PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PRACTICE DRILLS Part 6

 

1.    After a lesson on the atom, the students were asked to work on a physical model of the atom to determine learning. For which group of students is building an atom model intended?

 

a.    Interpersonally intelligent

b.    Kinesthetically intelligent

c.    Mathematically intelligent

d.    Linguistically intelligent

 

2.    If I want to develop creative thinking in my students, which one/s should I use?

I.     Problem solving

II.    Brainstorming

III.  Dramatics

 

a.    I and II

b.    III only

c.    II only

d.    I, II and II

 

3.    Which is/are effective method/s in teaching students critical reading skills?

 

a.    Read and interpret three different movie reviews

b.    Interpret editorials about a particular subject from three different newspaper

c.    Distinguish fiction from non-fiction materials

d.    Interpret editorials and read and interpret three different movie reviews

 

4.    I want to present the characteristics features of a constructivist approach. What should I use?

 

a.    Fishbone diagram

b.    Venn diagram

c.    Narrative frame

d.    Attribute wheel

 

5.    If all of your students in your class passed the pretest, what should you do?

 

a.    Administer the posttest

b.    Go through the unit as usual because it is part of the syllabus

c.    Go through the lesson quickly in order not to skip any

d.    Go on to the next unit

 

6.    Teacher Vicky shows her students a picture of people in thick jackets. Then she asks them to tell her the kind of climate when the picture was taken. If she asks 5 questions of this kind and her students do not get them, it is safe to conclude that pupils are quite weak in the skill of .

 

a.    Analyzing

b.    Inferring

c.     Synthesizing

d.    Generalizing

 

7.    Which must go with self-assessment for it to be effective?

 

a.    Scoring rubric

b.    Consensus of evaluation results from teacher and student

c.    External monitor

d.    Public display of results of self-evaluation

 

8.    Which group of scores is most varied? The group with   .

a. 0.90 SD    

b. 0.50 SD

c. 0.10 SD     

d. 0.75 SD

 

9.    The main purpose in administering a pretest and a posttest to students is to _.

a.    Measure gains in learning

b.    Measure the value of the material taught

c.    Keep adequate records

d.    Accustom the students to frequent testing

 

10.  Assessment is said to be authentic when the teacher____.

 

a.    Consider students‘ suggestion in teaching

b.    Gives valid and reliable paper-and-pencil test

c.    Gives students real-life task to accomplish

d.    Includes parents in the determination of assessment procedures

 

11.  The following are computed means of a hundred-item test: Physical science, 38; Math, 52; English, 33. Based on the data, which is true?

 

a.    The examinees seem to be very good in Physical Science

b.    The Math test appears to be the easiest among the three

c.    The examinees seem to excel in English

d.    The English test appears to be the easiest among the three

 

12.  An examinee whose score is within x + 1 SD belongs to which of the following groups?

 

a.    Above average

b.    Average

c.    Below average

d.    Needs improvement

 

13.  Which is true of a bimodal distribution?

 

a.    The scores are neither high nor low

b.    The group has two different groups

c.    The score are high

d.    The score are low

 

14.  When you reach the ―plateau of learning, what should you do?

 

a.    Forget about learning

b.    Reflect what caused it

c.    Force yourself to learn

d.    Rest

 

15.  What can be said if student performance in a positively skewed scores distribution?

 

a.    Most students performed well

b.    Most students performed poorly

c.    Almost all students had averaged performance

d.    A few students performed excellently

 

16.  A number of test items in a test are said to be non-discriminating? What conclusion/s can be drawn?

 

I.     Teaching or learning was very good.

II.    The item is so easy that anyone could get it right.

III.  The item is so difficult that nobody could get it.

a.    II only    

b.    I and II  

c.     III only

d.    II and III

 

17.  A test item has a difficulty index of 0.51 and a discrimination index of 0.25. What should the teacher do?

 

a.    Revise the item

b.    Retain the item

c.    Make it a bonus item

d.    Reject the item

 

18.  The difficulty index of a test item is 1. This means that  .

 

a.    The test item is a quality item

b.    The test is very difficult

c.    The test is very easy

d.    Nobody got the item correctly

 

19.  If the compound range is low, this means that      .

 

a.    The students performed very well in the test

b.    The difference between the highest and the lowest score is low

c.    The difference between the highest and the lowest score is high

d.    The students performed very poorly in the test

 

20.  What is the mastery level of a school division in a 100-item test with a mean of 55?

 

a.    42%      

b.    55%

c.     45%

d.    50%

 

21.  A negative discrimination index means that   .

 

a.    The test item has low reliability

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

c.    The test item could not discriminate between the lower and upper groups

d.    More from the upper group got the item correctly

 

22.  In an entrance examination, student Anna‘s Percentile is 25 (P25). Based on this Percentile rank, which is likely to happen?

 

a.    Student Anna will be admitted

b.    Student Anna will not be admitted

c.    Student Anna has 50-50 percent chance to be admitted

d.    Student Anna has 75 percent chance to be admitted

 

23.  What does a percentile rank of 62 mean?

 

a.    It is the student‘s score in the test

b.    The student answered sixty-two (62%) of the items correctly

c.    The student‘s score is higher than 62 percent of all students who took the test

d.    Sixty-two percent (62%) of those who took the test scored higher than the individual

 

24.  What does the computer have in common with the TV?

 

a.    Key board

b.    File 

c.    Screen

d.    Disk drive

 

25.  Which depicts in graphic form the social relations present in a group?

 

a.    Interest inventory

b.    Sociogram

c.    Anecdotal record

d.    Johari‘s window

 

26.  Planned ignoring, signal interference, and proximity control are techniques used in

       .

a.    Managing temper tantrums

b.    Managing surface behavior

c.    Operant conditioning

d.    Life-space interviewing

 

27.  What should you do to get the child‘s attention when she/he is distracted by an object in the room?

I.     Call him by his name and tell him to pay attention

II.    Put away the distracting influence

III.  Involve him in helping with an activity

 

a.    I and II 

b.    I and III 

c.     II and III

d.    I, II and III

 

28.  Which practice in our present educational system is in line with Plato‘s thought that nothing learned under compulsion stays with the mind?

 

a.    Clarification of school policies and classroom rules on Day 1

b.    Presentation of standards of performance in the learner

c.    Making the teaching-learning process interesting

d.    Involving the learner in the determination of learning goals

 

29.  In Values Education, faith, hope, and love are believed to be permanent values whether they be valued by people or not. Upon what philosophy is this anchored?

 

a.    Realism

b.    Idealism

c.    Existentialism

d.    Pragmatism

 

30.  In the schools, we teach realities that cannot be verified by the senses like an Invisible God or Allah. Whose beliefs does this practice negate?

 

a.    Stoicists‘

b.    Skeptics‘

c.    Rationalists‘

d.    Empiricists

 

31.  Which emphasized on non-violence as the path to true peace as discussed in peace education?

 

a.    Taoism

b.    Hinduism

c.    Buddhism

d.    Shintoism

 

32.  I make full use of the question-and-answer as a model for discussion. From whom is this question-and-answer method?

a.    Socrates

b.    Kant

c.     Aristotle

d.    Plato

 

33.  A wife who loves her husband dearly becomes so jealous that in a moment of savage rage, kills him. Is the wife morally responsible and why?

 

a.    Not necessarily. Antecedent passion may completely destroy freedom and consequently moral responsibility

b.    Yes, she killed her husband simply because of jealousy

c.    It depends on the case of the wife‘s jealousy

d.    It depends on the mental health of the wife

 

34.  Martin Luther King Jr. once said, ―Man may understand all about the rotation of the earth but he may still miss the radiance of the sunset. Which type of education should be emphasized as implied by Martin Luther King Jr.?

 

a.    Science and education

b.    Vocational education

c.    Liberal education

d.    Technical education

 

35.  Computer-assisted instruction is an offshoot of the theory of .

a.    J. Piaget

b.    B.F. Skinner

c.    J. Brunner

d.    J. Watson

 

36.  The use of varied teaching and testing strategies on account of students‘ multiple intelligences is in line with the thoughts of .

a.    Daniel Goleman

b.    Jean Piaget

c.    Howard Gardner

d.    Benjamin Bloom

 

37.  Applying Confucius‘s teachings, how would hiring personnel select the most fit in government positions?

 

a.    By record evaluation done by an accrediting body

b.    By government examinations

c.    By accreditation

d.    By merit system

 

38.  ―Moral example has a greater effect on pupils‘ discipline than laws and codes of punishment is an advice of teachers from      .

a.    Confucius           

b.    Mohammed    

c.     Lao tzu

d.    Mencius

 

39.  ―The principle of spontaneity against artificiality will make you accomplish something. Leave nature to itself and you will have harmony is an active advice from the

       .

a.    Hindu     

b.    Taoist   

c.     Shintoist

d.    Buddhist

 

40.  The significance of liberal education in holistic development of students is supported by _____ .

 

a.    Perennialism

b.    Pragmatism

c.    Confucian teaching

d.    Perennialism and Confucian philosophy

 

41.  Is a sick teacher, the only one assigned in a remote school, excused from her teaching duty?

 

a.    No, she is the only one assigned in that school

b.    Yes, teaching is a demanding job

c.    Yes, she is sick

d.    No, she must abide by her contract

 

42.  What is a demonstration of your authority as a professional teacher?

 

a.    You make your pupils run errands for you

b.    You decide on how to teach a particular lesson

c.    You absent from class to enjoy your leave even without prior notice

d.    You select to teach only those lessons which you have mastered

 

43.  The right hemisphere of the brain is involved with the following functions except:

 

 

 

a.    Visual functions

b.    Nonverbal functions

c.    Intuitive functions

d.    Detail-oriented functions

 

44.  To build a sense of pride among Filipino youth, which should be done?

 

a.    Re-study our history from the perspective of our colonizer

b.    Re-study our history and stress on our achievements as a people

c.    Replace the study of folklores and myths with technical subjects

d.    Set aside the study of local history

 

45.  Which is in accordance with the ―with-it-ness principle of classroom management of Kounin?

 

a.    Students agree to disagree in class discussions

b.    Teacher is fully aware of what is happening in his classroom

c.    Student is with his teacher in everything he teaches

d.    Both parents and teachers are involved in the education of children

 

46.  Below are questions that must be considered in developing appropriate learning activity experiences except one. Which is it?

 

a.    Can experiences benefit the pupils?

b.    Do the experiences save the pupils from learning difficulties?

c.    Are the experiences in accordance with the patterns of pupils?

d.    Do the experiences encourage pupils to inquire further?

 

47.  Which is a characteristic of an imperfect type of matching test?

 

a.    An item may have no answer at all

b.    An answer may be repeated

c.    There are two or more distracters

d.    The items in the right and left columns are equal in number

 

48.  Which is a proactive management practice?

 

a.    Tell them that you enforce the rules on everyone, no exception

b.    Set and clarify your rules and expectation on Day 1

c.    Punish the misbehaving pupils in the presence of their classmates

d.    Stress on penalty for every violation

 

49.  I like to develop the synthesizing skills of my students. Which one should I do?

 

a.    Ask my students to formulate a generalization from the data shown in the graphs

b.    Direct my students to point out which part of the graph are right and which part is wrong

c.    Ask my students to answer the questions beginning with ―what if

d.    Tell my students to state data presented in the graph

 

50.  To reach out to clientele who cannot be in the classroom for one reason or another, which of the following was established?

 

a.    Informal

b.    Special education (SPED)

c.    Pre-school education

d.    Alternative learning delivery system

 

51.  Tira enjoys games like scrabble, anagrams and password. Which type of intelligence is strong in Tira?

 

a.    Interpersonal intelligence

b.    Linguistic intelligence

c.    Logical and mathematical intelligence

d.    Spatial intelligence

 

52.  Teacher Milla observes cleanliness and order in the classroom to create a conducive atmosphere for learning. On which theory is her practice based?

 

a.    Psychoanalysis

b.    Gestalt psychology

c.    Behaviorism

d.    Humanistic psychology

 

53.  Which learning principles is the essence of Gardner‘s theory of multiple intelligences?

 

a.    Almost all learners are linguistically intelligent

b.    Intelligence is not measured on one form

c.    Learners have different IQ level

d.    Learners have static IQ

 

54.  Teacher Ada uses direct instruction strategy. Which will she first do?

 

a.    Presenting and structuring

b.    Independent practice

c.    Guided student practice

d.    Reviewing the previous day‘s work

 

55.  The free public elementary and secondary educations in the country are in the line with the government effort to address educational problems of    .

 

a.    Productivity

b.    Relevance and quality

c.    Access and quality

d.    Effectiveness and efficiency

 

56.  Which objective in the affective domain is the lowest level?

 

a.    To accumulate examples of authenticity

b.    To support viewpoints against abortion

c.    To respond positively to a comment

d.    To formulate criteria for honestly

 

57.  ―Using the six descriptions of elements of good short story, IDENTIFY IN WRITING THE SHORT STORY BY O. HENRY, with complete accuracy. The words in capital letters are referred to as the____.

 

a.    Criterion of success

b.    Condition

c.    Performance statement

d.    Minimum acceptable performance

 

58.  You have presented a lesson on animal protective coloration. At the end, you ask if there are any questions. There are none. You can take this to mean that .

 

a.    The students are not interested in the lesson

b.    You need to ask specific questions to elicit responses

c.    The students did not understand what you were talking about

d.    The students understood everything you presented

 

59.  Teacher Vina feels offended by her supervisor‘s unfavorable comments after a classroom supervision. She concludes that her supervisor does not like her. Which Filipino trait is demonstrated by Teacher Vina?

 

a.    Extreme family-centeredness

b.    Extreme personalism

c.    Kanya-kanya syndrome

d.    Superficial religiously

 

60.  Teachers are encouraged to make use of authentic assessments such as:

 

a.    De-contextualized drills

b.    Unrealistic performances

c.    Answering multiple choices test items

d.    Real world application of lessons learned

 

61.  What does the principle of individual difference require teachers to do?

 

a.    Give less attention to gifted learners

b.    Provide for a variety of learning activities

c.    Treat all learners alike while teaching

d.    Prepare modules for slow learners in class

 

62.  Which quotation goes with a proactive approach to discipline?

 

a.    An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.

b.    Do not make a mountain out of a molehill.

c.    Walk your talk.

d.    Do not smile until Christmas.

 

63.  I‘d like to test whether a student knows what a particular word means. What should I ask the student to do?

 

a.    Give the word a tune then sing it

b.    Define the word

c.    Spell the word and identify its part of speech

d.    Give the etymology of the word

 

64.  A teacher‘s quarrel with a parent makes her develop a feeling of prejudice against the parent‘s child. The teacher‘s unfavorable treatment of the child is an influence of what Filipino trait?

 

a.    Lack of self-reflection

b.    Extreme personalism

c.    Extreme family-centeredness

d.    Sakop-mentality

 

65.  In the context of grading, what is referred to as teacher‘s generosity error? A teacher_____.

 

a.    Rewards students who perform well

b.    In overgenerous with praise

c.    Has a tendency to give high grades as compare to the rest

d.    Gives way to students‘ bargain for no more quiz

 

66.  For mastery learning and in line with outcome-based evaluation model which element should be present?

 

a.    Inclusion of non-performance objectives

b.    Construction of criterion-referenced tests

c.    Construction of norm-referenced tests

d.    Non-provision of independent learning

 

67.  Which statement about standard deviation is correct?

 

a.    The higher the standard deviation the more spread the scores are

b.    The lower the standard deviation the more spread the scores are

c.    The higher the standard deviation the less spread the scores are

d.    It is a measure of central tendency

 

68.  The State shall protect and promote the right of citizens to quality education at all levels. Which government program is in support of this?

 

a.    Exclusion of children with special needs from the formal system

b.    Free elementary and secondary education

c.    Deregulated tuition fee hike

d.    Re-introduction of the NEAT and NSAT

 

69.  The American Teachers who were recruited to help set the public educational system in the Philippines during the American regime were called Thomasite‘s because:

 

a.    They were devotees of St. Thomas Aquinas

b.    They disembarked from the CIS Transport called Thomas

c.    They first taught at the University of Sto. Tomas

d.    They arrived in the Philippines on the feast of St. Tomas

 

70.  The Filipino learner envisioned by the Department of Education is one who is imbued with the desirable values of person who is:

 

a.    Makabayan, makatao, makakalikasan at maka-Diyos

b.    Makabayan, makatao, makahalaman, at maka-Diyos

c.    Makabayan, makasarili, makakalikasan, at maka-Diyos

d.    Makabayan, makakaragatan, makatao, at maka-Diyos

 

71.  The right hemisphere of the brain is involved with the following function except:

 

a.    Intuitive functions

b.    Nonverbal functions

c.    Visual functions

d.    Detail-oriented functions

 

72.  What function is associated with the right brain?

 

a.    Visual, non-verbal, logical

b.    Visual, intuitive, non-verbal

c.    Visual, intuitive, logical

d.    Visual, logical, detail-oriented

 

73.  Behavior followed by pleasant consequences will be strengthened and will be more likely to occur in the future. Behavior followed by unpleasant consequences will be weakened and will be less likely to be repeated in the future. Which one is explained?

 

a.    Freud‘s psychoanalytic theory

b.    Thorndike‘s law of effect

c.    B.F. Skinner‘s Operant conditioning theory

d.    Bandura‘s social learning theory

 

74.  Theft of school equipment like TV, computer, etc. by people on the community itself is becoming a common phenomenon. What does this signify?

 

a.    Prevalence of poverty in the community

b.    Inability of school to hire security guards

c.    Deprivation of Filipino schools

d.    Community‘s lack of sense of co-ownership

 

75.  The main purpose of compulsory study of the Constitution is to____.

 

a.    Develop students into responsible, thinking citizen

b.    Acquaint students with the historical development of the Philippine Constitution

c.    Make constitutional experts of the students

d.    Prepare students for law-making

 

76.  Which goals of educational institution, as provided for by the Constitution, is the development of work skills aligned?

 

a.    To develop moral character

b.    To develop vocational efficiency

c.    To teach the duties of citizenship

d.    To inculcate love of country

 

77.  Which is closest to the real human digestive system for study in the classroom?

 

a.    Model of the human digestive system

b.    Drawing of the human digestive system on the board

c.    The human digestive system projected on an OHP

d.    Drawing of human digestive system on a page of a textbook

 

78.  Which one is in support of greater interaction?

 

a.    Repeating the question

b.    Not allowing a student to complete a response

c.    Probing

d.    Selecting the same student respondents

 

79.  Which is/are effective methods/s in teaching students critical reading skills?

 

a.    Interpret editorials about a particular subject from three different newspapers

b.    Read and interpret three different movie reviews

c.    Distinguish fiction from non-fiction materials

d.    Interpret editorials and read and interpret three different movie reviews

 

80.  Which is true of a bimodal score distribution?

 

a.    The group tested has two different groups

b.    The scores are neither high nor low

c.    The scores are high

d.    The scores are low

 

81.  Who stressed the idea that students cannot learn if their basic needs are not first met?

 

a.    Thorndike

b.    Maslow

c.    Wertheimer

d.    Operant conditioning

 

82.  A person, who has had painful experience as the dentist‘s office, may become fearful at the mere sight of the dentist‘s office building. What theory can explain this?

 

a.    Attribution theory

b.    Classical conditioning

c.    Generalization

d.    Operant conditioning

 

83.  I want my students to have mastery learning of a basic topic. Which of the following can help?

 

a.    Socratic method and drill

b.    Drill

c.    Socratic method

d.    None of the above

 

84.  As a teacher you are a skeptic. Which among these will be your guiding principle?

 

a.    I must teach the child to the fullest

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

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

d.    I must teach the child so he is assured

 

85.  With forms of prompting in mind, which group is arranged from least to most instructive prompting?

 

a.    Verbal, physical, gestural

b.    Verbal, gestural, physical

c.    Gestural, physical, verbal

d.    Physical, gestural, verbal

 

86.  In which way does heredity affect the development of the learner?

 

a.    By providing equal potential to all

b.    By making acquired traits hereditary

c.    By compensating for what environment fails to develop

d.    By placing limits beyond which the learner cannot develop

 

87.  For which lesson objective will a teacher use the direct instruction method?

 

a.    Distinguish war from aggression

b.    Appreciate Milton‘s Paradise Lost

c.    Use a microscope properly

d.    Become aware of the pollutants in the environment

 

88.  With indirect instruction in mind, which does not belong to the group?

 

a.    Lecture-recitation

b.    Experiential method

c.    Inductive method

d.    Discovery method

 

89.  A master teacher is the resource speaker in an in-service training. He presented the situated learning theory and encouraged his colleagues to apply the same in class. Which of the following did he not encourage his colleagues to do?

 

a.    Apprenticeship

b.    Decontextualized teaching

c.    Learning as it normally occurs

d.    Authentic problem solving

 

90.  Iwant to engage mystudentsin small group discussions. Which topic lendsitself toa lively discussion?

 

a.    The exclusion of Pluto as a planet

b.    The meaning of the law of supply and demand

c.    The law of inertia

d.    Rules on subject-verb agreement

 

91.  Which will be the most authentic assessment tool for an instructional objective on working with and relating to people?

 

a.    Organizing a community project

b.    Writing articles on working and relating to people

c.    Home visitation

d.    Conducting mock election

 

92.  We are very much interested in a quality professional development program for teachers. What characteristic should we look for?

 

a.    Required for renewal of professional license

b.    Prescribed by top educational leader

c.    Responsive to identified teacher‘s needs

d.    Dependent on the availability of funds

 

93.  Which statement applies correctly to Edgar Dale‘s ―CONE of experience?

 

a.    The farther you are from the base, the more direct the learning experience becomes

b.    The farther you are from the bottom, the more direct the learning experience becomes

c.    The close you are to the base, the more indirect the learning experience become

d.    The closer you are to the base, the more direct the learning experience becomes

 

94.  Teacher Jenny teaches a lesson in which students must recognize that ¼ is the same as 0.25. They use this relationship to determine that 0.15 and 0.20 are slightly less than ¼. Which of the following concept/s is/are being taught?

 

a.    Numeration skills

b.    Place value of decimals

c.    Numeration skills for decimal and relationship between fractions and decimals

d.    Relationship between fractions and decimals

 

95.  To nurture student‘s creativity, which activity should the teacher avoid?

 

a.    Ask ―what if questions

b.    Ask divergent thinking questions

c.    Emphasize the need to give right answer

d.    Be open to ―out-of-this world ideas

 

96.  After reading an essay, Teacher Bebe wants to help sharpen her students‘ ability to interpret. Which of these activities will be most appropriate?

 

a.    Drawing conclusions

b.    Making inferences

c.    Getting the main idea

d.    Listing facts separately from opinion

 

97.  What is the best way to develop math concepts?

 

a.    Solving problems using multiple approaches

b.    Solving problems by looking for correct answer

c.    Learning math as applied to situations such as being a tool of science

d.    Solving problems by applying learned formulas

 

98.  Teacher Cita, an experienced teacher, does daily review of past lessons in order to _______.

 

a.    Provide her pupils with a sense of continuity

b.    Introduce a new lesson

c.    Reflect on how she presented the previous lesson

d.    Determine who among her pupils are studying

 

99.  Research says that mastery experiences increase confidence and willingness to try similar or more challenging tasks such as reading. What does this imply for children reading performance?

 

a.    Children who have mastered basic skills are more likely to be less motivated to read because they get fed up with too much reading

b.    Children who have not mastered the basic skills are more likely to be motivated to read in order to gain mastery over basic skills

c.    Children who have a high sense of self-confidence are not necessarily those who can read

d.    Children who have gained mastery over basic skills are more motivate to read

 

100. Bruner‘s theory on intellectual development moves from enactive to iconic and symbolic stages. Applying Bruner‘s theory, how would you teach?

 

a.    Begin with the abstract

b.    Be interactive in approach

c.    Begin with the concrete

d.    Do direct instruction


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