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Which of the following statements about the forces shaping curriculum is TRUE? |
| | 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 promoting goals, content standards, and testing. The federal government also sponsors legislation that influences curriculum. |
| | 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 Standards and Improvement Council in order to standardize instruction in the states. When the Council completes its task, all 50 states will work from the same K-12 curricula. |
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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 is NOT a significant criticism of the use of standardized tests in today's schools? |
| | A) | High-stakes tests are putting too much pressure on students and teachers. |
| | B) | Too much class time is devoted to preparing for standardized tests, resulting in less time spent on valuable but not tested items and issues. |
| | C) | The tests CAN be flawed by errors in keying and scoring and by test bias, penalizing certain groups. |
| | D) | State standardized tests correlate highly with other national standardized tests, such as the NAEP, ACTs and the SATs. |
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Which of the following statements about No Child Left Behind is TRUE? |
| | 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 labeled under-performing must allow students to transfer to another school, at their own expense. |
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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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Which of the following best supports the back-to-basics movement? |
| | A) | Improving test scores |
| | B) | Developing stronger extracurricular programs to build school community |
| | C) | Implementing a student-centered curriculum |
| | D) | Creating schools that tend to basic student needs of safety, nutrition, and health care. |
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Those unplanned but highly meaningful learning experiences that occur as by-products of school participation are called the |
| | A) | academic curriculum. |
| | B) | extracurriculum. |
| | C) | hidden curriculum. |
| | D) | humanistic curriculum. |
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"Open classrooms" and interest centers were innovations of the |
| | A) | period 1910 to 1918. |
| | B) | 1940s and 1950s. |
| | C) | 1960s and 1970s. |
| | D) | 1980s and 1990s. |
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Who was an advocate of cultural literacy as a term and educational goal? |
| | A) | E. D. Hirsch Jr. |
| | B) | Ernest Boyer |
| | C) | Hilda Taba |
| | D) | Theodore Sizer |
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In the past century, the canon has become |
| | A) | increasingly Eurocentric. |
| | B) | increasingly American. |
| | C) | largely irrelevant as teachers elect to teach more contemporary, unknown works by authors of all cultures. |
| | D) | controlled by the National Council of Teachers of English, revised every 10 years. |
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A danger of today's emphasis on more comprehensive textbook packages is |
| | A) | a decrease in the teacher's professional role as "architect of the curriculum." |
| | B) | the reduced role of the statewide adoption committee. |
| | C) | increased sex and race bias, as these books now must appeal to some of the more conservative communities in the nation. |
| | D) | an increased burden on teachers, who must master each element of the package. |
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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) | curricular pendulum when it swings toward a "back-to-basics" approach. |
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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 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 importance of early dental care |
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