Professional Education (Part 2)

 1. In Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory of development the following contribute to the learners' social environment with _____ opening the door for learners to acquire knowledge.

A. activities

B. language

C. lessons

D. classroom

Language opens the door for learners to acquire knowledge that others already have. - Learners can use language to know and understand the world and solve problems. - Language serves as social function but it also has an important individual function. - Language as individual function, helps the learner regulate and reflect his own thinking

 

2. How is reflection recorded in action research?

A. Through a report journal

B. Through a syllabus

C. Through the curriculum

D. Through a lesson plan

 

A report journal records on what has been done and ways to improve as a reflection in action research.

 

3. Along Erikson's psychosocial theory, what is displayed by the child in saying "I do things without worrying about them?"

A. Discipline

B. Endurance

C. Obedience

D. Autonomy

Autonomy - They realize that they can do some things by themselves without worrying other people.

 

4. Along Erikson’s psychosocial theory, what is displayed by the child trying out new ways of doing things?

A. Self-reliance

B. Initiative

C. Autonomy

D. Independence

Parents help foster a sense of autonomy by encouraging children to try new skills.

 

5. When a student gathers data or information and arrives at a conclusion, what process of research is followed?

A. Deduction

B. Induction

C. Experiment

D. Implication

 

Inductive reasoning is based on concrete data to a generalized conclusion:

 

6. How is research important to instruction and school management?

A. It seeks to solve instructional and school problems

B. It seeks to make students loyal to the school

C. It aims at increasing the work of teachers

D It aims at strengthening authority of principals

 

Research are useful in solving practical challenges in the educational sector such as improving teaching methods.

 

7. Which of the following demonstrates that a teacher is competent in content knowledge and pedagogy?

A. Research- based teaching

B. Teacher- centered teaching

C. Concept- based teaching

D. Rote and drill- teaching

 

Concept-based instruction is driven by “big ideas” rather than subject-specific content. By leading students to consider the context in which they will use their understanding, concept-based learning brings “real world” meaning to content knowledge and skills.

 

8. Experts refer to these helpful abilities to self-expression by learners but NOT to include _________.

A. imagining

B. speculating

C. building

D. developing insights

 

Options A,B, and D are helpful abilities to self-expression. Only Option C is not related.

 

9. What is Teacher Ryan doing when he probes students by asking a sequence of questions on a subject matter to arrive at a satisfactory answer?

A. Clarifying

B. Conversing

C. Analyzing

D. Prompting

Prompt is to lead someone toward what they should say or do.

 

10. What question is asked for reflecting on issues or problems in a lesson?

A. What

B. Why

C. Where

D. When

 

1. Who ( who is involved?)

2. Where ( where did it happen?)

3. What ( what is happening?)

4. When (when did it happen?)

5. Why (why did it happen?)

6. Also, how ( how it happen?)

 

11. The most effective method of character- formation is

A. Teaching by high character teachers

B. Teaching virtues through religious books

C. Organizing specialists’ lectures on importance of values in life

D. Rewarding virtuous behaviours and presenting high character models in the schools

 

12. Preparing the child for future life as an aim of education is preparing child for

A. Some suitable vocation

B. A happy married life

C. Some particular course of study

D. Facing all kinds of emergencies and situations of future life

 

13. Which statement is most acceptable to the academicians about “Bread and butter aim” of education?

A. It is only partly acceptable

B. It is important for only a section of the society

C. It is equally important along with other aims of education

D. It is the most important aim and should be given top priority by educationists

 

14. Which among the following is the most correct view about social and individual aims of education?

A. Social aims should be preferred to individual aims

B. Individual aims are implied in the social aims of education

C. Individual aims should be given preference to social aims

D. Individual and social aims are only two sides of the same coin

 

15. Which among the following is not emphasized by the individual aims of education?

A. Self-expression

B. Individual freedom

C. Development of inner potentialities

D. Development of values of tolerance and non-violence

 

16. Which among the following is not an acceptable criticism of social aims of educa­tion?

A. They are anti-individual

B. Man, in them, becomes only a means to an end

C. They hinder the growth and development of art and literature

D. They are un-psychological as they do not take into account the capacities and interests of the individual

 

17. What is development of social sense and co­operation among the individuals through education?

A. Social aim

B. Individual aim

C. National aim

D. Constitutional aim

 

18. Which of the following is more generally acceptable by modern educationists?

A. Contribution to the welfare of the society should be the only aim of education

B. There should be one single aim of education unchangeable over time and space

C. There is one grand objective of education; and that is the development of the inner nature of the child

D. Education is bound to have several aims since its concerns are several such as the individual, the society, the family, the nation and so on

 

19. Who was twentieth century Existentialist?

A. Hegel

B. D.J. O’Connor

C. Jean Paul Sartre

D. Soren Kierkegaard

 

20. Who was the nineteenth century founder of Existentialism?

A. Hegel

B. Rousseau

C. D.J. O’Connor

D. Soren Kierkegaard

 

21. According to Existentialists, the essence of existence means

A. Unity with the ultimate reality

B. Spiritual good and happiness

C. Continuous growth and development

D. Tensions and contradictions which condition loneliness and anxiety

 

22. Which of the following philosophies held that ‘Men in the world feel lonely and anxious, being unsure of their meaning and fearful of their annihilation’ ?

A. Marxism

B. Idealism

C. Pragmatism

D. Existentialism

 

23. Whose is the ultimate concern-“What is existence”?

A. Idealists only

B. Existentialists only

C. Existentialists and Idealists both

D. Realists only

 

24. Which of the following characteristics is common to Pragmatism, Naturalism and Existentialism?

A. Emphasis on the individual

B. Emphasis on value education

C. Emphasis on physical environment

D. Emphasis on spiritual aims of education

 

25. Which of the following has been asserted about schools by Marxist educational philosophy?

A. They should not be mere weapons in the hands of the ruling class

B. They should function as deliberate instruments of state policy

C. They should disinterestedly serve society as a whole

D. They should stand above politics

 

 

26. Which school of philosophy of education regrets dualism between cultural, and voca­tional curriculum?

A. Idealism

B. Marxism

C. Naturalism

D. Existentialism

 

27. Which among the following statements is not a characteristic of Marxism?

A. It asserts that physical environment can definitely change the nature of the child

B. Its major objective is the development of child’s personality

C. Its educational philosophy is essentially materialistic

D. It presupposes a reality independent of man’s mind

 

28. Marxist educational philosophy is closer to

A. Realism

B. Idealism

C. Naturalism

D. Pragmatism

 

29. Who believe that “Objects have a reality independent of mental phenomena”?

A. Idealists

B. Realists

C. Naturalists

D. Existentialists

 

30. Which school of philosophy very strongly advocates that education should be voca­tional in character?

A. Realism

B. Naturalism

C. Pragmatism

D. Existentialism


31. The most important thing to keep in mind for a teacher according to Realism in education is

A. The nature of the child

B. The method of teaching

C. Organization of the content to be taught

D. The value and significance of what is taught

 

32. In the light of relevant past events, con­temporary events and their understanding should find a place in the teaching of history. Who maintained this principle?

A. Realist

B. Marxists

C. Idealists

D. Naturalist

 

33. Which of the following is not criticised by realism in education?

A. Teaching which drifts away from life of the child

B. Teachers denying the value of school co-curricular activities

C. Pupils cramming for knowledge from books for reproducing in examination

D. Organizing schools in a way that is conducive to practical training in citizenship

 

34. Realism in education was born out of

A. The enthusiasm of the Renaissance

B. The great religious movement of the 17th century

C. The degeneration of humanism after Renaissance

D. A cleavage between the work of the schools and the life of the world outside that occurred during the 19th century

 

35. As Huxley pleaded for the introduction of “a complete and thorough scientific culture” into schools, he is claimed to be

A. A Realist

B. An Idealist

C. A Naturalist

D. A Pragmatist

 

36. Which school raised the slogan “Things as they are and as they are likely to be encountered in life rather than words” ?

A. Realists

B. Idealists

C. Pragmatist

D. Existentialists

 

37. Which school believes that all knowledge comes through the senses?

A. Idealism

B. Pragmatism

C. Existentialism

D. Sense Realism

 

38. Which school of philosophy of education stresses the direct study of men and things through tours and travels?

A. Idealism

B. Marxism

C. Social realism

D. Existentialism

 

39. Who said, “No fixed aims of education and no values in advance”?

A. Realists

B. Idealists

C. Marxists

D. Progressive educators

 

40. The term “progressive education” related to

A. Realism

B. Idealism

C. Pragmatism

D. Existentialism

 

41. In whose methodology of teaching “Experimentation” is the key-note of?

A. Realism

B. Idealism

C. Pragmatism

D. Existentialism

 

42. Which statement about truth is not correct according to the philosophy of Pragmatism?

A. It is eternal

B. It is made by man

C. It is ever changing

D. It is what emerges to be true in actual practice

 

43. Who emphasised realization of Truth, Beauty and Goodness as the aims of education?

A. Realists

B. Idealists

C. Naturalists

D. Pragmatists

 

44. What is not associated with Pragmatism?

A. Purposive education

B. Freedom-based education

C. Education for self-realization

D. Experience-based education

 

45. The social aims of education imply that

A. The state is above the individual citizen

B. The state is an idealized metaphysical entity

C. The state has to give not to take anything from the individual

D. The state is superior to the individual transcending all his desires and aspira­tions

 

46. Who emphasized that education should be a social process?

A. Dewey

B. Rousseau

C. Pestalozzi

D. Vivekananda

 

47. According to which philosophy of education, childhood is something desirable for its own sake and children should be children?

A. Realism

B. Idealism

C. Naturalism

D. Pragmatism

 

48. What does the individual aim of education imply?

A. It should have more and more institutions every year

B. It should be by and large the concern of the private sector

C. It must contribute to the peace and happiness of the whole society

D. Education must secure for everyone the conditions under which the individuality is most completely developed

 

49. Rigid system of state-education is justified on the basis that the state

A. Has better resources to manage educa­tion

B. Is supreme to dictate what shall be taught and how shall be taught

C. Has absolute control over the lives, and destinies of its individual members

D. Has a right and a bounden duty to mould the citizen to a pattern which makes for its own preservation and enhancement

 

50. Harmonious development of the child aim of education means

A. The state is above the individual citizen

B. The state is an idealized metaphysical entity

C. The state has to give not to take anything from the individual

D. The state is superior to the individual transcending all his desires and aspira­tions


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