EDUC 1301 Chapter 10 Quiz

Which statement would most likely be made by a proponent of Common Core Standards?

"What is great about the Common Core Standards is that students will encounter more demanding assignments, and the end result will be a less superficial and more in-depth education in America!"

Identify an accurate statement about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

A high-stakes testing culture was created.

The phenomenon represented by the test-tampering scandal in Atlanta, Georgia, is most closely associated with:

Campbell's law.

Identify an accurate statement in the context of use of computer-based technologies in schools.

Computer-based drills and tutorials in science, social science, and math may be effective in helping students show increased performance on standard multiple-choice tests.

Textbook publishers are under pressure to dumb down textbooks. Hence, authors are asked to avoid the use of difficult words and long sentences. What is the consequence of dumbing down books in this manner?

It can make books harder to read rather than easier to read.

Identify an advantage of being a textbook adoption state.

It provides for a common statewide curriculum.

Which of the following pairs of states, besides Texas and California, have the most influence on textbook creation and adoption?

North Carolina and Florida

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.

Which constitutional amendment is at the heart of the controversies surrounding intelligent design, creationism, and evolution?

The First Amendment

Identify an accurate statement about using a student's test score to assess the teacher.

This a flawed approach because one test score is an inadequate measure of student growth, much less student effectiveness.

A scientific theory, such as the theory of evolution, is:

a well-founded scientific explanation.

The development of common core state standards that have been adopted in most states reflect the influence of:

education commissions and committees.

Participation in the extracurricular activities has been connected with:

higher student self-esteem.

The next major growth area in technology-enabled education appears to be:

hybrid or blended courses delivered neither completely online nor entirely face-to-face.

The role of state governments in curricular decisions has:

increased through state standards and tests, and frameworks for all schools to follow.

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

is formally organized.

In response to an informal complaint, a school librarian quietly removes a book from the library shelf and pretends that the book is out of stock. This is an example of:

self-censorship.

The study of the "saber-tooth curriculum" brings us to the conclusion that:

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

Andrew is a student in the class Rebecca teaches. While Andrew is not in the lowest percentile of the class, he isn't in the highest, either. In fact, Andrew could go either way in terms of passing or failing. Rebecca will spend:

the most amount of time on him because he is a "bubble kid."

A textbook covers twentieth-century U.S. history without mentioning the continuing struggle for civil rights; and pictures throughout the text portray only harmonious relations between the races. This is an example of a form of bias known as:

unreality.