Lesson 03B2.4.1

03B2.4.1 The diversity of educational provision Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 9

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  1. Which educational act introduced the tripartite system with grammar, technical and secondary modern schools?

    • Comprehensive Schools Act 1965
    • Education Reform Act 1988
    • Butler Act 1992
    • Education Act 1944
  2. What major UK policy shift in 1965 sought to replace the tripartite system with all-ability schools?

    • Academies programme
    • Marketisation reform
    • Tripartite system
    • Comprehensive system
  3. What term describes running schools like competing private businesses to raise educational standards?

    • Secularisation
    • Marketisation
    • Bureaucratisation
    • Tripartism
  4. Which 1988 legislation introduced the National Curriculum and parental choice in UK state education?

    • Brodie Act 1976
    • Education Act 1944
    • Education Reform Act
    • Academies Act 2010
  5. What league tables provide parents, comparing state schools based on public exam results?

    • Performance tables
    • Attendance charts
    • Staff registers
    • Funding graphs
  6. Which state-funded schools operate independently of local authority control, established mainly since 2010?

    • Grammar schools
    • Comprehensive schools
    • Academies
    • Secondary moderns
  7. What type of UK school is set up by parents, teachers or charities outside local authority control?

    • Secondary moderns
    • Grammar schools
    • Public schools
    • Free schools
  8. What selection process do traditional grammar schools use at age eleven to admit pupils?

    • Aptitude interview
    • Eleven-plus exam
    • Catchment lottery
    • Class placement test
  9. Which sociological perspective argues that educational marketisation mainly benefits middle-class parents?

    • Marxism
    • Symbolic interactionism
    • Functionalism
    • New Right
  10. What concept describes middle-class parents using their cultural capital to secure top school places?

    • Bureaucracy
    • Meritocracy
    • Parentalocracy
    • Autocracy
  11. Which political perspective strongly supports education marketisation, testing, and parental choice?

    • Marxism
    • Socialism
    • New Right
    • Feminism
  12. What is the name of the government body that inspects standards in English schools?

    • QCA
    • UCAS
    • Ofsted
    • DfE
  13. What formula-based funding system allocates school budgets directly based on pupil enrolment numbers?

    • Formula funding
    • Equalisation fund
    • Capitation grant
    • Merit subsidy
  14. Which term describes selective schools picking only the most academically gifted pupils locally?

    • Silt-shifting
    • Streaming
    • Catchment zoning
    • Cream-skimming
  15. What policy introduced in 2000 aimed to widen university participation among lower socioeconomic groups?

    • Education Maintenance Allowance
    • Sure Start
    • Pupil Premium
    • Aimhigher
  16. Which targeted funding initiative gives extra money to state schools for disadvantaged pupils?

    • Grant maintained
    • Education voucher
    • Pupil Premium
    • Bursary scheme
  17. What educational policy in the 1970s and 1980s aimed to promote equal opportunities regardless of race or gender?

    • Multicultural education
    • Privatisation
    • Vocationalism
    • Tripartism
  18. Which reform prioritised work-related training through qualifications like GNVQs in the 1980s and 1990s?

    • Vocationalism
    • Academicism
    • Classical curriculum
    • Grammar focus
  19. What term describes private companies running state schools or educational services for profit?

    • Municipalisation
    • Nationalisation
    • Marketisation
    • Privatisation
  20. Which educational initiative introduced specialised vocational training in schools for 14 to 19 year olds?

    • BTECs
    • NVQs
    • Diplomas
    • T levels

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