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Chapter 13 Practice Quizzes
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Which term refers to the process whereby students are divided into categories so that they can be assigned in groups to various kinds of classes?
Tracking
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Reducing
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Reproducing
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Interacting
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Training
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Which of the following can readily reproduce the class system, while seeming to improve the lot of the more marginalized social groups?
Access without mobility
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Commodification
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Mobility
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Access
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Open learning
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Which term refers to passing off someone's ideas and words as your own?
Role modelling
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Citations
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Cultural adaptation
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Plagiarism
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Copying
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Who coined the term "docile body"?
Michel Foucault
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Jenny Oakes
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Samuel Bowles
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Harold Gintis
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John Dewey
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Which of the following statements demonstrates a structural functionalist point of view?
The hidden curriculum in education teaches the norms and values of society
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The hidden curriculum reproduces the class system, hindering class mobility
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The hidden curriculum gears certain subjects to boys, and others to girls
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None of the answers listed demonstrate the structural functionalist approach
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Which Marxist concept refers to the separation between the people and the work that they are paid to do?
Commodification
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Alienation
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Credentialism
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Disqualified knowledge
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Instrumentalism
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Critics of the online learning movement fear that it is driven by
economics
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class size
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credentialism
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streaming
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Which aspect is ignored in multicultural education?
Food
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Festivals
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Folklore
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Dance
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Fundamental values and beliefs
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Oakes's study of tracking in schools in the 1970s and 1980s showed that a student's perceived ability would be influenced by what?
Race
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Ethnicity
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Class
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All of the answers listed are correct
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A and B only
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Online education lends itself more to
critical education
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two-tiered education
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instrumental education
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multi-cultural education
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A potential factor in the willingness to plagiarize is social distance.
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According to research, one of the causes of food insecurity at university was the unavailability of culturally familiar food.
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Multicultural education has been accused of failing to acknowledge that racism is systemic in Canadian society.
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Before the Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America there was little interest in educating the masses.
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Plagiarism is a victimless crime.
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Cameron and Bartel (2008) determined that homework reduces family time and affects family relationships.
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The Common School Act of 1871 made education free and compulsory to the age of 18.
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Teachers tend to favour a museum approach to multicultural education within the classroom.
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Credentialism is when increasing value is placed on having credentials such as certificates and diplomas.
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The perceived relationship between the expansion of education and economic growth is part of the human capital thesis.
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