AQA A-Level Sociology Education overview quiz quiz

Reproducing existing class inequality through the transmission of ideology

Reinforcing patriarchy through the hidden curriculum and teaching materials

Increasing the level of competition between rival schools in the area

Creating social solidarity by transmitting shared culture

The close match between the social relationships of school and the workplace

The match between the grades pupils achieve at school and their measured intelligence

The direct link between the level of parental income and a pupil's final exam results

The broad agreement reached between teachers and parents over standards of behaviour

Teacher labelling

Material deprivation

Streaming and setting

Anti-school subcultures

That the practice of streaming improves the results of all pupils across the board

That material deprivation has no measurable effect at all on a pupil's achievement

That teacher expectations can become a self-fulfilling prophecy

That girls always outperform boys in every subject across the curriculum

The total amount of money that parents spend on private tutoring for their child

The set of formal qualifications and accreditations that a school itself holds

The degree of cultural diversity found among the pupils in a school's intake

The knowledge, tastes and language of the dominant class that schools reward

Love and marriage towards careers and independence

Careers and independence back towards love and marriage

Education and qualifications towards early motherhood instead

Science subjects towards the humanities and the arts at school

Selecting pupils for the local grammar schools by means of the 11-plus entrance exam

Introducing competition and choice, with league tables and parents as consumers

Teaching pupils about the workings of the economy and the financial market

Abolishing all private schools and bringing them into the state sector

All parents genuinely have an equal power to choose between the available schools

Parents in reality have no influence at all over the schools that their children attend

Choice appears open but middle-class parents use their capital to work the system

Schools are in practice run from day to day by the elected parent governors

A curriculum focused only on science and maths at the expense of all other subjects

A curriculum that is freely chosen by the pupils themselves rather than set by teachers

A curriculum deliberately designed to promote full equality between all ethnic groups

A curriculum that reflects one (usually dominant) culture and marginalises others

Apply the method's strengths and limitations to the specific educational setting in the item

Describe the chosen research method purely in the abstract, with no link to the item at all here

List as many different research methods as you possibly can without evaluating any of them

Focus only on the practical issues and ignore the ethical and theoretical ones entirely