CBRC ANALYTICAL FINAL COACHING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION [Part 2]

1.Lessons depicting historical events like declaration of independence on June 12 and Rizal’s execution at Luneta can best be taught through which of these methodologies?

A. Discussion

B. Team teaching

C. Role playing

D. Narratives

 

2.In implementing an inquiry approach, recommend the most effective component to facilitate the smooth probe of the concept to be learned.

A. Appropriate questioning techniques

B. Different materials to be used

C. Lab manual

D. Review of previous lesson

 

3.Field trip is an effective way of teaching where organisms could be observed in their natural habitat, active and responding to stimuli in the environment. In addition, what values are developed among the students during and after the trip?

A. Freedom in an open space than in a classroom

B. Love of nature, proper behavior during explorations

C. On-the-spot observation to keep them active

D. Consideration of the rights of others

 

4.Journals written by students at the completion of a day’s lesson will reveal which information that can serve as a guide in planning the next lesson?

I. Part of a lesson well understood or not

II. Topics most interesting

III. Difficulties experienced

IV. Emotional state throughout

A. I, II and III

B. I and III only

C. II and IV only

D. III only

 

5.When students recognize a situation as something similar in a way to what was experienced before, the tendency is to use the knowledge and skills they learned to a new situation. This theory illustrates:

A. Transfer of learning

B. Information processing

C. Degree of meaningfulness

D. Meaningful learning

 

6.How can a teacher enhance his/her questioning technique for an effective teacher-student interactions?

A. Allow sufficient “think time,” at least 7-10 seconds

B. Extend wait-time until the student responds

C. Immediately call another student in case one cannot answer

D. You may answer your own question if no one can

 

7.You are to teach the difference between the parts of a complete and an incomplete flower. They brought to class only

common examples of complete flower. What will you do?

A. Continue by reciting on the parts of both

B. Draw the parts of incomplete flowers if there is none

C. Go out to the lawn and look for flowers of weeds and wild grasses that are samples of incomplete flowers

D. Emphasize the parts of a complete flower only

 

8.Choose the important purpose of assessment.

I. Diagnosis

II. Placement

III. Effectiveness of a program

IV. Part of a lesson

 

A. I, II and III

B. I and II only

C. IV only

D. II, III and IV

 

9.At the pre-operational stage of Piaget’s cognitive development, the child can see only his point of view and assumes that everyone also has his same point of view. What is this tendency called?

A. Transductive reasoning

B. Animism

C. Egocentrism

D. Conversativism

 

10.Who is the foremost believer that “intelligence is a function of the number of successful S-R connection learned?”

A. Thorndike

B. Watson

C. Vygotsky

D. Kohlberg

 

11.An education for globalization should nurture the higher order cognitive skill and interpersonal skills in order to develop:

A. Students’ awareness of the world in which they live

B. Ability to think creatively and ethically

C. Ability to master one’s national origin

D. Openness to a diverse heritage and culture

 

12.How will you interpret a student’s 80% percentile score? The student scored:

A. Higher than 80% of the members of group

B. Better, relative to the competencies targeted

C. High in all the skills being tested

D. Achieved 80% of the specific content

 

13.In planning a lesson, after establishing your objectives in the cognitive domain, the next thing to do is:

A. Prepare a corresponding pretest and posttest

B. Find out what the students already know by giving a pretest

C. Get ready with all the materials that will be needed

D. Find out which teaching methodology will be used

 

14.A teacher-made test given at the end of a lesson to find out if the objective has been attained can be classified as:

A. Criterion-referenced

B. Norm-referenced

C. Placement test

D. Curricular test

 

15.A teacher set 95% accuracy in a test on predicting the kind of weather given five different atmospheric conditions. A student who obtains a score of 85% can be interpreted as:

A. She did not meet the set criterion by 10%

B. She is higher than 85% of the group

C. She obtained an 85% percentile score

D. She is 10% short of the set percentile score

 

16.Classify the type of test that is administered by the Professional Regulation Commission aimed at measuring the proficiency of teachers in developing a set of instructional skills or methodologies. The examination is given twice a year nationwide.

The test is:

A. Norm-referenced

B. Professional

C. Criterion-referenced

D. Performance test

 

17.Avoid negative statements in the stem of a multiple-choice stem such as “It is not true that Rizal died on December 30.”

Why?

A. It is open to guessing

B. It is confusing

C. It is only single recall

D. It is memory learning

 

18.A major advantage of an essay type of test is its ease in measuring the student’s abilities to:

A. Present a wide range of information

B. Suggest innovations in solving a problem

C. Organize and synthesize own knowledge

D. Include plain guesses in a nice way

 

19.What are the characteristics of a standardized test?

A. High reliability index

B. Mostly criterion-referenced

C. Usually administered to small groups

D. Contains the percentile score needed

 

20.A college administrator wanted an entrance examination that can identify future outcome or differences such as showing

who will graduate from college or who will drop out. Such a test is one that has:

A. Norm-related validity

B. Predictive validity

C. Construct validity

D. Concurrent validity

 

21.Which are attributes of a good evaluation instrument?

I. Validity

II. Reliability

III. Sensitivity

IV. Objectivity

A. I, II and IV

B. I and II only

C. I, II and III

D. I, II, III and IV

 

22.One of the characteristics of a good test is content validity. What is the first thing to be done before test construction?

A. Find out if the items are constructed well

B. Judge the scope or content coverage

C. Find out if the number of items is sufficient

D. Examine the objectives set for the test to find out if they are consistent with the subject matter

 

23.How can a teacher establish the reliability test?

I. Repeat the same test

II. Administer a parallel test

III. Split the test

IV. Vary the number of items

A. I, II and III

B. I, II and IV

C. I and IV only

D. II and IV only

 

24.Which is the most reliable and easily-used attitudinal instrument for measuring the most positive and favorable to the most negative and unfavorable views about a concept?

A. Temperament survey

B. Semantic differential

C. Likert scale

D. Adjustment scale

 

25.On which policy is RA 4670 known as the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers focused?

A. Right to establish or join organizations

B. Code of ethics for professional teachers

C. Recruitment shall take place after training

D. To promote and improve the social and economic status of public school teachers

 

26.In order to arrive at a skills-based evaluation, what could ensure an objective higher order assessment?

A. Analyze the different answers

B. Assess the product only

C. Use of a scoring rubric

D. Use self-assessment

 

27.Who authored the three-tiered model of learning-enactive, iconic and symbolic and emphasized that we should not teach directly to the abstract level without adequate foundation of the concrete?

A. Jerome Bruner

B. Jean Piaget

C. Erik Erikson

D. Lev Vygotsky

 

28.The use of a planetarium to show the arrangement of the planets, together with their rotation and revolution around the sun is an example of a teaching strategy called:

A. Demonstration

B. Simulation

C. Use of models

D. Direct instruction

 

29.A report from PAGASA showed an increasing trend in daily temperature from January to March. How can students best

present such trend to the class?

A. Flowchart

B. Map

C. Drawing

D. Bar graph

 

30.In a project-based multimedia learning strategy, the students learn new knowledge and basic skills. Aside from being actively engaged in the learning task, they got involved in:

A. Acquiring technological skills rather than content

B. Making use of extended period of time allowed

C. Learning to use the computer in organizing data

D. Planning, designing and producing a multimedia product for presentation

 

31.A town mayor was requested to present how the different offices in the municipal hall are related to one another according to their related functions. Which one should he prepare?

A. Line graph

B. Organizational chart

C. Time chart

D. Stream flow

 

32.Which philosophy proclaims the “spiritual nature of man” and stresses that the human spirit, soul or mind are the most important elements in life and “that the true, good and beautiful are permanently part of the universe?”

A. Essentialism

B. Realism

C. Perennialism

D. Idealism

 

33.Which theory states that significant skills, knowledge and attitudes in making one’s adjustment to the realities of life should be systematically planned. Which thing emphasizes the authority of the teachers and the value of a subject matter curriculum. It emphasizes habituation more than experience, discipline more than freedom. It favors drill in developing skills.

A. Essentialism

B. Idealism

C. Perennialism

D. Realism

 

34.“All learning should center on the child’s interests and needs.” The school should be a pleasant place for learning. Its emphasis is on the child as the learner and not on subject matter and stress on activities and experience rather than on textbook.

A. Progressivism

B. Reconstructionism

C. Perennialism

D. Pragmatism

 

35.He is known for his philosophy of pragmatism and synthesis of Darwin’s theory of evolution. He believed that children were socially active human beings and they want to explore their environment. He favored democratic education. Who is referred to?

A. Pestalozzi

B. Jonathan Herbart

C. John Dewey

D. Thorndike

 

36.A negative discrimination index means:

A. More from the lower group answers the test item correctly

B. More from the upper group answered the test correctly

C. The test item could not discriminate between the upper and the lower group

D. The test item has low reliability

 

37.Which groups of scores is most varied? The group with:

A. .90 SD

B. .50 SD

C. .10 SD

D. .75 SD

 

38.What does a percentile rank of 72 mean?

A. The student’s score is higher than 72% of all students who took the test

B. The student answered 72% of the items correctly

C. 72% of those who took the test scored higher than the student

D. It is the student’s score in the test

 

39.What is the mean of this score distribution: 30, 31, 25, 28, 29, 27, 33, 35, 28?

A. 29

B. 29.55

C. 28.55

D. 28

 

40.What is the median of the following scores: 45, 42, 40, 39, 38, 41, 37, 36, 40?

A. 40

B. 39

C. 38

D. 41

 

41.If the computed range is low, this means:

A. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is low

B. The students performed very well in the test

C. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is high

D. The students performed very poorly in the test

 

42.The difficulty index of a test item is 1. This means that the test is:

A. A quality item

B. Very difficult

C. Very easy

D. Missed by everybody

 

43.A test item has a difficulty index of .51 and a discriminating index of .25. What should the teacher do?

A. Retain the item

B. Make it a bonus item

C. Revise the item

D. Reject the item

 

44.How many percent of the cases fall between -1 and +1 SD units from the mean?

A. 68%

B. 38%

C. 95%

D. 99%

 

45.One interesting instructional visual is Edgar Dale’s Cone of Experience. Visualizing the cone which represents his theory on the importance of sensory experiences, what are at the bottom and at the top of the cone?

A. Direct purposeful experience; verbal symbols

B. Contrived experiences; visual symbols

C. Demonstration; motion pictures

D. Dramatized experiences; study trips

 

46.Which is one very important characteristic of a constructivist teacher?

A. Plays the role of a facilitator rather than an expert who has all the knowledge

B. Capable of employing direct instruction

C. Presents her own view for the students to start theirs

D. Emphasizes that knowledge exists in a social context

 

47.Constructing a project at the end of a unit is used as an assessment strategy. Which is an advantage?

A. Students are encouraged to show their innovation

B. Parents will be able to do it for their children

C. It develops student’s manipulative skill

D. Student present a principle learned in concrete form

 

48.In a lesson on kinds of leaves, which is the best teaching strategy and why?

A. Research; develops the ability to widen the search

B. Constructing a project; develops skill in designing

C. Special reports; able to find information about rare kinds

D. Preparing a collection of leaves; Develops skill in classifying, and organizing the materials learned

 

49.Which one describes journal writing as a teaching technique?

A. It is a record of their attitudes, habits of worn in one day

B. It is like a diary of what transpires during a learning episode

C. It is a good source of information about one’s own strength and weaknesses

D. It serves as an evaluation instrument

 

50.Research shows that females are more likely than males to have a higher need for affiliation and that more boys than girls end up as underachievers. What factors accounts for the difference in their motivation?

A. Age

B. Gender

C. Cultural background

D. Socio-economic status

 

51.How can a teacher avoid “breakdowns and interruptions” in daily class procedures?

A. Assign a leader to assist everyone

B. Establish routine for daily tasks

C. Punish the misbehaving student

D. Allow the students to make their own regulations

 

52.Cite some teacher’s personal attributes that could prevent common classroom discipline problems?

A. Passion and commitment

B. Patience and compassion

C. Ability to ridicule and embarrass

D. Tendency to nag and give sermons

 

53.Which is an advantage and a disadvantage of using real objects in teaching?

A. Real objects are easily available; some real objects are potential hazards

B. Real objects can be observed thoroughly; some are expensive

C. Students are interested with real objects; may get destroyed easily

D. Can fit real objects to the lesson; children forget to bring the right kind

 

54.Disabled students are now better addressed as:

A. Suffering from

B. Physically challenged

C. With exceptionalities

D. Needing assistance

 

55.Who are the school-based stakeholders in curriculum development?

A. Teachers and students

B. Civic groups

C. School boards

D. Industry groups

 

56.In evaluating a curriculum, which is the most valid criterion to observe?

A. Methods

B. Available resources

C. Activities

D. Consistency with objectives

 

57.How can a teacher develop the value of timeliness such as punctuality and maximal utilization of time?

A. Consistently follow schedule for classroom routine

B. Rush if you are getting late for the right time

C. Avoid disruptions due to improper behavior

D. Have a big clock be installed in the classroom for everyone’s guidance

 

58.How should the teacher treat inattention and disruptions while the class is going on?

A. Send out the inattentive ones

B. Wait for a while until they are through

C. Put on a stern look and gesture

D. She should not wait long, check early enough to avoid major problems

 

59.Why must teachers be alert and consistent in classroom management?

A. It serves as a warning for potential misbehavior

B. It promotes an orderly learning environment

C. It is easy to see who is listening or not

D. This gives time for other classroom tasks

 

60.Why should the chairs, tables and other physical features be arranged for flexible seating?

A. To facilitate interactive teaching-learning processes during class activities

B. To allow borrowing and sharing use of materials

C. To enable students to move around

D. To allow easy exchanges of seats as needed

 

61.In which level of the cognitive domain “demonstrate,” “compute” and “solve” are action words that can be used in

formulating objectives?

A. Comprehension

B. Analysis

C. Synthesis

D. Application

 

62.A teacher asked, “If we raise the temperature to 100oC what will happen?” Under which kind of question does this fall?

A. Empirical

B. Evaluative

C. Analytic

D. Recall

 

63.What kind of questions should the teacher ask when she likes to elicit responses where the student is free to generate independently his own idea? This question encourages originality, flexibility and spontaneity.

A. Cognitive

B. Convergent

C. Divergent

D. Analytic

 

64.Which type of curriculum promotes a high level cooperative interaction on meaningful immediate use of learning?

A. Learner-centered

B. Subject-centered

C. Society-centered

D. Culture-centered

 

65.Which type of curriculum stresses integration of learning by systematic correlation of subject matter around themes drawn

from the contemporary problems of living?

A. Core

B. Fused subjects

C. Correlated subjects

D. Broad fields

 

66.Peter kisses the hand of his mother before leaving and upon arrival from a long trip. His younger son learned to do the

same when he left for US to study. This is an example of:

A. Acculturation

B. Enculturation

C. Tradition

D. Value formation

 

67.The provision of academic freedom is applicable for teachers in:

A. Colleges and universities

B. Private tertiary institutions

C. Basic education teachers

D. Public schools only

 

68.The regular progression of Filipino teacher’s salary from minimum to maximum is done through:

A. A regular increment every 3 years

B. An increment after 5 years

C. An increment after 10 years

D. A regular increment every year

 

69.No person shall practice the teaching profession in the Philippines without having previously obtained a:

A. Valid certificate of registration and a valid license

B. Certificate of having passed the licensure exam

C. Signed identification card issued by PRC

D. Valid document of examination passed

 

70.Section 24 of RA 4670 provides that teachers are entitled to a study leave not exceeding one year after how many years of service?

A. 7

B. 8

C. 10

D. 5

 

71.Which are the basic dimensions of the teaching profession?

A. Knowledge, social, ethical and professional

B. Knowledge, economic, moral and social

C. Professional, social, emotional and economic

D. Security, professional, social and knowledge

 

72.The environment in order to facilitate, learning must be interactive. Which of the following best typifies this kind of environment?

A. The child goes out and discovers for himself some rock or fossil

B. The child listens to a lecture on fossils given by the teacher

C. The child summarizes the section on fossils in his science textbook

D. The child copies a list of facts concerning fossils on the blackboard

 

73.Social development means that acquisition of the ability to behave in accordance with:

A. Social expectation

B. Stereotyped behavior

C. Social insight

D. Universal norms

 

74.When an adolescent combines ability to use deductive and inductive reasoning in constructing realistic rules that he can respect and live by, how does he perceive his environment?

A. He views the world from his own perspective

B. He interprets events from a limited views

C. He does events apart from himself and other people

D. He does the world and himself through the eyes of other people

 

75.The authoritarian setting in the Filipino home is reinforced by a classroom teacher who:

A. Encourage pupils to ask questions

B. Prescribes what pupils should do

C. Is open to suggestions.

D. Ask open ended questions

 

76.Who among the following believes that learning requires disciplined attention, regular homework and respect for legitimate authority?

A. Essentialist

B. Perennialist

C. Progressivist

D. Reconstructionist

 

77.Which of the following reasons for measuring student achievement is not valid?

A. To prepare feedback on the effectiveness of the learning process

B. To certify that students have attained a level of competence in a subject area

C. To discourage students from cheating during test and getting high scores

D. To motivate students to learn and master the materials they think will be covered by the achievement test

 

78.Society and media know drinking starts off drug addiction. What should be discussed in schools?

A. Drug addiction has been traced to drinking wine

B. Nobody drinks at home except father

C. TV ads show drinking is a source of fellowship

D. High taxes on liquor will be a deterrent to eventual drug use

 

79.Which of the following measures should a teacher do to a principal whom she would like to file a case of sexual harassment without violating the relationship of the teacher to her superiors?

A. Present the case before competent authority and prepare to prove the charge

B. Write an anonymous letter to a higher school official to denounce the superior

C. Call a parent-teacher meeting and denounce the superior

D. Encourage the other teachers and students to hold a demonstration to oust the superior

 

80.Pick out the situation that illustrates the duty of a new teacher to the state:

A. Take a long vacation which she firmly believes she deserves after four years of diligent study before taking the examination

for teachers

B. Apply for teaching job where eligibility is not required to gain teaching experience before taking the teachers board

examination

C. Prepare for the wedding she and her boyfriend have long planned to be able to raise a family with children which they plan

to rear as good citizen of our country

D. Take the licensure examination for teacher and an oath to do her best to help carry out the policies of the state

 

81.In the formulation of classroom regulations, which of the following should a teacher refrain from doing?

A. State classroom regulation as clearly as possible

B. Enlist student aid in the formulation of classroom regulation

C. Enforce classroom regulations consistently and fairly

D. Teacher and the class should make as many regulation as possible

 

82.Cooperatives have branched out to consumers cooperative. Schools have included the concepts of cooperatives. Where is it practiced?

A. School book stores

B. School canteen

C. Schools uniform purchases

D. Class stores

 

83.Which curricular move served to strengthen spiritual and ethical values?

A. Integration of creative thinking in all subject

B. Reducing the number of subject areas into the skill subject

C. Introduction of Values Education as a separate subject area

D. Re-introducing Science as all subject in Grade 1

 

84.A group of people asserts that their culture is superior to another. This exemplifies:

A. Cultural gap

B. Cultural conflict

C. Norm conflict

D. Ethnocentrism

 

85.How does fear affect the voluntariness of an act?

A. Makes the act involuntary

B. No effect at all

C. Increases voluntariness

D. Lessens but not destroy voluntariness

 

86.Zero standard deviation means that:

A. The students’ scores are the same

B. 50% of the scores obtained is zero

C. More than 50% of the score obtained is zero

D. Less than 50% of the scores obtained is zero

 

87.Which interactive teaching should be avoided?

A. Using “put down” strategy

B. Using multiple response strategy

C. Asking more divergent questions

D. Asking more evaluative questions

 

88.Which trust on value formation is meant to help the students make use of their thinking and scientific investigation to

decide on topics and questions above values?

A. Value inculcation

B. Analysis

C. Values clarification

D. Moral development

 

89.Rights which cannot be renounced or transferred because they are necessary for the fulfillment of man’s primordial

obligations are called:

A. Alienable rights

B. Perfect rights

C. Inalienable rights

D. Acquired rights

 

90.In writing performance objective which word is not acceptable?

A. Manipulate

B. Integrate

C. Delineate

D. Comprehend

 

91.Which one indicates a teacher’s genuine enthusiasm and pride in teaching?

A. Sticking to teaching for the moment that there are no better offers

B. Telling everyone that he went to teaching for there was no other choice them

C. Engaging himself in continuing professional education

D. Belittling the remuneration one gets from teaching

 

92.A teacher is a facilitator of learning and of the development of the youth. Which practice not keeping with his role as

facilitator?

A. Considers the multiple intelligence of learners

B. Humiliates misbehaving pupils

C. Dialogs with parents and with other members of the community

D. Keeps himself abreast with educational trends

 

93.Which statement on spaced and massed learning is correct?

A. Massed learning is better than spaced learning

B. Spaced learning is better than massed learning

C. Massed learning is as effective as spaced learning

D. Both massed learning and spaced learning are not effective

 

 

94.A teacher discovers that a product of certain bottling company brings about damage to teeth. Much as he wants to share the products of his research, he could not because of harassment from all sides. Which teacher’s right is violated?

A. Right to property

B. Right to one’s honor

C. Academic freedom

D. Right to make a livelihood

 

95.A comprehension skill of higher level which may be inferred or implied from reading is:

A. Picking out the main idea

B. Noting specific details

C. Following direction

D. Drawing conclusion

 

96.The use of the metacognitive process approach gives the students the opportunity to:

A. Learn to their own

B. Apply the scientific method

C. Make use of laboratory apparatuses

D. Learn how to learn

 

97.Which is the best reason why teacher begins a lesson in Math by checking and reviewing on the previous day’s assignment

and provides practice and drills?

A. Check if parents guide their children in the making of assignment

B. Make sure that the students understand the pre-requisite skills of the lesson

C. Prepare the students for the mastery test

D. Make learning interesting and enjoyable for students

 

98.Both Muslim and Christian value marriage but the Muslim practices  polygamous marriage while the Christian practices monogamous marriage. What is this called?

A. Cultural relativism

B. Acculturation

C. Ethical relativism

D. Enculturation

 

99.Teaching in the cognitive, psychomotor and effective domains is based on the concept that the learner is a:

A. Moral and feeling being

B. Material and an acting being

C. Thinking, feeling and acting being

D. Spiritual and material being

 

100.The main purpose of the compulsory study of the Constitution in Philippine schools is to:

A. Develop the students into responsible, thinking citizens

B. Acquaint the students with the historical development of the Philippine Constitution

C. Prepare students for law-making

D. Make constitutional experts of the students



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