Quiz 4
Educ 1101
Spring 2005
Form A
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1. The goals of this educational theory are to transmit cultural heritage and develop good citizens. Subject matter
includes literature, history, foreign languages, and religion.
a. perennialism
b. essentialism
c. behaviorism
d. existentialism
2. Activities are designed to discipline the mind. Subjects taught include mathematics, language, logic, great books, and
doctrines.
a. positivism
b. essentialism
c. perennialism
d. behaviorism
3. The task of education is to develop learning environments that lead to desired behaviors in students.
a. behaviorism
b. positivism
c. perennialism
d. academieism
4. An educational theory that emphasizes that ideas should be tested by experimentation and that learning is rooted in
questions developed by learners.
a. progressivism
b. positivism
c. essentialism
d. realism
5. An educational approach in which students are taught to analyze world events, explore controversial issues, and
develop a vision for a new and better world.
a. essentialism
b. socialism
c. reconstructionism
d. humanism
6. This theory stresses learning activities during which students are free to infer and discover their own answers to
important questions.
a. idealism
b. humanism
c. constructivism
d. essentialism
7. Who developed the educational theory of progressivism?
a. John Dewey
b. Carl Rogers
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. Horace Mann
8.Which educational theory views human experiences as the basis for knowledge?
a. essentialism
b. progressivism
c. idealism
d. all of the above
9. Goals are to transmit cultural heritage and develop good citizens. Subject matter includes literature, history, foreign
languages, and religion. This educational theory is:
a. essentialism
b. constructivism
c. perennialism
d. positivism
10. The three basic principles of essentialism are a core of information, student-centered instruction, and hard work and
mental discipline:
a. true
b. false
11. Teacher-centered educational theories include:
a. essentialism, progressivism, constructivism
b. reconstructionism, humanism, progressivism
c. essentialism, positivism, perennialism
d. none of the above
12. Which of the following is a characteristic of a student-centered teaching style?
a. rigid seating
b. discovery based learning
c. little peer interaction
d. all of the above
13. The lesson plans of a student-centered teacher would emphasize all of the following except:
a. ‘right’ answers
b. class participation
c. processes
d. skills
14. The teacher-centered classroom will include all of the following except:
a. flexible seating arrangements
b. emphasis on factual content
c. focus on convergent learning
d. evaluation based on group norms
15. Motivation consists of two parts:
a. external action or behavior and internal drives or desires
b. physical needs and internal drives or desires
c. emotions and physical needs
d. social values and emotions
16. The belief that students are inherently capable of solving their own problems best describes which of the following
philosophies?
a. behaviorists
b. interactionists
c. interventionists
d. non-interventionists
17. Control theory as a requisite for classroom discipline practices has been advanced by:
a. Charles Wolfgang
b. B.F. Skinner
c. William Glasser
d. Margaret Spellings
18. Students are inherently capable of solving their own problems; this best describes:
a. non-interventionists
b. interactionists
c. behaviorists
d. interventionists
19. Teachers must set classroom standards for conduct; this best describes:
a. interactionists
b. interventionists
c. non-interventionists
d. behaviorists
20. Voice is the multifaceted interlocking set of meanings through which students and teachers actively engage with
one another.
a. true
b. false
21. Control theory is. a theory of discipline that contends that people choose most of their behaviors to gain control of
other people or themselves.
a. true
b. false
22. Classroom organization includes:
a. content
b. methods
c. values
d. all of the above
23. Classroom climate is best defined as:
a. the temperature of the classroom when students are in it
b. the underlying relationships and a tone or sense of being and feeling in the classroom
c. the teacher telling the students what to think and how to feel in school
d. the lack of communication between students and the teacher
24. Teacher centered authority includes
a. low teacher control discipline
b. internal control for motivation
c. learning focused on convergent thinking
d. a flexible, loose, classroom organization
25. Non-interventionist teacher control means:
a. high teacher control/low student control
b. equal teacher/student control
c. low teacher control/high student control
d. complete teacher control
26. Standards in education refers to:
a. statements about what students should know about various subjects
b. world class goals based upon the performance of outstanding individuals
c. knowledge and skills that will enable students to live independent lives
d. all of the above
27. The type of standard which includes knowledge, skills, and dispositions in various subject areas is:
a. delivery or opportunity to learn standards
b. content standards
c. performance standards
d. academic standards
28. Broad statements about knowledge and skills a student or teacher should have at a certain level are called:
a. performance standards
b. academic standards
c. content standards
d. delivery or opportunity to learn standards
29. The type of standard that provides for proper instructional resources, assessments, and system structures is called:
a. performance standards
b. content standards
c. academic standards
d. delivery or opportunity to learn standards
30. What is a level of development toward the achievement of a standard called?
a. goal
b. outcome
c. benchmark
d. disposition
31. Assessment includes all of the following except:
a. lesson plans
b. tests
c. rubrics
d. grades
32. The ACT and SAT tests are examples of assessments used as:
a. gatekeeping
b. summative
c. diagnostic
d. formative
33. Student teaching is an example of which type of assessment?
a. diagnostic
b. authentic
c. capstone
d. norm-referenced
34. A tool that uses day-to-day activities to decide if some behavior is being displayed is called:
a. a learning log
b. observation
c. rubric
d. interview
35. A rubric that measures all the criteria simultaneously and makes an overall evaluation is considered:
a. point to point
b. holistic
c. analytic
d. behavioral
36. Proficiencies are the knowledge, skills, or dispositions that students are expected to acquire in order to meet a set of
standards:
a. true
b. false
37. Rubrics are:
a. an invention of the 80’s to occupy our time by matching colors on a cube
b. scoring guides that describe what learners should know and be able to do at different levels of
competence
c. collection of data used to compare student’s competency to one another
d. tests to assess a teacher’s curriculum validity
38. Brown vs. Board of Education decided that:
a. separate facilities are inherently unequal
b. integration has no place in our public schools
c. males and females should be allowed to attend the same school
d. separate facilities are inherently equal
39. The Cival Rights Act was signed by __________ in 1964.
a. Malcolm X
b. Rosa Parks
c. Lyndon B. Johnson
d. Martin Luther King Jr.
40. The fight for equality reached a zenith in __________ with the Brown vs. Board of Education.
a. Duluth, MN
b. Little Rock, Arkansas
c. New York City
d. Topeka, Kansas
41. Following the Civil Rights Act of 1964, schools that did not integrate could lose federal funding.
a. True
b. False
42. As a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act (ESEA) which:
a. provided a carrot and stick to America’s school
b. provided the cake and you can eat it too to America’s schools
c .provided ketchup as a vegetable to America’s schools
d. provided a hornet’s nest to America’s schools
43. The schools in Crystal City, TX in the early 1960s encouraged Mexican American students to speak Spanish and
hold onto their bilingual roots.
a. True
b. False
44. The bilingual Education Act was designed to:
a. force schools to teach Spanish and French.
b. give aid to schools with children whose first language is not English.
c. encourage foreign language studies.
d. discourage foreign language studies in American schools.
45. Title IX, passed in 1974, is about:
a. creating bilingual education.
b. equality in education based on race.
c. America’s love for sports.
d. equality in sports based on gender.
46. When the federal government passed Title IX in 1974, they encouraged schools to follow it by
a. having police offers in all public schools.
b. threatening them with shut downs.
c. withholding federal money from schools that did not follow it.
d. giving high amounts of federal money to those schools who came up with their own plan for equality.
47. The 14 year old student who was part of the Title IX laws:
a. was denied access because of a handicap
b. was kept out of science classes because she was a female
c. was denied a women’s basketball team at her school
d. was denied to speak her first language in school
48. As a result of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, some 30,000 black teachers lost their jobs.
a. true
b. false
49. The student who presented Chicano student demands to the school board in Crystal City, Texas twenty years later
became the mayor of Crystal City, Texas.
a. true
b. false
50. I have test:
a. Form A
b. Form B