Deck 9: Culture and Cultural Diversity and Their Relationship to Academic Achievement

Question 1

Macroculture can be described as:

A) cultural beliefs and behaviors that most people follow
B) gender, race, religion, and ethnicity
C) cultural patterns that dominate a society
D) verbal and nonverbal cultural styles

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following is the best way to describe how culture is taught?

A) by a process of deep conditioning absorbed from birth and explicitly teachings
B) through oral traditions that are passed down from generation to generation
C) from implicit teachings taught by elders in a particular culture
D) with TV, the internet, radio, magazines, and other forms of popular media

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which group of people has largely determined mainstream culture in the U.S.?

A) new immigrants
B) European Americans
C) public educators
D) politicians

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following terms describes the idea that a society can contain a variety of cultures?

A) cultural pluralism
B) pluralist preservation
C) pluralistic integration
D) melting pot model

Question 5

Which of the following terms describes the idea that society should be composed of a monoculture with all diversity assimilated?

A) cultural pluralism
B) pluralist preservation
C) pluralistic integration
D) melting pot model

Question 6

Cultural relativism holds the idea that:

A) society should have consensus about core civic and cultural values
B) people experience their own cultures as central to reality
C) actions can be judged only in relation to the culture where they occur
D) all behaviors and actions are acceptable in different cultural contexts

Question 7

Which of the following terms is the ideal of being able to shift cultural frames of reference and change behavior in different cultures?

A) cultural relativism
B) cultural pluralism
C) biculturalism
D) pluralistic integration

Question 8

Which of the following is an example of a marker for belonging to a microculture?

A) religious affiliation
B) language usage
C) national origin
D) ethnic background

Question 9

Which of the following is an external element of culture?

A) language
B) values
C) customs
D) family structure

Question 10

Which of the following is an internal element of culture?

A) language
B) customs
C) government
D) literature

Question 11

Which of the following socioeconomic factor disproportionately affects English learners?

A) gender issues
B) cultural issues
C) demographic changes
D) poverty

Question 12

How does tracking contribute to the achievement gap between minority students and white students?

A) Minority students are more likely to be placed in general education classes in high school, rather than college prep classes.
B) Minority students have more access to resources for Limited English Proficiency students; proficiency remains low.
C) White students have more access to resources for low-income students; proficiency in
D) content-based learning remains low.
E) White students are more likely to be placed in general education classes in high school, rather than college prep classes.

Question 13

All ethnic minority groups experience lower levels of higher education except:

A) African Americans
B) Asian Americans
C) Native Americans
D) Latino Americans

Question 14

What is one reason for the overrepresentation of English-language learners (ELL) in special education?

A) a higher percentage of students with learning disabilities in ELL populations
B) less access to special education resources in ELL communities
C) biased assessment resulting in negative evaluations of ELL students
D) less knowledge about the link between special education and ELL students

Question 15

Which of the following terms best describes the process of adapting to a second culture?

A) biculturalism
B) assimilation
C) acculturation
D) accommodation

Question 16

Which of the following describes a detracking method?

A) placing low-achieving students in the same college prep program as high-achieving students
B) removing college prep programs and placing all students in general education content classes
C) placing English learners and native English speakers in ELD classrooms with separate content classes.
D) removing ELD services from the school and placing all English learners in mainstream classes

Question 17

A disproportionate percentage of students who drop out of high school are:

A) middle-class white students
B) working-class white students
C) wealthy minority students
D) poor and minority students

Question 18

The Bracero Program arranged for Mexican citizens to work on U.S. farms and railroads due to the labor shortage caused by:

A) The Revolutionary War
B) The Vietnam War
C) World War I
D) World War II

Question 19

Undocumented children have the legal right to a free public education due to which federal mandate?

A) National Origins Act of 1924
B) National Origins Act of 1929
C) Brown v. Board of Education - Supreme Court Decision of 1954
D) Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Question 20

Which of the following is an example of how institutional racism manifests in schools?

A) overabundance of ELD classrooms
B) bilingual classrooms
C) failure to hire minority teachers
D) overt racism

Question 21

Which of the following studies how personal space is used by various cultures?

A) proxemics
B) olfactics
C) paralanguage
D) pragmatics

Question 22

Describe the process of the three stages of acculturation.

Question 23

What are some strategies teachers can employ to resolve conflicts related to cultural contact? Give at least three examples of specific strategies.

Question 24

What are some ways that intercultural communication can be taught in the classroom? Be specific and give at least three specific examples of activities.

Question 25

How can a teacher investigate oneself as a cultural being? Give at least three examples of activities or behaviors.