Sociology GCSE - Education quiz

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

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

What does the selective role in education fulfill?

[blank_start]Social control, formal, or informal,[blank_end] is the way a school encourages and discourages behaviour. For example, the [blank_start]formal usage[blank_end] can involve the [blank_start]usage of sanctions[blank_end] e.g. detentions and [blank_start]rewards[blank_end] e.g. certificates. This role can also be fulfilled [blank_start]informally,[blank_end] for example, peers make fun of you when you do something embarrasing.

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

Fill in the blanks on the history of education in chronological order. One has been done for you. 1870 Education Act, 1944 [blank_start]Butler Education Act[blank_end], 1965 [blank_start]Comprehensive Education Labour[blank_end], Introduction of [blank_start]vocational education and coursework[blank_end], 1988 [blank_start]Education Reform Act[blank_end], 1997 [blank_start]New Labour[blank_end], 2010 [blank_start]Present Conservative government[blank_end]

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?

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

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

Select answers from the box under this line of text. Upwards/downwards [blank_start]social mobility[blank_end] is moving up or down the class structure. People can achieve upwards [blank_start]social mobility[blank_end] if they [blank_start]defer gratification[blank_end], 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 [blank_start]collectivism[blank_end], 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 [blank_start]anti-school[blank_end] subculture.) However, some groups want to achieve well together and create study groups to do the best in exams. (this is called a [blank_start]pro-school[blank_end] 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.

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

What is the dependent variable?

What is the independent variable?

What is validity?

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

What is a problem with faith schools?

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