Fill in the Blank Quiz


1		Adolescents who have a strong tend to have parents who set high performance standards.


2		are students whose measured intellectual ability is lower than their school grades.


3		Rewarding good grades with money will eventually develop children who are motivated.


4		Some suspect that the style of secondary school teachers is linked to the drop in school performance that is characteristic of the transition from elementary school to secondary school.


5		Scholastically successful adolescents tend to attribute their success to or .


6		When an adolescent believes that failure is inevitable, then he or she has developed .


7		Evidence suggests that the environment is the best predictor of educational achievement among young people.


8		parenting has been linked with the most positive outcomes in regard to educational achievement.


9		Children who grow up in conditions of economic and social lack the cultural capital necessary to succeed in school.


10		is typically measured by the number of years of schooling completed.


11		-class parents are more likely to join parent-teacher organizations and attend parent-teacher conferences then lower-class parents.


12		Young people with college degrees earn about as much per hour as young people with a high school education.


13		Researchers have found that is a mediating variable in the relationship between socioeconomic status and educational achievement.


14		High school graduation rates among African American youth have over the last 30 years, but college graduation rates have during the same time period.


15		The gains in educational attainment among American adolescents have not been paralleled by gains in .


16		The national drop out rate among American high school students is about percent.


17		youth are more likely to drop out of high school than African American youth.


18		According to Donald Super, young people's occupational plans during middle adolescence.


19		John Holland developed the to assist young people in their occupational decision-making.


20		According to Mel Kohn, lower class children are raised to value and .


21		involves having a sense of confidence in one's ability.


22		Authoritative parenting has been linked with motivation in children.


23		Educational institutions stress over cooperation.


24		Female adolescents are likely than male adolescents to believe that taking math courses will be useful to their future careers.


25		School districts plagued with shrinking are often characterized by decaying school buildings, outdated equipment, and a lack of textbooks.

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