PROF ED (9)

1) Which teaching approach for kindergarten that makes real world experiences of the child the focal point of educational stimulation?

a. Montessori approach

b. Traditional approach

c. Eclectic approach

d. Situational approach

2) The use of mnemonics help pupils ________ information.

a. analyze

b. understand

c. apply

d. remember

3) Which program was adopted to provide universal access to basic education to eradicate illiteracy?

a. “Paaralan-sa-Bawat-Barangay”

b. Education for All

c. Values Education Framework

d. Science and Education Development Plan

4) Teacher Z instructs her class to refer to the dictionary in correcting their spelled words. Which particle is exemplified?

a. Curriculum indigenization

b. Computer-assisted instruction

c. Multi-level instruction

d. Self-evaluation

5) In research, which is the dependent variable?

a. Stimulus

b. Input

c. Attribute

d. Predictor

6) What is the mean of this score distribution: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10?

a. 8.5

b. 6

c. 7.5

d. 7

7) Which statement correctly applies to student who got a score of 72 in the test?

a. He surpassed the scores of 72 students.

b. He correctly answered 72% of the items in the test.

c. He obtained a raw score of 72.

d. He answered only items in the test.

8) Which measure(s) of central tendency can be determined by mere inspection?

a. median

b. mode

c. mean

d. mode and median

9) Teacher C adds the number of cases and 1 over 2 to obtain:

a. mode

b. median

c. median and mode

d. mean

10) It is not wise to laugh at a two-year old child when he utters bad words because in his stage he is learning to:

a. Consider other’s views

b. Distinguish right and wrong

c. Socialize

d. Distinguish sex differences

11) Mothers who demand their 3 to 5 children to spend their time in serious academic study forget that early childhood is the:

a. questioning age

b. pre-school age

c. initiative age

d. toy age

12) Which refers to a single word or phrase that tells the computer to do something with a program or file?

a. Computer program

b. Command

c. Password

d. Computer language

13) To determine student’s entry knowledge and skills that test should be given?

a. Aptitude

b. Standardized

c. Diagnostic

d. Placement

14) What is the mode in the following score distribution: 96, 97, 98, 97, 93, 90, 89, 97, 81, and 80?

a. 96

b. 98

c. 97

d. 33

15) If a teacher is concerned with the development of student’s higher order thinking skills, his lesson objectives must go beyond.

a. Analysis

b. Recall

c. Comprehension

d. Application

16) Which statement on counseling is FALSE?

a. The ultimate goal of counseling is greater happiness on the part of the counselee.

b. For counseling to be successful, the counselee is willing to participate in the process.

c. The school counselor is primarily responsible for counseling

d. Counseling is the program that includes guidance.

17) A test item has a difficulty index of .81 and discrimination index of .13. What should the test constructor do?

a. Retain the item

b. Make it a bonus item

c. Revise the item

d. Reject the item

18) Which is the final, indispensable component of a lesson plan?

a. Assignment

b. References

c. Activity

d. Evaluation

19) For mastery of learning in a certain subject, which type of testing is appropriate?

a. Formative testing

b. Criterion reference testing

c. Aptitude testing

d. Norm reference testing

20) Which is NOT included in item analysis?

a. Determining the percentage equivalent of the cut off score

b. Identifying the highest score

c. Determining the cut off score

d. Determine the effectiveness of distracters

21) The first thing to do in constructing a periodic test is for a teacher to.

a. decide on the type of test to conduct

b. go back to her instructional objective

c. decide on the number of items for the test

d. study the content

22) The strengthening of liberal education which includes classical literature in the curriculum is based on the thought of the

a. rationalists

b. hedonists

c. humanists

d. stoics

23) Which statement of human right is CORRECT?

a. Human rights are unlimited.

b. Human right is a moral power not a physical power.

c. All human rights are inalienable.

d. Human right is might.

24) Which is an example of an alienable right?

a. Right to possess a house through inheritance

b. Right to life

c. Right to alms

d. Right to marry

25) It is an area of philosophy which deals on the nature of knowledge and the best methods of teaching is:

a. Epistemology

b. Metaphysics

c. Ethics

d. Aesthetics

26) To occupy a government position, one has to pass an examination on Confucian thought. From whom did this influence come?

a. Hebrews

b. Chinese

c. Hindus

d. Greeks

27) Who was a strong supporter of inclusive education and “education for all” concept?

a. Dewey

b. Hegel

c. Rousseau

d. Kung-fu-tsu

28) A son put a time bomb in the luggage of his mother who took it abroad a Philippine airline. The bomb exploded while the airplane was in flight killing the mother and forty other passengers. Although the motive of the criminal act was never revealed by the son, he aroused suspicion, when he named himself beneficiary to an insurance policy he had previously taken out on his mother’s life. Was the son accountable for the death of his mother and the other passengers?

a. Yes. He may have been directly interested only in the insurance money but directly as foreseen consequence, he willed the death for all passengers.

b. No. He did not directly the death of his mother and the other passengers.

c. No, if he refused to get the insurance money after the incident.

d. Yes, if he got the insurance money after the death.

29) Which software allows teachers and students to write, edit, and polish assignments and reports?

a. Spreadsheets

b. Word processing

c. Database

d. Graphics

30) To have a test with a wide coverage, power to test analytical thinking and ease of scoring. Which type should teachers use?

a. Completion

b. Short answer

c. Alternate response

d. Multiple choice

31) What does a conservative Filipino student experience when she migrates to the United States and witness for herself public display of affection?

a. Acculturation

b. Culture shock

c. Colonial mentality

d. Enculturation

32) In what way can teachers uphold the highest possible standards of quality education?

a. By working out undeserved promotions.

b. By putting down other professions to lift the status of teaching.

c. Wearing expensive clothes to change people’s poor perception of teachers.

d. By continually improving themselves personally and professionally.

33) Which learning activity is most appropriate if teacher’s focus is attitudinal change?

a. Field trip

b. Role play

c. Game

d. Exhibit

34) Which questioning practice promotes more class interaction?

a. Asking rhetorical questions.

b. Focusing on convergent actions.

c. Focusing in divergent questions.

d. Calling a student to answer before asking the question.

35) Which holds true to norm-reference testing?

a. Comparing individual’s performance to the average performance of a group.

b. Determining tasks that reflect instructional objectives.

c. Constructing test items in term of instructional objective.

d. Identifying an acceptable level of mastery in advance.

36) The mode of a score distribution is 25. This means that:

a. twenty-five is the average of the score distribution

b. twenty-five is the score that occurs least

c. twenty-five (25) is the score that occurs most

d. there is no score of 25

37) If a teacher gets the difference between the highest and lowest score, he obtains the ________.

a. range

b. standard deviation

c. level of difficulty

d. median

38) Which one described the percentile rank of a given score?

a. The percent of cases of a distribution within the given score.

b. The percent of cases of a distribution above the given score.

c. The percent of cases of a distribution below and above a given score.

d. The percent of cases of a distribution below the given score.

39) To the rationalist, which is the highest faculty of a man?

a. Senses

b. Reason

c. Emotion

d. Will

40) The index of difficulty of a particular test is .10. What does this mean? My student’s ________.

a. found the test item was neither easy nor difficult

b. performed very well against expectation

c. were hard up in that item

d. gained mastery over that item

41) Jose reads WAS for SAW or D for P or B. from his reading behavior, one can say that Jose suffers from ________.

a. dysgraphia

b. dyslexia

c. dysphasia

d. dyspraxia

42) If you want a child to eliminate an undesirable behavior, punish him. This in accordance with Thorndike’s law of ________.

a. multiple response

b. reinforcement

c. exercise

d. effect

43) In which cognitive development stage is a child unable to distinguish between his own perspective and someone else’s?

a. Pre-operational stage

b. Concrete operational stage

c. Sensorimotor stage

d. Formal-operational stage

44) Which developmental stage is sometimes called the pre-school years?

a. Middle childhood

b. Adolescence

c. Early childhood

d. Late Infancy

45) According to Piaget’s theory, in which developmental stage can the child do symbolic thinking and go beyond the connection of sensory

information and physical action?

a. Pre-operational stage

b. Concrete operational stage

c. Formal-operational stage

d. Sensorimotor stage

46) In which competency do the students find greatest difficulty? In the item with the difficulty index of ________.

a. 0.10

b. 0.90

c. 1.00

d. 0.50

47) What psychological principle is invoked when a teacher connects the new lesson to the one just completed so that the student may gain a holistic view of the subject?

a. Conceptualization

b. Recognition

c. Stimulation

d. Apperception

48) Which teaching method is intended primarily for skill and concept mastery by way of practice?

a. Project

b. Supervised study

c. Drill

d. Review

49) What is the possible effect of an overcrowded curriculum?

a. In-depth learning tends to be given greater emphasis.

b. Lifelong learning skills tend to be fully developed.

c. There is lack of personal analysis and reflection on major concepts.

d. There is greater concept of understanding.

50) Teacher D begins her lesson with concrete life experiences then leads her students to abstraction. Which method does she employ?

a. Inductive

b. Deductive

c. Transductive

d. Interactive

ANSWERS:

1. A

2. D

3. B

4. D

5. B

6. D

7. C

8. D

9. B

10. B

11. D

12. B

13. C

14. C

15. A

16. A

17. D

18. A

19. A

20. C

21. B

22. C

23. C

24. C

25. A

26. B

27. A

28. A

29. B

30. D

31. B

32. D

33. B

34. C

35. A

36. C

37. A

38. D

39. B

40. C

41. B

42. B

43. A

44. C

45. A

46. A

47. D

48. C

49. C

50. A

PROF ED (10)

1) Honesty remains a value even if nobody in an organization values it. This pronouncement comes from the mouth of a/an ________.

a. Pragmatist

b. Idealist

c. Reconstructionist

d. Progressivist

2) I cannot help but recall the sister’s convent, which served as my boarding house in high school now that I am in a noisy boarding house. Which principle of association explains this?

a. similarity

b. contiguity

c. frequency

d. contrast

3) Which Piagetian term refers to one’s inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and someone else’s?

a. Autism

b. Conservation

c. Centration

d. Egocentrism

4) The use of multi-level materials enables a teacher to do.

a. Review

b. Tutoring

c. Application of lesson

d. Differentiated instruction

5) Which process does not fall under extrapolation?

a. Inferring

b. Predicting

c. Concluding

d. Observing

6) Which teaching technique develops creative thinking by the use of comparison and analogy?

a. Heuristic

b. Aesthetic

c. Synectic

d. Intrinsic

7) Which is a typical characteristic of the adolescent?

a. Reasonable and secure

b. Feels intense emotions and sense of disequilibrium

c. Slow but steady physical growth

d. Passive and obedient

8) In which stage of development does the child’s group begin to exert a tremendous influence on the child’s attitudes and behavior?

a. late childhood

b. late adolescence

c. early adolescence

d. middle childhood

9) Which is NOT an element of cooperative learning?

a. positive interdependence

b. group accountability for learning

c. individual’s accountability for learning

d. face to face interaction

10) The reading teacher stays 30 minutes daily after class and teaches the slow readers how to read. What is the practice called?

a. make-up class

b. enrichment activity

c. remedial instruction

d. development reading

11) Mrs. Ramos provided reading materials of varying levels of difficulty to the three groups of learners. Which principle is implemented by her action?

a. focus on individual’s need to achieve

b. help each student attain goals

c. focus on student attention

d. provide informative feedback

12. Using the principles of teaching as a guide, “describe how you would solve the following problem situation” is a simple thought question on ________.

a. Synthesizing

b. Summarizing

c. Applying

d. Analyzing

13) Which statement on IQ test is wrong?

a. It measures fixed potential.

b. It can be enriched by environmental experiences.

c. It measures current performance.

d. It can be advanced by maturational changes.

14) I use the gumamela to teach the parts of a complete flower. Later, the flowers will be studied in comparison to the gumamela. Which teaching method did I use?

a. Type-study

b. Laboratory

c. Discovery

d. Problem Solving

15) When the teacher Michelle presents sets of data then asks the students to enter a conclusion, generalization or a pattern of relationship which method does she use?

a. Unit

b. Type

c. Inductive inquiry

d. Process

16) The claim of a benefactor to the gratitude of his protégé is an example of a ________.

a. Acquired right

b. Perfect right

c. Imperfect right

d. Alienable right

17) The last year of pre- service education students is student teaching. Student teaching may be classified as ________.

a. Simulation

b. Role Playing

c. Demonstration

d. Field trip

18) At ranged in order, the steps of the goal-oriented instructional model include?

a. Pre-assessment, specification of objectives, instruction, evaluation.

b. Pre-assessment, specification of objectives, motivation, instruction.

c. Specification of objectives, instruction, pre-assessment, evaluation.

d. Specification of objectives, pre-assessment, instructions, evaluation.

19) A sufficient wait time can achieve the following EXCEPT ________.

a. Provides time for teacher to evaluate the answers given.

b. Decreases the amount of guessing or wrong interferences.

c. Increases the number of correct responses.

d. Discourages slow and fast thinking students to respond.

20) As a naturalists, Jean Jacques Rousseau claimed that everyone is essentially good. This view can help the teacher best when ________.

a. Knowing the students potentials.

b. Teaching the students some values.

c. Dealing with misbehaving students.

d. Help the fast learners in class.

21) If we teach our students, to think creatively, what do we encourage them to do?

a. Do “outside-the-box” thinking

b. To criticize the unreasonable

c. To question the illogical

d. Think “within the box”

22) A catalyst teacher is good at the following skills, EXCEPT:

a. Requiring uniform reports.

b. Making effective use of cooperative learning techniques.

c. Executing inquiry teaching.

d. Asking thought- provoking questions.

23) What recent education development relates to perennialism?

a. Individualizing the learning experience and activities.

b. Suiting the strategies to the students’ learning style.

c. Exercising the students higher order thinking skills (HOTS).

d. Having drills and rote activities that develop learning skills habits.

24) As a teacher you are a rationalist. Which among these will be your guiding principle?

a. I must teach the child so he is assured of heaven.

b. I must teach the child that we can never have real knowledge of anything.

c. I must teach the child to develop his metal powers to the full.

d. I must teach the child every knowledge, skill and the value that he needs for a better future.

25) Variance, standard deviation, and range are all measures of ________.

a. Correlation

b. Grouping

c. Variability

d. Central Tendency

26) Which is a characteristic of a dyslexic child?

a. hard up in writing and spelling

b. attention-getter

c. out of focus

d. hyperactive

27) Writing an original essay is an example of which level of objective in the cognitive domain?

a. Application

b. Analysis

c. Synthesis

d. Evaluation

28) Which curricula were implemented immediately before the restructured Basic Education Curriculum?

a. NESC and NSEC

b. NSEC and 2-2 plan

c. NESC and 2-2 plan

d. PRODED and SEDP

29) Helping in the development of graduates who are “maka-diyos” is an influence of ________.

a. Situational morality

b. Classical Christian morality

c. Naturalistic morality

d. Dialectical morality

30) Which principle was observed by Ausubel’s schema theory?

a. Teachers must presume that learners know everything.

b. There is no need to provide background information.

c. Children can be taught how to study.

d. Learners have stock knowledge of things based on background information and experiences.

31) Which term refers to the collections of student’s products and accomplishments for a period of evaluation purposes?

a. Portfolio

b. Diary

c. Observation report

d. Anecdotal record

32) Some of your students don’t seem to like you as a teacher. If you will regard situation on the level of the ego, what will you most likely think about it?

a. To hell with them

b. What wrong have I done to deserve this?

c. Why should I care if they me or not?

d. What is it about me that they do not like?

33) Which test is given to determine the admission or non-admission of the student to the program?

a. Placement

b. Achievement

c. Aptitude

d. Diagnostic

34) Which question demands the highest level of thinking?

a. How should you present a report in class?

b. Was the student reporting well done? Support you answer?

c. What steps they followed in class reporting?

d. What conditions must be met for reporting method to be effective?

35) “The State shall protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels.” Which government program is in support of this?

a. Primary schools for indigenous peoples

b. Deregulated tuition fee hike

c. Re-introduction of the NEAT and NSAT

d. Exclusion of children with special needs from the formal system

36) In Piaget’s concrete operational stage, what is it that a child CANNOT do?

a. Reasoning applied to specific example.

b. Doing mentally what was just physically done.

c. Classifying objects into different sets.

d. Imagining the steps necessary to complete an algebraic equation.

37) Under what type of guidance service does the concern of schools to put students into their most appropriate courses fall?

a. Research service

b. Individual inventory service

c. Placement service

d. Information service

38) Which is an advantage of teacher-made tests over those standardized test?

a. highly reliable

b. better to the needs of the pupils

c. highly valid

d. more objectively scored

39) Which refers to the Filipino trait of practicing conflicting values in different venues and with different social groups?

a. Crab mentality

b. “Kanya-kanya” mentality

c. Procrastination

d. Existential intelligence

40) Student D says “bahala na” and braves the storm for a test. In this situation which is expressed by the students “bahala na”?

a. Lack of self-reliance

b. Willingness to take risks

c. Lack of foresight

d. Indolence

41) Miss Cruz is teaching a three-year old boy how to put on his shirt. She might first reward him for placing his right arm in the right sleeve, then the left arm in the left sleeve, then buttoning the front of the shirt, then tucking the shirt into his pants. The technique is called?

a. conditioning

b. fading

c. chaining

d. reinforcement

42) According to Erikson’s theory, the child aged three to five is largely:

a. mischievous

b. ego-centric

c. lazy

d. altruistic

43) Teacher B wants to check prior knowledge of his pupils about water pollution. She writes the main topic water pollution in the center of the chalkboard and encircles it. Then she asks the pupils to provide information that can be clustered around the main topic. Which technique did the teacher employ?

a. deductive teaching

b. demonstration

c. semantic mapping

d. particularism

44) Conducting follow up studies of graduates and drop out id guidance service that falls under.

a. individual inventory service

b. research service

c. counseling service

d. placement service

45) Teacher M helps pupils determine the pronunciation and meanings of words by analyzing roots, affixes, and derived forms. This process is called.

a. contextual attack

b. blending sounds

c. phonetic analysis

d. structural analysis

46) James, age 7, was removed from his class frequent fights with other children. He refused to be disciplined and was to focus in class only

for a very short time. He has also frequent tantrums. He is suffering from?

a. Mental retardation

b. Down Syndrome

c. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

d. Learning disability

47) The basic needs in the hierarchy of needs must be met so that

learning will effectively take place. This expresses the theory of.

a. Rogers

b. Murray

c. Homey

d. Maslow

48) The first American teachers in the Philippines were:

a. elementary graduates

b. graduates of the normal school

c. missionaries

d. soldiers

49) Which instructional aid requires pupils to verbalize?

a. diorama

b. brainstorming

c. sociodrama

d. graph

50) Learning is enhanced when:

a. The learner competes with his classmates.

b. The teacher expresses his disappointment with low scores.

c. The expectation of success is high.

d. The learner is under stress and is challenged.

ANSWERS:

1. B

2. D

3. D

4. D

5. D

6. C

7. B

8. C

9. C

10. C

11. B

12. D

13. A

14. A

15. C

16. A

17. A

18. D

19. D

20. C

21. A

22. A

23. C

24. C

25. C

26. A

27. D

28. A

29. B

30. D

31. A

32. D

33. A

34. B

35. D

36. D

37. C

38. B

39. B

40. B

41. A

42. B

43. C

44. B

45. D

46. C

47. D

48. D

49. B

50. C