1. 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
2. Which reform in the Philippine
Educational System advocates the use of English and Filipino as media of
instruction in specific learning areas?
a. Alternative Learning
b. Bilingual Education
c. K-12 Program
d. Multilingual Education
3. Activities planned by school clubs/
organizations show school-community connection geared towards society’s needs.
What philosophy is related to this?
a. Existentialism
b. Progressivism
c. Realism
d. Social reconstructionism
4. 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
5. Which of the following situations
presents a value conflict?
a. The teacher and his students have class
standing as their priorities.
b. The teacher and the administrator
follow a set of criteria in giving grades.
c. The teacher has students whose parents want their children to obtain
higher grades than what they are capable of getting.
d. The teacher sets high expectations for
intelligent students such as getting higher grades.
6. Which situation shows that a sense of
nationhood is exemplified?
a. The class conducted a debate using Filipino as medium
b. The class is required to watch the TV
sitcom of Oprah to improve their English communication skills.
c. The class opted to make a choral
rendition of the theme song of a foreign movie.
d. When Teacher Chris asked her Grade 2
students in what country they wish to live, most of them chose United States.
7. A teacher who believes in the
progressivist theory of education would embrace certain reforms on methodology.
Which reform would be consistent with this theory?
a. Active participation of teachers
b. Formal instructional pattern
c. Strict external discipline
d. Teacher domination of class activities
8. What philosophy of education advocates
that the curriculum should only include universal and unchanging truths?
a. Essentialism
b. Idealism
c. Perennialism
d. Pragmatism
9. Which of the following is not a
function of the school?
a. Changing cultural practices
b. Development of attitudes and skills
c. Reproduction of species
d. Socialization among children
10. Which move liberalized access to
education during Spanish period?
a. The education of illiterate parents
b. The establishment of at least one primary school for boys and girls
in each municipality
c. The hiring of tribal tutors to teach
children
d. The provision of vocational training
for school age children
11. Which of the following is the chief
aim of Spanish education?
a. Conformity and militarism
b. Perpetuation of culture
c. Propagation of the Catholic religion
d. Utilitarianism and conformity
12. 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
13. Which of the following is not a reason
why the basic education curriculum has been restructured?
a. To become globally competitive during
this industrial age
b. To be relevant and responsive to a
rapidly changing world
c. To empower the Filipino learners for
self- development throughout their life.
d. To help raise the achievement level of students
14. Which philosophy of education
influence the singing of the National Anthem in schools?
a. Nationalism
b. Naturalism
c. Pragmatism
d. Socialism
15. 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
16. Which of the following is the main
function of the philosophy of education?
a. Reconsider existing educational goals
in the light of society’s needs
b. Provide the academic background
prerequisite to learning
c. Define the goals and set the direction for which education is to
strive
d. Aid the learner to build his own
personal philosophy
17. 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
18. Which curricular move served to
strengthen spiritual and ethical values?
a. Integration of creative thinking in all
subject
b. Introduction of Values education as a
separate subject area
c. Reducing the number of subject areas
into skill subject
d. Re-introducing science as a subject in Grade 1
19. The greatest happiness lies in the
contemplative use of mind, said Plato. Which of the following activities
adheres to this?
a. Cooperative learning
b. Instrospection
c. Role Playing
d. Social Interaction
20. Your teacher is of the opinion that
the word and everything in it are ever changing and so teaches you the skill to
cope with the changes. Which in his governing philosophy?
a. Experimentalism
b. Existentialism
c. Idealism
d. Realism
21. Teacher Myra says: “If it is billiard
that brings students out of the classroom, let us bring it into the classroom.
Perhaps, I can use it to teach Math”. To which philosophy does teacher Myra
adheres to?
a. Essentialism
b. Idealism
c. Progressivism
d. Reconstructionism
22. Which of the following should be done
to build a sense of pride among Filipino youth?
a. Replace the study of folklores and
myths with technical subjects
b. Re-study our history and stress on our achievements as people
c. Re-study our history from the
perspective of our colonizers
d. Set aside the study of local history
23. A teacher who subscribes to the
pragmatic philosophy of education believes that experience study should follow
learning in her teaching. Which of the following does she do to support her
belief?
a. Encouraging learners to memorize
factual knowledge
b. Equipping learners with the basic
abilities and skills
c. Providing learners opportunities to apply theories and principles
d. Requiring learners full master of the
lesson.
24. Which philosophy influenced the
cultivation of reflective and meditative skills in teaching?
a. Confucianism
b. Existentialism
c. Taoism
d. Zen Buddhism
25. Which of the following situation
manifests a balance between teachers responsibility and accountability?
a. She entertains her students with
personal stories until the end of the period.
b. She spends most of the time on the
latest gossips in showbiz.
c. She teaches as much as she could for duration of the period.
d. She teaches as well as entertains the
students with per personal stories.
26. The Department of Education gives
greater emphasis on the development of basic skills. What is the philosophical
basis for this?
a. Essentialism
b. Existentialism
c. Perennialism
d. Pragmatism
27. Teacher M views his students as
unique, free-choosing and responsible individuals. All classroom activities
revolve around the said premise. What theory underlies this?
a. Essentialism
b. Existentialism
c. Progressivism
d. Realism
28. Religious rituals in the classroom and
in the school programs prove the deep natural religiosity of the Filipinos.
Which philosophy has greatly contributed to the tradition?
a. Buddhism
b. Confucianism
c. Hinduism
d. Islam
29. In order to make Roman education truly
utilitarian, how should the day-to-day lessons be taught?
a. Taught in the students’ native dialect
b. Taught interestingly through the play
way method
c. Related and linked to the events happening in everyday life
d. Practiced at home under the guidance of
their respective parents.
30. Which influenced the military training
requirements among students in the secondary and tertiary levels?
a. Chinese
b. Greeks
c. Orientals
d. Romans
31. Which philosophy has the educational
objective to indoctrinate Filipinos to accept the teachings of the Catholic
church which is foster faith in God?
a. Realism
b. Pragmatism
c. Idealism
d. Existentialism
32. Virtue as one component in the
teaching of Rizal as a course focuses on the teaching of good and beauty
consistent with the good and beauty in God. What philosophy supports this?
a. Existentialism
b. Idealism
c. Progressivism
d. Social Reconstructionism
33. Giving education the highest budgetary
allocation, the Philippine government recognizes the possible contribution of
its future citizens to the national development goals of the Philippine
society. Which stressed this goal of education for social transformation?
a. Athenian education
b. Followers of Christ
c. Greek education
d. Roman education
34. The progressivists emphasized the
individuality of the child. What is the concern of the reconstructionists?
a. Experiential learning
b. Socialization
c. Social problem
35. One of the following quotations does
not conform to the Christian doctrine of Education for Humanitarianism. Which
one is it?
a. Do unto others as you would like others
do unto you
b. Love they neighbor as thyself
c. Not on bread alone is man to live but on every utterance that comes
from mouth of God
d. Whatever good things we do to our poor,
helpless brothers, we do it for God.
36. Scouting and Citizen’s Army Training
(CAT) give training in character-building, citizenship training, etc. Which
leads to the creation of a new social order and a new society eventually. What
philosophy supports this?
a. Existentialism
b. Perennialism
c. Progressivism
d. Social reconstructionism
37. Teacher V demonstrated the technique
on how to group students according to their needs and interests and how to use
self-paced instructional materials. Which philosophy is manifested in this
activity?
a. Essentialism
b. Progressivism
c. Realism
d. Social Reconstructionism
38. Teacher G, a Christian Living teacher,
puts so much significance on values development and discipline. What could be
her educational philosophy?
a. Idealism
b. Pragmatism
c. Progressivism
d. Realism
39. Which one does not illustrate the
principle that rights and duties are correlative?
a. The right of an unmarried pregnant teacher to abort her baby in
relation to her duty to protect her name and her job as a teacher
b. The right of a state to compel students
to military service is reciprocated by the duty of the state to protect them.
c. The right to a living wage involves the
duty of the school administrators to give the salary agreed upon and the duty
of the teachers to give a fair amount of work.
d. The right to life of children and to be
given respect of such right.
40. Why should a teacher take the
obligation upon himself to study and understand the custom and traditions of
the community where he works?
a. To change the culture of the community.
b. To have a sympathetic attitude for the
people of the community.
c. To identify the weaknesses of the
culture of the community.
d. To please the people of the community.
41. A teacher who is a recognized expert
in carpentry works, taught his students how to prepare and construct good and
aesthetic furniture from local resources. What cultural transmission process is
this?
a. Acculturation
b. Enculturation
c. Indoctrination
d. Observation
42. Every first day of the school year,
Miss Reyes prepared activities which will make her Grade 2 children, sing,
plan, learn and introduce themselves to the class. What process did the teacher
emphasize?
a. Acculturation
b. Enculturation
c. Indoctrination
d. Socialization
43. Which program in the educational
system seems to be aligned to the Christian humanitarian principle respect for
the human personality?
a. The alternative learning system
delivery
b. The functional literacy program for the
out-of-school youth and adults
c. The promotion of the basic human rights of the Filipino
d. The study of the Philippine
Constitution
44. With a death threat over his head,
Teacher Liza is directed to pass an undeserving student, if she is a hedonist, which
of the following will she do?
a. Don’t pass him, live her principle of
justice. She will get reward, if not in this life, in the next.
b. Don’t pass him. She surely will not
like someone to give you a death threat in order to pass.
c. Pass the student. That will be of use
to her, the student and his parents.
d. Pass the student. Why suffer the threat?
45. Which philosophy approves a teacher
who lectures most of the time and requires his students to memorize the rules
of grammar?
a. Existentialism
b. Idealism
c. Pragmatism
d. Realism
46. In a student conducted, the pupils
were asked which nationality they would prefer if given a choice. Majority of
the pupils wanted to be Americans. In this case, in which obligation relative
to the state are schools seemed to be failing?
a. Instill allegiance to the
constitutional authorities
b. Promote national pride
c. Promote obedience to the laws of the
state
d. Respect for all duly constituted
authorities.
47. Which subject in the elementary and
likewise in the secondary schools are similar to the goal of Rome to train the
students for citizenship?
a. Communication ARts
b. MAPEH/PEHMS
c. Science
d. THE/TLE
48. Which of the following schools
practices is not based on Social Reconstructionism?
a. Establishment of SDF
b. Exemption of Scouts from CAT
c. Promoting culture and arts in schools
d. Promoting project WOW
49.Which of the following is the focus of
the Japanese education in the Philippines?
a. Democratic ideals and nationalism
b. Love and service to one’s country
c. Religion and love for Asian brothers
d. Vocational and health education
50. According to reconstructionism, the
goal of education is to bring about a new social order. Which practice best
manifests this view?
a. The class conducts scientific
experiments to discover or verify concepts.
b. The class discusses role models and
their impact on society.
c. The class allowed to engage in
divergent thinking.
d. The class undertakes well-planned projects in the community.