Chapter 10 Review

A

100

What is curriculum?

What you teach

200

Of the following which statement best describes the way professional organizations influence curriculum?

B. Professional organizations publish standards that students understanding of content recommended by the organization

300

Reading, writing, and math are the most strongly emphasized areas of the curriculum in elementary schools. Of the following which is the most likely reason for this emphasis?

A. Reading, writing, and math are the areas in which students are most commonly tested

400

Which of the following is NOT a criticism of character education?

C. Character education overemphasizes thinking of the expense of action

500

Which of the following best describes the implicit curriculum?

D. What students learn as communicated by the way teachers interact with them

B

100

Topics teachers decide to leave out of courses of study are best described as making up which of the following?

C. The Null Curriculum

200

Which of the following is NOT a criticism of moral education?

C. Moral education deals with issues that are removed from the real world of the classroom

300

Of the following which is the best description of creationism?

B. The belief that the existence of the universe and all its parts is the result of work done by God

400

Which of the following best describes the explicit curriculum?

D. What students learn/that is found in their textbooks

500

Research indicates that nearly 70% of all school districts in the US have policies in place to teach sexuality education. Of this 70% approximatelythat fraction teaches that abstinence is the only option outside marriage, and any information about contraception is forbidden?

B. 1/3

C

100

The curriculum since the early 1990s include a much stronger emphasis on environmental education than existed before that time. Of the following what is the most likely reason for this increased emphasis?

A. The federal influence on the curriculum through passage of a specific piece of legislation

200

What is instruction?

How you teach

300

Which of the following best describes students who are involved in the extracurriculum?

D. Students who participate in extra curricular activities tend to get higher grades and be more motivated than students who don't participate in extracurricular activities

400

Which of the following is the closest approximation of the percentage of Americans who favor sexuality education and believe that young people should be given information to protect themselves from unplannedpregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases?

D. 90%

500

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between extracurricular activities and effective schools?

A. A well-developed and comprehensive extracurricular program is one of the characteristics of an effective school

D

100

Of the following which most influences the curriculum?

D. Textbooks

200

State-published documents that typically include standards, learning activitites, and performance expectations for students are best described as

A. curriculum guides

300

Which of the following is the best description of censorship?

D. The process of not allowing the use of certain books in the school curriculum

400

Which of the following best illustrates an activity in the extracurriculum?

B. Learning lines for your part in "A Man for All Seasons," a play your class is putting on in the spring or C. Practicing your saxophone for your jazz music class

500

Which of the following best illustrates integrated curriculum?

D. Having students identify art pieces from different historical periods (Art & History)

E

100

The process of focusing curriculum on predetermined goals or benchmarks that identify the content students should understand and the skills they should have after completing and area of study is best described as

D. standards-based education

200

Of the following which best describes the goal of service learning?

C. To make all students more socially responsible

300

Of the following which is the most accurate description of the curriculum in middle schools compared to the curriculum in junior high schools?

A. Middle schools are more likely to be integrated and focas on real-world problems than the junior high schools

400

In some of your classes your instructors are likely to encourage you not to depend heavily on textbooks as a bias for making curriculum decisions. If your behavior is consistent with patterns identified by research, which of the following is most likely?

C. You will not follow your instructors' recommindations during your first year, but as you gain teaching experience, you will largely ignore textbooks as a basis for making curriculum decisions

500

Of the following which is the best description of evolution?

A. A theory suggesting that all organisms and events in the world change in response to a predetermined sequence