Choose the correct answer for each question. You should aim for 90% or more for this quiz

1. The Sociology of Education began after the Act of Parliament which set up the tripartite system. When was this Act passed?

   1.   ?    1944
   2.   ?    1967
   3.   ?    1988
   4.   ?     1926

2. The tripartite system set up three types of secondary school to create a new education system. This was to be based on what two factors?

   1. Social background
   2. Ability to pay
   3. Ability
   4. Aptitude
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3. True or false? A comprehensive school is one you went to if you failed the eleven-plus examination.

   1. True
   2. False
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4. True or false? A public school is a state school

   1. True
   2. False
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5. The Education Reform Act (ERA) passed in 1988 introduced a number of educational reforms. Which two of the following reforms did this Act introduce?

   1. The Assisted Places Scheme
   2. The Eleven-Plus
   3. The National Curriculum
   4. Grant-maintained schools run by the government rather than Local Education Authorities
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6. Which two of the following were aims of the Education Reform Act (ERA)?

   1. To improve standards of education
   2. To provide parents (consumers) with more choice
   3. To provide more equal opportunity for ethnic minority groups
   4. To provide more equal opportunity for girls
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7. True or false? The Assisted Places Scheme was introduced in the early 1980s to allow more pupils to go to Grammar School.

   1. True
   2. False
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8. In the 1970s, a "Great Debate" on education was launched by politicians. Which two of the following educational issues did it involve?

   1. Matching education to the "needs of industry."
   2. Whether comprehensive schools were really practising equal opportunity
   3. Improving standards
   4. Whether girls were doing well at school
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9. What name is given to the idea that education should prepare pupils for areas of work rather than helping them to fulfil their individual potential?

   1. Vocationalism
   2. Equal opportunity
   3. Further education
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10. Curriculum 2000 (which you are doing now) is an attempt to reform the so-called "Gold Standard." To which (one) qualification does this refer?

    1. A Levels
    2. GNVQ qualifications
    3. Degrees
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