Deck 1: Where Are Our Children After School

Question 1

Most often, structured families today fall in the category of:

A) extended
B) nuclear
C) larger
D) needy

Answer 1

nuclear

Question 2

People have a difficult time placing disabled children because

A) staffs do not have workers qualified for specific disabilities
B) no one wants to work with them
C) the American Disabilities Act stops them
D) no programs exist that are motivated to work with them

Answer 2

staffs do not have workers qualified for specific disabilities

Question 3

Formal child care belongs in all of the following categories except:

A) in-home care
B) out-of-home care
C) relative care
D) drop-in centers

Answer 3

drop-in centers

Question 4

Voters seemed unwilling to underwrite a school-age child care system because:

A) voters believed that mothers should stay at home and care for children
B) voters were not voting because they did not have the time
C) two parents staying at home seemed to be a much better idea to voters
D) immigrated families had less extended support and could take care of their children as easily

Question 5

Age-related cohorts of children have many similarities, one thing that differs is:

A) characteristic behavior
B) orderly change
C) life circumstances
D) stable change

Question 6

Children in classroom settings spend most of their day with groups of other children their own age, which are known as age-related ______________.

A) cohorts
B) teams
C) sociograms

Question 7

Developmental changes in children are ____________, _______________, and _____________.

A) orderly, directional, and stable
B) physical, social, and language
C) unpredictable, varied, and permanent

Question 8

Saying that developmental changes in children are "directional" means that they

A) move from left to right, or right left
B) means that the changes build on one another;
C) they show some kind of progression or accumulation.

Question 9

Increasing numbers of communities are addressing the need for out-of-school care due to the relationship between

A) inadequate care and teen pregnancy
B) working mothers and juvenile delinquency
C) unsupervised children and juvenile crime

Question 10

The term "orderly" when applied to the developmental changes in childhood means that the changes occur in

A) alphabetical order
B) chronological order
C) sequential order

Question 11

The term used in your text that includes before- and after-school care, recreational activities, and enrichment, is

A) before/after school care and recreation
B) out-of-school care
C) after school care and Educational Program

Question 12

Many after school programs on school sites close

A) on legal holidays only
B) too early
C) during winter and spring break and school holidays

Question 13

Parents need reassurance that their children are safe after school, and that they

A) are doing their homework
B) developing and growing like other children
C) are not angry with their parents for leaving them

Question 14

Calling the developmental changes of childhood "stable" means that they

A) are comforting, like a stable at the end of a long ride for a horse
B) consistent from one child to another
C) relatively permanent; they tend to "stick around" once they appear

Question 15

Cohort effects are the result of age-related children or adults having similar life experiences. What attitudes or concerns might be different in a cohort of children who have memories of the 9/11 bombings and their out-of-school leaders whose childhoods were ten or twenty years earlier?