EDF 366 Final

Surveys on bullying reveal that ___ percent of students have admitted bullying a classmate.

More than 40

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Most Arab Americans living in the United States are Christian.

Which statement is TRUE?

Most Native American children are educated in public schools.

Women and girls in the United States (pick all that apply)

have in the past been banned from many schools and still encounter differential treatment in class.

Hispanics in the United States...:

have the youngest and fastest-growing school-age population

The Cherokee leader Sequoyah was a critical figure in Cherokee education because

he enabled the development of a written Cherokee language

In a math class, the teacher always calls on the males, being sure to give them more wait time than the females. When male students get the answer correct, they receive specific, targeted praise, while the girls receive generic, one-word feedback. All of the posters in the room reference men who have done great things with mathematics, while there are no references to females who use math in society. By the end of the year, both the males and the females believe that "math is for boys and not for girls." Such a lesson would be part of the:

hidden curriculum.

State governments typically do NOT

hire school personnel.

Which one of the following features of U.S. education today CANNOT be traced to colonial times?

national teacher competency tests

The difference between a norm-referenced and objective-referenced test is:

norm-referenced tests compare students to each other rather than to a set standard.

The Buckley Amendment ensures the rights of ______ to access educational records

parents and guardians

As a member of the school board, you have been informed that, as a result of the continued economic difficulties your state is experiencing, the amount of educational revenues for the district will be cut by another 8 to 10 percent. When it is time to meet with your colleagues on the board to discuss the budget, you are likely to recommend all of the following EXCEPT:

reducing the number of standardized tests students must take as a way to save on testing costs.

Student perceptions about gender identities and roles tend to take shape by:

second grade

During the next election cycle, voters in your state will be asked to vote on a measure to equalize funding by mandating that more affluent districts (like the one in which you live) must share revenues with poorer ones. One evening, you watch a commercial created by those opposing the ballot measure. During the spot, you might hear all of the following arguments EXCEPT:

"We are all in this together, and those of us who have benefited economically owe a helping hand to our fellow Americans."

Which of the following reasons support the idea that American schools may be better than we believe or hear about in the media? Mark all that apply. (one point per correct answer)

-Other countries may have a highly selective process for allowing students to enroll in school -Low test scores sometimes reflect timing of the curriculum -Americans value a comprehensive education. -Other countries may exclude students who do not speak the dominant language from taking the tests

When a high school student falls asleep in class because of working frequent late shifts at her job, an effective teacher might treat this as

A physiological issue

When a teacher spends a week of a class time talking about important female inventors during "Women's History Month," he is most likely taking the _______ approach to multicultural education

Additive

When David Owen returned to high school to study peer culture he found

Adolescents tend to be very self-conscious in their peer groups

According to the text, nationally, the most widespread form of substance abuse is

Alcohol abuse

James Banks's fourth level of multicultural curriculum, social action...

All of these are right

Which of the following BEST describes the influence of the federal government on education?

Although the Constitution prescribes no clear role for the federal government in education, federal influence is strong and growing.

James had always struggled in math, but at the end of the first grading period of the new year, he had earned a "B." When his parents praised him on his improvement, he said, "Of course I got a good grade. Mrs. Adams thinks I'm great, and she taught the class a lot." James's statement would seem to most likely indicate

An external locus of control

The most culturally diverse group to enter the United States legally since the 1970s is

Asian/Pacific Americans

ward Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences refers to

At least six areas of intelligence in addition to mathematic and verbal intelligence

Research indicates that because of non-instructional demands (discipline problems, attendance, etc.), teachers lose what percentage of instructional time?

Between 25 and 50 percent

Which statement best describes the history of bilingual education in the United States?

Bilingual education has gone through cycles of acceptance and rejection in the US, often in response to wars and changes in immigration patterns

According to the text, rather than determine the single best way to prepare teachers, we should inquire the following of all teacher preparation programs:

Do the candidates have strong content knowledge? Have they received effective pedagogical training? Have they had meaningful clinical experiences?

Which of the following does NOT counter the effects of stereotype threat among students:

Explaining that stereotype threat actually impacts relatively few students

Paula had always demonstrated a love for the outdoors. She looked forward to the autumn days when her teacher would take her class to the woods near the school. She could identify every tree, shrub, and animal. In the opinion of Paula's teacher Paula

Had naturalistic intelligence

The name most closely associated with the Common School Movement is

Horace Mann.

Lessons delivered in a "sheltered" or simplified English vocabulary are using the _____ approach to bilingual education.

Immersion

Based on the authors' discussion, all of the following statements are true for Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) students EXCEPT:

Increased zero-tolerance school safety policies have been effective in reducing the harassment of LGBTQ students

Lemon v. Kurtzman was a supreme court case that declared that

It is illegal to use public funds to support religious education

Pay for performance, or merit pay,

Links teacher salaries to student achievement

Effective schools, according to the book, have each of these factors EXCEPT:

Manageable student-to-teacher ratios

The Old Deluder Satan Law of 1647 required that

Massachusetts provide education for young people so that they would be able to read Scriptures and prepare for university

The first real textbook used in eighteenth-century colonial schools, promoting not only mastery of the alphabet but also religious morality, was the:

New England Primer

Parents often opt to homeschool their children because

Parents can incorporate religious content into the curriculum.

What was the U.S. Supreme Court decision that protected teachers' freedom of speech to publicly express themselves as long as the statements are not malicious or intentionally inaccurate and do not disclose confidential material or hamper teaching performance?

Pickering v. Board of Education

The Supreme Court established the doctrine of "separate but equal" in the court case:

Plessy v. Ferguson.

School choice is supposed to help children and schools by

Promoting competition and innovation among schools, ensuring that success is rewarded and failure punished.

Least restrictive environment (LRE) refers to

Protecting students with disabilities from being inappropriately segregated from their age-group peers.

One factor that makes charter schools different from regular district schools is:

Regular schools are run by the district and the state; charters are run by private groups, either of community members or corporations.

Which of the following is NOT a criteria for a profession, according to AACTE?

Salaries must be relatively high for those entering the profession

When people remember their high school experiences, they are most likely to recall issues concerning the

Social status system

When a teacher says, "What can you expect from a kid like Amy? You know, her family doesn't have a dime to their names," she is demonstrating

Soft bias

Which of the following is NOT one of Ladson-Billings's three culturally responsive principles for multicultural teaching?

Students must be immersed in a multicultural environment, which teaches accommodation and identification with other ethnic or cultural groups.

Pygmalion in the Classroom showed that teachers have outsized effects on student achievement in the following way:

Teachers' expectations of students influence students' actual achievement

The 2013 Metropolitan Life survey of teachers showed what trend compared with the 2008 Metropolitan Life survey of teachers?

The 2013 survey was less optimistic, likely due in part to the economic downturn.

Discrimination against Asian Americans has taken the following forms EXCEPT

compulsory ignorance laws

Pedagogy is:

The art and science of teaching

Some students in a class seem to learn best visually, while others are more kinesthetically inclined. These differences can be attributed to

The cognitive domain

According to Dr. James Banks, a teacher who focuses on "ethnic heroes" is practicing this approach to multicultural education

The contributions approach

"Value-added" methods of evaluating teachers has to do with

The extent to which a student's level of achievement is attributable to their individual teacher.

In terms of schooling's purpose, "acculturation" refers to

The mission to make sure immigrants, especially, learn "American" values.

One argument against merit pay includes:

The potentially vague connection between a test score and the teacher's ability to teach

Studies on the relationship between high school popularity and later success in life indicate:

There is little correlation between being in the higher status groups and later-in-life success.

In investigating the differences between learning styles of boys and girls, Janet Hyde found that:

There were no meaningful differences between the sexes.

Magnet schools became popular largely in the 1960s and 70s because

They provided a means of voluntarily desegregating schools by attracting non-neighborhood kids to schools in predominantly minority communities

A student is upset with the use of special interest funds in the Congressional elections in her local district. As a protest, she attaches several corporate logos to her clothes, advertising everything from oil companies to automobiles. To the teachers and students who ask her, she explains that this is her way of protesting the influence of big business in national politics. Her right to undertake this activity was established in:

Tinker v. Des Moines.

You are teaching in a school that has recently established a computer repair program. You notice that all the students in the program are male. You find out that the school has done nothing to attract females into this computer repair training, and in fact, the teacher in charge is hostile to teaching females, explaining that "they will get married, have kids, and never use what I teach them." What federal legislation is being violated?

Title IX of the Education Amendments

Normal schools were established to

Train teachers in academic subjects and teaching methodology

A child who is expelled for bringing nail clippers to school is probably experiencing the consequence of:

a zero-tolerance policy.

Prior to the Civil War, laws denying slaves the opportunity for education were called

compulsory ignorance.

It is illegal for prospective employers to question an applicant's:

age

District wide, at-large elections typically result in local school board members that are:

conservative, elite, middle or upper class.

A group of high school students are upset with the new dress code implemented by the school district. In response, they created an "underground" school newspaper that they self-published to poke fun at the rules and the administrators who enforce them. Under these circumstances, school administrators:

could neither discipline the students over the paper nor demand the right to review future copies under Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeir.

As a new teacher, you receive the following piece of advice: "If you want a long and happy career at this school, you had better be sure that you stay on the secretary's good side." This counsel involves the issue of:

covert power

State governments influence the curriculum by

creating state standards, curriculum guides, and frameworks.

A teacher is assigned afternoon bus duty as part of her responsibilities. One day, she decided that she needed to telephone a parent of one of her students regarding that child's academic difficulties, so the teacher did not report for her duty. That afternoon, a child was injured when he ran out in front of a moving school bus. In this scenario the teacher most likely demonstrated:

educational malpractice

According to the text, a call for accountability in schools means that people want

evidence that increased financial support results in educational progress

The influence of the business community in America's schools can best be characterized as:

extensive and growing.

High stakes testing has been criticized for:

failing to consistently correlate with other measures of student learning.

The contribution of the federal government has shifted in recent years

from categorical grants to block grants.

State influence over the curriculum has been

increasing

The principle protecting a teacher's right to teach without coercion, censorship, or other restrictive interference:

is known as "academic freedom."

A school superintendent:

is the most powerful education officer in the district.

School districts eventually resorted to hiring an increasing number of female teachers because

it was economically advantageous.

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

linguistic bias.

At the school where you teach, you notice that most of the African-American students seem to be in the remedial and vocational classes, whereas the honors and gifted classes seem to be overwhelmingly white. You notice that this demographic pattern even holds for the PE classes, where some classes are almost all white, while others seem to be almost all black. What you are witnessing at your school is an example of

second-generation segregation

According to the Supreme Court,

teachers may neither promote nor suppress student prayer.

One of the major implications of the Education Week teacher survey was:

teaching is being redefined as test preparation.

Current residential and demographic patterns imply:

that schools are becoming increasingly segregated again.

In Sex in Education, Dr. Edward Clarke argued

that women should be provided with a less demanding education.

The concept of using property tax as a major source of public school funding had its roots in:

the colonial period, when wealth was measured in terms of farm size

The Common School Movement represented

the effort to establish public elementary schooling

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

the formal curriculum.

The "digital divide" is:

the gap between the technology haves and have nots

The null curriculum is:

the material not taught in schools

Colleges and universities influence the curriculum because:

they dictate what the entry requirements for students will be.

Which of the following best describes the system of funding U.S. schools?

very decentralized, with local and state governments bearing most of the costs

In matters involving a teacher's private conduct, a governing principle that determines whether the teacher may be dismissed is often (choose only one):

whether the teacher's actions result in "substantial disruption" of the educational process