Problem Level Assessment Tool for Educational Task Solving Test - the question form
Questions: 12 · 3 minutes
1. Unexpected difficulties the previous day prevented you from preparing for today’s lesson, in which you planned to explain a new topic.
You postpone the new topic and review the previous lesson.
You present the new material without having a lesson plan.
Both options
2. You need help from three students to decorate the classroom for a holiday, but no one is willing to help.
a) Given the situation, you assign your own helpers.
b) You highlight the appealing aspects of the task and continue to hope that volunteers will help.
Both options
3. You are teaching new material in class, and one aspect of it prompts "inappropriate" laughter from students.
You go into this aspect in more detail, using the audience's increased attention.
You do not approve of the class's behavior, ask them to stop laughing, and continue the lesson.
Both options
4. You enter the classroom and hear a low murmur that grows louder—the students have declared a boycott.
Given the time constraints, you feel forced to take strict measures (e.g., remove the instigators from the classroom).
You try to find out why the class is dissatisfied.
Both options.
5. During a lesson on new material, a student says they did not understand.
a) You explain the unclear material again (immediately or after the lesson).
b) You ask one of the students who understood to explain the material to their classmate.
Both options
6. In the middle of a lesson, one of the students unexpectedly stands up and leaves the classroom, slamming the door.
You ask the students sitting nearby whether anyone knows the reason for this behavior.
You go after the student and insist that they return to the classroom.
Both options
7. You are substituting for a colleague who is ill in a class you do not know. The students show poor understanding of the previous topic, but your task is to cover a new topic with them.
You focus on covering the new topic.
You begin working on problems from the topic the students do not know well.
Both options
8. One of the students regularly arrives late to the first class. When asked to explain, the student repeatedly says that they overslept.
a) You offer reasonable help in addressing this problem.
b) You stop allowing the student into the classroom if they are late.
Both options
9. A student asks a question in class that you do not know the answer to.
You admit that you do not know the answer and offer to answer next time.
You try to answer, knowing that your knowledge of the topic is limited and the student is unlikely to find information that would expose this.
Both options
10. You notice that students from low-income families are being discriminated against in the class.
You devote an extracurricular session to a discussion of moral and ethical values (genuine and false).
You start reprimanding the students who are bullying others.
Both options
11. During discussion of new material, some students express viewpoints that contradict each other.
You identify the correct viewpoint and explain why it is correct.
You ask students to justify their viewpoints and decide for themselves which is correct.
Both options
12. You notice that many students are not following basic etiquette rules (for example, not letting older people go first, being rude, etc.).
a) You address the students who break the rules, pointing out their mistakes.
b) You devote an extracurricular session to discussing rules of good manners and suggest holding a contest.
Both options