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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Keeping Track.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," what is the process of narrowing, punishing, and controlling from the outside that too often passed for assessment?
(a) Standardized.
(b) Factory-produced.
(c) Universalized.
(d) Assessed.

2. Who believed that "young children's thinking is concrete and immediate compared to the thinking of older children"?
(a) Abraham Maslow.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

3. What does Ayers state is part of the intellectual challenge of teaching, in addition to knowing students?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Self-reflection.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Kindness.

4. What was one of the goals of the Prospect School?
(a) Supported teacher's efforts to create a learning culture.
(b) Supported students rights.
(c) Higher pay for teachers.
(d) Less structured curriculum.

5. Who was the subject used in a study by Davide Carroll?
(a) Jose.
(b) Sid.
(c) Pat.
(d) Chesa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ayers suggests that what is built on a base of knowledge about students?

2. What became a helpful guide to teaching for Ayers and other teachers?

3. How many inhabitants spoke English as the native tongue in 1988, according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?

4. What is a fixed and unvarying oversimplified belief that carries negative undercurrents?

5. In Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what did Ayers have children research for an assignment?

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