PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PRACTICE DRILLS Part 11

 


1.    How can you help a habitual borrower of money get rid of his habit?

 

a.    Let him do something for you in return for the money you lent him

b.    Direct him to others

c.    Do not lend him anymore

d.    Ask for a collateral for the cash he is loaning

 

2. Periodic checks on student seatwork with a smile and pat on the shoulder effectively reinforce good study habit is an example of:

 

a.    Discrimination reinforcement

b.    Variable-ratio schedule

c.    Continuous reinforcement

d.    Fixed interval and variable-interval schedule

 

3. A person strives to work at a given task because of a need. Which of the following situations can make a person strive to meet his needs?

 

a.    Minimize the unpleasant consequences of student involvement

b.    Utilize your own opinion as teacher in making final decisions in the classroom

c.    Use unfamiliar materials as examples in order to initially arouse their curiosity

d.    Ask pupils to submit test questions or reactions which you can select topics

 

4.    Which is not a characteristic of a democratic discipline?

 

a.    Child has opportunity to expense his/her opinion

b.    Child‘s given punishment is related to the misdeed

c.    Child understands the meaning of rules

d.    Child obeys blindly

 

5.    Which of the following reasons of 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

 

6.    Which characterizes the perfectionist type of students?

 

a.    Does not volunteer or initiate

b.    Give up easily

c.    Rarely complete tasks

d.    Often anxious, fearful or frustrated about quality of work

 

7. When a school decides to work on a thematic curriculum which should be out of the picture?

 

a.    Peer collaboration

b.    Integration

c.    Team teaching

d.    Competition

 

8. Positive interdependence as an element of collaborative learning means that the students must:

 

a.    Learn to depend on each other to achieve a goal

b.    Depend on the diligent students

c.    Help one another in the individual test for everyone to pass

d.    Be grouped heterogeneously

 

9.    Which computer seems to have the most potential for the classroom?

 

a.    Mainframe computer

b.    Minicomputer

c.    Microcomputer

d.    LPC

 

10.  No pain, no gain. This means that:

 

a.    One should be penitent every Friday by carrying his cross

b.    Only those willing to carry the crosses imposed can share the joy of life

c.    The more suffering in this life, the more one is assured of heaven

d.    One should look for suffering to save himself/herself

 

11.  Which interactive teaching should be avoided?

 

a.    Using multiple response strategy

b.    Using put down strategy

c.    Asking more divergent questions

d.    Asking more evaluative questions

 

12.  Which is in line with equitable access to education but runs counter to quality?

 

a.    Selective retention of students

b.    Deregulated tuition fee hike

c.    Open admission

d.    Program accreditation

 

13.  A negative discrimination index means that:

 

a.    The items could not discriminate between the lower and upper group

b.    More from the lower group answered the test items correctly

c.    More from the upper group answered the test item correctly

d.    Less from the lower group got the test item correctly

 

14.  For brainstorming to be effective which one should be out?

 

a.    Making use of the others ideas shared

b.    Teacher‘s judge mental attitude

c.    Non-threatening atmosphere

d.    Openness to idea

 

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

 

a.    Massed learning is better than spaced learning

b.    Massed learning is as effective as spaced learning

c.    Spaced learning is better than massed learning

d.    Both massed learning and spaced learning are not effective

 

16. 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 and her superiors?

 

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

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

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

 

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

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

d.    Prepare for the wedding she and her boyfriend have long planned to able to raise a family with children which they plan to rear as good citizen of our country

 

18. Parents are up in arms on the telephone bills that pay for sex calls. What is the solution to this problem?

 

a.    The telephone company is to blame for this

b.    Parents, school and students should discuss this openly

c.    The government restriction have no teeth

d.    Parents allow this to make their children modern

 

19. Cooperative is encouraged in as many groups as possible. What agency controls the different cooperatives?

 

a.    Security and Exchange Commission

b.    Department of Local Government

c.    Commission on Audit

d.    Bureau of Cooperative

 

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

 

a.    Nobody drinks at home except father

b.    Drug addiction has been traced to drinking wine

c.    TV ads show drinking is a source of fellowship

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

 

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

 

a.    School book stores

b.    Schools uniform purchases

c.    School canteen

d.    Class stores

 

22. A student collapsed in her social studies class. It was found out that he did not eat her lunch. What principle is shown in the situation?

 

a.    Psychological need

b.    Physiological need

c.    Psychosomatic

d.    Safety need

 

23.  The main function of a philosophy of education is to:

 

a.    Aid the learner to build his own personal philosophy

b.    Reconsider existing educational goals in the light of society‘s needs

c.    Provide the academic background prerequisite to learning

d.    Define the goals and set the direction for which education is to strive

 

24. Teachers and students can participate in levels of computer use. Give the order of computer use from simplest to complex?

 

a. Computer competency, computer literacy, competency expertise

b.    Computer literacy, computer competency, computer expertise

c.    Computer literacy, computer expertise, computer competency

d.    Computer competency, computer expertise, computer literacy

 

25. Which is one role of play in the pre-school and early childhood years?

a.    Develops competitive spirit.

b.    Separates reality from fantasy.

c.    Increases imagination due to expanding knowledge and emotional range.

d.    Develops the upper and lower limbs.

 

26. Student Z does not study at all but when the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) comes, before he takes the LET, he spends one hour or more praying for a miracle, i.e. to pass the exam. Which attitude towards religion or God is displayed?

 

a.    Religion as fake

b.    Religion as magic

c.    Religion as authentic

d.    Religion as real

 

27.  As a teacher, you area rationalist. Which among these will be your guiding principle?

 

a.    I must teach the child that we can never have real knowledge of anything.

b.    I must teach the child to develop his mental powers to the full.

c.    I must teach the child so he is assured of heaven.

d.    I must teach the child every knowledge, skill, and value that he needs for a better future.

 

28. All men are pretty much alike. It is only by custom that they are set apart, said one Oriental philosopher. Where can this thought be most inspiring?

 

a.    In a multi-cultural group of learners

b.    In multi-cultural and heterogeneous groups of learners and indigenous peoples' group

c.    In a class composed of indigenous peoples

d.    In heterogeneous class of learners

 

29. Teacher A discovered that his pupils are very good in dramatizing. Which tool must have helped him discover his pupils' strength?

 

a.    Portfolio assessment

b.    Performance test

c.    Journal entry

d.    Paper-and-pencil test

 

30. NSAT and NEAT results are interpreted against set mastery level. This means that NSAT and NEAT fall under____.

 

a.    intelligence test

b.    aptitude test

c.    criterion-referenced test

d.    norm-referenced test

 

31. In a social studies class, Teacher I presents a morally ambiguous situation and asks his students what they would do. On whose theory is Teacher I's technique based?

 

a.    Kohlberg

b.    Bandura

c.    Piaget

d.    Bruner

 

32. Which is a sound classroom management practice?

 

a.    Avoid establishing routines

b.    Establish routines for all daily needs and tasks.

c.    Apply rules and policies on a case to case basis.

d.    Apply reactive approach to discipline.

 

33. A sixth grade twelve-year old boy comes from a dysfunctional family and has been abused and neglected. He has been to two orphanages and three different elementary schools. The student can decode on the second grade level, but he can comprehend orally material at the fourth or fifth grade level. The most probable cause/s of this student’s reading problem is/are      .

a.    emotional factors

b.    poor teaching

c.    neurological factors

d.    immaturity

 

34. Teacher U teaches to his pupils that pleasure is not the highest good. Teacher's teaching is against what philosophy?

 

a.    Realism

b.    Hedonism

c.    Epicureanism

d.    Empiricism

 

35. With which goals of educational institutions as provided for by the Constitution is the development of work skills aligned?

 

a.    To develop moral character

b.    To teach the duties of citizenship

c.    To inculcate love of country

d.    To develop vocational efficiency

 

36.  Direct instruction is for facts, rules, and actions as indirect instruction is for_______,_______,_________.

 

a.    hypotheses, verified data and conclusions

b.    concepts, patterns and abstractions

c.    concepts, processes and generalizations

d.    guesses, data and conclusions

 

37. To elicit more student's response, Teacher G made use of covert responses. Which one did she NOT do?

 

a.    She had the students write their response privately.

b.    She showed the correct answers on the overhead after the students have written their responses.

c.    She had the students write their responses privately then called each of them.

d.    She refrained from judging on the student's responses.

 

38. What should you do if apparent who is concerned about aggrade his child received compared to another student's grade, demands to see both students' grades?

 

a.    Refuse to show either record.

b.    Show both records to him.

c.    Refuse to show any record without expressing permission from principal.

d.    Show only his child's records.

 

39.  John Watson said: Men are built not born. What does this statement point to?

 

a.    The ineffectiveness of training on a person's development.

b.    The effect of environmental stimulation on a person's development.

c.    The absence of genetic influence on a person's development

d.    The effect of heredity.

 

 

40. A guest speaker in one graduation rites told his audience: "Reminder, you are what you choose to be." The guest speaker is more of a/an_____.

a.    realistic

b.    pragmatist

c.    idealist

d.    existentialist

 

41. The best way fora guidance counsel or to begin to develop study skills and habits in underachieving student would be to  .

 

a.    have these underachieving students observe the study habits of excelling students

b.    encourage students to talk about study habits from their own experiences

c.    give out a list of effective study approaches

d.    have them view film strips about various study approaches

 

42. Principal C shares this thought with his teachers: Subject matter should help students understand and appreciate themselves as unique individuals who accept complete responsibility for their thoughts, feelings, and actions. From which philosophy is this thought based?

 

a.    Perennialism

b.    Essentialism

c.    Existentialism

d.    Progressivism

 

43. The search for related literature by accessing several databases by the use of a telephone line to connect a computer library with other computers that have database is termed_____.

 

a.    compact disc search

b.    manual search

c.    on-line search

d.    computer search

 

44. Teacher W wants to review and check on the lesson of the previous day? Which one will be most reliable?

 

a.    Having students identify difficult homework problems.

b.    Having students correct each other's work.

c.    Sampling the understanding of a few students.

d.    Explicitly reviewing the task-relevant information necessary for the day's lesson.

 

45.  During the Spanish period, what was/were the medium/media of instruction in

schools?

 

a.    The Vernacular

b.    English

c.    Spanish

d.    Spanish and the Vernacular

 

46.  Within direct instruction in mind, which does NOT belong to the group?

a.    Problem solving

b.    Lecture-recitation

c.    Inductive reasoning

d.    Discovery

 

47. I combined several subject areas in order to focus on a single concept for inter- disciplinary teaching. Which strategy/method did I use?

 

a.    Problem-entered learning

b.    Thematic instruction

c.    Reading-writing activity

d.    Unit method

 

48. In his second item analysis, Teacher H found out that more from the lower group got the test item # 6 correctly. This means that the test item ______.

 

a.    has a negative discriminating power

b.    has a lower validity

c.    has a positive discriminating power

d.    has a high reability

 

49.  Which is a teaching approach for kinder garten 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

 

50. The use of mnemonics helps a pupil‘s      information.

 

a.    analyze

b.    understand

c.    apply

d.    remember

 

51. 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

 

52. 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

 

53. In research, which is the dependent variable?

 

a.    Stimulus

b.    Input

c.    Attribute

d.    Predictor

 

54. 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

 

55. 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

 

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

 

a.    Median

b.    Mode

c.    Mean

d.    Mode & Median

 

57. 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

 

58. 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

 

59. 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

 

60. To determine student‘s entry knowledge and skills that test should be given?

 

a.    Aptitude

b.    Standardized

c.    Diagnostic

d.    Placement

 

61. 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

 

 

 

62. 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

 

63. 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.

 

64. 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

 

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

 

a.    Assignment

b.    References

c.    Activity

d.    Evaluation

 

66. 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

 

67. 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

 

68. 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

 

69. 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

 

70. 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.

 

71.  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

 

72. 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

 

73. 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

 

74. Who was a strong supporter of inclusive education and ―education for all concept?

 

a.    Dewey

b.    Hegel

c.    Rousseau

d.    Kung fu tsu

 

75. 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.

 

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

a.    Spreadsheets

b.    Word processing

c.    Database

d.    Graphics

 

77. 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

 

78. 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

 

79. 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

 

80. Which learning activity is most appropriate if teacher‘s focus is attitudinal change?

 

a.    Field trip

b.    Role play

c.    Game

d.    Exhibit

 

81. 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

 

82. 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

 

83. 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.

 

84.  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

 

85. 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

 

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

 

a.    Senses

b.    Reason

c.    Emotion

d.    Will

 

87. 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

 

88. 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

 

89. 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

 

90. 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

 

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

 

a.    Middle childhood

 

 

 

b.    Adolescence

c.    Early childhood

d.    Late Infancy

 

92. 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

b.    Concrete operational

c.    Formal operational

d.    Sensorimotor

 

93.  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

 

94. 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

 

95. Which teaching method is intended primarily for skill and concept mastery by way of practice?

 

a.    Project

b.    Supervised study

c.    Drill

d.    Review

 

96. 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

 

97. 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.    Transudative

d.    Intrusive

 

98. 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

 

99. 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

 

100. 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


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