PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION [Answer Provided & Correct Answer]

PART 1

1.     Miss Quintana has been teaching since the early 2000s. In her math classes, Miss Quintana believes that her pupils will benefit most by learning the basic skills of the subject matter. What philosophical foundation of education does she abide to?

Answer Provided: Idealism

Correct Answer: Essentialism


2.     Teacher Soliman is new to the teaching profession. He is an English teacher who emphasizes on the basic English skills. What philosophical basis does Teacher Soliman base his teaching methods on?

Answer Provided: Constructivist method

Correct Answer: Essentialism

 

3.     Mr. Almendros is a tenured physics teacher. In his classes, he always reminds the class of the basic calculations before moving on to new topics. He believes that the students will benefit most when they develop the basic computing skills in physics. His method abides with what philosophical foundation?

Answer Provided: Constructivist method

Correct Answer: Essentialism

 

4.     Mr. Fernandez homeschools his child. In his daily classes, Mr. Fernandez emphasizes on providing the important basic skills in each subject he is teaching to his child. Which philosophical basis does Mr. Fernandez use with his teaching methods?

Answer Provided: Essentialism

Correct Answer: Essentialism

 

5.     Mr. Locsin views his students as unique, free-choosing and responsible individuals. All classroom activities revolve around the said premise. What theory underlies this?

Answer Provided: Essentialism

Correct Answer: Existentialism

 

6.     The principal emphasized to his high school teachers the importance of treating each high school student as a free-thinking and responsible individual. She told her teachers to think of each one as unique and one should not make generalizations when interacting or providing instructions to them. According to the above instructions, which philosophical foundation of educations does the principal lean on?

Answer Provided: Social Reconstructivism

Correct Answer: Existentialism

 

 

7.     Roman education is said to be utilitarian. Which of the following methods do Romans follow in education their youth?

Answer Provided: Lessons are related to tasks and events in everyday life

Correct Answer: Lessons are related to tasks and events in everyday life

 

 

8.     Which of the following programs by the Philippine Government coincides with the Christian principle of respect for an individual's personality?

Answer Provided: Upholding the basic human rights of each Filipino

Correct Answer: Upholding the basic human rights of each Filipino

 

 

9.     In today's school system, elementary school students have the option to join the Boy Scout of the Philippines. This program was strongly influenced by which culture?

Answer Provided: Sumerians

Correct Answer: Romans

 

10. College students have the option to join the ROTC and the secondary level students have the option to take part in the CAT. The military training requirement in school is influenced by what ancient culture?

Answer Provided: Americans

Correct Answer: Romans

 

 

11. Indoctrinating Filipinos to take in the teaching of the Catholic Church to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ follows what educational philosophical foundation?

Answer Provided: Existentialism

Correct Answer: Idealism

 

 

12. Miss Tapia is a science high school teacher. To make the students more interested in the subject matter, she emphasizes how scientific discoveries contributed to solving social problems in the past. With this method, Miss Tapia is using which philosophical basis of education?

Answer Provided: Realism

Correct Answer: Social Reconstructionism

 

 

13. The Boy Scout Program and the Citizens Army Training aims to build character of the students. The long term goal of these programs is to improve the quality of citizens in the society. What educational philosophy supports this goal?

Answer Provided: Social Reconstructionism

Correct Answer: Social Reconstructionism

 

 

14. In South Korea, male students are required to go through military training at a certain age. This leads to the creation of a new social order. Eventually, this practice will lead to a generation of citizens with character and discipline and this practice will eventually lead to an improved society. What philosophy supports this practice?

Answer Provided: Social Reconstructionism

Correct Answer: Social Reconstructionism

 

 

15. Miss Singson puts significance on her lessons on how to group the members of the class based on their interests and weaknesses. She also prefers to design self-paced activities and instructional materials. This allows each group to control the time they take to learn each material. Miss Singson uses what philosophical basis of education?

Answer Provided: Realism

Correct Answer: Progressivism

 

16. A teacher from the city is assigned to a school in the rural areas. He took it upon himself to learn the culture and the unique social sctucture of the community. Why is it necessary for teachers to do this in each new community?

Answer Provided: To develop sympathy towards the unique situations of each student

Correct Answer: To develop sympathy towards the unique situations of each student

 


17. A carpenter teaches his son how to make good quality furniture so that he can continue the family business. What cultural transmission process is this?

Answer Provided: acculturation

Correct Answer: enculturation

 

18. At this stage of child and adolescent development, a child’s peer group begins to replace parents and other adults as the basis of recognition of achievements.

Answer Provided: Early Childhood Stage (6-8 years old)

Correct Answer: Late Childhood stage(9-12 years old)

 

 

19. At this stage of child and adolescent development, a child’s peer group begins to replace parents and other adults as the basis of behavior.

Answer Provided: Early Childhood Stage (Ages 5-8)

Correct Answer: Late Childhood Stage (Ages 9-12)

 


20. A pair of grade two classmates had a fight. Miss Almendros, the class adviser, instructed the two students to stay after class. What is the best approach for Miss Almendros to resolve the issue and to develop the social cognitive growth of the children?

Answer Provided: Probe the students for the reason behind the disagreement and guide them on how work out the situation on their own

Correct Answer: Probe the students for the reason behind the disagreement and guide them on how work out the situation on their own

 


21. At this stage of development, a child is still clumsy and unable to do certain skills that require refined dexterity. Skills like tying of shoelaces and buttoning are still too difficult for their fingers.

Answer Provided: Early Childhood Stage

Correct Answer: Early Childhood Stage

 

22. Mrs. Vargas is charged with refining the skills of three year-olds in her day care. Which of the following tasks should she avoid?

Answer Provided: Supervised running and climbing activities

Correct Answer: Activities that require fine and dexterous motor skills like origami and cutting paper chains

 

23. This stage of a child’s development lasts from the baby’s birth to 12 months. This stage is characterized by rapid change in the height and weight of the baby. It is also the stage where the baby learns to crawl, walk, talk and eat solid foods.

Answer Provided: Infancy Stage

Correct Answer: Infancy Stage

 

24. In a baby’s physical development in the womb of the mother, at what stage does the spinal cord of the developing baby begin to develop?

Answer Provided: Fetal Stage

Correct Answer: Fetal Stage

 

25. In this stage of the baby’s physical development in the mother’s womb, the baby begins to learn various movements like blinking, sucking, turning the head and gripping.

Answer Provided: Infancy Stage

Correct Answer: Fetal Stage

 

26. In a baby’s physical development in the womb of the mother, at what stage does the sex organs of the developing baby begin to develop?

Answer Provided: Zygote Stage

Correct Answer: Fetal Stage

 

27. At what stage of the pregnancy does the mass of cells begin to differentiate into cell types that make up the various parts and systems of the body?

Answer Provided: Embryonic Stage

Correct Answer: Embryonic Stage

 

28. Which among these structure in the womb of a pregnant woman directly support the life of the embryo:

Answer Provided: Placenta and Umbilical Cord

Correct Answer: Placenta and Umbilical Cord

 

29. After cell division happens, the zygote is now known as the _____. This is a mass of cells that will eventually specialize to create the baby.

Answer Provided: Embryo

Correct Answer: Embryo

 

30. A fertilized egg is also known as a/an...

Answer Provided: Lymph node

Correct Answer: zygote

 

31. How many months does it take to create a baby from conception to birth for a normal baby?

Answer Provided: 9

Correct Answer: 9

 

32. Which one is not a characteristic of Philippine education during the Commonwealth Period?

Answer Provided: Establishment of preparatory military training

Correct Answer: Education was carried out by American friars and missionaries

 

 

33. Which one is not a characteristic of Philippine education during the Commonwealth Period?

Answer Provided: The democratic ideals and way of life taught by the Americans were continued

Correct Answer: Education emphasized in the indoctrination of Christianity

 

 

34. Which one is not a characteristic of Philippine education during the American Period?

Answer Provided: Training of Filipinos for self-governance

Correct Answer: Use of Filipino as the language of instruction

 

 

35. Which one is not a characteristic of Philippine education during the Spanish times?

Answer Provided: Establishment of parochial schools where religious subjects, basic arithmetic, music and arts are taught

Correct Answer: Education carried out by the Spanish Military

 

 

36. Which one is a characteristic of Philippine education during the Spanish times?

Answer Provided: Use of Baybayin alphabet as primary means of learning

Correct Answer: Education meant to propagate Christianity

 

 

37. Which one is a characteristic of Philippine education during the pre-Spanish times?

Answer Provided: Introduction of classical literature

Correct Answer: Training of domestic skills with parents and family members

 

 

38. Which one is a characteristic of Philippine education during the pre-Spanish times?

Answer Provided: Introduction of classical literature

Correct Answer: Vocational skills education through parents

 

 

39. Among the proponents of behavioral theories in education, who proposed that development cannot be divided into stages since it is a continuous process marked by gradual acquisition of new and more sophisticated behavioral patterns or habits?

Answer Provided: John Watson

Correct Answer: John Watson

 

 

40. Among the proponents of behavioral theories in education, who proposed that the mind of an infant is blank slate? He also theorized that responses serve as building blocks for development.

Answer Provided: Lev Vygotsky

Correct Answer: John Watson

 

 

41. Who is the proponent of the cognitive development theory that highlights the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)? The ZPD is the distance between a child’s current development level and the next step for higher level of potential development.

Answer Provided: Lev Vygotsky

Correct Answer: Lev Vygotsky

 

 

42. In Jerome Bruner’s theory of cognitive development, at what stage does a child learn to manage abstract representations? At this stage, the child uses his cognitive skills to understand abstract concepts like math and art.

Answer Provided: Iconic

Correct Answer: Symbolic

 

 

43. In Jerome Bruner’s theory of cognitive development, at what stage does a child start to respond to stimuli?

Answer Provided: Speculative

Correct Answer: Enactive

 

 

44. In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, at what stage do children develop systematic, deductive reasoning? At this stage, they can create multiple solutions to one complex problem. They also learn to pick the best solution according to the situation.

Answer Provided: Formal Operations Stage

Correct Answer: Formal Operations Stage

 

45. In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, at what stage do children start to apply a scientific method of thinking like forming and testing hypotheses?

Answer Provided: Formal Operations Stage

Correct Answer: Formal Operations Stage

 

 

46. In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, at what stage do children learn to solve abstract problems in a logical fashion?

Answer Provided: Concrete Operations Stage

Correct Answer: Formal Operations Stage

 

47. In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, at what stage do children begin to understand the laws of conservation and reversibility?

Answer Provided: Formal Operations Stage

Correct Answer: Concrete Operations Stage

 

 

48. In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, at what stage do children begin to concrete problems in a logical fashion based on what they observe?

Answer Provided: Preoperational stage

Correct Answer: Concrete Operations Stage

 

 

49. In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, at what stage does the child exhibit egocentric behavior?

Answer Provided: Preoperational stage

Correct Answer: Preoperational stage

 

 

50. In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, at what stage does the child exhibit lack of object permanence?

Answer Provided: Sensorimotor stage

Correct Answer: Sensorimotor stage

 

 

51. Which of the following is false about the growth and development of a child?

Answer Provided: A child can be expected to be as fast a learner as his or her siblings

Correct Answer: A child can be expected to be as fast a learner as his or her siblings

 

 

52. Which of the following is false about the growth and development of a child?

Answer Provided: Maturity and development happen at exactly the same rate for each child

Correct Answer: Maturity and development happen at exactly the same rate for each child

 

 

53. Which of the following is false about the growth and development of a child?

Answer Provided: A child can skip the basics when learning advanced skills

Correct Answer: A child can skip the basics when learning advanced skills


 

54. Which of the following is false about the growth and development of a child?

Answer Provided: Emotional intelligence is not as significant as cognitive development

Correct Answer: Emotional intelligence is not as significant as cognitive development

 

 

55. Which of these show the basic social units of a child’s environment:

Answer Provided: School, Family, Peer Group, Neighborhood

Correct Answer: School, Family, Peer Group, Neighborhood

56. What is the totality of the surrounding conditions that influence the growth, development and survival of a child?

Answer Provided: School

Correct Answer: Environment

 

 

57. Clarence and Dorothy both have black hair. Jody, their daughter also has black hair. This example exhibits what process?

Answer Provided: Heredity

Correct Answer: Heredity

 

58. The bones in the arms are already fully formed before the fingers develop. This shows what characteristic of physical growth?

Answer Provided: Cephalocaudal

Correct Answer: Proximodistal

 

 

59. When an individual is growing, he or she gradually shows simple to complex characteristics associated with the stage of life that he or she is in. What is this process called?

Answer Provided: Development

Correct Answer: Development

 

 

60. When Noel was in Grade 1, he was smaller than most of his classmates. He was short and thin for his age. Now that he is in Grade 6, he is tall and athletic that he got accepted to become a school varsity. What type of development is Noel showing?

Answer Provided: Physical Development

Correct Answer: Physical Development

 

61. Deedee, when she was three years old, used to think that Santa Clause traveled throughout the world during Christmas eve to deliver gifts to children. Now that she is in Grade 5, Deedee learned the size of the world in her Science subject. She decided that it is impossible for a person to visit all the children in the world in one night. What type of development did Deedee undergo?

Answer Provided: Cognitive Development

Correct Answer: Cognitive Development

 

 

62. When Eli started Grade 1, he would try to hurt other children when they would not give them what he wants. He would also punch and kick adults when they try to subdue him. When he was in Grade 2, Eli now learned that kicking and punching is wrong. He learned that he would not have a lot of friends if he keeps doing it. What type of development did Eli undergo?

Answer Provided: Moral Development

Correct Answer: Moral Development

 

 

63.  In elementary and secondary schools, which subject has the goal similar to that of Rome's utilitarian form of education?

Answer Provided: History and Social Studies

Correct Answer: TLE

 

 

64. A group of students were asked to make an essay of what their plans are when they grow up. Half of the students in the class wrote that they plan to marry a foreigner and become a citizen of another country. Which responsibility regarding the state and school does the teacher need to work on?

Answer Provided: Morality of marriage

Correct Answer: Promotion of national pride

 

 

65. One of the following choices show an example of a technological lag. Which is it?

Answer Provided: Janet uses eBooks to study even when she is commuting to school. EBooks allow her to carry hundreds of books in her pocket.

Correct Answer: Jason spends hours in the library looking for a single book because his teacher does not allow the use of the internet when researching

 

 

66. Miss Catague wants her students to develop a strong bond with each other. To facilitate this, she plans to use activities like group work, class plays and collaborative home work to facilitate her goal. What life skill is Miss Catague teaching her students?

Answer Provided: Socialization

Correct Answer: Socialization

 


67. Parents and teachers are considered as authorities and models by children at the early childhood stage. What does this statement imply?

Answer Provided: Teachers and parents should serve as role models at all times.

Correct Answer: Teachers and parents should serve as role models at all times.

 


68. At what stage does the learner begin to becomes confused and starts to experience identity crisis?

Answer Provided: Early childhood

Correct Answer: Adolescent

 

 

69. Which of the following will trigger additional development if a child is exposed to more challenges and stimuli in his surroundings?

Answer Provided: interest

Correct Answer: Intelligence



70. Which of the following is usually considered the most important factor in a child’s observable classroom behavior?

Answer Provided: Cultural background

Correct Answer: Intelligence

 

 

71. Social adjustment means the ability to behave in accordance with?

Answer Provided: Universal norms

Correct Answer: Social expectations

 

 

72. Which of these theories holds that human activity is based on the interaction of stimuli and responses?

Answer Provided: Social-learning

Correct Answer: Association

 

 

73. The tendency to imitate elders is very strong in the early childhood stage. Teachers should therefore be very good _____.

Answer Provided: Role models

Correct Answer: Role models

 

 

74. Psychologically, there is unity in all learning. However, there are distinct types of learning that are recognized. One is Affective learning that involves:

Answer Provided: Acquisition of attitudes, ideals, judgment and values

Correct Answer: Acquisition of attitudes, ideals, judgment and values

 

 

75. Identical twins are more alike than fraternal twins. Which of the following statements/principles is supported by this?

Answer Provided: Environment affects both fraternal and identical twins.

Correct Answer: Heredity has a part in determining physical appearance.

 

 

76. The female gonads which are responsible for the production of egg cells are also called ________.

Answer Provided: Ovary

Correct Answer: Ovary

 

 

77. It is the process by which an organism inherits the characteristic traits of the parents.

Answer Provided: Heredity

Correct Answer: Heredity

 

78. The child’s concept of right and wrong is based on external criteria laid down by adults during the stage of pre-conventional morality. This is based on the ideas of?

Answer Provided: Freud

Correct Answer: Kohlberg

 


79. During the pre-operational stage, language skill emerges and the child uses words to represent ideas. This theory is attributed to ________.

Answer Provided: Piaget

Correct Answer: Piaget

 


80. Section 5, Article XIV, of the Constitution states that academic freedom shall be enjoyed in:

Answer Provided: All institutions of higher learning

Correct Answer: All institutions of higher learning

 

 

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

Answer Provided: He views the world from his own perspective.

Correct Answer: He views the world from his own perspective.

 

 

82. The singing of the National Anthem is an offshoot of the philosophical ideals of ________.

Answer Provided: Nationalism

Correct Answer: Nationalism

 

 

83. The Royal Decree of December 20, 1863 established in the Philippines a system of ________?

Answer Provided: Higher education

Correct Answer: Primary education

 

 

84. The present military training in our school curriculum is an influence of ________.

Answer Provided: Athens

Correct Answer: Sparta

 

 

85. What was the philosophy of education in the Philippines before the establishment of public school system?

Answer Provided: Pragmatism

Correct Answer: Pragmatism

 

 

86. Which of the following was the fundamental reason why John Dewey proposed a transformation of the public school system?

Answer Provided: He recognized that industrialization was destroying the home, neighborhood, and church.

Correct Answer: He recognized that a traditional academic education did not serve the ideals of a democratic society.

 

 

87. Which of the following abilities is stressed by humanistic education?

Answer Provided: Develop man into a thinking individual.

Correct Answer: Make man distinctly civilized, educated and refined.

 

 

88. Which of these philosophies is reflective of that Dewey’s which stresses the development of an individual capable of reflective thinking specially that of being able to solve the problem he faces individually or collectively?

Answer Provided: Experimentation

Correct Answer: Developmentalism

 

 

89. Which of the following is a mandate of the 1987 Constitution that the state shall maintain to fight illiteracy?

Answer Provided: Free education in both elementary and high school and compulsory in elementary education for all children of school age

Correct Answer: Free education in both elementary and high school and compulsory in elementary education for all children of school age

 

 

90. Which of the following embodies the operation “Return to the Basics”?

Answer Provided: New Elementary School Curriculum

Correct Answer: New Elementary School Curriculum

 

 

91. The first kindergarten also known as “a garden where children could grow” was the product of research by ________.

Answer Provided: Rousseau

Correct Answer: Froebel

 

 

92. Education is a continuous process of experiencing and of receiving or reorganizing experiences, according to John Dewey. Which of the following situations is apt to happen in education as influenced by Dewey’s philosophy?

Answer Provided: Education takes place in the school where the individual is exposed to specific, self-contained experiences.

Correct Answer: Education is never completed and goes on throughout life.

 

 

 

93. If the children are cooperatively engaged with the teacher in a group project, the children will discipline themselves as each member of the group exercises. What motivate them to stay cooperative?

Answer Provided: Peer influence

Correct Answer: Peer influence

 

 

94. A student collapsed in her Social Studies class. It was found out that she did not eat her lunch. What principle is shown in this situation?

Answer Provided: Physiological need

Correct Answer: Physiological need

 

 

95. Manual-aesthetic activities involving attitudes and feelings are primarily expressive of emotions and values not thoughts. An example of this motor skill is ________.

Answer Provided: Dancing and playing musical instruments.

Correct Answer: Dancing and playing musical instruments.

 

 

96. Education is a lifelong process. This means that education:

Answer Provided: is a continuous process of experiencing and reorganizing experiences.

Correct Answer: is a continuous process of experiencing and reorganizing experiences.

 

 

Consider these motivational theories:

I. Humanism

II. Cognitivism

III. Behaviorism.

97. Which of these theories views the consequences of behavior as regulator and controller of an individual’s action?

Answer Provided: III only

Correct Answer: III only

 

 

98. Which of the following is not a correct statement regarding positive and negative reinforcement as they relate to behavior change in the classroom?

Answer Provided: Punishment tends to be more effective than rewards in controlling behavior.

Correct Answer: Punishment tends to be more effective than rewards in controlling behavior.

 

 

99. Which of the following is the best time for a teacher to set up routine activities that will contribute to effective classroom management?

Answer Provided: On the very first day of school

Correct Answer: On the very first day of school

 

 

100.                    In teaching, the teacher reaches a step where data are critically evaluated and a conclusion is generally arrived at. How is this step called?

Answer Provided: Generalization

Correct Answer: Generalization


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