MCQ Bank
Who being part of the educational system, is instrumental in value transmission and change?
- A) Teachers
- B) Peer groups
- C) All of the given options
- D) Books
Economic reproduction models were criticized as they neglected the:
- A) Role of ethno-racial formations
- B) All of the given options
- C) Class relations
- D) Gender relations in capitalist political economies
Basic academic qualification for Certificate of Teaching (CT) is:
- A) Master
- B) Intermediate
- C) Bachelor
- D) Matric
The standard of education is a powerful predictor of the _______ that countries will produce in the global economic system.
- A) Values
- B) Beliefs
- C) Wealth
- D) Norms
Different types of teacher not only perform different roles but they also have frequent differences in:
- A) Remuneration
- B) Social-class background
- C) All of the given options
- D) Status and qualification
Which of the following learning is a form of education based on rote memorization and reproduction of existing knowledge?
- A) Social
- B) Real
- C) Reproductive
- D) Rational
The structure of British schools is comprised of all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Very child-centered
- B) Infant schools begin at age three
- C) Infant schools begin at age five
- D) Older students help younger
Who represent organized and collective behavior on the part of government employed teachers across the country?
- A) Educationists
- B) Teachers associations
- C) Politicians
- D) Sociologists
In which of the year the elementary system was abolished in UK?
- A) 1946
- B) 1944
- C) 1947
- D) 1945
In which of the following year the national opinion research centre found that the school teacher ranked in public opinion surveys only slightly above the average?
- A) 1945
- B) 1948
- C) 1947
- D) 1946
Functions of education includes all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Stagnant
- B) Bring change
- C) Bring innovation
- D) Transmission
___________ competition between nations has put pressure on all nations to organize educational systems in similar ways.
- A) Economic
- B) Social
- C) Religious
- D) Political
Education is the main determinant of:
- A) Cultural change
- B) Political involvement
- C) Economic growth
- D) Social conflict
Which of the following theorists argued that elites who dominate capitalist systems mold individuals in societies to suit their own purposes?
- A) Conflict and resistance theorists
- B) Conflict and structural theorists
- C) Reproduction and resistance theorists
- D) Feminist and interactionist theorist
Investment in education may produce much lower returns at earlier stages of:
- A) Cultural change
- B) Political involvement
- C) Political stability
- D) Economic growth
Education promotes_______ to allow new elites to threaten and overcome the old.
- A) Social stratification
- B) Social conflict
- C) Cultural change
- D) Social mobility
The teacher’s association and unions reflect the range of ________ divisions across the country.
- A) All of the given options
- B) Political
- C) Social
- D) Economic
Due to the different social origin and limited educational background of students, teachers are expected:
- A) To show gratitude for the 'charity'
- B) All of the given options
- C) To refrain excessive ambition
- D) To be humble
Democratic responses may relate to:
- A) Peoples’ attitudes for multi-party as against one-party systems
- B) Beliefs on tolerance for the opposition
- C) Peoples’ feelings for multi-party as against one-party systems
- D) All of the given options
Which of the following reproduction implies reproducing occupationally (class-based) differentiated stratified society?
- A) Economic
- B) Political
- C) Social
- D) Cultural