Instruction: Please match the terms with the definitions.

a. Hidden curriculum b. Hurried children c. Gender roles d. Nuclear family

e. Norms f. Latchkey children g. Peer culture h. Socialization
i. Net generation j. Culture

1. Patterns of acquired behavior and attitudes transmitted among the members of society.

2. The process of preparing persons for a social environment

3. A social entity's rules of behavior

4. Children unsupervised after school

5. Children highly pressured to excel at an early age

6. Mother and father living with their children

7. Behaviors and attitudes of similar-age children or youth in an institution or society

8. What students learn, other than academic content, from the school milieu or environment

9. Socially expected behavior patterns for girls and boys, men and women

10. Young people growing up in the emerging digital ages

Instruction: Please match the following terms with their definitions.

a. Social Economic Status b. Critical theory c. Ecological intervention

d. Traditional view of schools e. Revisionist view of schools f. resistance theory
g. Compensatory education h. Controlled choice i. Race j. Ethnicity

1. Relative ranking of individuals according to economic, social, and occupational prestige and
power; usually measured in terms of occupation, education, and income and generally viewed in
terms of social-class categories ranging from working class to upper class.
2. Groups of people with common ancestry and physical characteristics.

3. A shared cultural background based on identification and membership with an ethnic group.

4. The belief that the educational system provides economically disadvantaged students with
meaningful opportunities.
5. The belief that the elite groups have channeled disadvantaged students into schools and inferior
jobs.

6. An interpretation of schooling that views public school systems as functioning to limit educational
opportunities for students marginalized because of race, class, and gender biases; proponents argue
that teachers should be "transformative intellectuals" who work to change the system; also known
as "critical discourse."

7. The view that working-class students resist the school in part because a hegemonic traditional
curriculum marginalizes their everyday knowledge.

8. An attempt to remedy the effects of environmental disadvantages through educational enrichment

programs.
9. a system in which students can select their school as long as their choices do not result in
segregation.
10. Comprehensive efforts to improve the environments of young children.

Instruction: Decide the following statements are True of False.

1. Active learner roles are usually encouraged by many teachers in class.
2. Peer culture helps bolster rather than hinders the academic performance.
3. Many teachers from middle class background believe students from working class are as
intelligent as those from middle class.
4. Girls tend to outperform boys in mathematics because boys are afraid of breaking their stereotype.
5. The success in narrowing the performance gaps between boys and girls are the result of school
commitment alone.
6. From a Hereditarian’s view, intelligence is greatly influenced by environment rather than genes.
7. Race is more influential than social economic status predicting academic performance of students.
8. Early childhood education has a long lasting effect since academic performance of students in later
stage depends heavily on their previous experience.
9. From an Environmentalist’s points of view, environment is more influential than genes in
determining the intelligence.
10. The research on mainstreaming and inclusion education produce ambiguous result since it remains
inconclusive whether putting students in regular classroom really improve their academic
performance and social acceptance.
Answer the following questions.
1. Why do schools need to conduct background checks for current and prospective teachers and
school employees?
2. Does merit pay help or hinder the teaching procession?
3. What were the purposes of education in preliterate societies?
4. How does each state define the “cause” for dismissing teachers?
5. What is academic freedom?
6. What are the benefits and drawbacks of using “social promotion”?
7. What practices are favored by progressivism?
8. Why do existentialism and postmodernism reject metaphysics?
9. Critical theory argued that schools are about social reproduction and legitimize class power
differences. Explain this argument with supported examples.
10. Why does peer culture work against academic goals at school? Give examples to illustrate your
answers.

11. Why does participating in extracurricular activities have positive impacts on children academic
performance? Give some examples to support your answers.

12. What is the difference between academic curriculum and “hidden” curriculum? Give some
examples to support your answers.

13. Compare the traditional view, revisionist view and intermediate view on education. Give some
examples to illustrate your answers.

14. Why do some teachers respond negatively to active learner role?

15. What are the negative impacts of “hidden curriculum”?

16. Discuss the negative impacts of classroom culture?

17. Why is there so much passive learning in classroom?

18. Discuss the relationships between social class and success in school. Provide examples for each
relationship to support your answer. Give some examples.

19. Discuss the relationships between race/ ethnicity and school achievement. Give some examples.