PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION [FINAL COACHING]

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

The Correct Answer is: A

 

2. The use of mnemonics help pupils ________ information.

a. analyze

b. understand

c. apply

d. remember

The Correct Answer is: D

 

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

The Correct Answer is: B

 

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

The Correct Answer is: D

 

5. In research, which is the dependent variable?

a. Stimulus

b. Input

c. Attribute

d. Predictor

The Correct Answer is: B

 

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

The Correct Answer is: D

 

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.

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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

a. median

b. mode

c. mean

d. mode and median

The Correct Answer is: D

 

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

a. mode

b. median

c. median and mode

d. mean

The Correct Answer is: B

 

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

The Correct Answer is: B

 

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

The Correct Answer is: D

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. B

 

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

a. Aptitude

b. Standardized

c. Diagnostic

d. Placement

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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.

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. D

 

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

a. Assignment

b. References

c. Activity

d. Evaluation

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. B

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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.

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. B

 

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

a. Dewey

b. Hegel

c. Rousseau

d. Kung-fu-tsu

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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.

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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

a. Spreadsheets

b. Word processing

c. Database

d. Graphics

The Correct Answer is:. B

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. D

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. B

 

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.

The Correct Answer is:. D

 

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

a. Field trip

b. Role play

c. Game

d. Exhibit

The Correct Answer is:. B

 

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.

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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.

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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.

The Correct Answer is:. D

 

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

a. Senses

b. Reason

c. Emotion

d. Will

The Correct Answer is:. B

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. B

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. B

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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

a. Middle childhood

b. Adolescence

c. Early childhood

d. Late Infancy

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. A

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. D

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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.

The Correct Answer is:. C

 

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

The Correct Answer is:. A


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