PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION-SET B (100 items for 50 minutes)

1. Which was the FIRST body to perform regulatory functions over the teaching profession?
a. Professional Regulation Commission
b. Civil Service Commission
c. National Board for Teachers
d. None of these
2. Transforming certified skills into personal competence is the concern of which pillar of learning?
a. Learning to know
b. Learning to be
c. Learning to do
d. Learning to live together
3. The human evocative approach and the 4 A's end with _____.
a. generalization
b. adaptation
c. analysis
d. application
4. What is the best method to use in presenting a lesson which would need sophisticated and expensive equipment
and technical know-how?
a. Inquiry
b. Problem solving
c. Demonstration
d. Cooperative learning
5. Education in Human Rights begins with:
a. caring
b. enjoying
c. loving
d. respective
6. Which of these activities is best for the visual-spatial learners?
a. Answering puzzles
b. Doing graphic organizers
c. Planting in the garden
d. Creating dance movements
7. Which objective in the psycho motor domain is in lowest level?
a. To increase speed as required
b. To relax the abdominal muscle
c. To dance waltz gracefully
d. To move in space while remaining in one place
8. In his relationship with his superiors, the teacher should NOT?
a. engage in gossip mongering
b. be loyal and respectful
c. reject constructive criticism
d. expect a promotion that is not meritorious
9. Bruner's theory on intellectual development moves from enactive to iconic and symbolic stages. Applying Bruner's
how should you teach?
a. Be interactive in approach.
b. Do direct instruction.
c. Begin with the abstract.
d. Begin with the concrete.
10. If you have to develop in the students a correct sense of right and wrong, with which should you be concerned
according to Freud?
a. Super-ego
b. Ego
c. Id
d. Super-ego and Ego
11. Which of the following refers to percentile?
a. percentage of people who have received a given score on a standardized test
b. used in instating standard deviation
c. number indicating standing corresponding to a percentage of a group
d. expressed as the number of correct answer in the test
12. The difficulty index of a test item is 1. This means the test is _____.
a. very easy
b. very difficult
c. missed by everybody
d. a quality item
13. Here are raw scores in a quiz: 97, 95, 85, 83, 77, 75, 50, 10, 5, 2, 1. Which is the median?
a. 52.72
b. 76
c. 75
d. 77
14. The item in a multiple-choice type of test which serves as a "joker"
a. obstructer
b. error
c. distractor
d. none of these
15. Refers to when the counselor shows that he feels what his client feels.
a. empathy
b. warmth
c. assimilation
d. acceptance
16. Among the components of the learner's marks/ratings, Behavior is reflected in
a. Filipino
b. Outputs/Projects
c. English
d. Values Education (CERC)
17. Which is an underlying assumption of the social cognitive theory? People _____.
a. learn by trial-and-error
b. learn by-observing others
c. learn by association
d. are social by nature
18. This concept expects the teacher to provide varied learning activities to suit the needs of the various learning
styles of the students.
a. Individual differences
b. Rewards to increase participation
c. Exposure for better knowledge
d. Proactive teaching as modern technique
19. The teacher's initial step to capture the attention of the student in introducing a lesson _____.
a. motivation
b. enrichment
c. reinforcement
d. generalization
20. Which of the current classroom practices is influenced by Skinner's Operant Conditioning?
a. progression of subordinate learning
b. connection between stimulus and response
c. reinforcement of correct practices
d. involuntary response to a stimulus
21. Given the scores 12, 12, 15, 15, 15, 17, 19, 19, 19 and 23, the mode(s) is (are)?
a. 19
b. 15
c. 12
d. 15 and 19
22. Which one indicates a strong negative correlation?
a. -.15
b. -.25
c. -.75
d. -.10
23. A system of regrouping closely-related score values into a single category which is often used in tallying scores
for a class.
a. class interval
b. converted score
c. criterion
d. none of these
24. Learning is strengthened if it results in satisfaction but is weakened if it leads to annoyance. This is the Law of
______.
a. exercise
b. readiness
c. effect
d. repetition
25. Referring to alternative learning system, which one does NOT belong?
a. Flexible delivery
b. Formal classroom instruction
c. Distance education
d. Computer-mediated communication
26. What philosophy is related to the practice of schools acting as laboratory for teaching reforms and
experimentation?
a. Essentialism
b. Existentialism
c. Progressivism
d. Social Reconstructionism
27. Which of the following is the aim of our education during the Commonwealth period?
a. Designed after Japanese education
b. Patterned after the American curriculum
c. predominantly religious
d. purely nationalistic and democratic
28. If you want your students to develop reading comprehension and learning strategies, which one should you
employ?
a. Cooperative learning
b. Reciprocal teaching
c. Mastery learning
d. Peer tutoring
29. Teacher A, a Values Education teacher emphasizes ethics in almost all her lessons. Which of the following
emphasizes the same?
a. Liberal Education
b. Moral Education
c. Religious Training
d. Social Education
30. Who among the following believes that learning requires disciplined attention, regular homework, and respect for
legitimate authority?
a. Essentialist
b. Progressivist
c. Realist
d. Reconstructionist
31. The learner is the center of the educational process and the program is aligned upon his interests, abilities,
purposes and needs.
a. Problem-centered curriculum
b. Subject-centered curriculum
c. Skills-centered curriculum
d. Child-centered Curriculum
32. The cognitive prices refers to the realization that even if things change in physical appearance, certain attributes
are constant. This is _____.
a. integration
b. integration
c. conservation
d. construction
33. Homeroom advisers always emphasize the importance of cleanliness of the body. Children are taught how to
wash their hands before and after eating. What is this practice called?
a. Folkway
b. Laws
c. Mores
d. Social norm
34. What is the legal basis of shared governance in basic education?
a. RA 9155
b. RA 7160
c. RA 7844
d. RA 9942
35. He divided man's life span into 5 stages of growth and development, where each stage has its characteristics to
be developed emphasizing need for self-expression.
a. Johann Baselow
b. Emmanuel Kant
c. Froebel
d. Jean J. Rosseau
36. Which type of test can assess a student's ability to organize and express his ideas?
a. completion
b. essay
c. multiple choice
d. modified true or false
37. Which Pillar of Education or Learning is aimed at man's holistic development and fulfillment?
a. "Learning to do"
b. "Learning to live together"
c. "Learning to know"
d. "Learning to be"
38. A type of research undertaken to know the cause and effect of a variable.
a. experimental
b. descriptive
c. development
d. historical
39. Which is the most reliable tool of seeing the development in your pupils' ability to write?
a. Portfolio assessment
b. Interview of pupils
c. Self-assessment
d. Scoring rubric
40. "Learning has taken place when a strong bond between stimulus and responses formed." This is based on the
theory of _____.
a. categorization
b. predisposition
c. connectionism
d. constructivism
41. Which of the following statement is TRUE being a sound principle of guidance?
a. it is curative rather than preventive
b. problem focused rather than preventive
c. it is prescriptive rather than suggestive
d. it is preventive rather than curative
42. Teacher should avoid _____ in assigning student performance-based ratings.
a. obligation
b. accountability
c. responsibility
d. arbitrariness and bias
43. Keeping track of assessment results from one periodic rating to the next is useful in contributing to the
development of a _____.
a. Annual Implementation Plan
b. School Improvement Plan
c. Regional Plan
d. Division Plan
44. What test includes items which measure variety of mental operations combined into a single sequence from
which only a single score is taken?
a. objective test
b. omnibus
c. percentile
d. none of these
45. The information shown by these data includes the highest, middle, and lowest scores, even the missing scores in
a tabulated data presentation.
a. concluded data
b. surveyed data
c. gathered data
d. frequency data
46. Who of the following authors would most help Teacher Lito to understand the underlying effects of poverty on
academic achievement?
a. Piaget
b. Dewey
c. Kohlberg
d. Maslow
47. Thorndike's law of effect states that a connection between stimulus and response is strengthened when the
consequence is _____.
a. negative
b. positive
c. repeated
d. measurable
48. The difference between the highest and the lowest score in a given set of scores.
a. profile
b. quartile
c. range
d. none of these
49. Choose an appropriate curriculum especially that the child's mind does not contain any innate ideas was an
advice from ______.
a. Rousseau
b. B.F. Skinner
c. Plato
d. John Locke
50. A stamina of 5% represents whose performance?
a. performance of the lower 20%
b. performance of the upper 25%
c. performance of the upper 20%
d. performance of the lower 40%
51. A lesson which aims to focalize skills to make them fixed to the point of mastery.
a. review
b. problem-type
c. drill
d. experimental
52. On whose teaching is the performance of rituals or ceremonies in schools rooted?
a. Mohammed's
b. Buddha's
c. Confucius's
d. Lao tsu's
53. According to Ausebel, one of the ways to strengthen the student's cognitive structure is by using an instructional
tool called _____.
a. advance organizer
b. cross-referencing
c. spiral approach
d. narrative
54. The fourth year high school student is in the developmental stage of _____.
a. early childhood
b. late childhood
c. pre-adolescence
d. adolescence
55. If the difficulty index of your test item is .98, what should you do with this item?
a. Reject it.
b. Reserve it for another group of pupils.
c. Revise it.
d. Retain it.
56. When a student clarifies information from conclusion, what cognitive domain is involved?
a. Analysis
b. Evaluation
c. Synthesis
d. Application
57. Which of the following activity can help develop teamwork among the students?
a. Journal writing
b. Reflective activity
c. Research activity
d. Roundtable
58. The teacher should provide an environment conducive to learning in line with her duty and function as a _____.
a. facilitator of learning
b. community leader
c. professional
d. responsible integrity
59. Which is TRUE when standard deviation is big?
a. Scores are not extremes.
b. Scores are concentrating.
c. The bell curve shape is steep.
d. Scores are spread apart.
60. A type of scores arrangement in a class which includes all possible score values from highest to lowest with the
list of learners' names included.
a. frequency distribution
b. grade norms
c. frequency table
d. none of these
61. How will you interpret a student's 80% percentile score? The student scored _____.
a. higher than 80% of the members of the group
b. better, relative to the competencies targeted
c. 80% of the specified content
d. high in all the skills being tested
62. In any kind of education endeavor, these three interdependent processes are involved.
a. evaluation, application, learning
b. application, evaluation, recall
c. testing, recording, reteaching
d. teaching, learning, evaluation of results
63. Which of the following is not a good characteristic of an evaluative technique?
a. has clear goals
b. has ambiguous presentation
c. considers the nature of the learners
d. utilizes various
64. A special liking or inclination for a particular type of undertaking.
a. attitude
b. interest
c. goal
d. none of these
65. The facility index of a test item is .50. This means that the test item is _____.
a. valid
b. reliable
c. moderate in difficulty
d. very easy
66. The instructions for a test are made simple, clear, and concise. This is part of which of the following
characteristics of a good test?
a. Economy
b. Administrability
c. Scorability
d. Objectivity
67. In an item analysis on the periodic test in math, item #38 has a difficulty index of 0.45 and a discrimination index
of 0.33. What should be done to this test item?
a. Make item #38 easier
b. Retain the item
c. Make it a bonus item
d. Eliminate test item #38
68. Which is LEAST exploratory in nature?
a. Project method
b. Inquiry approach
c. Questioning method
d. Deductive method
69. Student is most likely to perform their best because they are aware of being observed and are expected to
perform well, this is called _____.
a. Ripple Effect
b. Rosenthal Effect
c. Hawthorne Effect
d. John Henry Effect
70. The following are characteristics of a child-friendly school EXCEPT _____.
a. child-centered
b. exclusive
c. gender-sensitive
d. not discriminating
71. A teacher shall transact all official business through _____.
a. channels
b. negotiations
c. contracts
d. anonymosity
72. Small circle forms inside a larger one. The inner circle discusses while the outer circle listens then the roles are
reversed.
a. Alternate questioning
b. Vice-versa questioning
c. Round-roving
d. Concentric Circles
73. Developing an understanding of life, the world around us and other people concern of which pillar of learning ?
a. Learning to know
b. Learning to be
c. Learning to live together
d. Learning to do
74. Ms. Menchin uses alternative methods of assessment. Which of the following will she not likely use?
a. Multiple Choice Test
b. Reflective Journal Writing
c. Oral Presentation
d. Developing Portfolios
75. Which criterion is satisfied when a teacher selects activities and materials for her lessons that will stimulate
curiosity and the need to know?
a. criterion of interest
b. criterion of organization
c. criterion of appropriateness
d. criterion of authenticity
76. Which philosophy proclaims the spiritual nature of man and stresses that the human spirit, soul or mind are the
most important elements in life?
a. Essentialism
b. Idealism
c. Realism
d. Perennialism
77. The use of values clarification as a strategy in Values Education flows from which philosophy?
a. Existentialism
b. Essentialism
c. Progressivism
d. Reconstructionism
78. A combination of activities and content designed to bring about a specific goal.
a. strategies
b. objectives
c. activities
d. assignment
79. The ability to perceive how objects are related in order to mentally perceive what is seen, thus creating concrete
visual images from memory.
a. spatial intelligence
b. visual-spatial intelligence
c. qualitative intelligence
d. mathematical-logical
80. Which method can help you know the value preferences of your students?
a. Inquiry
b. Rank ordering
c. Understanding style group
d. Attribute wheel
81. Mrs. is doing an assessment of learning. At what stage of instruction should she do it?
a. Before instruction
b. After instruction
c. Prior to instruction
d. During the instructional process
82. If the proportion passing for the upper and lower group is .90 and .30 respectively, what is the discrimination
index?
a. .40
b. .50
c. .60
d. .70
83. When small children call all animals "dogs", what process is illustrated based on Piaget's cognitive development
theory?
a. Conservation
b. Accommodation
c. Assimilation
d. Reversion
84. When using problem solving method, the teacher can
a. Set up the problem
b. Test the conclusion
c. Propose ways of obtaining the needed data
d. Help the learners define what is it to be solved
85. Which one does not appeal to tactile learners?
a. Posters
b. Group activities
c. Movement activities
d. Games
86. Teacher E asks student A to identify and analyze events, ideas or objects in order to state their similarities and
differences. In which part of the lesson does said activity take place?
a. Preparation
b. Generalization
c. Application
d. Comparison and Abstraction
87. Which of these activities is NOT appealing to the bodily-kinesthetic learners?
a. Making math moves
b. Doing simple calisthenics
c. Joining extramural events
d. Sketching / illustrating events
88. What assessment tool provides opportunities to teachers to document students' growth over time?
a. Psychometric measures
b. Anecdotal record
c. Psychological record
d. Developmental record
89. Teacher C asked the class: "Is the class answer correct? Student A said "No" Teacher C asked the same student
"why 'no'? Which did Teacher C do?
a. Repeating
b. Rephrasing
c. Probing
d. Directing
90. The official title of the Philippine National Anthem is _____.
a. Bayang Magiliw
b. Lupang Hinirang
c. Pilipinas Kong Mahal
d. Alab ng Puso
91. In individualized instruction, how should the teacher begin?
a. present activities needed
b. prepare necessary materials
c. identify the abilities of the learner
d. evaluate teaching-learning outcome
92. The standard used to interpret test scores.
a. norm
b. percentile
c. mode
d. none of these
93. Which of the following is not a purpose of evaluation?
a. provide educational guidance
b. appraise the total school program
c. provide for the individual differences
d. none of these
94. According to Erikson, what years are critical for the development of self-confidence?
a. Elementary years
b. Preschool years
c. College years
d. High School years
95. The most effective way of teaching young pupils the concept of moral values.
a. provision of role modeling
b. setting of rules of conduct
c. impositions of punitive measures
d. reading of stories with moral values
96. Which of program of the Department of Education is an offshoot of the Filipino bayanihan spirit?
a. Every Child A Reader Program (ECARP)
b. The Basic Education Curriculum
c. Child-Friendly School System
d. Brigada Eskwela
97. You would like to assess students' ability to write a portfolio. What type of test will determine their ability to
organize ideas and think critically?
a. Long test
b. Summative test
c. Essay test
d. Formative test
98. Which holds true of adolescence?
a. Lack of idealism
b. Defiance of peer group norm
c. Dependence
d. Spurt in physical growth and hormonal changes
99. Which is an underlying assumption of the social cognitive theory? People _____.
a. are social by nature
b. learn by association
c. learn by trial-and-error
d. learn by-observing others
100. What do the school campus expressions "promdi" and "barriotic" indicate?
a. The prevalence of ethnocentrism
b. The power of the rich
c. The powerlessness of the poor
d. Low literacy rate of the country
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1. C
2. C
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. B
7. B
8. A
9. D
10. A
11. C
12. A
13. C
14. C
15. A
16. D
17. B
18. A
19. A
20. C
21. D
22. C
23. A
24. C
25. B
26. C
27. D
28. B
29. B
30. A
31. D
32. A
33. D
34. A
35. D
36. B
37. D
38. C
39. A
40. C
41. D
42. D
43. B
44. B
45. D
46. D
47. B
48. C
49. D
50. C
51. A
52. C
53. A
54. D
55. A
56. A
57. D
58. A
59. D
60. A
61. A
62. D
63. B
64. B
65. C
66. B
67. B
68. D
69. B
70. B
71. A
72. D
73. A
74. A
75. A
76. B
77. C
78. A
79. B
80. B
81. D
82. C
83. C
84. D
85. A
86. D
87. D
88. B
89. C
90. A
91. C
92. A
93. D
94. B
95. A
96. D
97. C
98. D
99. D
100. A