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1
Jane Elliot's Discrimination Day experiment
A)was only effective because her students did not have any exposure to people of color.
B)caused the students who were "superior" on the second day to be more sympathetic to the "inferior" students.
C)caused the "superior" students to gain confidence in their capabilities while causing the "inferior" students to lose confidence and concentration.
D)All the answers are correct.
2
Genetic inferiority and cultural deficit theories
A)stem from modern liberalism.
B)are based on a scientific worldview.
C)believe that individuals are fully responsible for their own successes and failures.
D)All the answers are correct.
3
Cultural deficit theory has been critiqued because
A)it does not question the dominant culture's privileged status as the cultural norm.
B)of its attempts to change social and cultural arrangements.
C)it does not take into account the impact of a child's home environment on educational success.
D)its proponents were unable to create any tangible programs or policies.
4
Which of the following is not a tenet of cultural difference theory?
A)the use of multiple frames of reference to assess relationships among various cultural groups
B)investigation of how schooling differs among those from different cultural settings
C)expansion of traditional definitions of culture in order to analyze patterns of dominance and subordination
D)focus on the relationship between of various cultural groups' lack of opportunity and poor school performance
5
According to linguists,
A)only certain languages can support complex cognitive processes.
B)it is better for students to gain instruction in the "standard language," so as not to create confusion.
C)the way a child's primary language is valued has an effect on their self-concept.
D)All the answers are correct.
6
A "gender-sensitive" approach to education
A)requires that girls and boys be treated the same so that girls are not socialized differently than boys.
B)requires schooling that recognizes, respects, and cultivates feminine traits.
C)offers strategies to equalize the effects of gender differences in the classroom.
D)All the answers are correct.
7
The ____________ approach to achieving pluralistic education promotes willingness among students to work toward social change in order to benefit the identified group.
A)teaching the exceptional and culturally different
B)human relations
C)single-group studies
D)multicultural education
8
Advocates of multicultural and social reconstructionist education
A)support a pedagogy that equips students to effectively make change.
B)begin with the assumption that resources should be distributed more equally.
C)believe that young people must practice democracy by actively engaging in the decisions that affect their own lives.
D)All the answers are correct.
9
An analysis that does not focus principally on the characteristics of the student or the school, but on the on the interaction between the school and the child is a hallmark of
A)cultural pluralism theorists.
B)gender theorists.
C)critical theorists.
D)All the answers are correct.
10
Which of the following is not a component of what Michael S. Knapp calls "teaching for meaning"?
A)active engagement of students in making sense of what they experience at school
B)focus on discrete skills moving from basic to advanced
C)creation of opportunities to connect one concept or skill to another in order to increase students' conceptual grasp of what they are doing
D)All the answers are correct.





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