ATI TEAS EXAM FORM A EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (LATEST-2023)
Read the “Multiple Intelligences” passage before answering the question.
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In the late 1970, the directors of the Bernard van Leer Foundation invited a team of professors from Harvard University’s Graduate School of education to respond to a daunting challenge: Discover a way for every human being to develop to his or her maximum potential. Out of this collaboration of dozens of esteemed professionals came the theory of multiple intelligences (MI).
In 1983, Howard Gardner, a project team member, published Frames of Mind, which sets out the theory in some detail. In this book, Gardner posits that traditional notions of intelligence, which are largely based on I.Q. testing, do not sufficiently address the range of cerebral engagement. In short, various types of intelligence should be considered because different minds have different strengths. For too long, our notion of intelligence has been too narrow.
Originally, Gardner identified seven areas of human intelligence: verbal-linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. A short time later, Gardner added an eighth intelligence: naturalistic.
Traditional school curriculum in Western culture has heavily emphasized learning through the verbal-linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences. This has, according to Gardner, left many students poorly served by our educational system. Gifts in other areas of intelligence, such as the arts, should be identified and encouraged as well. Also, different methodologies of conveying information should be used to engage the distinct strengths of students with varying types of intelligence.
Gardner and others, like author Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., have done much of cause the American educational establishment to rethink the way children learn in school. Many universities include courses about multiple intelligences, and teachers are often encouraged to use the theory of MI in planning their lessons. The result of this reevaluation of intelligence has begun to transform the way teachers teach.
1.Which of the following is a supporting detail of the author’s main idea in the passage?
In this book, Gardner posits that traditional notions of intelligence, which are largely based on I.Q. testing, do not sufficiently address the range of cerebral
engagement.
Traditional notions of intelligence have limited the achievement of many students.
Traditional school curriculum in Western culture has heavily emphasized learning through the verbal-linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences.
Researchers who developed the theory of multiple intelligences have had an effect on education.
2.Which of the following is a logical conclusion based on the passage?
Howard Gardner, at the time of the study, had multiple intelligences.
I.Q. testing focuses mainly on verbal-linguistic and mathematical-logical skills.
Most teachers prefer to use traditional teaching methods in the classroom.
Multiple intelligence principles are excluded from school curricula because they are difficult to test.
3.Which of the following statements best rephrases the key point of Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences as described in the passage?
Verbal-linguistic and logical-mathematical are the two most important types of multiple intelligences.
Cerebral engagement is unrelated to I.Q. testing.
Traditional school curriculum accommodates multiple types of intelligence.
Understanding intelligence effectively requires taking into account overall cerebral engagement.
4.Which of the following changes is appropriate for a teacher who wants to address the theory of MI?
Replacing a history slide show with memorization of names and dates.
Replacing written book reports with multimedia collaborations among students.
Encouraging more girls to enroll in upper-level mathematics courses.
Encouraging classroom completion by using flash card games.
5.Which of the following students would most likely benefit the most from an educational system that incorporates MI into its curriculum?
A student who draws intricate portraits on his notebook.
A student who excels at taking notes during lectures.
A student who likes to take part in spelling bees.
A student who reads at a higher level than her classmates.
Read the passage below before answering the question.
The heroines are in the house. In recent years, there has been a boom of young (YA) literature that has taken readers, and bestseller lists, by storm. Though YA novels have existed nearly as long as the novel itself, current YA novels have reinvented the genre. Now they tend to focus on the plight of a central heroine, a young girl tasked with dismantling the oppressive dystopia she lives in to save her friends and her family. The success of these stories is finally making Hollywood sit up and pay attention to the possibility of how lucrative female-led movies can be, and more female-driven films than ever are taking top spot at the box office.
6.Which of the following is the source of this passage?
Young adult novel
Instruction manual
Book review
Entertainment magazine
7.Below are several trends being discussed in the media. Which of the following trends resembles the theme of the passage’s description of YA literature?
More students are graduating from college in debt than ever before, and they are flooding the job market.
A new cooking technique is being introduced in culinary schools across the world to great success.
The percentage of people under 30 getting married has decreased greatly in the last 20 years.
An automaker redesigned one of its standard models, and now it is one of their top sellers.
Read the passage below before answering the question.
Storytellers known as bards were an important element in sustaining Celtic civilization. They were trained at barding schools where they learned hundreds of poems and different styles of verse. Some bards trained for up 7 years. In addition to singing memorized poems, they composed poems of their own to celebrate important events or commemorate fallen leaders. Many scholars believe that the bards of Brittany, a region in northwest France, and those of Wales created and passed on the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Without the oral traditions, these stories would have been lost.
8.Which of the following supporting details best reinforces the argument presented in the first sentence that bards sustained Celtic civilization? A. Bards were specially trained at barding schools.
Bards trained for as long as 7 years and learned different styles of verse.
In addition to singing memorized poems, bards would compose poems of their own.
Poems written by bards celebrated important events and commemorated fallen leaders.
9.Which of the following best rephrases the topic of the passage? A. The events that led to sustaining Celtic civilization.
The history and purpose of bards.
The importance of the King Arthur legends.
The purpose of barding schools.
10.What is the main purpose of the passage?
To inform
To persuade
To entertain
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