EDUC 604 Foundational Final Exam

EDUC 604 Quiz: Foundations of Education Final Exam

1. More than forty states have adopted the use of the ____________exam to test for basic professional knowledge in reading, mathematics, and communication.
2. _____________ percent of teachers leave the profession in the first five years.
3. Education in preliterate societies focused on
4. You just took a job teaching in a primary school. The principal has told you that the school’s mission envisions each classroom becoming a “prepared environment” for encouraging self-development and socialization. These ideas are based on
5. In colonial times, the town school was
6. For the existentialist educator, values are
7. programs often blur the line between private and public schools.
8. Municipal overburden is a term used to indicate
9. The ultimate authority for prohibiting corporal punishment rests with the
10. With the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent emphasis on the reasonableness of school policies, more responsibility falls on
11. The percentage of births to teen mothers outside of wedlock has increased from 15 percent in 1960 to _________ percent in the past decade.
12. Middle-class teachers may have difficulty understanding and motivating low- income minority students because of
13. Efforts to improve the academic performance of working-class students in the primary grades should focus on
14. Civil rights leaders, like Dr. Martin Luther King, were sparked by __________to challenge racial discrimination.
15. School district goals should be based on input from
16. High-school study of English, mathematics, the sciences, history, foreign languages, and geography is central to the
17. Which of the following statements is not true of one of the first major studies of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement?
18. From an international perspective, which of the following statements is most accurate?
19. Promising approaches to assisting low-achieving students must overcome
20. Most criticisms leveled at studies on the effectiveness of nonpublic schools have centered on
21. Do you think American schools have been influenced more by essentialism or by progressivism? Support your answer with examples.
22. Compare and contrast the ideas of Froebel, Montessori, and Piaget on early childhood education.