Multiple Choice Questions

Which of the following is a latent function of education?
  • reducing unemployment rates by keeping youths out of the labor market.
  • Each higher level of education attained brings higher median income.
  • U.S. schools were so bad they put the future of the country in danger.
  • For employers, socialization matters more than does competence.
Dropping out of high school affects not only those who leave school, but also society in general because dropouts
  • False
  • they have a different way of looking at moral issues.
  • U.S. students did not score in the top 20 in math, science, or literacy.
  • pay less taxes because of their lower earnings, are less likely to vote, have poorer health, and increase the demand for social services.
To conflict theorist, the function of school is to produce the kind of people the system needs.
  • True
  • False
In view of conflict theory, the most important thing that schools actually do is
  • preserve the existing class system.
  • True
  • students are left unprepared to deal with more complex problems.
  • increased intergenerational mobility
Teacher often associate giftedness with children who come from prominent families, who have traveled widely, who have extensive cultural advantages.
  • True
  • False
Lester Frank Ward believed the main purpose of education was to equalize society.
  • True
  • False
To say that schools are places of socialization means that
  • schools inculcate the ways of the society in children.
  • schools pay a less important role in student academic achievement than once thought
  • de jure segregation.
  • de jure segregation
The "back to basic" movement in education emphasized rote learning, for instance, memorizing the multiplication table. The effect of this kind of education was that
  • getting students to accept society as it is.
  • students are left unprepared to deal with more complex problems.
  • False
  • schools inculcate the ways of the society in children.
What was the basic message of the report titled A Nation at Risk?
  • For employers, socialization matters more than does competence.
  • U.S. schools were so bad they put the future of the country in danger.
  • Each higher level of education attained brings higher median income.
  • U.S. students did not score in the top 20 in math, science, or literacy.
"Tracking" in schools, according to conflict theory, includes
  • True
  • increasing racial and class inequality.
  • False
  • students are left unprepared to deal with more complex problems.
Over the past 75 years, the percentage of Americans completing high school has
  • in the 1950s
  • risen dramatically.
  • the unequal distribution of knowledge
  • math
hidden curriculum
  • laws prohibiting one radical group from attending school with another
  • pay less taxes because of their lower earnings, are less likely to vote, have poorer health, and increase the demand for social services.
  • schools pay a less important role in student academic achievement than once thought
  • the social attitudes and values taught in school that prepare children to accept the requirements of adult life and to fit into the social, political, and economic statuses the society provides.
In the South, state policy required blacks and whites to attend separate schools. This system was known as
  • schools inculcate the ways of the society in children.
  • getting students to accept society as it is.
  • risen dramatically.
  • de jure segregation
Rosenthal and Jacobson found that student performance is substantially affected by the
  • risen dramatically.
  • increased intergenerational mobility
  • expectations of their teachers.
  • the unequal distribution of knowledge
What, according to Lester Frank Ward, is the main source of inequality in society?
  • they have a different way of looking at moral issues.
  • increased intergenerational mobility
  • the unequal distribution of knowledge
  • is not an officially stated goals of schools.
The "hidden curriculum," according to conflict theory, includes
  • de jure segregation.
  • de jure segregation
  • schools inculcate the ways of the society in children.
  • getting students to accept society as it is.
According to conflict theorists, the hidden curriculum of school subtly promotes creativity and imagination and downplays rote learning.
  • True
  • False
According to conflict theorists, what is important about obtaining degree from Harvard or Yale or some other elite college is that it is means the person probably will not rock the boat.
  • True
  • False
To the conflict theorists, the function of school is to help each student develop his or her particular talents and abilities so as to live a more fulfilling life.
  • True
  • False
Cross-district busing of schoolchildren was a direct outgrowth of the Coleman Report of 1966.
  • True
  • False
Which of the following is not a social consequence of dropping out of high school?
  • For employers, socialization matters more than does competence.
  • reducing unemployment rates by keeping youths out of the labor market.
  • the unequal distribution of knowledge
  • increased intergenerational mobility
One problem with home schooling today is that it deprives children of the chance to participate in extracurricular activities.
  • True
  • False
The Coleman Report and much subsequent research have shown that the more money a school district spends, the greater the increase in the achievement of its students.
  • True
  • False
The Coleman Report of 1966 found that minority students perform better when they go to school with others like them in predominantly minority schools.
  • True
  • False
The Coleman Report of 1966 concluded that
  • hurts immigrant children by not giving them the necessary language skills.
  • schools pay a less important role in student academic achievement than once thought
  • U.S. schools were so bad they put the future of the country in danger.
  • Each higher level of education attained brings higher median income.
Which of the following is an aspect of the credentialized society?
  • For employers, socialization matters more than does competence.
  • they have a different way of looking at moral issues.
  • hurts immigrant children by not giving them the necessary language skills.
  • Each higher level of education attained brings higher median income.
The American educational system helps slow the entry of young adults into the labor market.
  • True
  • False
The early home schoolers in the 1950s and 60s objected to the per missives and liberalism of public schools.
  • True
  • False
Ted Brown, an elementary school teacher for the past 15 years, has returned to school to get a master's degree. The schooling will not make him a better teacher, but it will get him a raise. This is an example of
  • the credentialized society.
  • U.S. students did not score in the top 20 in math, science, or literacy.
  • they have a different way of looking at moral issues.
  • residential segregation
The high school dropout rate has been increasing gradually since 1980.
  • True
  • False
Nearly 20 percent of all students in the grades 9-12 reported they had carried a weapon at least once during the previous month.
  • True
  • False
The Supreme Court decision declaring school segregation policies unconstitutional was handed down
  • risen dramatically.
  • in the 1950s
  • False
  • increased intergenerational mobility
In past 20 years, the difference between males and females on the math part of the SAT has all but disappeared.
  • True
  • False
In its famous Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the United States Supreme Court banned
  • getting students to accept society as it is.
  • risen dramatically.
  • de jure segregation.
  • True
Carol Gilligan argues that girls are devalued by society because
  • the unequal distribution of knowledge
  • they have a different way of looking at moral issues.
  • For employers, socialization matters more than does competence.
  • Each higher level of education attained brings higher median income.
Major assessments of the U.S. students have found them most lacking in ability in
  • math
  • True
  • in the 1950s
  • False
The major cause of de facto segregation is
  • the credentialized society.
  • risen dramatically.
  • residential segregation
  • segregation resulting from residential patterns.
Opponents of bilingual education argue that it
  • hurts immigrant children by not giving them the necessary language skills.
  • U.S. schools were so bad they put the future of the country in danger.
  • reducing unemployment rates by keeping youths out of the labor market.
  • Each higher level of education attained brings higher median income.
4) A researcher only needs to select a cohort group when implementing an analytical epidemiological study.
  • epidemiology.
  • vaccinations.
  • Answer: FALSE
  • Answer: TRUE
3) MMWR is a publication by the CDC that reports on only emerging diseases.
  • bacteria causing disease
  • Answer: TRUE
  • urinary tract infections
  • Answer: FALSE
6) Compromised hosts are always suffering from suppressed immune systems.
  • Coxiella burnetii.
  • Answer: TRUE
  • vaccinations.
  • Answer: FALSE
9) Urinary tract infections are the most common forms of nosocomial infections.
  • vaccinations.
  • Answer: FALSE
  • descriptive
  • Answer: TRUE
7) A host is not considered diseased until an infection changes one's state of health.
  • epidemiology.
  • Answer: FALSE
  • Answer: TRUE
  • vaccinations.
10) Both normal and transient flora can become opportunistic pathogens.
  • a hypodermic needle
  • Answer: FALSE
  • Answer: TRUE
  • Coxiella burnetii.
2) Testing the effectiveness of a new drug for anthrax would be best performed as an experimental study.
  • Answer: TRUE
  • Answer: FALSE
  • descriptive
  • gram-negative cell walls
1) For a particular disease at a specific time period, morbidity rates should always be equal or greater than mortality rates.
  • septicemia
  • Answer: FALSE
  • Answer: TRUE
  • descriptive
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