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1. Explanations of achievement patterns are divided into 4 MAIN groups. Identify these from the list below

   1. Structural explanations: wider social inequalities in society
   2. Teacher expectations
   3. Home background
   4. Individualistic explanations
   5. Schooling
   6. The formal curriculum
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2. One of the following is NOT a measure of under-achievement. Which is it?

   1. Teachers' expectations
   2. The percentage of pupils staying on beyond 16
   3. National Curriculum test scores
   4. The percentage of pupils going to university
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3. True or false? Sociologists argue that individual characteristics such as intelligence are the most significant explanation for differences in educational achievement between different social groups.

   1. True
   2. False
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4. Researchers have studied a variety of factors in the home background of different social groups and their possible impact on educational success or failure. This includes cultural and material factors, and a variety of factors involved in socialisation. Which two of the following are NOT cultural factors?

   1. Money
   2. Housing
   3. Parents' attitudes
   4. Parents' behaviour: role models
   5. Language
   6. The values of a social group or community
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5. In studying schooling, researchers have studied both the formal and hidden curriculum. Which one of the following is the correct definition of the hidden curriculum?

   1. Subjects on the timetable
   2. Teacher attitudes
   3. Streaming
   4. What pupils learn from the way a school is organised
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6. Which three of the following factors would be part of the formal curriculum in a school or college?

   1. This test
   2. National Curriculum subjects
   3. Teacher attitudes
   4. Streaming
   5. An AS Level syllabus
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7. Which four of the following would be part of the hidden curriculum in a school or college?

   1. Teacher attitudes
   2. Teacher stereotypes of pupils
   3. Streaming
   4. The management structure
   5. The history syllabus
   6. This test
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8. Which two of the following perspectives have been interested in how the hidden curriculum operates for pupils from working class backgrounds?

   1. Functionalists
   2. Marxists
   3. Interactionists
   4. Feminists
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9. Which three of the following perspectives would explain differences in educational achievement in terms of the relationship between education and the wider society of which it forms a part?

   1. Functionalists
   2. Marxists
   3. Feminists
   4. Interactionists
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10. Functionalists and Marxists both agree that the education system performs functions for society as a whole. With which three of the following statements would Marxists agree?

    1. Education selects the most able pupils for their role in production
    2. One function of education is to persuade people that their social class position is a fair reflection of their ability
    3. Education reinforces existing social inequalities in society
    4. Education teaches shared values
    5. The education system is a myth-making machine and a tool of ideological control in a capitalist society
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