Lesson 03B2.2.1

03B2.2.1 Differential educational achievement by social class, ethnicity and gender Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 9

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The 20 questions

  1. Which social class consistently achieves the highest average GCSE results in England?

    • Underclass
    • Lower class
    • Middle class
    • Working class

  2. Which ethnic group achieves the highest attainment at Key Stage 4 nationally?

    • White British
    • Black Caribbean
    • Pakistani
    • Chinese

  3. Which ethnic group has historically recorded the lowest average GCSE attainment?

    • Indian
    • Gypsy/Roma
    • Bangladeshi
    • Black African

  4. What is the term for the widening attainment gap between rich and poor during school years?

    • Material deprivation
    • Cumulative deficit
    • Labelling theory
    • Cultural capital

  5. Which gender outperforms the other in almost all GCSE subjects in the UK?

    • Females
    • Non-binary
    • Males
    • Equal

  6. Which gender traditionally achieves better results in A-level mathematics?

    • Males
    • Females
    • Non-binary
    • Equal

  7. What poverty-related factor is measured by eligibility for free school meals?

    • Streamed setting
    • Material deprivation
    • Cultural capital
    • Labelling theory

  8. Which sociologist highlighted the role of cultural capital in middle-class educational success?

    • Howard Becker
    • Pierre Bourdieu
    • Paul Willis
    • Basil Bernstein

  9. Which linguistic code did Basil Bernstein associate with the working class?

    • Formal code
    • Elaborated code
    • Universal code
    • Restricted code

  10. What speech code does Basil Bernstein associate with middle-class educational advantage?

    • Local code
    • Restricted code
    • Deprived code
    • Elaborated code

  11. Which working-class subculture did Paul Willis study in his famous ethnography?

    • The anarchists
    • The beatniks
    • The punks
    • The lads

  12. What pattern of achievement do girls from Bangladeshi backgrounds show over time?

    • Rapid improvement
    • Severe decline
    • Stagnant results
    • Total withdrawal

  13. Which socio-economic group experiences the most severe internal gender gap in achievement?

    • Working class
    • Middle class
    • Upper class
    • Ruling class

  14. What term describes the segregation of pupils into ability groups within specific subjects?

    • Academies
    • Home schooling
    • Private tutoring
    • Streaming

  15. What is the typical educational outcome for children in long-term local authority care?

    • Average attainment
    • Top university
    • Low attainment
    • High attainment

  16. Which ethnic group is disproportionately subjected to permanent school exclusions?

    • Black Caribbean
    • Chinese
    • White Irish
    • Indian

  17. What is the primary focus of compensatory education policies like Sure Start?

    • Cultural deprivation
    • Private schooling
    • Material wealth
    • Genetic IQ

  18. Which term describes a teacher's premature categorisation of a student based on surface impressions?

    • Commodification
    • Streaming
    • Labelling
    • Socialisation

  19. What trend has characterized the gender gap in higher education participation since the 1990s?

    • More females
    • More males
    • Even split
    • Zero attendance

  20. Which sociological perspective emphasises material deprivation as the root of class inequalities?

    • Functionalism
    • Postmodernism
    • New Right
    • Marxism

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