Deck 12: Problems in Education

Question 1

When cultural imperialism exists, the norms, values, traditions, and languages of minorities are ignored.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Cultural capital includes language, artistic tastes, specific knowledge, and links to community and to resources outside the school.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

According to Althusser, the dominant class is the one that benefits the most from the educational system.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Children who score low on school readiness are more likely to have mothers with low levels of education than children who score high on school readiness.

Question 5

Under the terms of the British North America Act of 1867, education is a provincial responsibility and each province has the constitutional authority to develop its own educational system.

Question 6

The Canadian Constitution, unlike that of the United States, protects denominational or separate schools.

Question 7

Children from poor families are more likely to have lower functioning, vision, hearing, speech, mobility, dexterity, and cognition than children from better-off families.

Question 8

Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms gave English- and French-speaking minorities the right to educate their children in their first language (mother tongue).

Question 9

In 2001, Statistics Canada reported that while the average family headed by a high school graduate enjoyed a net worth of approximately $65 000, this rose to $120,000 for a family headed by a university graduate and about $320 000 for those with a professional degree in law, medicine, and dentistry.

Question 10

For some unexplained reason, Canada has never adopted any form of Head Start programs.

Question 11

All societies have formal mechanisms for educating the masses.

Question 12

Minority-language education is designed to offer the minority group in a province education in their first language.

Question 13

When it comes to education, poor children are always disadvantaged, and disadvantaged children are always poor.

Question 14

Children whose families are in the middle and upper socioeconomic brackets are more likely to perform better in school and to complete more years of education than children from families in lower socioeconomic brackets.

Question 15

Worldwide, over 120 million children do not attend school and over 880 million adults are illiterate.

Question 16

According to research conducted by Muller and Schiller (2000), students from higher socioeconomic brackets are less likely to enrol in advanced mathematics course credits than students from lower socioeconomic brackets.

Question 17

According to the symbolic interactionist perspective, the socialization function of education is really indoctrination into a capitalist ideology.

Question 18

Traditionally, the school curriculum has given voice to the perspective of minority groups, including women.

Question 19

Under the terms of the British North America Act of 1867, education in Canada is a federal responsibility.

Question 20

Canada is unique among developed countries in having no federal office or ministry of education.

Question 21

Social promotion can lead to functional illiteracy.

Question 22

Functional illiterates are people who cannot read basic signs or maps, complete simple forms, or carry on many of the tasks required of an adult.

Question 23

Which of the following countries has the longest school year?

A) Japan
B) China
C) Germany
D) Russia

Question 24

Social promotion in our schools seems to be a thing of the past.

Question 25

Which of the following perspectives says that education performs important tasks for society, including socialization, instruction, and custodial care?

A) conflict
B) symbolic interactionist
C) structural-functionalist
D) feminist

Question 26

According to Bricker and Greenspon (2001), how many parents are worried about the quality of education received by their children?

A) 13 percent
B) 54 percent
C) 82 percent
D) 91 percent

Question 27

Worldwide, women receive less education than men.

Question 28

The education system in which province was run by the church until 1997?

A) British Columbia
B) Manitoba
C) Quebec
D) Newfoundland

Question 29

In Canada, Head Start programs are directed primarily toward gifted or academically precocious children.

Question 30

Boys are more likely than girls to exhibit discipline problems in schools and to drop out of school.

Question 31

According to 2008 statistics, Canada has a dropout rate of almost 11 percent.

Question 32

In Canada, which provinces/territories fund the separate school system?

A) only the territories
B) only Quebec
C) only British Columbia
D) every province

Question 33

Parents in low-income brackets are as likely as parents in higher income brackets to expect their children to go on to college or university.

Question 34

Special education is usually which of the following?

A) remedial
B) controversial
C) not a victim of budget cuts
D) found only in primary schools

Question 35

More than 70 percent of students identified as having serious emotional problems are female.

Question 36

Girls are more likely than boys to have speech impairments, to be labelled as mentally retarded, and to feel alienated from the learning process.

Question 37

Which of the following is a major difference between Canadian and American schools?

A) Americans have no remedial schools
B) Canada protects denominational schools
C) Americans have a much longer school year
D) Canada is much more liberal in its education practices

Question 38

Which of the following perspectives says that a major function of education is to teach students the knowledge and skills necessary for future occupational roles, self-development, and social functioning?

A) non-Marxist conflict
B) Marxist conflict
C) symbolic interactionist
D) structural-functionalist

Question 39

Approximately 66 percent of the world's illiterate population are men.

Question 40

Under the British North America Act of 1867, which of the following was responsible for the education of Aboriginal people?

A) individual bands
B) the federal government
C) the provincial governments
D) municipal governments

Question 41

Which of the following groups has traditionally been excluded from curriculum development?

A) politicians
B) males
C) females
D) students

Question 42

As a young woman in school, what can I probably expect less of from my teachers?

A) support and encouragement
B) advice regarding postsecondary education
C) ridicule
D) discipline

Question 43

In creating the Ontario school system, what kind of system did Egerton Ryerson purposely set out to create for young people?

A) one where they would be able to become economically successful
B) one where they would remain loyal to the Crown
C) one where they would receive instruction in Catholicism
D) one that embraced the French-English history of Canada

Question 44

Which of the following concepts is best illustrated by the "needle torture"?

A) the organization child
B) human capital
C) cultural imperialism
D) social promotion

Question 45

Evaluations of Head Start programs in the United States and Canada have generally found which of the following about the programs?

A) they really don't help students with low intelligence
B) they really don't help students with visual or auditory impairments
C) they have helped students to complete school with better grades
D) they worked initially and now they seem to have little, if any, impact

Question 46

Which perspective is concerned with teacher-student interactions, the student's self-esteem, and the self-fulfilling prophecy?

A) conflict
B) structural-functionalist
C) symbolic interactionist
D) social control

Question 47

Which of the following perspectives emphasizes that the educational institution solidifies the class positions of groups and enables the elite to control the masses?

A) conflict
B) symbolic interactionist
C) control
D) structural-functionalist

Question 48

For which of the following groups have Head Start programs have been identified as particularly important for increasing educational success?

A) women
B) men
C) people with disabilities
D) Aboriginal students

Question 49

According to Althuser, who profits the most from the educational system?

A) men
B) the dominant class
C) the middle class
D) the lower class

Question 50

Which of the following is the best predictor of educational success?

A) sex
B) age
C) social class
D) region

Question 51

What is the main goal of the Miss G project?

A) to advance the educational causes of single mothers
B) to advance the educational causes of Aboriginal women
C) to advance the educational causes of minority women
D) to have more gender-based education at the secondary school level

Question 52

Which of the following associations parallels the relationship between race and ethnicity and educational achievement?

A) race/ethnicity and IQ
B) race/ethnicity and family structure
C) race/ethnicity and drug use
D) race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Question 53

In 2001 in Canada, what percentage of Aboriginal people aged 25 to 64 had a university education?

A) 8 percent
B) 15 percent
C) 20 percent
D) 30 percent

Question 54

Which of the following is illustrated by the study carried out by Rosenthal and Jacobson, who identified five students as "spurters"?

A) the integration hypothesis
B) cultural imperialism
C) social promotion
D) the self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 55

In which of the following situations does the self-fulfilling prophecy occur?

A) when individuals are satisfied with their occupation
B) when individuals are satisfied with their family life
C) when people act in a manner consistent with the expectations of others
D) when people openly defy authority in schools

Question 56

Among the 29 countries surveyed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2000, which one had the highest proportion of university degree holders among its working-age population?

A) Canada
B) Norway
C) the Netherlands
D) the United States

Question 57

According to Call (1997), one of the best predictors of a child's academic success is which of the following?

A) pre-school experiences
B) parental academic achievement
C) their physical health
D) the quality of their school lunch

Question 58

In which decade were women admitted to Canada's military colleges?

A) 1940s
B) 1950s
C) 1960s
D) 1970s

Question 59

What was one of the key findings of Drolet's research (2005)?

A) women were still choosing traditional fields of study
B) IQ scores were, in fact, biased
C) family structure often served as a key contributor to academic success
D) many middle class parents couldn't afford postsecondary education

Question 60

In Canada, which of the following is more common among children in low-income families than among children in middle- and higher-income families?

A) good health
B) hyperactivity
C) advanced vocabulary development
D) after-school enrichment programs

Question 61

In recent years, schools have put more emphasis on which of the following?

A) reading and writing
B) character education
C) developing critical thinking skills
D) Head Start programs

Question 62

According to research cited in the textbook, which children have lower odds of dropping out of school?

A) children from intact two-parent homes
B) children from families with lower income
C) children from families with lower educational levels
D) children from dysfunctional families

Question 63

Which of the following cities passed a by-law in March 2003 that bans harassment of people under the age of 18?

A) Winnipeg
B) Edmonton
C) Vancouver
D) Ottawa

Question 64

According to Clarke (1999), how were most college and bachelor degrees financed?

A) student loans
B) student earnings
C) parents
D) bursaries and grants

Question 65

What is the term for awarding A's to students whose work warrants lower grades?

A) functional illiteracy
B) cultural imperialism
C) grade inflation
D) social promotion

Question 66

According to the 2000 Project Canada on teens, how many Canadian teens view violence in schools as a "very serious" problem?

A) two in ten
B) three in ten
C) five in ten
D) ten in ten

Question 67

Which students are most likely to benefit from an alternative school?

A) exceptional students
B) students who are immigrants
C) students experiencing a wide variety of problems
D) students who have visual impairments

Question 68

Which of the following does grade inflation and social promotion often lead to?

A) numeracy issues
B) functional illiteracy
C) social isolation
D) mainstreaming

Question 69

What does the term "deregulated tuition fees" mean?

A) tuition fees are frozen
B) tuition fees are lower
C) tuition fees are higher
D) tuition fees are not subsidized

Question 70

According to the textbook, approximately how many Canadian young people drop out of high school?

A) one-tenth
B) one-fifth
C) one-quarter
D) one-third

Question 71

Which of the following is referred to as social promotion?

A) awarding A's to students whose work warrants lower grades
B) making attempts to indoctrinate students into capitalist ideology
C) passing students who have not mastered the necessary grade-level skills
D) demonstrating a preference for male students

Question 72

What of the following would be an example of moral and interpersonal education?

A) religious instruction
B) volunteering
C) school placements in simulated work environments
D) a specialized course of instruction such as dance, music, or art

Question 73

According to a 1999 survey of 2000 Alberta students in grades 7 to 12, in what grade was the rate of violence among students highest?

A) grade 7
B) grades 8 and 9
C) grades 10 and 11
D) grade 12

Question 74

Compared to persons who complete high school, which of the following applies to individuals who do not complete high school?

A) They are more likely to be unemployed.
B) They are less likely to engage in criminal behaviour.
C) They have better health.
D) They are more likely to have pro-social activities and interests.

Question 75

Compared to other Western countries, how much do we spend on our educational system?

A) about the same
B) less
C) more
D) we don't know because many countries don't keep accurate statistics

Question 76

Where does Canada's record of youth dropouts rank among the seven largest industrialized countries?

A) best
B) worst
C) second-best
D) second-worst

Question 77

In which of the following cities can those who bully be given a $250 ticket?

A) Winnipeg
B) Vancouver
C) Montreal
D) Edmonton

Question 78

In what decade did the first "alternative school" open in Canada?

A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s

Question 79

In recent years, the Canadian education system has generally acted to reproduce which of the following?

A) new jobs to replace retirees
B) Canada's stratification system
C) functional illiteracy
D) a new generation of non-critical thinkers

Question 80

What type of education is most likely to be deregulated?

A) skilled trades
B) liberal arts
C) professional degrees
D) support workers for seniors and children