Expanding Roles of Education:

Welfare, Workplace, and Meritocracy

Matching

1.  Guy & Mindy: Application/Comprehension

Column A contains a list of current educational programs. Column B contains a list of characters represented at the town meeting. Please write the letter (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, or E) of the character in column B who would be most likely to support the program on the line to left of the educational program or policy.  Each answer can be used once, more than once or not at all.

Column A

  

Column B
  1. Accommodating learning-disabled children ________
  1. Counselors in schools__________
  2. ESL classes_________
  3. No Child Left Behind________
  4. Technical College_________
  5. WASL testing________
  
    1. Binet
    2. Charles Elliot
    3. Dewey
    4. Froebel
    5. Immigrant        
    6. Thorndike        
    7. Vocationalist
    8. Yerkes
    9. Froebel

2. Kate and Justin

Directions:  Column A contains a list of characteristics attributed to the educational theorists found in Column B.  On the line to the left of each statement, write the letter of the test item in Column B that best fits the statement.  Each response in Column B may be used once, more than once, or not at all.

Column A

  

Column B
  1. Responsible for class lesson plan suitable for any class. ______   
  1. Believed a child’s experiences should be used in the class.______
  1. Viewed teaching as the control of human behaviors._______
  1. Stood for learning by doing,group activity, and doing projects.______
  
  1. Edward Thorndike
  2. Johan Hebart
  3. John Dewey

3. Connie, Renee and Sara: Comprehension

Column A contains a list of purposes for education. On the line to the left of each statement, write the letter (A, B, C, or D) of the person in Column B who held that point of view. Each response may be used once, more than once, or not at all.

Column A

  

Column B
  1. Believed schools should help students grow into their potential. _______
  1. Asserted children should be educated towards a specific skill in order to increase social efficiency_______
  1. Used research on animals to reason that the human brain can be manipulated and controlled._______
  1. Believed schools should be student centered and education should connect with a student’s life to make it meaningful._________
  1. This person asserted education should control human behavior for the betterment of society.________
  
  1. Baldwin (an industrialist)
  2. Dewey
  3. Froebel
  4. Thorndike

Multiple Choice

1. Guy and Mindy

Underline the answer that best finishes the statement below.

As they were applied to American public schools the educational theories and applications of Froebel, Herbart, and Binet were:

A. The foundations of Thordike’s later work.

B. Crucial for increasing Asian immigration.

C. Altered to fit the emerging behaviorist public school model.

D. Behaviorist in concept and design.

2. Connie, Sara and Renee: Knowledge

Underline the answer that best finishes the statement below.

            The idea of social efficiency and the goal of international economic competition DID

NOT lead to:

A. Americanization classes

B. Binet's development of an intelligence test.

C. The adoption of Herbart's lesson plan.

D. Vocational Education

3. Justin and Kate: Comprehension

Underline the answer that best finishes the statement below.

According to the social efficiency doctrine, educational curricula should be organized to meet:

A.     The psychological developmental needs of the student

B.     The future social needs of the student

C.     The disciplinary needs of the student

D.     The higher-level thinking needs of the student

True or False

Indicate whether each statement is True or False using a (+) for true and an (o) for false. 

Guy and Mindy

___1.   Behaviorism has dominated American public schools for the past hundred years? 

Connie, Sara and Renee: Knowledge/Comprehension

__ 2.    From 1870 to 1920 different groups, theorists and educators came to a cohesive decision on education’s goal.

__ 3.    In the early twentieth century equality of opportunity mean matching individual talents to an education geared towards a specific job.

__ 4.    Meritocracy is a concept of a society where individual status is created by individual effort not political or economic influence.

__ 5.    In the early twentieth century, one of education’s major goals was to increase social efficiency.

__ 6.    Influences of educational leaders, students and parents and teachers did little to change or shape schools between 1870 and 1920.

__ 7.    Dewey and Thorndike asserted similar ideas about the role of education.

__ 8.    Vocational schools helped new immigrant children because they were educated towards a specific job and therefore had more focus.

__ 9.    Industrialists wanted children to receive a well-rounded education, so they would come to the job well-prepared for any task.

__ 10. Dewey’s educational theory has been the predominant force in shaping education today.

__ 11. Between 1870 and 1920 schools were not considered to have a large impact on society.

Justin and Kate

__ 12. In the 19th century, equality of opportunity meant giving everyone a common or equal education.

__13.   In the 20th century, equality of opportunity meant giving students a vocational education.

Fill-in the Blank

1. Guy and Mindy

Fill in the blank with the one word that best completes the sentence:

From 1870 through 1920, the struggle to define state sponsored schools was influenced by educational theorists, immigration, and _________________. 

2. Connie, Sara and Renee: Knowledge

Fill in the blank in the sentence with one word.

Binet developed intelligence tests to identify students for the purpose of _______ them.

3. Connie, Justin and Kate

Write the correct word in the blank space provided:

In the early 20th century, educators tried to achieve a ______________ by scientifically selecting and preparing students based on their ability, not their economic or social status, to perform specific roles in society.

Short Answer

1. Guy and Mindy: Application

Write a brief paragraph explaining how the theories of people such as Yerkes, Charles Elliot and Thorndike affected the current education system in the United States. You should use your notes from the town meeting and chapters 11-13 in The American School by Joel Spring to formulate your response.  If you need more space than provided you can write on the back of this paper or attach an additional sheet of paper. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Connie, Renee and Sara

Besides many differing schools of thought and theories surrounding educational practices during 1870-1920, what major event/phenomena affected how, who and to what extent students were trained/educated?

3. Connie, Justin and Kate: Analysis

Write a 4-5 line paragraph contrasting 2 educational theorists from the period 1870-1930.  You should describe each of their views on the role of schooling in society and say how they differ. 

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