FBBC Foundations Of Education -
Test 2 Study Guide
How is the achievement of proficiency in the Common Core Standards measured? -
Answer High-stakes testing
Which of the workforce readiness skills involves dispositions? - Answer Professionalism
What does service learning provide for students? - Answer Opportunities for community
service that are linked to the curriculum being taught
What creates culture? - Answer A shared set of traditions, language, values, and
behaviors.
What characterizes a charter school? - Answer It is a public school that operates under
a specified charter
What is the biggest concern regarding the use of public funds for voucher programs,
according to the general public? - Answer That a voucher paid for with state education
money can be used to pay for a child to attend a religious-affiliated school
What percentage of private schools are parochial in nature? - Answer 80%
What percentage of parents choose to homeschool to avoid the public school
environment? - Answer 20%
What are the most common models for early childhood education used in the U.S.? -
Answer Montessori, High Scope, and Reggio Amelia
What is it called when a teacher moves up with the same group of students for several
years in a row? - Answer Looping
Which of these two group is most likely to drop out of high-school? Urban African
American students or Middle-class African American students? - Answer Urban African
American students
Are teacher shortages, limited course offerings and long student commutes challenges
of urban, suburban, or rural schools? - Answer Rural
Are poverty and large student populations challenges of urban, suburban, or rural
schools? - Answer Suburban
Are safety concerns, exposure to educational and cultural experiences, and large
student population challenges of urban, suburban, or rural schools? - Answer Urban
Which branch of philosophy is primarily concerned with things of the universe,
existence, etc.? - Answer Metaphysics
, What branch of philosophy seeks to answer these questions: What knowledge is true? Is
there a difference between knowledge and belief? - Answer Epistemology
Ethics mainly deals with? - Answer Moral values and conduct
Aesthetics mainly deals with? - Answer Values in the realm of beauty and art
In the thinking of which philosopher can you find the roots of idealism? - Answer Plato
People who believe that using role models of great heroes to pass on the cultural
heritage and unchanging content of education from the past would have a philosophy
most closely related to? - Answer Idealism
Is a philosophy of idealism interdisciplinary, subject-centered, student-centered or
idea-centered? - Answer Idea-centered
Bringing out knowledge through thoughtful questioning comes from the roots of which
educational method? - Answer The Socratic Method
Which branch of philosophy did Immanuel Kant most closely associate with? - Answer
Idealism
In whose thinking do we find the roots of realism. - Answer Aristotle
Who taught that ideas are formed through the study of the world of matter? - Answer
Aristotle
John Locke and Alfred North Whitehead both accepted which philosophy? - Answer
Realism
What does the term tabula rasa mean? - Answer The mind is blank at birth and the
teacher must provide ideas and sensory experiences to make impressions on it.
Which school of philosophy uses a subject-centered curriculum and tests heavily? -
Answer Realism
In which school of philosophy do students learn to construct knowledge along with
investigation and problem-solving? - Answer Pragmatism
Which school of philosophy embraces the idea that, "real learning comes from within?" -
Answer Idealism
This school of philosophy places a large emphasis on self-reflection. - Answer
Existentialism
What school of philosophy holds that ideas or concepts are the essence of all that is
worth knowing? - Answer Idealism
What school of philosophy stresses evolving and change rather than being? - Answer
Pragmatism
Test 2 Study Guide
How is the achievement of proficiency in the Common Core Standards measured? -
Answer High-stakes testing
Which of the workforce readiness skills involves dispositions? - Answer Professionalism
What does service learning provide for students? - Answer Opportunities for community
service that are linked to the curriculum being taught
What creates culture? - Answer A shared set of traditions, language, values, and
behaviors.
What characterizes a charter school? - Answer It is a public school that operates under
a specified charter
What is the biggest concern regarding the use of public funds for voucher programs,
according to the general public? - Answer That a voucher paid for with state education
money can be used to pay for a child to attend a religious-affiliated school
What percentage of private schools are parochial in nature? - Answer 80%
What percentage of parents choose to homeschool to avoid the public school
environment? - Answer 20%
What are the most common models for early childhood education used in the U.S.? -
Answer Montessori, High Scope, and Reggio Amelia
What is it called when a teacher moves up with the same group of students for several
years in a row? - Answer Looping
Which of these two group is most likely to drop out of high-school? Urban African
American students or Middle-class African American students? - Answer Urban African
American students
Are teacher shortages, limited course offerings and long student commutes challenges
of urban, suburban, or rural schools? - Answer Rural
Are poverty and large student populations challenges of urban, suburban, or rural
schools? - Answer Suburban
Are safety concerns, exposure to educational and cultural experiences, and large
student population challenges of urban, suburban, or rural schools? - Answer Urban
Which branch of philosophy is primarily concerned with things of the universe,
existence, etc.? - Answer Metaphysics
, What branch of philosophy seeks to answer these questions: What knowledge is true? Is
there a difference between knowledge and belief? - Answer Epistemology
Ethics mainly deals with? - Answer Moral values and conduct
Aesthetics mainly deals with? - Answer Values in the realm of beauty and art
In the thinking of which philosopher can you find the roots of idealism? - Answer Plato
People who believe that using role models of great heroes to pass on the cultural
heritage and unchanging content of education from the past would have a philosophy
most closely related to? - Answer Idealism
Is a philosophy of idealism interdisciplinary, subject-centered, student-centered or
idea-centered? - Answer Idea-centered
Bringing out knowledge through thoughtful questioning comes from the roots of which
educational method? - Answer The Socratic Method
Which branch of philosophy did Immanuel Kant most closely associate with? - Answer
Idealism
In whose thinking do we find the roots of realism. - Answer Aristotle
Who taught that ideas are formed through the study of the world of matter? - Answer
Aristotle
John Locke and Alfred North Whitehead both accepted which philosophy? - Answer
Realism
What does the term tabula rasa mean? - Answer The mind is blank at birth and the
teacher must provide ideas and sensory experiences to make impressions on it.
Which school of philosophy uses a subject-centered curriculum and tests heavily? -
Answer Realism
In which school of philosophy do students learn to construct knowledge along with
investigation and problem-solving? - Answer Pragmatism
Which school of philosophy embraces the idea that, "real learning comes from within?" -
Answer Idealism
This school of philosophy places a large emphasis on self-reflection. - Answer
Existentialism
What school of philosophy holds that ideas or concepts are the essence of all that is
worth knowing? - Answer Idealism
What school of philosophy stresses evolving and change rather than being? - Answer
Pragmatism
