How Did the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) Impact

question 14

Multiple Choice

How did the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) impact the American system of public education?

• A) Parents had the right to transfer their children out of schools that failed to meet their institutional goals.
• B) Teachers maintained traditional teaching strategies and curricula that had been in place for over a century.
• C) Students planning on attending college or university were required to take more rigorous admissions exams.
• D) School curricula placed greater emphasis on science and social studies, the two content areas covered extensively by new standardized tests.

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Definitions:

Visual Cliff

An experimental apparatus used to study perception of depth and fear of falling in infants, illustrating their ability to perceive depth.

Size Constancy

The perceptual process by which we perceive an object as being the same size despite changes in the distance from which it is viewed.

Monocular Cues

Visual information that allows perception of depth and spatial relationships using only one eye.

Interposition

A visual cue in which one object partly covering another is perceived as being closer.