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1) Education is the social institution by which society provides people with important knowledge, including:
a. job skills.
b. basic facts and information.
c. cultural norms and values.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 506
Skill: Conceptual
2) In low-income nations, most education is a matter of:
a. formal schooling and then college.
b. what parents and other community members teach their children.
c. what children can teach themselves.
d. teaching by religious leaders.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 507
Skill: Factual
3) The fact that, historically, schooling has been mostly for elites is evident in the fact that the word "school" has the same root as the Greek word for:
a. “learning.”
b. “wisdom.”
c. “leisure.”
d. “elder.”
Answer: c
Page Reference: 506-507
Skill: Factual
4) If you were to enter a school in ancient Greece or China, the students you would find there would be mainly:
a. women.
b. soldiers.
c. the rich.
d. foreigners.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 507
Skill: Applied
5) The social institution within which knowledge, including basic facts, job skills as well as cultural norms and values, is transmitted to members of society is called:
a. instruction
b. education
c. schooling
d. learning
Answer: b
Page Reference: 506
Skill: Conceptual
6) Formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers is called:
a. instruction
b. education
c. schooling
d. learning
Answer: c
Page Reference: 506
Skill: Conceptual
7) What social force spurred the creation of mandatory education laws in Japan?
a. industrialization
b. militarization
c. family socialization
d. the Church
Answer: a
Page Reference: 507
Skill: Conceptual
8) What percentage of Canadian high school graduates go on to post-secondary studies?
a. 23%
b. 60%
c. 77%
d. 91%
Answer: b
Page Reference: 507
Skill: Factual
9) Public schools in Britain teach:
a. only 2 or 3 academic subjects
b. the special patterns of speech of the British upper class
c. predominantly trades like electrician, roofer, etc.
d. only those from working class backgrounds
Answer: b
Page Reference: 507
Skill: Factual
10) British law requires every child to attend school until age _____.
a. 12
b. 14
c. 16
d. 18
Answer: c
Page Reference: 507
Skill: Factual
11) In the world as a whole, about what share of children reach the secondary grades in school?
a. almost all
b. two-thirds
c. half
d. one-fourth
Answer: b
Page Reference: 507
Skill: Factual
12) The major reason that schooling is limited in lower-income nations is that:
a. there is a lack of teachers.
b. religion forbids formal schooling.
c. most children become soldiers.
d. many poor children must work for income.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 507
Skill: Factual
13) On which of the following continents do we find the most countries with high rates of illiteracy?
a. Africa
b. Europe
c. South America
d. North America
Answer: a
Page Reference: 508
Skill: Applied
14) Getting into college in Japan, compared to the United States, is more a matter of:
a. athletic ability.
b. performance on achievement tests.
c. family ties.
d. being rich.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 507
Skill: Factual
15) In Great Britain, regardless of their scores on achievement examinations, the children of well-to-do families:
a. generally do not go to college.
b. must go to state universities like everyone else.
c. typically go to high-prestige private universities, including Oxford or Cambridge.
d. go to trade schools, but only if they are males.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 507-508
Skill: Factual
16) Which of the following is not true of schooling in Great Britain?
a. during the Middle Ages, schooling was a privilege of the nobility
b. the Industrial Revolution created a need for an educated labour force
c. working class people demanded access to schools during the Industrial Revolution
d. law now requires every British child to attend school until age 18
Answer: d
Page Reference: 507-508
Skill: Conceptual
17) Which of the following is TRUE of British education?
a. university entrance exams are a crucial as those of Japan
b. for those who score high on the entrance exams, the government pays most university costs
c. traditional social distinctions have been removed from education
d. education is mandatory until age 14
Answer: b
Page Reference: 507
Skill: Conceptual
18) The national elite in Britain will most likely have attended:
a. an American university
b. home schooling facilities
c. “Oxbridge”
d. the equivalent of American public schools
Answer: c
Page Reference: 507-508
Skill: Factual
19) Which Canadian university was started in 1636 by the Jesuits, and, therefore, claims to be North America’s oldest institution of higher education?
a. McGill
b. McMaster
c. St. Mary’s
d. Laval
Answer: d
Page Reference: 508
Skill: Factual
20) A separate Catholic and Protestant school system in Canada:
a. violates the principle of mass education
b. was established prior to Confederation
c. was established several years after Confederation
d. interfered with adequate fulfillment of educational requirements associated with the Industrial Revolution
Answer: b
Page Reference: 509
Skill: Conceptual
21) Educational development in Canada included:
a. kindergarten in the Toronto schools in 1783
b. compulsory education to age 21 in 1920
c. mass education as a response to the need for a literate and skilled workforce
d. secondary schools across the country by 1900
Answer: c
Page Reference: 509
Skill: Conceptual
22) Canada ranks _____ among industrialized countries in the proportion of twenty to twenty-four-year-olds enrolled in university.
a. first
b. second behind Britain
c. behind Sweden, the United States, and Britain
d. second to the United States only
Answer: d
Page Reference: 509
Skill: Factual
23) The problem of functional illiteracy means that:
a. many young people leave school without learning basic skills
b. many older people have forgotten the lessons they learned in school
c. a significant share of Canadian children never attended school
d. many teachers in Canadian schools do not know how to teach
Answer: a
Page Reference: 510
Skill: Conceptual
24) A report based on the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program concluded that ___________ came in significantly above the Canadian average in reading, math, and science.
a. Alberta
b. B.C.
c. Ontario
d. Quebec
Answer: d
Page Reference: 509
Skill: Factual
25) Which Canadian province scored highest in science according to the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program?
a. Alberta
b. B.C.
c. Ontario
d. Quebec
Answer: d
Page Reference: 509
Skill: Factual
26) Jacque Demers is discussed in your text because:
a. he was the first Quebecois to coach an NHL hockey team
b. he never learned to read and write
c. his on-ice injury left him unable to read and this changed his life dramatically
d. he never graduated from high school and yet has a graduate degree from McGill
Answer: b
Page Reference: 510
Skill: Factual
27) _____________ directs attention to the ways in which formal education enhances the operation and stability of society.
a. structural-functional theory
b. social-conflict theory
c. symbolic interactionism
d. ethnomethodology
Answer: a
Page Reference: 510
Skill: Conceptual
28) In Canada, as compared to the United States, there is more emphasis in the classroom on:
a. competitive individualism
b. activities that promote cooperation and sharing
c. a political component
d. obedience
Answer: b
Page Reference: 511
Skill: Conceptual
29) Competitiveness is discourage in many Canadian classrooms because:
a. we don’t want to be like Americans
b. Canadians are raised in their families to avoid competition
c. The cultural mosaic of Canada is simply not compatible with competitiveness
d. Of potential damaging effects on self-esteem
Answer: d
Page Reference: 511
Skill: Conceptual
30) Canada, as compared to the United States, has an education system that:
a. places more emphasis on the history of the country
b. places more emphasis on the workings of our political system
c. includes frequent and varied expressions of patriotism
d. encourages respect for the cultural mosaic
Answer: d
Page Reference: 511
Skill: Conceptual
31) Which of the following is NOT a component of social integration in the Canadian educational system?
a. Canada has had a long experience with the challenges of multiculturalism
b. There has been an attempt made to foster Canadian nationalism while accommodating a wide variety of interest groups
c. Our educational policies have been sensitive to the problems of maintaining equality of access and unity in the face of diversity
d. We have been eager to push a national identity because of Quebec’s sensitivities
Answer: d
Page Reference: 511
Skill: Conceptual
32) The Hutterites have their children taught in schools within their own colonies. This is an example of:
a. resistance to social integration
b. response to religious persecution
c. geography making social integration difficult
d. resistance to cultural innovation
Answer: a
Page Reference: 511
Skill: Conceptual
33) The striking cultural diversity of Canada:
a. indicates the need for a strong “heritage” school system
b. increases the need for the teaching of French in the schools in non-Francophone areas
c. increases the importance of formal education as a path to social integration
d. indicates the need for cultural segregation
Answer: c
Page Reference: 511-512
Skill: Conceptual
34) The functions of schooling do NOT include:
a. socializing the young.
b. creating new culture.
c. helping to integrate a diverse society.
d. contributing to downward social mobility.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 511-512
Skill: Factual
35) Which of the following is a latent function of schooling?
a. ensuring some common culture
b. teaching about the U.S. way of life
c. providing child-care
d. teaching job skills
Answer: c
Page Reference: 512
Skill: Factual
36) By definition, which of the following is NOT a latent function of schooling, according to structural-functionalist analysis?
a. child care
b. inculcation of skills
c. consumes the time and energy of teenagers
d. helps establish lasting relationships
Answer: b
Page Reference: 512
Skill: Conceptual
37) Which of the following is a latent function of schooling?
a. ensuring some common culture
b. teaching about the Canadian way of life
c. providing child care
d. teaching job skills
Answer: c
Page Reference: 512
Skill: Conceptual
38) A symbolic-interaction approach to schooling would include which of the following ideas?
a. if teachers think some category of students is superior, those same students may end up doing superior work
b. teachers convey specialized knowledge that children are not likely to learn at home
c. some categories of students are tracked into better classes than others
d. schools are intended for learning, but they are also places where many people meet their eventual partners
Answer: a
Page Reference: 512-513
Skill: Conceptual
39) Which of the following statements applies the symbolic-interaction approach to schooling?
a. If teachers think some category of students is superior, those same students may end up doing superior work.
b. Teachers convey specialized knowledge that children are not likely to learn at home.
c. Some categories of students are tracked into better classes than others.
d. Schools are intended for learning, but they also are places where many people meet their eventual partners.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 512-513
Skill: Factual
40) Jane Elliott’s simple experiment with elementary school-aged children in Iowa demonstrated:
a. the self-fulfilling prophecy
b. functional illiteracy
c. the benefits of practical education
d. the high level of competitiveness in American classrooms
Answer: a
Page Reference: 512
Skill: Conceptual
41) Along with gender, ________ is a strong predictor of aspirations to attend university.
a. age
b. race
c. high school performance
d. social class
Answer: d
Page Reference: 513
Skill: Conceptual
42) Which province has the highest percentage possession of university degrees?
a. B.C.
b. Nova Scotia
c. Manitoba
d. Ontario
Answer: d
Page Reference: 513
Skill: Factual
43) A social-conflict analysis suggests that schooling developed in the late nineteenth century because that was the time that:
a. factory owners needed an obedient and disciplined workforce.
b. immigrants had to learn English in order to work in factories.
c. the country had to teach immigrants that its way of life was right and good.
d. All of the above are correct.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 513
Skill: Factual
44) The perspective that asserts that schooling acts as a means of social control is:
a. structural-functional theory
b. social-conflict theory
c. symbolic interaction theory
d. ethnomethodology
Answer: b
Page Reference: 513
Skill: Conceptual
45) Which of the following is NOT part of the hidden curriculum in Canadian schools?
a. the teaching of compliance
b. the teaching of punctuality
c. the teaching of skills
d. the teaching of discipline
Answer: c
Page Reference: 514
Skill: Conceptual
46) The subtle presentation of political or cultural ideas in the classroom is termed:
a. the hidden curriculum
b. the undiscovered curriculum
c. the missing curriculum
d. the ideal curriculum
Answer: a
Page Reference: 513
Skill: Conceptual
47) Social-conflict analysis uses the term ___________ to refer to the categorical assigning of students to different types of education programs.
a. ability placement
b. streaming
c. differential placement
d. hierarchical education
Answer: b
Page Reference: 515
Skill: Conceptual
48) One result of tracking in schools is that:
a. the brightest students get the worst teachers.
b. students do not get to study what they are interested in.
c. the students who get the best schooling are usually those who are more privileged to begin with.
d. students from disadvantaged backgrounds end up in higher tracks where they cannot do the work.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 515
Skill: Factual
49) Which of the following is TRUE about streaming, according to social-conflict analysis?
a. it is the only option when performance must be evaluated
b. it is biased in favour of students from affluent backgrounds
c. it integrates students
d. it does not have any relationship to social background
Answer: b
Page Reference: 515
Skill: Conceptual
50) Which of the following type of theorist would emphasize that streaming advantages the rich and disadvantages the poor?
a. A structural functionalist
b. A symbolic interactionist
c. A social conflict theorist
d. A post-modernist
Answer: c
Page Reference: 515
Skill: Conceptual
51) Which of the following remains the most formidable barrier to enrollment in university?
a. low or moderate family income
b. difficulty in getting good grades as high schools are attempting to curtail grade inflation
c. lack of parental moral support
d. geographic distance from a post-secondary institution
Answer: a
Page Reference: 517
Skill: Conceptual
52) What policy decision in Native education had devastating consequences for the children and their communities?
a. reservation schools
b. trade schools
c. residential schools
d. secular schools
Answer: c
Page Reference: 520
Skill: Conceptual
53) The discipline problems presenting themselves in Canadian schools include primarily:
a. the carrying of weapons
b. daily assaults on students and teachers
c. a disdain for learning
d. the emphasis on political correctness
Answer: c
Page Reference: 522
Skill: Conceptual
54) Home schooling is most prevalent in which of the following provinces?
a. Alberta
b. B.C.
c. Ontario
d. Manitoba
Answer: a
Page Reference: 524
Skill: Factual
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