Current Trends in Education and Educational Reform

Question 0

What is the true meaning of epistemology?

Answer 0

The study of knowledge

Question 1

What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?

Answer 1

A federal law that sets goals for achievement for all students and requires that teachers meet certain qualifications.

Question 2

How can the melting pot notion best be described?

Answer 2

Immigrant cultures, religions, and ethnic groups producing new hybrid social and cultural forms.

Question 3

The mission of education slowly and subtly changed from an emphasis on Civil Rights to an evolved emphasis on individual rights. What is an example of this?

Answer 3

Equal Rights Movement

Question 4

What provides a blueprint for how we think, feel, and behave in society?

Answer 4

Culture

Question 5

What is a system for classifying knowledge learning outcomes in terms of complexity of the mental activity required?

Answer 5

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Question 6

What is NCATE (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education)?

Answer 6

A major accrediting agency

Question 7

What is the purpose of accreditation programs?

Answer 7

They recognize educational institutions that have met acceptable standards applied by an outside agency.

Question 8

What is the BIA/BIE - Bureau of Indian Affairs/Education?

Answer 8

A department created specifically for tribal schools and Indian Education Issues.

Question 9

Which of these acts was responsible for administering support for land-grant colleges and universities?

Answer 9

The 2nd Morrill Act of 1890

Question 10

Which of these acts was responsible for giving federal aid for vocation programs in high schools?

Answer 10

The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917

Question 11

Which of these acts was responsible for adding agricultural, industrial, and home economics training in high schools?

Answer 11

The George-Barden Act of 1946

Question 12

Which of these acts was in response to Sputnik in that education was important to help the US compete with the former Soviet Union in scientific fields?

Answer 12

The National Defense Act of 1958

Question 13

What is Equal Educational Opportunity?

Answer 13

Access to similar education for all students regardless of their cultural background of family circumstances.

Question 14

What are the four analytical ways of thinking?

Answer 14

Abstraction, Imagination, Generalization, and Logic

Question 15

What are the four prophetic ways of thinking?

Answer 15

Discernment, Connection, Tracking Hypocrisy, and Hope

Question 16

What is INTASC (Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium)?

Answer 16

An organization that created a set of principles that describe what teachers should know and be able to do