill which need? - ANSWER- esteem At which stage do children make slow and steady height and weight gains? - ANSWER- middle childhood Mrs. Major jokes with her students that since they've all grown by at least 3 to 5 inches since the start of the school year they seem like different students. Given that her students are growing at an average rate of 4 inches a year, Mrs. Major's students are most likely in which age group? - ANSWER- adolescence LaTonya is learning to sew and is becoming quite good at it. LaTonya is most likely working at which stage of physical development? - ANSWER- middle childhood