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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Keeping Track.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the center of the approach used at Prospect School?
(a) Student review.
(b) Assessment.
(c) Staff review.
(d) Administrative review.

2. Who was the subject used in a study by Davide Carroll?
(a) Chesa.
(b) Sid.
(c) Pat.
(d) Jose.

3. In what publication did Bernardina and Zayd read coverage of the Central Park rape?
(a) The Chicago Sun Times.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Washington Post.

4. Who believed that "human beings spent their lives weaving webs of significance"?
(a) Gilbert Ryle.
(b) Lisa Delpit.
(c) June Jordan.
(d) Gomer Pyle.

5. Ayers stated that ________________________ is more dogmatic and insistent than any religion or political ideology.
(a) Choosing.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Learning.
(d) Common sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argued that standardized achievement tests are problematic due to their "exaggerated importance"?

2. Who created an impressive archive and research center where they have collected the work of hundreds of children over many years?

3. What model is curriculum built on based on Ayers's research?

4. In Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," what is the process of narrowing, punishing, and controlling from the outside that too often passed for assessment?

5. In Alex Haley's writing, whose coming of age ceremony did he record?

(see the answer key)

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