WGU-C272: FPOE Pre/Post QuizzesModules 1-5 with COMPLETE SOLUTION
The historical figure most often spoken of as the father of American education was: - ✔✔A. Thomas
Jefferson
B. Horace Mann ✔
C. Benjamin Franklin
D.
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WGU-C272: FPOE Pre/Post QuizzesModules 1-5 with COMPLETE SOLUTION
The historical figure most often spoken of as the father of American education was: - ✔✔A. Thomas
Jefferson
B. Horace Mann ✔
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. John Dewey
(p. 103 of textbook)
Dame schools are best described as: - ✔✔A. schools run by women for the purpose of teaching reading
and writing. ✔
B. early colonial schools designed to teach housekeeping skills to women.
C. finishing schools for women in the colonial period.
D. the equivalent of current colleges for women.
(p. 99 in textbook)
True or False: Horace Mann believed that the country was too diverse to reasonably teach a common
set of beliefs and moral values. - ✔✔A. True
B. False ✔
(p. 103-104 in the textbook)
The "Eight-Year Study" conducted in the U.S. in 1930 determined that: - ✔✔A. no difference in
achievement existed from one philosophical approach to another.
B. the progressive approach produced more intellectual curiosity and higher levels of critical thinking. ✔
C. the failures in the educational system put the " nation at risk".
D. European educational designs were superior.
(p. 113 in the textbook)
True or False: Philosophy raises questions: it does not solve them. - ✔✔A. True ✔
B. False
(p. 115 in the textbook)
Essentialism as a philosophy can best be defined as education based on the principle that: - ✔✔A.
students should learn the basic facts regarding the social and physical world. ✔
B. education should be limited to the "basics" (math, reading, and writing).
C. what us essential is different for every student and should be decided by the parents.
D. essential education is based on individual career goals.
(p. 117 in the textbook)
Progressivism as a philosophy can best be defined as education based on the principle that: - ✔✔A.
schools should be designed to introduce students to classical liberal arts.
B. schools should be designed to introduce students to classical conservative concepts.
C. all learning is active and that curriculum should begin with the child's interests and experiences. ✔
D. education must be based around sciences.
(p. 117-118 in the textbook)
Behaviorists like B.F. Skinner hypothesized that learning is: - ✔✔A. a function of change in the way one
behaves. ✔
B. assessed through the use of standardized tests.
C. a mysterious function.
D. a complex process that differs genetically between men and women.
(Roots of Education Prezi)
True or False: The first colonial schools were developed to assure that the new generation would sustain
its religious beliefs. - ✔✔A. True✔
B. False
(p. 99 in the textbook)
True or False: A hallmark of a progressive classroom is the purposeful activity of pupils who may be
engaged in research and inquiry with groups o
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