Lesson 03B2.4.2
03B2.4.2 Government educational policies from 1988 onwards Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 9
20 questions
In partnership with Revision Ninja
Lesson 03B2.4.2, Government educational policies from 1988 onwards: 20 multiple choice questions for the OCR Sociology (H580), Unit 9: Education (Option 2), written with Revision Ninja.
Host it live on the board and students join with a game code on their own devices, or revise alone with Free Play. The answers are revealed in the game.
The 20 questions
-
Which landmark Act introduced the National Curriculum and marketisation in England and Wales?
- Butler Act
- Comprehensive Act
- Education Reform Act
- Academies Act
-
What key marketisation concept refers to schools competing for parents and funding?
- Parentocracy
- Streaming
- Meritocracy
- Catchment
-
What strategy allows parents to choose which secondary schools they apply for?
- Assisted places
- Open enrolment
- Zoning policy
- Catchment sealing
-
What published tables rank schools based on their external examination results?
- League tables
- Progress indexes
- Achievement grids
- Performance ledgers
-
What funding mechanism allocates school budgets directly based on pupil numbers?
- Capitation pools
- Formula funding
- Banded subsidies
- Selective grants
-
Which government inspectorate was established to monitor school standards?
- QCA board
- HMI bureau
- EdExcel
- Ofsted
-
Which policy type allowed certain schools to specialise in subjects like technology or languages?
- Magnet academies
- Grammar streams
- Focus colleges
- Specialist schools
-
What term describes running schools like businesses to improve efficiency and choice?
- Bureaucratisation
- Marketisation
- Privatisation
- Secularisation
-
A parent chooses a school because it tops local league tables. Which concept does this show?
- Catchment drift
- Selection bias
- Meritocratic lag
- Parentocracy
-
A school increases class sizes to gain extra formula funding per pupil. What approach is this?
- Compensatory policy
- Comprehensive reform
- Tripartite tracking
- Marketisation
-
A struggling comprehensive school is taken over and given independent trust status. What are they called?
- Academies
- Direct grant
- Boarding trusts
- Grammar schools
-
A local authority loses control of funding as secondary schools convert to what status?
- Voluntary aided
- Academy status
- Foundation tier
- Direct grant
-
What post-2010 schools initiative was championed primarily by Michael Gove?
- Direct grant
- Beacon status
- Free schools
- City technology
-
Which fee-paying scheme provided state-funded places at private schools for bright pupils?
- Bursary bonds
- Assisted places
- Elite vouchers
- Scholarship trust
-
What name is given to private sector involvement in running education services?
- Secularisation
- Marketisation
- Privatisation
- Nationalisation
-
Ball and Whitty argue that marketisation policies reproduce class inequalities through what process?
- Class streaming
- Cream-skimming
- Status leakage
- Elite filtering
-
What sociological term describes schools avoiding difficult pupils to protect league table positions?
- Bottom-feeding
- Grade-padding
- Silt-shifting
- Peer-dumping
-
According to Gewirtz, which parent group possesses the cultural capital to navigate school choice best?
- Subordinate class
- Underclass
- Working-class
- Middle-class
-
What is the primary criticism of New Labour's Educational Action Zones and Aimhigher programmes?
- Tokenistic funding
- Class bias
- Total failure
- Excessive cost
-
Which Marxist concept suggests educational policies only appear to offer meritocracy to mask capitalism?
- Hidden curriculum
- Cultural capital
- Ideological state
- Myth of meritocracy
Related quizzes
- Theoretical views of the role of education Quiz · 03B2.1.1 · 20 questions
- Theoretical views of the relationship between education and work Quiz · 03B2.1.2 · 20 questions
- Work-based training and vocationalism after 1988 Quiz · 03B2.1.3 · 20 questions
- Differential educational achievement by social class, ethnicity and gender Quiz · 03B2.2.1 · 20 questions
- Educational inequalities in a global context Quiz · 03B2.2.2 · 20 questions
- Inside and outside school factors; structural, material and cultural factors Quiz · 03B2.3.1 · 20 questions
- Theoretical approaches to differential educational achievement Quiz · 03B2.3.2 · 20 questions
- The diversity of educational provision Quiz · 03B2.4.1 · 20 questions
- Ideological influences on government educational policy Quiz · 03B2.4.3 · 20 questions
- Impact of educational policies on competition, standards and equality Quiz · 03B2.4.4 · 20 questions