State / Promise of Education

Question 1

Campbell’s Law

Answer 1

The more quantitative of a social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.
ie crime rates being reduced may not mean number of crime is reducing but may mean police force changing procedure to lower the number

Question 2

Emotional labor

Answer 2

Process of managing feelings in order to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job.

Question 3

Unproductive success

Answer 3

Success that we achieve but don’t know how we achieved it, and therefore we can’t readily replicate it.

Question 4

curriculum narrowing

Answer 4

subjects offered by education providers is reduced by cutting “non-core subjects” from the curriculum. The humanities, arts and social sciences are often given this negative and arguably untrue categorisation.

Question 5

Action research ( 2 Types of it)

Answer 5

Participatory action: Involves the participant within the research ie ask students with wheelchairs to time themselves getting around their schools to improve disability friendly schools.
Practical action: Looks at how research is conducted and is designed to address and solve specific issues. ie tests scores are dropping in the last 10 years so teachers look at the changes in how they teach.

Question 6

Learning loss

Answer 6

loss or reversal of knowledge, skills, or academic progress that students may experience when they are away from a formal classroom setting for lengthy periods of time.