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WorksheetsCE 340 Chapter 2
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Family is an intensely personal ______ and it will have different ______ for each person.
experience; implications
choice; emotions
construct; meanings
relationship; outcomes
It is important to understand that all family systems ______.
change only in response to negative events, such as death or disease
actively resist changes
adapt to change over time to stay healthy
are not affected by outside influences
From the perspective of the family systems theory, what is meant by the statement “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts?”
Members of a family system are interconnected and each member influences the others.
The achievements and accomplishments, or the disappointments and failures, of each family member reflect the abilities of all family members.
Family goals are designed to support the needs of the family system and the individual members of the family.
A family’s implicit rules reveal its cultural belief systems and values.
Which answer includes two factors that are experienced by all families?
detouring coalitions and goals
hierarchical structures and funds of knowledge
homeostatsis and chronosystem
implicit rules and family traditions
In Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, all levels of influence are ______ and not ______, with the different contexts ______ one another.
equal; sequential; overlapping
reciprocal; unidirectional; influencing
considered; ignored; complementing
antagonistic; supportive; competing with
Which answer accurately defines one of the levels of influence in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory?
The exosystem is the time in which a child lives.
The mesosytem contains the influences on a child’s life that do not have direct contact with the child but influence the child.
The microsystem includes all the relationships that exist in the chronosystem.
The macrosystem is the larger societal influence of cultural beliefs and values.
Dunst’s family empowerment model supports family-centered practices. Which answer is an example of a family-centered practice?
telling a family how to organize its time more efficiently
providing parenting supports
providing all specialist services in the family home
requiring families to attend meetings
Family empowerment models of family engagement recognize that students’ ______ are strongly influenced by their family experiences.
language and cognition
intelligence and goals
learning and development
self-regulation and success
Traditions of oral storytelling may share families’ ______ related to moral development, ethical values, and cultural beliefs with future generations.
funds of knowledge
directions
guidelines
histories
Teachers should view families through a positive, strength-based perspective that respects cultural values and affirms that teachers can learn as much from families as children can learn from them. The exact opposite of this approach is called a ______.
dysfunctional family approach
perverse triangle
morphogenesis
deficit model
Epstein’s family-school partnership framework acknowledges the need for three groups to share responsibility for students’ academic and social growth. Which answer includes two of those three groups?
community leaders and administrators
parents and community members
educators and policymakers
local officials and families
Epstein developed a framework that includes six types of ______, all of which are necessary for successful family-school partnership programs.
administrative support
teacher actions
family involvement
standards
How is comer’s school development program model different from other family engagement models?
it focuses on students’ developmental needs and resulting behavioral issues
it encourages support from family agencies outside the school system
it emphasizes students’ academic achievement above all other factors
it rejects most of the tenets of other family engagement models
