Test items: Chapter 8
Preparing to Use Technology: A Practical Guide for Curriculum Integration, 2e
Chapter 8: Digital Diagrams, Maps and Webs
1. What is meant by the statement that struggling readers are inefficient learners?
a. They might spend hours reviewing vocabulary terms, finding key ideas from text and
notes, and developing diagrams of major concepts.
b. They might spend hours re-reading an assignment or reading a passage straight through,
skipping over unknown terms and not stopping to question weather or not they understand
what they are reading. ••
c. They are strategic
d. They may readily use strategies for learning new material
2. The advantage of using a visual learning software program such as Inspiration is the
curriculum flexibility that it gives both teachers and students. An example of this
flexibility is:
a. Visual learning software, paired with learning strategies, allows students with special
needs to stay in classes with other struggling readers where they are more comfortable.
b. Visual learning software is an efficient example of strategy training.
c. Visual learning software programs allow the teacher or the student to add links to
definitions, video clips, or Internet sites in order to illustrate a point or to demonstrate what
has been learned. ••
d. Visual learning software helps to hold student interest during note taking by organizing
ideas around a concept map.
3. How does working in a digital environment enable the teacher to adapt visual learning
tools for students with disabilities?
a. The information display is consistently fixed, allowing for greater motor memory training.
b. The digital environment may be transformed in appearance or format such as increasing
the size of the screen, or having the text read aloud. ••
c. A digital environment restricts access to other areas of additional information through
hyperlinks and web sites.
d. A digital environment allows the teacher to retrofit adaptations that support learning
differences, thereby reducing the time allocated to IEP documentation.
4. How may the features of Inspiration support the writing process for students with
disabilities?
a. The templates provided in the program are used to develop a database of the concept
being studied.
b. Once a diagram is completed, the outline view of Inspiration may be exported to a word
processor, thus providing writing support. ••
c. The program provides cognitive supports such as a dictionary, thesaurus, word prediction,
and text to speech.
d. The Venn diagrams are interactive, allowing students to correct their own work prior to writing a
Test items: Chapter 8
Preparing to Use Technology: A Practical Guide for Curriculum Integration, 2e
5. Visual learning tools allow students to
a. create concept maps that show the relationships between concepts
b. analyze characters in a story
c. create a plan for a multimedia or web project
d. all of the above••
6. It has been proven through research that pictures or illustrations can enhance learning
if the picture or illustration is
a. saved as a .jpeg format for the web
b. presented in full color
c. related to the text and helps the learner to understand the text ••
d. crisp and consistency placed in the narrative
7. A popular diagramming software program that is suggested for use in the classrooms of
students in grades K-5 is:
a. Kidspiration••
b. Adobe Acrobat
c. Inspiration
d. Adobe Photoshop Elements
8. This learning theory suggests that there is a limit to the information that can be
processed at one time and if that limit is exceeded, no learning will take place. This
theory is
a. Dual coding theory
b. Schema theory
c. Cognitive load theory ••
d. Behavioral theory
9. This learning theory suggests that learners code information in both verbal and
nonverbal formats and that both can be addressed with visual learning tool. This theory
is
a. Dual coding theory ••
b. Schema theory
c. Cognitive load theory
d. Behavioral theory
10. The Institute of the Advancement of Research in Education reviewed the existing
research on the use of graphic organizers and concluded that visual learning improves
student performance in the areas of
a. literacy development
b. critical thinking
c. retention and recall
d. all of the above ••
Test items: Chapter 8
Preparing to Use Technology: A Practical Guide for Curriculum Integration, 2e
11. Planning projects can be assisted by using visual learning tools such as
a. concept maps
b. idea maps
c. storyboards ••
d. webs
12. The analysis of books, characters, similarities and differences can be assisted by
a. concept maps
b. idea maps
c. storyboards
d. webs ••
13. A web-based diagramming tool is
a. Inspiration
b. Webspiration ••
c. Kidspiration
d. all of the above are web-based
14. The purpose of linking words in a diagram is to
a. fill up space
b. identifies the relationship between the symbols ••
c. add a hyperlink
d. assist the arrangement of the diagram
15. David Ausubel proposed that visuals such as maps assisted learning especially when
that learning was
a. familiar ideas
b. unfamiliar or abstract ideas ••
c. uninteresting
d. subjective