Ch 6: What is Taught and How is it Taught?

What type of curriculum describes learning that occurs within learners as they process new information?

• hidden

• formal

• inner

What type of curriculum refers to the explicit or the planned curriculum?

• hidden

• formal

• inner

What type of curriculum is taught implicitly or in a way that is not directly expressed?

• hidden

• formal

• inner

Which type of curriculum orientation produces learners capable of maintaining and expanding broad social goals?

• learner-centered

• academic-subjects

• needs-of-society

Which type of curriculum orientation was Jean-Jacques Rousseau an early proponent of?

• learner-centered

• academic-subjects

• needs-of-society

Which type of curriculum orientation organizes programs into disciplines?

• learner-centered

• academic-subjects

• needs-of-society

Needs-of-society curricula motivate learners because the content is more likely to be perceived as

• Educational

• Relevant

• Traditional

• Believable

Academic-Subjects curricula are easily accepted by society because they are

• new and exciting

• ground breaking

• useful and job related

• familiar and respectable

Learner-centered curricula can break down artificial barriers among ____ because individuals do not experience life as a sequence of subjects.

• subject areas

• courses

• learners

• lessons

A test used to compare scores of students in a given classroom with norms is best termed a

• ACT test

• formative test

• standardized test

• state test