Lesson 03B2.4.4
03B2.4.4 Impact of educational policies on competition, standards and equality Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 9
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Which educational act introduced the National Curriculum and marketisation in England and Wales?
- Academies Act 2010
- Butler Act 1944
- Education Reform Act 1988
- Comprehensive Act 1965
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What is the process of running schools like businesses to compete for pupils called?
- Marketisation
- Deschooling
- Comprehensive reform
- Vocationalism
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What publication provides parents with performance data to choose schools?
- Attainment logs
- Census returns
- League tables
- Ofsted reports
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Which term describes funding following pupils, encouraging schools to attract higher student numbers?
- Block allocation
- Formula funding
- Capital subsidy
- Selective grant
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Which government body inspects schools and publishes public quality ratings?
- Local Education Authority
- Department for Education
- Qualifications Authority
- Ofsted
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What policy enabled successful state schools to break away from local authority control?
- Grammar expansion
- Academies
- Tripartite system
- Secondary moderns
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What type of schools focus on specific subjects like technology or arts to create parental choice?
- Direct grant schools
- Boarding schools
- Specialist schools
- Public schools
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What process allows middle-class parents to use economic capital to move near top-performing schools?
- Cultural assimilation
- Socio-spatial segregation
- Institutional racism
- Deferred gratification
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Which concept describes how middle-class parents possess more cultural capital to navigate school choice?
- Meritocracy
- Parentalocracy
- Technocracy
- Plutocracy
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What term does sociologist Geoff Whitty use for policies that increase inequality through school choice?
- Labelling theory
- Educational triage
- Marketisation paradox
- Deferred penalty
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Which policy gave schools freedom to select a proportion of pupils by academic ability?
- Universal banding
- Compulsory streaming
- Partial selection
- Total zoning
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What is the practice of schools focusing resources heavily on pupils hovering around the C/D borderline?
- Compensatory drift
- Educational triage
- Remedial sorting
- Streaming
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Which type of parent is described by Ball, Bowe and Gewirtz as skilled, ambitious market consumers?
- Apathetic locals
- Disconnected choosers
- Privileged choosers
- Semi-skilled workers
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What term describes working-class parents who lack cultural capital and rely on local options?
- Strategic planners
- Elite consumers
- Rational actors
- Disconnected choosers
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Which New Labour policy aimed to raise standards in disadvantaged urban areas through extra funding?
- Education Action Zones
- Technical colleges
- Direct grant scheme
- Assisted places scheme
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What was the New Labour initiative that introduced small-group tuition to boost literacy and numeracy?
- Tripartite tracking
- Literacy Hours
- Selection tests
- Secondary review
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Which Coalition policy introduced high-challenge academic qualifications to replace some coursework GCSEs?
- General National Vocational
- Unified diplomas
- Foundation degrees
- English Baccalaureate
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What term describes the shift from public ownership and funding towards private business involvement in schools?
- Bureaucratisation
- Nationalisation
- Privatisation
- Municipalisation
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What is the name for private companies running state schools for profit, an example of exogenous privatisation?
- Education businesses
- Voluntary aided boards
- Local authorities
- Charitable trusts
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Which sociological perspective argues that marketisation benefits ruling-class interests by maintaining class divides?
- Marxism
- New Right
- Functionalism
- Interactionism
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