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WorksheetsTFL615_week 9_Lunenburg & Ornstein_ch 10
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
School achievement and economic outcomes are highly related to social class and family background.
True
False
Which of the following studies is by far the largest educational research conducted in the US involving 625,000 children and 4,000 schools?
The Coleman report
The Jencks report
The Duncan report
The Horace Mann report
The Coleman Report found that:
the effects of the home environment far outweighed the effects that the school program or the teacher had on achievement
The effects of the school program far outweighed the effects of the home environment on achievement
The effects of the teacher far outweighed the effects of the home environment on achievement
All answers are correct
According to the Coleman Report:
socioeconomic differences in achievement widened at higher grades
socioeconomic differences in achievement narrowed at higher grades
socioeconomic differences in achievement remained the same across grades
all answers are correct
What policy recommendations can be drawn based on the Coleman report?
Student expenditures should be increased
Teacher salaries should be raised
Classroom sizes should be decreased
It’s difficult to make policy recommendations based on the Coleman report
According to the Coleman report, what two factors affect academic achievement?
family background and peer group
family and friends
family background and teachers’ professionalism
student expenditures and teacher salaries
class size and teacher salaries
What did the Jencks study find?
The schools do almost nothing to close the gap between the rich and the poor, the disadvantaged or advantaged learner
The quality of education has little effect on what happens to the students (with regard to future income) after they graduate
School achievement depends largely on a single input - that is, the family characteristics of the students - and all other variables are either secondary or irrelevant
All answers are correct
What is the main policy implication from Jencks’ study?
Schools cannot contribute to equality
Schools can contribute to equality
Compensatory spending contributes to equality
Integration is better than segregation
According to Jencks' study, what would be necessary to achieve complete economic equality?
redistribution of income
compensatory spending
integration
higher teacher salaries
smaller class sizes
Which of the following did Duncan study?
relationship between education and occupational status and income
relationship between heredity and academic achievement
socioeconomic status of parents and children
all answers are correct
Which of the following is the conclusion of Duncan’s study?
Family origin or SES correlate with IQ but it’s a weak correlation, suggesting that IQ is affected by other non-measured environmental or hereditary factors
All answers are correct
SES of a family has its main influence on education & direct influence on occupational status, but no effect on income
Education is highly correlated with occupational status & therefore an indirect influence on income
Occupation has the main influence on income
Which international comparison measures achievement in math and science in grade 4, 8, and 12 every 4 years starting from 1995?
TIMSS
PISA
NLSY
CPS
BPS
Which international comparison measures literacy of 15-year-olds in reading, math, and science every three years starting from 2003?
TIMSS
PISA
NLSY
CPS
BPS
TIMSS stands for Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study.
True
False
PISA stands for Programme for International Student Assessment.
True
False
Which of the following international comparisons does Kazakhstan participate in?
TIMSS
PISA
NLSY
TIMSS and PISA
TIMSS, PISA, and NLSY
What does SES stand for?
socioeconomic status
society, economics, and statistics
social and educational status
socio-emotional status
The Coleman report didn’t use causal inference methods. How can we believe Coleman’s conclusion that SES and peer quality causally affect academic achievement?
There were multiple replications confirming this causal conclusion
We shouldn’t believe Coleman’s causal claims at all
There were causal studies confirming Coleman’s conclusions about SES and peer quality
Coleman in fact used causal inference methods to make these conclusions
Which of the following is a term denoting equal start for everyone with some going farther than others?
equality of opportunity
equality
equity
integration
excellence
Which of the following summarizes Horace Mann’s stewardship theory?
public schools are good for the upper class as they create a stable society
schools didn’t achieve the goal of equal opportunity
two factors affect achievement: family background and peer group
differences in school achievement, as well as economic attainment, are related more to the socioeconomic origin than schooling
