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Quiz 3
Education in Modern Society-Spring 2005
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1. _______________ demonstrated that children’s social relationships at home and at school are critical to a child’s success in school:
a. James Coleman
b. Jean Piaget
c. Maria Montessori
d. Robert Havighurst
2.________________ developed a theory of cognitive development:
a. Frank Guldbrandsen
b. Jean Piaget
c. Maria Montessori
d. John Dewey
3.________________ believed children should teach themselves through the use of manipulative materials:
a. Kit Murley
b. Robert Bruiniks
c. Maria Montessori
d. Horace Mann
4._________________ identified specific developmental tasks that children must master if they are to develop normally:
a. Jean Piaget
b. Robert Havighurst
c. Jacque Chirac
d. Karol Wojtola
5. An early form of school that emphasized the study of Latin, literature, history, mathematics, music, and dialectics was known
as:
a. the Atheneum
b. a Latin grammar school
c. the McGuffey school
d. the School of Mann
6. Which of the following groups became a major power in Western governments and in education during the Middle Ages?
a. the Puritans
b. the Quakers
c. the Catholic Church
d. the reformists
7. The person who had the most effect in changing the Catholic Church's views about learning was:
a. Thomas Aquinas
b. Erasmus
c. Martin Luther
d. Aristotle
8. Martin Luther believed that education should be compulsory for:
a. boys of all classes
b. boys of upper classes
c. boy and girls of the common people or middle class
d. boys and girls of all classes
9. This educator was the first to propose the idea that children were inherently good but were then corrupted by society:
a. Herbart
b. Pestalozzi
c. Rousseau
d. Locke
10. This notable philosopher proposed that a child's mind was a "blank slate" on which education could be imprinted:
a. Locke
b. Pestalozzi
c. Aristotle
d. Descartes
11. The first kindergarten, with its emphasis on play, was established by:
a. Froebel
b. Pestalozzi
c. Montessori
d. Seuss
12. Horace Mann helped to establish common elementary schools designed to provide:
a. specialized education for all children
b. basic elementary education for all children
c. moral education for upper class children
d. higher education for children already schooled as youth
13. Which state was the first to pass a law requiring towns to provide education for youth?
a. New York
b. Minnesota
c. Massachusetts
d. New Hampshire
14. Which act passed by the federal government set aside the 16th section of each township to be used for educational purposes?
a. Northwest Ordinance
b. Smith-Hughes
c. Old Deluder Satan
d. Morrill
15. He devoted all his efforts to improving vocational education for African-Americans:
a. Frederick Douglas
b. Benjamin Banneker
c. Dred Scott
d. John Adams
16. ____________was founder of the Jesuit order, which developed a training program for their own teachers.
a. John Locke
b. Erasmus
c. Ignatius of Loyola
d. Benjamin Franklin
17. His textbooks were among the first to contain illustrations:
a. Erasmus
b. Comenius
c. Froebel
d. Socrates
18. Recognized as the symbol for a traditional American education is the:
a. apple
b. one-room schoolhouse
c. textbook
d. ruler
19. Which of the following was established in 1950 to support basic scientific research?
a. National Science Foundation
b. Federal School Board
c. Isaac-Walton League
d. Science Educators of America Association
20. B. F. Skinner developed a ______________ theory that suggested that students could be successfully trained or conditioned to
learn just about anything a teacher desired.
a. behavioral
b. sociological
c. physiological
d. economical
21. The largest of the religious groups that have maintained their own private schools are the:
a. Baptists
b. Methodists
c. Roman Catholics
d. Jewish
22. Since World War II, U.S. education has been characterized by:
a. increased school enrollment
b. increased federal involvement
c. decreased teacher standards
d. a and b
23. In 1958 Congress passed the National Defense Education Act (NDEA), which provided:
a. federal dollars to improve schools’ science and mathematics education programs.
b. federal dollars to improve schools’ engineering and foreign language programs.
c. state dollars to improve teacher benefits
d. a and b
24. The G.I. Bill paid for the education of veterans of which war?
a. Korean War
b. Vietnam War
c. World War II
d. all of the above
25. Access to a similar education for all students, regardless of their cultural background or family circumstances is called:
a. home schooling
b. equal educational opportunity
c. cultural capital
d. none of the above
26. Which philosopher said “Knowledge is virtue?”
a. Socrates
b. Aristotle
c. Guldbrandsen
d. Plato
27. The three classes of people according to Plato are:
a. artisans, soldiers, philosophers
b. teachers, soldiers, physicians
c. artisans, educators, philosophers
d. religious figures, philosophers, educators
28. The 7 liberal arts which were codified under Charlemagne consisted of:
a. the 3 R’s
b. trivium and quadrivium
c. scholasticum
d. guldbrandsenicum
29. The classic question of education is:
a. who determines your knowledge?
b. why gain knowledge?
c. what knowledge is of most worth?
d. who has more knowledge – the teacher of the student?
30. Who thought women were best suited to teach children?
a. Pestalozzi
b. Kubarek
c. Froebel
d. Aristotle
31. The Old Deluder Satan Act (1647):
a. required all students to attend church after school
b. banned anyone from wearing the color red
c. required towns to provide for the education of youth
d. allowed parents to educate their children at home
32. A philosopher may best be described as:
a. a wise man
b. a wise woman
c. a lover of wisdom
d. a foe of religion
33. In reference to ethics, AA means:
a. alcoholics anonymous and is where you should go if you have a problem with chemical dependency
b. automobile aide and tells you how men and women should drive
c. absolutely absolute and there are no exceptions to right v. wrong; what’s right in this case is right in every case
d. age absolute and means what’s right depends on your age
34. What knowledge is true? Is there a difference between knowledge and belief? . . . are questions this branch of philosophy
might ask:
a. epistemology
b. axiology
c. metaphysics
d. psychology
35. What is good? What is value? . . . . are questions this branch of philosophy might ask:
a. axiology
b. epistemology
c. metaphysics
d. kinesiology
36. What is reality? What is existence? . . . . are questions this branch of philosophy might ask:
a. metaphysics
b. epistemology
c. physiology
d. axiology
37. A thinking strategy that focuses on questions of the "what seems to be" type; includes abstractions, imagination,
generalization, and logic is:
a. analytic thinking
b. existentialism
c. idealism
d. abstraction
38. A school of philosophy that considers ideas to be the only true reality is:
a. idealism
b. analytic thinking
c. existentialism
d. abstraction
39. A late nineteenth-century American school of philosophy that stresses becoming rather than being is:
a. axiology
b. realism
c. pragmatism
d. prophetic thinking
40. The 1918 principle stating students should “receive education in health, command of fundamental processes, worthy home
membership, vocation, civic education, worthy use of leisure, and ethical character” is known as the:
a. The Horace Mann Principles
b. The Seven Cardinal Principles
c. The Students’ Rights Principles
d. The Essential Education Principles
41. The Committee of Ten (1892) recommended:
a. high schools should be grades 7-12, sequential courses, very few electives
b. elementary schools should be grades 1-9, lots of electives, interdisciplinary courses
c. schools should not be differentiated by grades, courses are chosen by the students
d. high schools should be 4-10 grades, only mathematics and reading as courses, electives not allowed
42. Who was the forefather of the contemporary public school?
a. Art Garfunkel
b. Thomas Edison
c. Horace Mann
d. John Dewey
43. Alfred North Whitehead attempted to reconcile aspects of:
a. pragmatism
b. idealism and realism
c. fact and fiction
d. the universe and mankind
44. Philosophy is more about the questions than the answers:
a. true
b. false
45. Which of the following are components of prophetic thinking?
a. discernment
b. hope
c. connection
d. all of the above
46. Pragmatism says that:
a. truth is what works
b. truth is what you see
c. truth is reason
d. all of the above
47. Ethics center around what we ought to/should do:
a. true
b. false
48. “God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.” This quote, as stated in Emile, is representative
of:
a. joyism
b. humanism
c. positivism
d. essentialism
49. Learning how to think rather than what to think is an example of:
a. essentialism
b. behaviorism
c. progressivism
d. reconstructionism
50. I have test form:
a. A
b. B