Introduction to Education – Final
Examination: Foundations and
Emerging Practices
What kind of efforts calling for accountability and standardized testing have been among the most
widespread and influential on school practices?
Reform
What are the efforts to respond proactively to multiple problems?
Systemic Reform
What are some ways systemic reform has tried to help schools?
1. Promote greater use of outcome goals.
2. Support the idea of school choice
3. Redesign teacher responsibility and compensation schemes.
4. Implement federal Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration programs.
Goals of this type emphasize the results or effects of instruction
Outcome goals
What are input goals?
Relate to the individual components of the school program that, collectively, are thougth to produce
desirable outcomes.
What are rigorous assessments?
Require learners to demonstrate sophisticated thinking skills.
What is authentic assessment?
, Requires learners to demonstrate what they have learned in a way that has much in common with how
a proficient adult might deal with this content.
What is the use of a single test to evaluate a school's performance, and outcome?
High-stakes tests
What influences learners' chance to be admitted to certain colleges and universities, affect a teacher's
employment status or salary, and reflect either positively or negatively on a school's overall
reputation?
High-stakes test's scores
What is an attendance zone?
Typically requires learners to attend schools within certain areas of their community.
What views schooling as a product?
School choice
What is a voucher plan?
Parents and guardians receive tax money that they can use to pay for the education of their children at a
school of their choice.
What type of schools are nonsectarian public schools of choice that are allowed to operate with
freedom from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools?
Charter Schools
What are open-enrollment plans described as?
Controlled-choice plans
What do Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Programs focus on?
School-wide reform.
What is Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration attempt to do?
Calls for changes in basic academics, professional development of teachers, levels of involvement of
parents and guardians, use of analyses of local needs, and use of research-based ideas for improvement.
What does "No Child Left Behind" Act accomplish?
Requires schools to measure more than "average" learner achievement.
How is a "highly qualified" teacher defined?
A person who has obtained full state certification or has passed the state teacher licensing examination,
holds the minimum of a bachelor's degree, and has demonstrated subject-area competence in each of
the academic areas in which he or she teachers.
What have corporations and businesses of all kinds actively sought?
Examination: Foundations and
Emerging Practices
What kind of efforts calling for accountability and standardized testing have been among the most
widespread and influential on school practices?
Reform
What are the efforts to respond proactively to multiple problems?
Systemic Reform
What are some ways systemic reform has tried to help schools?
1. Promote greater use of outcome goals.
2. Support the idea of school choice
3. Redesign teacher responsibility and compensation schemes.
4. Implement federal Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration programs.
Goals of this type emphasize the results or effects of instruction
Outcome goals
What are input goals?
Relate to the individual components of the school program that, collectively, are thougth to produce
desirable outcomes.
What are rigorous assessments?
Require learners to demonstrate sophisticated thinking skills.
What is authentic assessment?
, Requires learners to demonstrate what they have learned in a way that has much in common with how
a proficient adult might deal with this content.
What is the use of a single test to evaluate a school's performance, and outcome?
High-stakes tests
What influences learners' chance to be admitted to certain colleges and universities, affect a teacher's
employment status or salary, and reflect either positively or negatively on a school's overall
reputation?
High-stakes test's scores
What is an attendance zone?
Typically requires learners to attend schools within certain areas of their community.
What views schooling as a product?
School choice
What is a voucher plan?
Parents and guardians receive tax money that they can use to pay for the education of their children at a
school of their choice.
What type of schools are nonsectarian public schools of choice that are allowed to operate with
freedom from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools?
Charter Schools
What are open-enrollment plans described as?
Controlled-choice plans
What do Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Programs focus on?
School-wide reform.
What is Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration attempt to do?
Calls for changes in basic academics, professional development of teachers, levels of involvement of
parents and guardians, use of analyses of local needs, and use of research-based ideas for improvement.
What does "No Child Left Behind" Act accomplish?
Requires schools to measure more than "average" learner achievement.
How is a "highly qualified" teacher defined?
A person who has obtained full state certification or has passed the state teacher licensing examination,
holds the minimum of a bachelor's degree, and has demonstrated subject-area competence in each of
the academic areas in which he or she teachers.
What have corporations and businesses of all kinds actively sought?
