Chapter 10 Test

"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corrupt pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor."

Campbell's Law

Which of the following represents a way in which a teacher might informally influence curriculum?

Paula decides to include literature from the African continent in her high school English class apart from the prescribed texts from American literature.

The two states that are most influential in the state adoption process are

Texas and California.

Research on the effectiveness of computers in education shows that

although a popular idea, the jury is still out on the effectiveness of computers in schools.

Textbook adoption states

are common in the South.

The push for more testing

concerns those who protest the use of class time for test preparation.

"Intelligent design"

credits an unnamed intelligence for aspects of nature unexplained by science.

High-stakes testing has been criticized for

failing to consistently correlate with other measures of student learning.

Which of the following would be LEAST supported by the back-to-basics movement?

incorporating demanding programs that meet the interests of students

According to educator Hilda Taba, learning in school is different than learning in life because the former:

is formally organized.

A textbook uses "he" and "mankind" to refer to all people. This is an example of bias called

linguistic bias

One of the criticisms of the textbook industry is the tendency to include a great deal of content in a superficial way. This is known as the

mentioning phenomenon.

Standardized tests are popular for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

reflects actual student talents and performance

The formal curriculum of the 17th century was primarily concerned with

religion and reading.

All of the following statements about the extracurriculum are true EXCEPT

since Title IX, high school boys and girls have participated in varsity sports in equal numbers.

The main point of The Saber Tooth Curriculum is that

slavish devotion to the content of past times can result in a curriculum obsolete in the face of contemporary realities.

In the 1960s, the curriculum emphasized

social issues.

The state government influences curriculum by

sponsoring standards and standardized testing.

Teachers shape the curriculum by

supplementing an official curriculum with other materials and objectives.

In the era of No Child Left Behind, evidence shows that for many schools, teaching is being redefined as ____________ preparation?

test

The sequence of planned learning experiences described in course guides and syllabi is called

the formal curriculum or explicit curriculum.

A major difference between the formal and the hidden curriculum is

the hidden curriculum arises spontaneously from interactions between students and their environments.

As a student in college, Luisa was shocked at some of the things she was learning in her Survey of American History course. Although she had studied American history before, her teachers had completely omitted many of the things that she was learning for the first time. Luisa's experiences most closely reflect the effects of:

the null curriculum.

A textbook covers 20th century U.S. history without mentioning the continuing struggle for civil rights, and pictures throughout the text portray only harmonious race relations. This is an example of bias called

unreality