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Which of the following is an accurate statement about the forces shaping curriculum? |
| | A) | Colleges and universities dominate curriculum development by writing curriculum guides for use at the district level. |
| | B) | The movement toward national standards has all but eliminated the controversy over curriculum. |
| | C) | While national tests gain national attention, they have no impact on local curriculum. |
| | D) | The curriculum is influenced by many groups with often competing values and goals. |
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How does the federal government affect curriculum? |
| | A) | Not at all. Under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, the states have responsibility for education. |
| | B) | The federal government helps shape curriculum through judicial decisions, financial incentives, and legislation. |
| | C) | The federal government is charged with the task of developing curriculum for grades K-12; preschools and colleges and universities are free to develop their own. |
| | D) | The federal government formed the National Education Association in order to standardize instruction in the states. |
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The "Texas and California effect" recognizes the influence of large states on |
| | A) | the development of content standards. |
| | B) | the detection and removal of bias from curriculum materials. |
| | C) | textbook content. |
| | D) | the graphic design, font size, and dimensions of texts. |
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Which of the following might be considered a part of the null curriculum? |
| | A) | students learning teamwork through participation in a softball game |
| | B) | students learning the importance of winning or the pain of losing through a spelling bee |
| | C) | an algebra course required for graduation |
| | D) | the Korean War, if the teacher or history book never took students beyond World War II |
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Which of the following is an accurate statement about No Child Left Behind? |
| | A) | Schools are not required to share personal student information with military recruiters. |
| | B) | Schools with over a 75 percent passing rate are named Blue Ribbon schools. |
| | C) | Schools must allow Boy Scout meetings in their buildings. |
| | D) | Schools are prevented from outsourcing the tutoring available under NCLB, even though that would save some from budget problems. |
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Alfie Kohn warns that |
| | A) | raising standardized test scores is completely different from helping students learn. |
| | B) | developing content standards in value-laden fields such as history will be difficult. |
| | C) | too many disparate groups are competing to shape the curriculum, to the detriment of students' learning. |
| | D) | unless we hold our students to a uniformly high level of performance, their education will be sabotaged by low expectations. |
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What is "stealth censorship?" |
| | A) | The American Library Association's efforts to purge libraries of materials that are not inclusive of all races, creeds, and sexual orientations. |
| | B) | The voluntary removal of materials from a library or syllabus to preempt controversy. |
| | C) | A tactic employed by religious fundamentalists who want to purge libraries of anti-Christian, anti-family, or violent materials. |
| | D) | The highly organized campaign to rid school libraries of New Age materials, led by people who otherwise support the First Amendment but fear the brain-washing content of New Age books and tapes. |
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The "last mile" problem affects |
| | A) | students in developing countries that have no access to computers or Internet technology. |
| | B) | rural schools and communities that often experience slower Internet connections. |
| | C) | students that would easily graduate based on good performance in classes but fail to pass standardized tests. |
| | D) | teachers in textbook adoption states that are unable to design their own curriculum because of forced reliance on textbook packages. |
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How has the textbook adoption process affected the mentioning phenomenon? |
| | A) | It has been decreased because textbook authors and publishers are pushed by adoption committees to go into greater depth for a few specific subjects instead of pushing the inclusion of many facts with little substance. |
| | B) | It has been decreased because textbook authors and publishers receive better guidance on what material to include. |
| | C) | Adoption committees have increased it through specific delineation of all the names, dates, and places they want included. |
| | D) | It has had no measurable effect, because the knowledge explosion has increased the mentioning phenomenon so dramatically. |
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Under No Child Left Behind, a school that fails to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) for two consecutive years |
| | A) | has major staff and curricular changes imposed on it by the state. |
| | B) | is closed by the state and either reconstituted or reopened as a charter school. |
| | C) | is labeled "underperforming" and must give parents the option of sending their children to a "successful" school. |
| | D) | must offer children additional services like tutoring paid for by the school. |
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Those who support a curricular canon argue that |
| | A) | all students should share a common knowledge of our history, culture, and civilization. |
| | B) | students of color and females will achieve more if they are reflected in the pages of their textbooks. |
| | C) | textbooks should be designed to accommodate different learning styles and the cultural backgrounds of students. |
| | D) | the design of the curriculum should be largely left to the individual teachers in the classroom that have a firsthand knowledge of the students they are teaching. |
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The countries that consistently outperform the United States on international assessments |
| | A) | allow local municipalities to design separate curriculums based on the needs of students. |
| | B) | all have national standards with a core curriculum. |
| | C) | allow state or local municipal governments wide latitude in interpreting a national curriculum. |
| | D) | allow state or local municipal governments to set their own standards for testing and satisfactory performance. |
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Which of the following statements about authentic assessment is true? |
| | A) | Comparisons are often made between authentic assessment and sports for the way student performance is measured. |
| | B) | Authentic assessment offers different methods of teaching but still utilizes standardized testing to evaluate student performance. |
| | C) | Most public high schools in northern states now use authentic assessment over standardized testing. |
| | D) | No states have yet explored or incorporated authentic assessment into their curriculums. |
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Many believe that schools need to emphasize more of the thinking skills needed in the information society, instead of content. Among these, metacognition is the |
| | A) | awareness and monitoring of one's attitudes and attention while learning. |
| | B) | application of analytic tools to society at large. |
| | C) | umbrella term for such skills as comparing, observing, and summarizing. |
| | D) | attempt to allow students to design their own curriculum. |
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What does the "saber-tooth curriculum" parody? |
| | A) | the ill-advised curriculum that led to the downfall of Paleolithic man and a step back for all human beings |
| | B) | educators who cling to a standard curricula of the past |
| | C) | educators who would modify curricula willy-nilly, not recognizing the importance of a curricular canon |
| | D) | the multicultural curricula of today's K-12 schools |
| | E) | the attempts to move curriculum design into the hands of students and teachers inside the classroom |
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