Deck 8: Education

Question 1

Grade survival rates estimate:

A) how many children actually complete a certain grade level.
B) how many children die from disease and malnutrition at each grade level.
C) how many grades of school the country can afford to offer.
D) whether the grades earned continue to be valid, due to rampant grade inflation.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

When the private rate of return on education is much higher than the social rate of return:

A) it is not economically efficient to expand education to the point of fully satisfying private demand.
B) school tuition charges need to be raised.
C) funds should be reallocated from other types of investment to more investment in education.
D) the market wage exceeds the shadow price of labor.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

IDs and Paired-Concept Questions
These terms can be used individually as short-answer identification questions, or they can be used in pairs. In the latter case, ask students to explain (1) the meaning and significance of each of the two terms and (2) the relationship between them.
Stocks,flows

Answer 3

Answer will vary

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT true concerning the deworming study in Kenya?

A) Deworming is more cost-effective than free school uniforms.
B) Deworming increased attendance.
C) Deworming increased student learning as measured by test scores at the time of treatment.
D) Deworming increased student concentration levels when they were in school.

Question 5

The greatest gains in secondary education,measured by gross secondary school enrollment rising from 38 percent in 1975 to 90 percent in 2005,have occurred in:

A) Southeast Asia.
B) Latin America.
C) sub-Saharan Africa.
D) the Middle East.

Question 6

Rates of return on schooling depend on what happens in:

A) the demographics of marriage in the country.
B) secondary and tertiary educational outcomes.
C) both school and the labor market after students graduate.
D) regard to the average student's body mass index by 18 years of age.

Question 7

In low-income countries,the social rate of return generally is highest for investment in:

A) university education.
B) primary education.
C) vocational education.
D) adult education.

Question 8

IDs and Paired-Concept Questions
These terms can be used individually as short-answer identification questions, or they can be used in pairs. In the latter case, ask students to explain (1) the meaning and significance of each of the two terms and (2) the relationship between them.
Gross enrollment rates,Millennium Development goals (MDG)

Question 9

For the students' families in developing countries,the main implicit cost of secondary education is:

A) required school fees.
B) earnings or work at home forgone when the student attends school.
C) the cost of textbooks.
D) incidental costs like school uniforms and transportation.

Question 10

IDs and Paired-Concept Questions
These terms can be used individually as short-answer identification questions, or they can be used in pairs. In the latter case, ask students to explain (1) the meaning and significance of each of the two terms and (2) the relationship between them.
Social rate of return,educated unemployment

Question 11

In the past 50 years,what has happened to the gender gap in education?

A) It has been declining.
B) It has been rising.
C) It has stayed the same.
D) It has had a mixed response, first declining, then rising.

Question 12

IDs and Paired-Concept Questions
These terms can be used individually as short-answer identification questions, or they can be used in pairs. In the latter case, ask students to explain (1) the meaning and significance of each of the two terms and (2) the relationship between them.
Gender gap,gender parity

Question 13

IDs and Paired-Concept Questions
These terms can be used individually as short-answer identification questions, or they can be used in pairs. In the latter case, ask students to explain (1) the meaning and significance of each of the two terms and (2) the relationship between them.
Theodore Schultz,human capital investment

Question 14

The goal of the Programme for International Student Assessment is to assess how well 15-year-olds,who are approaching the end of their compulsory schooling year,can:

A) read and write at a fourth-grade level.
B) successfully acquire a paying job at home or abroad.
C) meet the challenges of today's societies.
D) be willing and able to move onto the next level of education.

Question 15

Using standard methods to measure benefits and costs,the private rate of return on education cannot be less than the social rate of return because:

A) benefits of education accrue to the individual, not to society.
B) individuals otherwise would choose not to go to school.
C) social costs include public-sector outlays as well as private costs of schooling.
D) all of the above.

Question 16

Which education indicator refers to enrollments of those in the relevant age group?

A) gross enrollment rates
B) net enrollment rates
C) grade survival rates
D) learning outcomes

Question 17

The introduction of textbooks improved reading scores for all students in:

A) Jamaica.
B) the Philippines.
C) Kenya.
D) all of the above.

Question 18

The social return to educating women may exceed that of educating men for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

A) educating women reduces child mortality.
B) educating women reduces fertility.
C) educating women reduces the spread of HIV/AIDS.
D) educating women leads them to earn a higher income than men.

Question 19

In low-income countries,the demand for education:

A) remains high across all segments of the population.
B) is confined mostly to urban areas.
C) is confined mostly to social elites, both urban and rural.
D) is not very strong, due to poverty and hopelessness.

Question 20

High unemployment rates among school leavers,including graduates of universities,often reflect failures in promoting economic growth rather than failure in schools-this is especially true in nations such as:

A) Argentina and Egypt.
B) Costa Rica and China.
C) India and Korea.
D) Brazil and Singapore.

Question 21

IDs and Paired-Concept Questions
These terms can be used individually as short-answer identification questions, or they can be used in pairs. In the latter case, ask students to explain (1) the meaning and significance of each of the two terms and (2) the relationship between them.
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA),Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

Question 22

IDs and Paired-Concept Questions
These terms can be used individually as short-answer identification questions, or they can be used in pairs. In the latter case, ask students to explain (1) the meaning and significance of each of the two terms and (2) the relationship between them.
Deworming,attendance

Question 23

IDs and Paired-Concept Questions
These terms can be used individually as short-answer identification questions, or they can be used in pairs. In the latter case, ask students to explain (1) the meaning and significance of each of the two terms and (2) the relationship between them.
Health,education

Question 24

IDs and Paired-Concept Questions
These terms can be used individually as short-answer identification questions, or they can be used in pairs. In the latter case, ask students to explain (1) the meaning and significance of each of the two terms and (2) the relationship between them.
Explicit costs of schooling,implicit costs of schooling

Question 25

IDs and Paired-Concept Questions
These terms can be used individually as short-answer identification questions, or they can be used in pairs. In the latter case, ask students to explain (1) the meaning and significance of each of the two terms and (2) the relationship between them.
Uniforms,students