Question 1

What was the nature of the scandal surrounding the SAT Reasoning Test in the spring of 2006?

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A)   The College Board admitted there was a scoring error that tended to incorrectly underestimate the scores on more than 4,000 tests.
B)   The College Board admitted there was a scoring error that incorrectly overestimated the scores of all the tests taken in October 2005 by 10 to 25 percent.
C)   The College Board announced that new research showed the SAT does not accurately predict college outcomes.
D)   The College Board announced that one's high school grade point average (GP
A)   is a stronger predictor of college GPA in the first year than is the SAT.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 2

William,a 17-year-old high school student,chooses products in the grocery store by looking at the pictures on the labels of the goods on the shelves because he cannot read many of the words.William would be considered:

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A)   functionally illiterate.
B)   innumerate.
C)   unschooled.
D)   functionally literate.E) None of the above
F) C) and D) A

Question 3

Which of the following is most likely to be a conflict perspective argument about why education levels have continually risen in the United States over the course of the last century?

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A)   Competition for scarce jobs requires that Americans become overqualified for the jobs they want.
B)   As education became more common for all people, social elites needed to obtain more education in order to set themselves apart from others.
C)   A result of industrialization is that jobs have become more and more skilled, and a more educated workforce is required to fill these positions.
D)   More education increases the amount of trust people have in others, and this tends to reduce social conflicts.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 4

According to Bourdieu,the three types of cultural capital are:

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A)   social, human, and cultural.
B)   embodied, objectified, and institutional.
C)   race, class, and gender.
D)   innate, learned, and social.E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 5

Which of the following best illustrates the concept of cultural capital?

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A)   Mark, a 23-year-old welder, returns to school, completes several degrees, and eventually becomes a college professor. His sister, Jane, does not attend college and works in a retail position.
B)   Chantal, a high school senior, is able to spend the summer working as a nanny for a wealthy family on Cape Cod because her mother also worked for the family. Her friends, however, remain in their hometown for the summer.
C)   Joshua and Sam have both earned bachelor's degrees from a local university and are now interviewing for the same job. When Joshua goes into the job interview, he is able to discuss art, architecture, and travel experiences he had while growing up. Sam has not had these same experiences and is not able to have the same kind of conversations with the interviewers.
D)   Cesar is one of only a few Hispanic students in his high school. He does not spend time with other Hispanic students, preferring to join teams with all white students.E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 6

Knowledge and skills that make someone more productive and bankable are known as:

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A)   human capital.
B)   social capital.
C)   economic capital.
D)   socialization.E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 7

The SAT was developed in order to provide children from public schools with a chance to demonstrate their fitness for college and to show they are as able as students from private high schools.It is therefore ironic that:

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A)   researchers now question how meritocratic the SAT is, because the SAT may test knowledge that is biased against certain groups.
B)   elite colleges and universities are increasingly deciding not to base admissions decisions on the SAT.
C)   students from private schools still score higher on the SAT.
D)   students from public schools are less likely to take the SAT than are students from private schools.E) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 8

The embodied cultural capital that parents have may work with institutional cultural capital.Which of the following illustrates this?

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A)   If a parent has confidence in social settings, he or she may be better able to advocate for children in front of the school board or at parent-teacher meetings.
B)   A parent may have more money to be able to send his or her child to private tutorials, and the child may then earn higher test scores.
C)   A parent has a higher level of education and is therefore able to talk to principals and school administrators as a peer.
D)   If a parent does not have time to volunteer in school, teachers may think that he or she does not care about the child.E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 9

Social capital is:

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A)   the knowledge and skills individuals can build to make themselves competitive.
B)   the collection of relationships that can facilitate the actions and behaviors of others.
C)   social class and cultural differences in types of knowledge that people can use to their advantage.
D)   the center of socialization resources that a group of people has at its disposal.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 10

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

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A)   Admissions decisions to colleges and universities include preferential treatment for race, ethnicity, gender, and other characteristics such as unusual backgrounds, leadership experiences, or having grown up in a rural area.
B)   Affirmative action programs at colleges and universities are designed to provide opportunities to historically underrepresented groups and to increase diversity on campuses.
C)   Affirmative action mostly benefits white male students.
D)   When black and Hispanic students attend more-selective colleges and universities, they have a greater chance of graduating.E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 11

Explain how race and social class intersect to affect education outcomes.

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Race and social class variables are high...

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT a criticism that a Marxist theorist of education would make regarding how schools have socialized children to dominant cultural values?

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A)   Schools are pawns of the capitalist classes.
B)   Schools teach skills that make students subordinate.
C)   Schools make students class conscious.
D)   Schools socialize children to be obedient so they will become good workers.E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT an argument against tracking in schools?

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A)   Tracking is problematic because there are differences in the content of materials and the quality of instruction among different levels.
B)   Tracking benefits students in the upper and lower tracks but does not provide benefits to students who are in a general track in between vocational and college-bound students.
C)   Tracking benefits children with less-advantaged backgrounds, but only if their parents can advocate on their behalf to get them into college-preparatory tracks.
D)   Children from higher social class backgrounds are more likely to be in college-preparatory tracks, even when other factors like achievement test scores are taken into account.E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 14

Discuss how tracking creates differences among students within the same schools that may be significantly greater than differences between schools.

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Tracking accounts for a portion of the large differences observed between students in the same schools by sorting them by aspiration (college,general,or vocational tracks)or level of ability (high/honors or low).Parents who went to college know the importance of the college track and advocate for their children to be placed in that track,where the quality of instruction is more rigorous than the general track.

Question 15

The research on teacher quality demonstrates that:

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A)   it is difficult to identify characteristics that will make effective teachers because these characteristics are hard to quantify.
B)   teachers with higher levels of education and degrees from more competitive colleges are more effective classroom leaders.
C)   experience, measured by years in the classroom, is a key predictor of teachers' effectiveness.
D)   teachers are most effective when they are teaching a standardized curriculum.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 16

Explain how sex and social class intersect and may account for educational differences between males and females.

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Despite media attention to a crisis in male-female school performance,much evidence shows that many sex differences are related to social class.For instance,among children born prior to the mid-1960s,males from all backgrounds outperformed females in school,but only girls with college-educated parents obtained educational levels matching boys.Among children born after the mid-1960s,however,the pattern reversed; girls from all backgrounds began doing well in school,where boys from families with fewer resources began showing declines.Among children in middle- and upper-class families,there is little evidence of a boy-girl educational crisis.

Question 17

Which of the following is an argument in favor of school vouchers?

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A)   If parents cannot pay for their children to go to private schools, the state should pay.
B)   Competition for spots at the best school would be given to students who are not educationally prepared.
C)   If schools competed for students, the quality of education would suffer.
D)   In order for schooling to be equal for all children, parents should be able to decide where their children go, regardless of their ability to pay.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 18

According to your text,approximately what percentage of the nation's population age 16 years and older is innumerate?

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A)   3 percent
B)   14 percent
C)   22 percent
D)   46 percentE) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT a sociological criticism of the idea that IQ affects educational outcomes?

Accepted Answer

A)   Standardized IQ tests measure only one kind of intelligence and other types might be related to educational success.
B)   IQ tests are culturally biased against some groups.
C)   If there is a relationship between innate intelligence and educational performance, then there is no need to look at social factors.
D)   There is great difficulty in measuring innate intelligence, independent of social forces that might affect cognitive development.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 20

In part because of their educational success,which group has been called the "model minority" in America?

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A)   African Americans
B)   Hispanics of Cuban descent
C)   Hispanics of Puerto Rican descent
D)   Asian AmericansE) A) and D)
F) All of the above

Exam 13: Education

What was the nature of the scandal surrounding the SAT Reasoning Test in the spring of 2006?

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William,a 17-year-old high school student,chooses products in the grocery store by looking at the pictures on the labels of the goods on the shelves because he cannot read many of the words.William would be considered:

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Which of the following is most likely to be a conflict perspective argument about why education levels have continually risen in the United States over the course of the last century?

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According to Bourdieu,the three types of cultural capital are:

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Which of the following best illustrates the concept of cultural capital?

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Knowledge and skills that make someone more productive and bankable are known as:

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The SAT was developed in order to provide children from public schools with a chance to demonstrate their fitness for college and to show they are as able as students from private high schools.It is therefore ironic that:

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The embodied cultural capital that parents have may work with institutional cultural capital.Which of the following illustrates this?

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Social capital is:

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?

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Explain how race and social class intersect to affect education outcomes.

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Which of the following is NOT a criticism that a Marxist theorist of education would make regarding how schools have socialized children to dominant cultural values?

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Which of the following is NOT an argument against tracking in schools?

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Discuss how tracking creates differences among students within the same schools that may be significantly greater than differences between schools.

The research on teacher quality demonstrates that:

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Explain how sex and social class intersect and may account for educational differences between males and females.

Which of the following is an argument in favor of school vouchers?

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According to your text,approximately what percentage of the nation's population age 16 years and older is innumerate?

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Which of the following is NOT a sociological criticism of the idea that IQ affects educational outcomes?

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In part because of their educational success,which group has been called the "model minority" in America?

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According to Bourdieu,the three types of cultural capital are:

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The embodied cultural capital that parents have may work with institutional cultural capital.Which of the following illustrates this?

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Which of the following is NOT a criticism that a Marxist theorist of education would make regarding how schools have socialized children to dominant cultural values?

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Which of the following is NOT an argument against tracking in schools?

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Discuss how tracking creates differences among students within the same schools that may be significantly greater than differences between schools.

The research on teacher quality demonstrates that:

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Explain how sex and social class intersect and may account for educational differences between males and females.

Which of the following is an argument in favor of school vouchers?

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According to your text,approximately what percentage of the nation's population age 16 years and older is innumerate?

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Which of the following is NOT a sociological criticism of the idea that IQ affects educational outcomes?

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