TJHSST Curriculum Development and Design 4

Question 1

A teacher designs a unit where students apply science, math, and history concepts to analyze a historical environmental disaster. This represents:

Accepted Answer

Interdisciplinary curriculum

Answer

Interdisciplinary curriculum deliberately blends multiple disciplines around a central theme or problem, integrating their concepts and methods.

Question 2

In curriculum mapping, what is the PRIMARY purpose of collecting teachers' calendar maps?

Accepted Answer

To identify gaps, repetitions, and alignment issues across the curriculum

Answer

Calendar maps show what is actually taught and when, enabling curriculum leaders to spot gaps, redundancies, and misalignments.

Question 3

Which curriculum model places student developmental needs and interests at the center of all design decisions?

Accepted Answer

Child-centered (learner-centered) model

Answer

The learner-centered model, rooted in progressive education, designs curriculum around students' needs, interests, and developmental stages.

Question 4

TJHSST's senior research thesis requirement serves which curriculum purpose?

Accepted Answer

Demonstrating capstone integration of knowledge and skills

Answer

A capstone project requires students to synthesize and apply cumulative learning, demonstrating mastery of a program's full breadth of outcomes.

Question 5

Which approach to curriculum development is most closely associated with Ralph Tyler's four fundamental questions?

Accepted Answer

Technical-scientific (rational-linear) model

Answer

Tyler's rationale is the classic technical-scientific model: identify purposes, select experiences, organize them, and evaluate effectiveness.

(TJHSST) Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Practice Test