This is the sequence of planned learning experiences described in course guides and syllabi.
What is the formal curriculum?
100
The state government influences curriculum by the creating these (3).
What are standards, curriculum guides, and frameworks?
100
He advocates a curriculum that emphasizes cultural literacy by detailing the facts and concepts that every educated American should know.
Who is E.D. Hirsch, Jr.?
100
This theory credits an unnamed intelligence for aspects of nature unexplained by science.
What is "intelligent design"?
100
The formal curriculum of the 17th century was primarily concerned with these two Rs.
What are religion and reading?
200
These activities include varsity sports, music, and drama but often underrepresent students of low socioeconomic status. Students participating in these activities also tend to have higher SAT scores and grades.
What are extracurricular activities/program?
200
Textbook adoption states are primarily located in these areas of the United States.
What are the South and West?
200
Research on this technology in education shows that although a popular idea, there is limited data proving its effectiveness in schools.
What are computers?
200
Proposed content standards were quite controversial in this content area.
What is history?
200
The curriculum of this decade emphasized social issues.
What were the 1960s?
300
These individuals influence curriculum by supplementing an official curriculum with other materials and objectives.
Who are teachers?
300
These two states are most influential in the state textbook adoption process.
What are Texas and California?
300
These standards specify subject matter to be learned.
What are content standards?
300
A textbook uses “he” and “mankind” to refer to all people. This is an example of this bias.
What is linguistic bias?
300
A strong emphasis was placed on these during the 1980s due to concern over the proliferation of easy high school electives and declining test scores.
What were the basics and academics?
400
This curriculum arises spontaneously from interactions between students and their environments.
What is the hidden curriculum?
400
The advantages of this process include: a common statewide curriculum that useful for a mobile student population, less expensive materials, and time and effort conservation for teachers at the local level.
What is the statewide textbook adoption process?
400
This form of assessment requires students to synthesize and actively use knowledge to complete a variety of tasks that may include tests, projects, and portfolios.
What is authentic assessment?
400
Thoroughly tested beliefs, such as the scientific theory of evolution, are unlikely to do this.
What is change?
400
An example of this form of bias would include a textbook that covers the 20th century U.S. history without mentioning the continued struggle for civil rights and pictures only harmonious race relations.
What is unreality?
500
This education movement advocates using instructional procedures that stress drills, homework, and frequent testing, permit fewer electives, and focus on improving test scores.
What is the back-to-basics movement?
500
This form of assessment has been criticized for failing to consistently correlate with other measures of student learning.
What is high-stakes testing?
500
A teacher engages in this form of censorship when he/she opts to remove materials or not teach a concept that may be controversial.
What is self-censorship or stealth censorship?
500
People who protest the use of class time for test preparation are concerned by this.
What is the push for more testing?
500
The main point of this text is that slavish devotion to the content of past times can result in a curriculum obsolete for contemporary realities.