Chapter 4 Flashcards
Shared norms, attitudes and ways of behaving that characterize a group of people are, collectively, known as:
A. Socioeconomic status
B. Race
C. Ethnicity
D. Culture
D. Culture
Socioeconomic status (SES) is most often measured as:
A. Only social class.
B. A combination of an individual’s income and years of education.
C. Income level and social class.
D. Occupation and social class.
B. A combination of an individual’s income and years of education.
You are a teacher working with students from a low-income neighborhood. Based on research findings about academic progress and SES, you should expect your students, relative to Middle-Class students of the same age, to:
A. maintain academic achievement levels over the summer.
B. lose ground academically over the summer.
C. to make modest academic gains over the summer.
D. to make slight academic gains over the summer.
B. lose ground academically over the summer.
The overall effect of desegregation on the academic achievement of students from underrepresented groups has been:
A. meaurably negative.
B. negligible.
C. small though positive.
D. greater than expected.
C. small though positive.
English language learners are typically taught in the most common instructional placement, which is called:
A. English immersion, referred to as “sink or swim.”
B. three-way bilingual education, which involves English speaking, non-English speaking students and their teachers.
C. transitional bilingual education in which children are taught in both their native tongue and English together.
D. Paired bilingual education which students study with a partner.
A. English immersion, referred to as “sink or swim.”
The first step in multicultural education is for teachers, administrators, and other school staff to:
A. learn about cultures from which their students come.
B. acquaint the white students with multilingual lesson plans.
C. learn to speak Spanish.
D. begin American cultural enrichment programs.
A. learn about cultures from which their students come.
High school males tend to:
A. overestimate their skills in language and math.
B. underestimate their skills in language and math.
C. score lower than females on the quantitative section of the SAT.
D. score the same as females on tests in mental rotations and mechanical reasoning.
A. overestimate their skills in language and math.
Studies showing the effects of schooling in raising intelligence scores supports an interpretation of the intelligence as:
A. environmentally influenced.
B. general ability.
C. an aptitude rather than an ability.
D. genetically influenced.
A. environmentally influenced.
Middle-class families may engage in activities in child-rearing that create differences in school achievement. Which of the following activities does research show middle-class families do NOT use to increase school achievement.
A. provide learning materials in the home
B. express high expectations of the children
C. choose to home-school the children
D. provide role models for language use and conversation
C. choose to home-school the children
Binet’s work advanced the science of intelligent assessment, but it also began to establish the idea that:
A. there were smart people who could be expected to do well in a narrow range of learning situations.
B. there were multiple intelligences.
C. intelligence could be improved with motivation.
D. there were smart people who could be expected to do well in a broad range of learning situations.
D. there were smart people who could be expected to do well in a broad range of learning situations.
In the video about the Intelligence Gene, reinforces the theory that:
A. Researchers are finding it is impossible to identify specific genes that contribute to intelligence.
B. a person’s genes interact with the environement to form intelligence.
C. A person’s environment soley dictates intelligence levels.
D. a person’s genes are inborn and will soley dictate intelligence levels.
B. a person’s genes interact with the environement to form intelligence.
