Teachers Schools and Society A Brief Introduction to Education 5th Edition -Test Bank

Teachers, Schools, and Society A Brief Introduction to Education 5th Edition by David M. Sadker -Test Bank

Teachers Schools and Society: Brief Intro to Ed, 5e (Sadker)

Chapter 3   Teaching Your Diverse Students

1) Catelina, a young Hispanic girl, has brown skin, thick hair, and dark eyes just like her cousins. These features reflect Catelina’s ________.

A) race

B) culture

C) ethnicity

D) religion

Answer:  A

Topic:  Student Diversity

Learning Objective:  3.1: Identify the issues that American schools are facing as a result of student diversity.

2) Being ________ refers to a person’s innate identity of being male, female, or somewhere in between.

A) transracial

B) bisexual

C) homosexual

D) transgender

Answer:  D

Topic:  Student Diversity

Learning Objective:  3.1: Identify the issues that American schools are facing as a result of student diversity.

3) In the context of Professor Andrew Hacker’s parable about race, which of the following is true of his views?

A) He feels that the very effort to combat racial prejudice worsens the problem by bringing attention to it.

B) He believes that most racial injustices can be solved through an infusion of funding to level the playing field.

C) He considers the idea of racial privilege or discrimination to have faded to a degree that it is now mostly a myth.

D) He considers white privilege so commonplace that most people are no longer able to “see” it.

Answer:  D

Topic:  Student Diversity

Learning Objective:  3.1: Identify the issues that American schools are facing as a result of student diversity.

4) In an essay that Eve wrote for her sociology course, she argued that one of the reasons that minorities struggled academically in school was genetic deficiencies that made them incapable of learning at the same pace as their white counterparts. Eve’s views are indicative of the ________.

A) deficit theory

B) cultural difference theory

C) expectation theory

D) multiple intelligence theory

Answer:  A

Topic:  Student Diversity

Learning Objective:  3.1: Identify the issues that American schools are facing as a result of student diversity.

5) Marie, a middle-school teacher, believes that all children can learn if given the right support. However, Tina, her coworker, thinks that it is a waste of time and effort to work with students from certain racial and ethnic groups. Which of the following theories suggests that the academic performance of the students from these groups is likely to suffer due to Tina’s attitude?

A) The deficit theory

B) The expectation theory

C) The multiple intelligence theory

D) The cultural difference theory

Answer:  B

Topic:  Student Diversity

Learning Objective:  3.1: Identify the issues that American schools are facing as a result of student diversity.

6) Israel Zangwill’s description of America as a “melting pot” best reflects the idea of ________.

A) cultural pluralism

B) balkanization

C) assimilation

D) polarization

Answer:  C

Topic:  Student Diversity

Learning Objective:  3.1: Identify the issues that American schools are facing as a result of student diversity.