EDUC 1101Form BExam 2Spring 2007

Please read all of these directions. Prior to starting your exam please write your NAME and STUDENT ID number on the answer sheet. Also please put either Form A OR Form B on the top by your name. Answer all of the questions to the best of your abilities. If you have any questions feel free to raise your hand and Jamie or Professor Guldbrandsen will gladly help you.

  1. Which colony passed the first compulsory education law?
  2. Virginia
  3. Pennsylvania
  4. New York
  5. Massachusetts
  1. In colonial times, education was often denied to
  2. children of color
  3. girls
  4. poor children
  5. all of the above
  1. The major advocate of the common school movement was
  1. Reverend Thadeus Mather
  2. Horace Mann.
  3. John Dewey.
  4. Jerome Bruner.
  1. The common school movement encountered opposition in the form of
  1. business interests concerned that the labor pool of children would disappear.
  2. taxpayers willing to pay higher taxes to create school choice.
  3. teacher labor unions sponsoring their own schools.
  4. none of the above.
  1. Benjamin Franklin established FranklinAcademy to
  2. train future political leaders to serve in public office.
  3. emphasize the continued need for a classical education in modern times.
  4. provide vocational training through the study of practical subjects.
  5. offer basic education to the masses to secure their rights as citizens in a democracy by understanding earlier democratic governments in Rome and Greece.

6.True or False: A supporter of progressive education was Benjamin Franklin.

  1. True
  2. False

7.Proponents of the common school movement argued that free, universal public education would accomplish all of the following EXCEPT

  1. establish a shared religion to repair the fractured spirit of a nation with

peoples of many faiths.

  1. equalize economic conditions between the rich and poor to reduce social

disharmony.

  1. produce a better-educated workforce in an increasingly industrialized society.
  2. all of the above.

8.Institutions created to train teachers during the common school period were called

  1. dame schools
  2. educator schools
  3. normal schools
  4. prep school
  1. Tax-supported schools began during this time period.
  2. Renaissance
  3. Colonial Period
  4. Medieval
  5. Post Modern age
  1. After the Civil War, the government agency established to provide education to black Americans was the:
  1. Freedmen’s Bureau
  2. CIA
  3. FBI
  4. United States Department of Education
  1. What amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave the state control of education?
  1. 9th Amendment
  2. 15th Amendment
  3. 10th amendment
  4. 1st Amendment
  1. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 prohibits sexual discrimination in schools. The focus of the law
  1. guarantees equal funding and resources for female athletes in school.
  2. prevents the expulsion of female students who become pregnant, or the male students who made them pregnant.
  3. prevents male students from harassing other male students.
  4. All of the above

13.True or False: With the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision, segregation

became a legally sanctioned part of the American way of life.

  1. True
  2. False

14. True or False: Gender segregation continues to be a problem in the today's classrooms.

  1. True
  2. False

15.After the Civil War, the government agency established to provide education to black Americans was the:

  1. Freedmen’s Bureau
  2. CIA
  3. FBI
  4. United States Department of Education

16.True or False: Teachers tend to interact more frequently with female students than with male students.

  1. True
  2. False

17.The branch of philosophy that is concerned with correct reasoning is called

  1. Epistemology.
  2. Metaphysics
  3. Logic
  4. Metamorphosis
  1. Teacher-centered instruction is most like which educational philosophy?
  2. Essentialism
  3. Existentialism
  4. Logic
  5. Progressivism
  1. The role of the teacher in a perennialist classroom is as a
  1. Dictator
  2. Supervisor
  3. Coordinator
  4. Tutor
  1. In the existentialist classroom, the curriculum is
  1. focused on the subject matter.
  2. chosen by the student for self-directed learning.
  3. determined prior to instruction by the teacher.
  4. constructed by students during cooperative learning activities.
  1. Which of the following is NOT associated with behaviorism?
  1. programmed learning
  2. the "Skinner box"
  3. external rewards
  4. free will
  1. According to progressivists
  1. there is a common body of information that all students should know.
  2. frequent objective testing is the best way to determine what students know.
  3. students learn best from what they consider most relevant to their lives.
  4. student interests should not be allowed to take time and attention away from the academic curriculum.
  1. The Great Books curriculum is promoted by supporters of
  1. existentialism.
  2. progressivism.
  3. perennialism.
  4. essentialism.
  1. Who wrote this book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know?
  1. Horace Mann
  2. John Dewey
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. E.D. Hirsch
  1. Paulo Freire educated poor farm workers in his native Brazil to help them organize to improve the conditions in which they lived and worked. His approach to education is
  1. Behaviorism
  2. Social Reconstructionism.
  3. Essentialism
  4. Existentialism
  1. Essentialists would argue that
  1. it is the role of the teacher to communicate knowledge to the student.
  2. the curriculum should be relevant to students' lives.
  3. the way students learn best is from each other.
  4. students should get "real world" experience through internships.
  1. The recent push for standardized testing in schools is supported by advocates of
  1. Perennialism
  2. Essentialism
  3. Behaviorism
  4. Existentialism
  1. From the video clip “The Common School and the Teaching Profession” what fraction of male teachers’ salaries did female teachers receive?
  1. 1/100
  2. 5/12
  3. 1/3
  4. 3/4
  1. The Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647 said
  1. required towns of more than 50 families to hire a teacher for reading and writing,

and for more than 100 families, they had to establish a “grammar” school

  1. “separate but equal” is unconstitutional.
  2. ability grouping and tracking violated due process
  3. there is not such thing as the Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647
  1. Which 1874 court case established the link between elementary schools and colleges?
  1. Brown vs. Board of Education
  2. Plessey vs. Ferguson
  3. Roe vs. Wade
  4. Kalamazoo Case
  1. True or False: In 1800, about 10 million students attended elementary schools nation wide.
  1. True
  2. False
  1. Who was a major advocate for allowing African American girls education?
  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Prudence Crandall
  4. Lyndon B Johnson
  1. True or False: Mary McLeod Bethune believed in bringing people out of intellectual slavery to education.
  1. True
  2. False
  1. What does BIA stand for?
  1. Bureau of Intelligence Allies
  2. Big Intelligent Aliens
  3. Bureau of Indian Affairs
  4. Big Friendly Giant
  1. True or False: Over 2 million Native Americans do NOT live on reservations.
  1. True
  2. False
  1. Who believed that curriculum should be shaped by cognitive psychology?
  1. Skinner
  2. Turner
  3. Montessori
  4. Bruner
  1. True or False: Eskimo and Japanese are the fastest growing ethnicities in the world
  1. True
  2. False
  1. True or False: The military is the MOST segregated place in America.
  1. True
  2. False
  1. Where is the largest Arab American population located in America?
  1. San Francisco, California
  2. Miami, Florida
  3. Boise, Idaho
  4. Detroit, Michigan
  1. From the video clip “Fighting for What’s Fair” who fought for equal pay between black and white teachers and won?
  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  2. Steve Nash
  3. Viola Duvall Stewart
  4. Langston Hughes
  1. Why did Chinese migrate to America in 1882?
  1. Diamonds
  2. Rubies
  3. Mining
  4. The harvest
  1. From the video on Native American Education, in 1892 Richard Henry Pratt was quoted as saying
  1. “Live long and prosper.”
  2. “I’m lovin’ it!”
  3. “Love, Peace, and Rock n’ Roll”
  4. “Kill the Indian in him and save the man.”
  1. From the research of David and Myra Sadker, which sex is more likely to be given MORE attention by teachers?
  1. Females
  2. Males
  1. What was the name of the first African American school created?
  1. AfricanSchool
  2. Segregated School
  3. PennSchool
  4. BrownSchool
  1. Who believed we define who we are at our time of death; we are our decisions.
  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. Socrates
  3. B.F. Skinner
  4. John Raul Sartre
  1. What are the “Three C’s” that Jane Roland Martin created?
  1. cool, cooler, coolest
  2. cuatro, cinco, cien
  3. caring, concern, connection
  4. come, care, closer
  1. What does NBPTS Stand for?
  1. National Billiard Professional Trade Section
  2. None Better Prepared Than Stanley
  3. National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
  4. There is no such thing as NBPTS
  1. Which of the following IS a subdivision of philosophy?
  1. Metaphysics
  2. Ethics
  3. Aesthetics
  4. All of the above
  1. What do AA, RA, RR, and AR stand for?
  1. Absolutely Absolute, Relatively Absolute, Relatively Relative, Absolutely Relative
  2. All in All, Remainder in All, Remainder of Remainder, All Remainders
  3. Always Achieves, Rarely Achieves, Rarely Rests, Always Rests
  4. These are simply random letter combinations
  1. Which of the following people is NOT considered a Classical Western Philosopher?
  1. Socrates
  2. Aristotle
  3. Vygotsky
  4. Plato

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