Lesson 03B2.2.2

03B2.2.2 Educational inequalities in a global context Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 9

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The 20 questions

  1. Which global organisation publishes the PISA league tables comparing educational systems?

    • UNICEF
    • World Bank
    • OECD
    • UNESCO

  2. Which international testing programme measures mathematical and scientific literacy in 15-year-olds?

    • IQ test
    • PIRLS
    • TIMSS
    • PISA

  3. Which educational assessment focuses primarily on global primary reading literacy trends?

    • PISA
    • PIRLS
    • GCSE
    • A-Level

  4. What term describes the worldwide movement to provide schooling for every child?

    • Privatisation
    • Selective schooling
    • Universal education
    • Homeschooling

  5. Which geographic region consistently displays the lowest rates of secondary school completion globally?

    • East Asia
    • Western Europe
    • Sub-Saharan Africa
    • North America

  6. What major global barrier most significantly restricts girls from attending school in developing nations?

    • Laziness
    • State bans
    • Poverty
    • High IQ

  7. Which term describes the permanent departure of skilled, educated workers from developing nations?

    • Brain drain
    • Social mobility
    • Cultural lag
    • Class flight

  8. What global initiative was established by the United Nations to achieve universal primary education?

    • Millennium Development Goals
    • Nuffield Foundation
    • Augsburg Confession
    • Bologna Process

  9. How does globalisation affect the funding of higher education in developing countries?

    • Nationalisation
    • Abolition
    • Equalisation
    • Marketisation

  10. Which type of country typically benefits most from the global migration of skilled graduates?

    • Low-income nations
    • Periphery states
    • Developing nations
    • Developed nations

  11. If a female child in rural Pakistan cannot attend school due to local norms, what inequality is shown?

    • Age inequality
    • Class inequality
    • Gender inequality
    • Racial inequality

  12. If an East African doctor moves to the UK for work, what global educational trend does this represent?

    • Universal access
    • Meritocracy
    • Compulsory schooling
    • Brain drain

  13. When wealthy parents in LEDCs send children to elite international schools, what process occurs?

    • Absolute equality
    • Comprehensive reform
    • State levelling
    • Educational stratification

  14. If a government cuts public school budgets to pay international debts, what policy is applied?

    • Free childcare
    • Comprehensive policy
    • Structural adjustment
    • Universal funding

  15. A nation improves female literacy from 20% to 80% over 20 years. What global trend is this?

    • Cultural reproduction
    • Brain drain
    • Narrowing gender gap
    • Elite streaming

  16. Why might international league tables like PISA create false comparisons between diverse nations?

    • Identical GDP
    • Strict biology
    • Cultural bias
    • Exact math

  17. What is a major negative consequence for a developing nation when its top engineers emigrate?

    • Budget surplus
    • Skill shortage
    • Class equality
    • Universal literacy

  18. How do multinational corporations operating in LEDCs sometimes influence local educational priorities?

    • Marxist teaching
    • Religious study
    • Classical Latin
    • Vocational shaping

  19. Which sociological perspective argues global education spreads Western capitalist values and inequality?

    • Functionalism
    • Radical feminism
    • New Right
    • Marxism

  20. What primary limitation affects official educational data collected across different global nation-states?

    • Inconsistent data
    • Pure objectivity
    • Absolute truth
    • Identical tests

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