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