Stanley Milgram's study on obedience to authority found that

Stanley Milgram's study on obedience to authority found that
 
  a. the majority of people obeyed orders given by someone they perceived as being an authority figure.
  b. most people do not obey orders given to them by authority figures.
  c. people are not interested in approval received by adhering to rules.
  d. all of these

Question 2

The United States was able to recruit a number of new teachers in the last ten years thanks primarily to:
 
  a. renewed efforts to attract people to the teaching profession
  b. increases in wages
  c. reduced workload
  d. lack of alternative economic opportunity

Question 3

Stanley Milgram's study on obedience to authority could easily be questioned because of
 
  a. subject matter.
  b. lack of data.
  c. ethical problems.
  d. small sample size.

Question 4

No Child Left Behind is:
 
  a. an education bill passed during the Bush administration that continued the trend of increasing school accountability through standardized testing
  b. a euphemism for social promotion
  c. a policy designed to eliminate degree inflation
  d. the bill that established community colleges across the country

Question 5

In a study intended to discover why German soldiers were efficient fighters even in the face of defeat, Edward Shils and Morris Janowitz concluded that they:
 
  a. had a strong commitment to the ideology of Nazism
  b. were afraid of being executed
  c. were better paid than soldiers in the Allied forces
  d. were extremely loyal to their fellow soldiers

Question 6

An unintended consequence of tying school funding to high-stakes testing has been:
 
  a. an increase in school funds
  b. higher achievement on standardized exams
  c. higher student dropout rates
  d. a surplus of funds because few schools meet the necessary benchmarks

Question 7

Stanley Milgram found that the willingness to defy orders to inflict shock on a victim is strongly related to the intensity of the shock and the:
 
  a. closeness of the victim to the subject
  b. gender of the experimenter
  c. victim's gender
  d. victim's race

Question 8

Which of the following countries has a higher secondary school completion rate than the United States?
 
  a. Hungary, Germany and Ireland
  b. France, Switzerland, Belgium
  c. Iceland, Israel, Slovak Republic
  d. All of the above