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Multiple Choice Questions. 1) Education is the social institution by which society provides people with important knowledge, including:

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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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