Sociology GCSE - Education quiz

Question 1 of 18

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What are the 5 education roles that schools need to fulfill in order for students to get the best education?

Select one of the following:

Money role, Job role, Social role, Political role, Society control
Economic role, selective role, socialisation role, political role, social control
None of the above

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Question 2 of 18

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Tick any of these boxes as to what the economic role in education fulfills.

Select one or more of the following:

To meet with the needs of the economy
To make students become the most successful for the best possible jobs
To make the school earn more money
To teach students the skills needed by industry and business
To teach students the skills and knowledge needed by the economy
To make students be able to afford the schools' possible financial needs
To become effective citizens

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Question 3 of 18

1

What does the selective role in education fulfill?

Select one of the following:

Matching students to the best jobs they are suited to.
To select the best students that they believe would be able to achieve the most success in their school
To recommend subjects etc. to students

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Question 4 of 18

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

( Society control, Political control, Social control ) is the way a school encourages and discourages behaviour. For example, the ( formal usage, informal usage, proper usage ) can involve the ( rewarding students, usage of sanctions ) e.g. detentions and ( rewards, punishment ) e.g. certificates. This role can also be fulfilled ( formally, informally ) for example, peers make fun of you when you do something embarrasing.

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Question 5 of 18

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People are taught how to become effective citizens and creating a sense of social cohesion (togetherness.) What educational role is this?

Select one or more of the following:

Citizenship role
Political role
Socialisation role

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Question 6 of 18

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Fill in the blanks on the history of education in chronological order. One has been done for you.
1870 Education Act, 1944 ❌, 1965 ❌, Introduction of ❌, 1988 ❌, 1997 ❌, 2010 ❌

Drag and drop to complete the text.

Comprehensive Education Labour

GCSEs and A levels 1980

Introduction of Applied A levels 1980

vocational education and coursework 1980

Education Reform Act

New Labour

Present Conservative government

Butler Education Act

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Question 7 of 18

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Gender plays a major role in education in our society.

Girls outperform boys in almost all GCSE and A level subjects, except Maths.
Boys however, get slightly more A* than girls in A level.

Why do girls and boys achieve differently?

Select one or more of the following:

Girls are self-critical; they are able to improve upon their work, and that they think they aren't perfect.
Boys are self-confident; they are able to take tasks with confidence with little to no hesitation.
Girls prefer to be methodical, whereas boys prefer to be competitive and perform hands-on tasks.
In gender roles, boys tend to have toys that encourage them to thrill-seek and seek to get instant gratification, whereas girls have toys e.g. dolls that encourage girls to communicate as if they were real human beings, linking to the world of work.

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Question 8 of 18

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The national curriculum in state-funded schools has discouraged girls from taking science subjects. True or false?

Select one of the following:

True
False

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Question 9 of 18

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Which case study revolved around the ideas of self-fulfilling prophecy and labelling?

Select one of the following:

Rosenthal and Jacobsen
Albert Bandura
Aristotle

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Question 10 of 18

1

Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

Select answers from the box under this line of text.

Upwards/downwards ( social mobility, social promotion/demotion, academic achievement ) is moving up or down the class structure. People can achieve upwards ( social mobility, social promotion ) if they ( defer gratification, favour gratification ), which is to make sacrifices for their own achievement and benefit. People can show instant gratification, meaning that they want fun instantly, which can deteriorate the attention span of students.

Working class students are more likely to favour ( collectivism, being supportive ), meaning that they prefer to form with groups of students, in which they are either more disruptive and want more fun (this is called an ( anti-school, disruptive school, negative school ) subculture.) However, some groups want to achieve well together and create study groups to do the best in exams. (this is called a ( good school, advantage-school, pro-school ) subculture.) This form of subculture is more common in middle class students than working class students.

These factors are one of the many that affect students from moving up or down the social class structure.

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Question 11 of 18

1

Negative labelling from teachers can lead to becoming fatalistic. True or false?

Select one of the following:

True
False

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Question 12 of 18

1

What is the dependent variable?

Select one of the following:

The value you measure
The value you manipulate
The value you control and observe

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Question 13 of 18

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What is the independent variable?

Select one of the following:

The value you manipulate
The value you measure
The value you control and observe

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Question 14 of 18

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What is validity?

Select one of the following:

How many times an experiment can be repeated and getting the same result
How well a study measures what it's supposed to measure.

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Question 15 of 18

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Read this article about Rosenthal and Jacobsen and tick the answers that are mentioned in the article.

"Rosenthal and Jacobsen studied a school, where teachers label some students in the school as 'geniuses'. This resulted the 'geniuses' to have better exam results than those who haven't been labelled as geniuses. This created the concept of a 'self-fulfilling prophecy', where people live up to their label from a positive (e.g. being called a genius) or negative (e.g. being called a moron) label, which positively or negatively affects their exam results, even though the 'geniuses' aren't actually smarter than the people who haven't been labelled."

Select one or more of the following:

The article mentions the idea of living up to your label, also known as a self fulfilling prophecy.
People who have been positively labelled have better exam results than those who haven't.
Teachers have labelled or not labelled students.
There has been no difference in exam results between people who have or haven't been labelled.

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Question 16 of 18

1

Select the policies that New Labour have made to help working class people in education.

Select one or more of the following:

Education Action Zones
Sure start centres
Sponsored academies
Beacon schools
Relabeling of vocational education qualifications e.g. Applied A levels
Introduction of tuition fees in universities with a maximum entrance fee of £3,000
Value added league tables
Aim Higher programme

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Question 17 of 18

1

What is a problem with faith schools?

Select one of the following:

They tend to only have people who follow the same norms and values as the school.
They are often private schools that cost a lot of money to enrol.
Faith schools aren't funded by the government.

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Note: At question 6, put your policy choice answers in numeric order. Answers in (1) indicate first choice whereas (2) indicates second choice.

Sociology GCSE - Education quiz

Question 1 of 18

What are the 5 education roles that schools need to fulfill in order for students to get the best education?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 18

Tick any of these boxes as to what the economic role in education fulfills.

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 18

What does the selective role in education fulfill?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 4 of 18

Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 5 of 18

People are taught how to become effective citizens and creating a sense of social cohesion (togetherness.) What educational role is this?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 6 of 18

Fill in the blanks on the history of education in chronological order. One has been done for you. 1870 Education Act, 1944 ❌, 1965 ❌, Introduction of ❌, 1988 ❌, 1997 ❌, 2010 ❌

Drag and drop to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 7 of 18

Gender plays a major role in education in our society. Girls outperform boys in almost all GCSE and A level subjects, except Maths. Boys however, get slightly more A* than girls in A level. Why do girls and boys achieve differently?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 18

The national curriculum in state-funded schools has discouraged girls from taking science subjects. True or false?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 9 of 18

Which case study revolved around the ideas of self-fulfilling prophecy and labelling?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 18

Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 11 of 18

Negative labelling from teachers can lead to becoming fatalistic. True or false?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 18

What is the dependent variable?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 13 of 18

What is the independent variable?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 14 of 18

What is validity?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 15 of 18

Select one or more of the following:

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Question 16 of 18

Select the policies that New Labour have made to help working class people in education.

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 17 of 18

What is a problem with faith schools?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 18 of 18

Home schooling is a popular form of education. True or false?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Fill in the blanks on the history of education in chronological order. One has been done for you.
1870 Education Act, 1944 ❌, 1965 ❌, Introduction of ❌, 1988 ❌, 1997 ❌, 2010 ❌

Gender plays a major role in education in our society.

Girls outperform boys in almost all GCSE and A level subjects, except Maths.
Boys however, get slightly more A* than girls in A level.

Why do girls and boys achieve differently?