PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PRACTICE DRILLS Part 16


1. Research studies that reading power affects college students who have insomnia, conflicts with parents, poor rapport with other people. What factor(s) is shown to effect reading achievement?

 

a.    Home conditions

b.    Socio-economic status

c.    Personality and emotional factors

d.    Perception and comprehension

 

2. Among the following, which is the abstract form of learning, parents teach their children?

 

a.    Tumulong ka sa paglinis ng bahay

b.    Magbasa ka nglibro

c.     Palagi kang magdasal

d.    Mapakabuti ka

 

3. What characteristic differentiate spiritual intelligence or spiritual quotient as developed by Harvard University, from sectarian religion (E.g. Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, etc.)?

 

a.    Authoritarian values

b.    Universal values

c.    Creedal values

d.    Sectarian values

 

4. Among models of reading strategies, what did student Jk adopt when she reads back and forth, attending to both what is in her mind and what‘s on the page?

 

a.    Bottoms-up

b.    Interactive

c.    Down-top

d.    Top-down

 

5.    Of the following, how can self-esteem be best developed among learners?

 

a.    Doing fair share in community work

b.    Fulfilling commitments

c.    Through relationships with others

d.    Displaying self-control

 

6. Of Piaget‘s Cognitive Concepts, which refer to the process of fitting a new experience to a previously created cognitive structure or schema?

 

a.    Assimilation

b.    Schema

c.    Accommodation

d.    Equilibrium

 

7. In Piaget‘s stages of cognitive development, which is the tendency of the child to only see his point of view and to assume that everyone has the same point of view?

a.    Reversibility

b.    Egocentrism

c.    Symbolic function

d.    Centration

8.    Which is the most basic in Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs?

 

a.    Socialization

b.    Actualization

c.    Self-esteem

d.    Altruism

 

9. Which aspect of multi-intelligence is enhanced by asking students to work on a physical model of the atom after a teacher‘s discussion on the subject of the atom?

 

a.    Interpersonal

b.    Linguistic

c.    Kinesthetical

d.    Mathematical

10. Among specialist in reading, who are mainly concerned about reading as a thinking process that involves the recognition of printed or written symbols which serve as thought stimuli?

 

a.    Semantics

b.    Psychologists

c.    Linguists

d.    Sociologists

 

 

11. How is the disorderly behavior of children classified when they don‘t focus and lack attention?

 

a.    Intellectual

b.    Social

c.    Moral

d.    Psychomotor

 

12. How do you describe transfer of learning across subject matter, e.g value of thrift in Economic and Social Science?

 

a.    Horizontal

b.    Spiral

c.    Vertical

d.    Cyclic

 

13. What broad learning is needed for a learner to desire to learn throughout life?

 

a.    Four basic Rs

b.    Basic education

c.    General education

d.    Pre-school system

 

14. What observation attests to the fact that the sudden student‘s motivation vary according to socio-cultural background?

 

a.    Females mature earlier than boys

b.    Children from low-income household meet more obstacle in learning

c.    Genetic endowments may show gifted endowments among the young

d.    Brains of boys are bigger and better than those of females

 

15. Of the types of validity tests, what is concerned with the relation of test scores to performance at some future time, e.g. Freshmen college test can show success in college?

 

a.    Curriculum validity

b.    Criterion validity

c.    Content validity

d.    Predictive validity

 

16. The test questions in Teacher Dae Dae‘s test were confusing and subject to wrong understanding, especially to poorer students. What was wrong with the test?

 

a.    Inappropriate level of difficult of items

b.    Unclear directions

c.    Ambiguity

d.    Test items inappropriate for outcomes being measured

 

17. Of the following, which exemplifies the best example of cooperation and voluntarism in the Parent-Teacher Associations?

 

a.    Helping hands after a natural crisis, e.g. devastating storm

b.    Attending regular meetings

c.    Fund raising for PT funds

d.    Running the school canteen

 

18. Among standardized tests, which reveals strengths and weaknesses for purposes of placement and formulating an appropriate instructional program?

 

a.    Personality tests

b.    Achievement tests

c.    Diagnostic tests

d.    Competency tests

 

19. Among standardized tests, which can show how students perform in comparison with each other and to students in other schools?

 

a.    Competency tests

b.    Subject exit tests

c.    Achievement tests

d.    Diagnostic tests

 

20. Teacher Bea Bunana makes her tests easy for students to understand, easy to administer and score and suitable to test conditions, e.g. time. What is she achieving for her tests?

 

a.    Efficiency

b.    Usability

c.    Reliability

d.    Validity

 

21. Of the following subjects, which does not belong to performance-based subjects in which direct instruction is effectively used?

 

a.    Values education

b.    Music

c.    Science

d.    Mathematics

 

22. Which of these approaches would reform assessment outcomes?

 

a.    Apply sanctions on low performing schools

b.    Focus on testing without investing the learner‘s needs

c.    Use understanding as means of giving feedback on students learning

d.    Compare results of performance of all schools

 

23. Using extrinsic motivational assessment, what could be the noblest motive in students pursuing a lifetime work and mission for the teaching profession?

 

a.    Promise of high rank and prestige

b.    Social service to upcoming generations

c.    Economic security and welfare

d.    Respected position in society

 

24. To what process of evaluation does determining the extent objectives are met belong?

 

a.    Authentic

b.    Formative

c.    Criterion-referenced

d.    Norm-referenced

 

25. Which form of the foundation of all cognitive objects without which the next level of higher thinking skills cannot be attained?

 

a.    Knowledge

b.    Synthesis

c.    Application

d.    Analysis

 

26. What primary response factor is considered by Essay questions?

 

a.    Factual information

b.    Wide sampling of ideas

c.    Originality

d.    Less time for construction and scoring

 

27. Among written categories of assessment methods, what did teacher Maggie Lagid use when she assessed the stock knowledge of her students through questioning in an open class?

 

a.    Oral questioning

b.    Performance test

c.    Product rating scale

d.    Observation and self-report

 

28. In the context of the 6 facets of understanding cited by Wiggins and McTIghe, what is a proof of a student‘s understanding a principle?

 

a.    Stating given examples

b.    Repeating it as given by the teacher

c.    Applying it to solve his problem

d.    Retaining it in memory for a long period of time

 

29. What does it mean if student Pete got a 60% percentile rank in class?

 

a.    He scored better than 60% of the class

b.    He scored less than 60% of the class

c.    He got 40% of the test wrongly

d.    He got 60% of the items correctly

 

30. Which of the following may not be adequately assessed by a paper and pencil test?

 

a.    Sight reading in music

b.    Multiplication skills

c.    Subject-verb agreement

d.    Vocabulary meaning

 

31. What should be done with test item whose difficulty index is .98?

 

a.    Revise it

b.    Retain it

c.    Reject it

d.    Reserve it for another group of students

 

32. What is known as the scoring guides for rating open-ended questions?

 

a.    Rubrics

b.    Outcomes

c.    Scales

d.    Outputs

 

33. What does it mean to say that the facility index of a test item is .50?

 

a.    It is reliable

b.    It is valid

c.    It is moderate in difficulty

d.    It is very easy

 

34. With the mode of answering as a point of reference, which of the following does not belong to this test group?

 

a.    Completion

b.    Essay

c.    Problem-solving

d.    Matching

 

35. One half of the class scored very low. Teacher Janus gave another tests to determine where were the students were weakest. What type of test is this?

 

a.    Aptitude test

b.    Remedial test

c.    Diagnostic test

d.    Readiness test

 

36. On what is normative marking based?

 

a.    High marks of few students

b.    Failure of some students

c.    Normal curve of standard distribution

d.    Student achievement relative to other students

 

37. What cognitive domain is involved in the student‘s clarifying information from conclusion?

 

a.    Synthesis

b.    Evaluation

c.    Analysis

d.    Application

 

38. Which of the following indicates a strong negative correlation?

 

a. -75

b. -15

c. -10

d. -25

 

39. What is the graphic illustration for the relationship between two variables?

 

a.    Histogram

b.    Normal curves

c.    Frequency polygons

d.    Scatter diagram

 

40. What does a negative discrimination index mean?

 

a.    The test item has low reliability

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

c.    More from the upper answered the test correctly

d.    The test could not discriminate between the upper and lower group

 

41. What is the deviation from a standard or desired level of performance?

 

a.    A problem

b.    A deficit

c.    A defect

d.    A gap

 

42. How does a student‘s 80 percentile score interpreted?

 

a.    High in all the skills being tested

b.    Higher than 80% of the members of the group

c.    Better relative to the competencies targeted

d.    80% of the specified content

 

43. Of the types of validity for tests, what is focused on the extent to which a particular tests correlates with acceptable measure of performance?

 

a.    Curricular validity

b.    Content validity

c.    Criterion validity

d.    Predictive validity

 

44. Among general categories of assessment methods, what instruments did pre-school teacher Justine use when he rated the handwriting of his students using a prototype handwriting model?

 

a.    Product rating scale

b.    Performance test

c.    Written response instruments

d.    Observation and self-reports

 

45. Self-evaluation can be done in various ways, but this is not one of them:

 

a.    Use of an evaluation instrument

b.    Written reflection

c.    Self-videotape of class performance

d.    Per feedback session

 

46. Inhertest, Teacher Marian Run knowingly gave clues to the answers that reduce usability of the test. What was wrong with the test?

 

a.    Ambiguity

b.    Unclear directions

c.    Poorly constructed test items

d.    Test too short

 

47. In preparing classroom tests, which of the following checklists is the LAST among steps in tests preparation?

 

a.    How are the objective items to be scored?

b.    How are the test results to be reported?

c.    How I have prepared a table of specifications?

d.    How are the test scores to be tabulated?

 

48. What formula is used to total and compute test scores at the end of the year?

 

a.    [Test scores = transmutation table] x 100

b.    [Highest score + Lowest possible score] x 100

c.    [Student‘s score x 100]

d.    [Student‘s score + Highest possible score] x 100

 

49. What can be said of student performance in a positively skewed score distribution?

 

a.    A few students performed excellently

b.    Most students performed well

c.    Almost all students had average performance

d.    Most students performed poorly

 

50. Which is true when the standard deviation is small?

 

a.    Scores are toward both extremes

b.    Scores are spread apart

c.    Scores are tightly bunched together

d.    The bell curve is relatively fat

 

51. In her tests, Teacher Tomden made tests that were either too difficult or too easy.

What was wrong with her tests?

 

a.    Unclear directions

b.    Inappropriate level of difficulty of the test items

c.    Ambiguity

d.    Identifiable patterns of answers

 

52. What is an alternative assessment   tool that consists of a collection of work artifacts or in progress accomplishment by a targeted clientele?

 

a.    Evaluation instrument

b.    Rubric

c.    Achievement test

d.    Portfolio

 

53. What computation did teacher Panny use in getting the difference between the highest and lowest scores in each class?

a.    Mean

b.    Range

c.    Standard deviation

d.    Median

 

54. Which measure of central tendency is most reliable when scores are extremely high and low?

 

a.    Cannot be identified unless individual scores are given

b.    Median

c.    Mode

d.    Mean

 

55. Which measure of central tendency is most reliable to get a picture of the class performance whose raw scores in aquizare: 97, 95, 85, 86, 77, 75, 50, 10, 5, 2, 1?

 

a.    Mode

b.    None. It is best to look at individual scores

c.    Mean

d.    Median

 

56. Self-evaluation has become an important kind of performance assessment among teachers, useful as an honest self-criticism and a starting point to removal evaluation by supervisors, peers, or students. How is self-evaluation described?

 

a.    Evidence of teaching performance

b.    Substitute to supervisor‘s rating

c.    Guide for self-adjustment

d.    Tool for salary adjustment

 

57. What is the common instrument used in measuring learning in the affective domain?

 

a.    Multiple choice

b.    Checklist

c.    Scaling

d.    Questionnaire

 

58. On the test giver‘s list of Do‘s, which of the following is not relative to motivating students to do their best?

 

a.    Read test directions

b.    Reduce test anxiety, e.g. ―Take a deep breath.

c.    Explain the purpose of the test

d.    Tell students: ―I will be proud of you if you perform well.

 

59. What is the range if the score distribution is: 98, 93, 93, 93, 90, 88, 87, 85, 85 , 85, 70,

51, 34, 34, 34, 20, 18, 51, 12, 9, 8, 6, 3, 1?

 

a.    93

b.    85

c.    97

d.    Between 51 and 34

 

60. What does the test mean if the difficulty index is 1?

 

a.    Very difficult

b.    Missed by everyone

c.    Very easy

d.    A quality item

 

61. What is the meaning of a negative correlation between amount of practice and number of errors in tennis?

 

a.    The increase in the amount of practices does not at all affect the number of errors

b.    As the amount of practice increases, the number of errors decreases

c.    The decrease in the amount of practice sometimes affects the number of errors

d.    Decrease in the amount of practice goes with decrease in the number of errors

 

62. An entering college would like to determine which course is best suited for him.

 

Which test is appropriate for this purpose?

 

a.    Aptitude test

b.    Intelligence test

c.    Achievement test

d.    Diagnostic test

 

63. Which of the following criteria is the basis for selecting tests that yield similar results when repeated over a period of time?

 

a.    Efficiency

b.    Validity

c.    Usability

d.    Reliability

 

64. Facilities such as classrooms, fixtures, and equipment can often damage the morale of new teachers and become an obstacle for adapting well to the school environment. What should be the policy for assigning said physical facilities?

 

a.    needs of student‘s basis

b.    position ranking basis

c.    first-come, first-served basis

d.    service seniority basis

 

65. There are various functions a fellow teacher or peer coach can help new teachers.

What role does a peer coach play by being present/available to share ideas, problems and success with a new teacher?

 

a.    a provider of technical feedback

b.    a facilitator of strategies

c.    an analyzer of teaching job

d.    a close peer or companion

 

66. Teacher Nancy is directed to pass an undeserving student with a death threat. Which advise will a utilitarian give?

 

a.    Don‘t pass him. You surely will not like someone to give you a death threat in order to pass

b.    Pass the student. That will be off use to the student, his parents and you.

c.    Pass the student. Why suffer the threat?

d.    Don‘t pass him. Live by your principle of justice. You will get reward, if not in this life, in the next!

 

67. In what setting is differentiated and multi-lingual teaching most effective?

 

a.    special children with classes

b.    multi-grade classes

c.    children with diverse cultural backgrounds

d.    pre-school children

 

68. After the embarrassing incident, Teacher Kevin vowed to himself to flunk the student at the end of the school term. What has Dante done that is against the guidelines for using punishment?

 

a.    Punishing immediately in an emotional state

b.    Using double standards in punishing

c.    Doing the impossible

d.    Holding a grudge and not starting with a clean slate

 

69. Following the principles for punishing students, which of the following is the LEAST desirable strategy for classroom management?

 

a.    Punishing while clarifying why punishment is done

b.    Punishing while angry

c.    Punishing the erring student rather than the entire class

d.    Give punishment sparingly

 

70. According to the guidelines on punishment, what does it mean that the teacher should give the student the benefit of the doubt?

 

a.    Make sure facts are right before punishing

b.    Doubt the incident really happened

c.    Don‘t punish and doubt effectiveness of punishment

d.    Get the side of the students when punishing

 

71. Which of the following guidelines for punishment may be done?

 

a.    Don‘t punish students outside of school rules on punishment

b.    Don‘t threaten the impossible

c.    Don‘t use double standards for punishing

d.    Don‘t assign extra home work

 

72. For group guidance in classroom management, what element is lacking when there is too much competitiveness and exclusiveness with the teacher being punitive and partial to some students?

 

a.    Dissatisfaction with classroom work

b.    Poor interpersonal relations

c.    Poor group organization

d.    Disturbance in group climate

 

73. To demonstrate here authority Teacher Kokeyni made an appeal to undisciplined students. What kind of appeal did she make by saying, ―Ladies and gentlemen, don‘t engage in that kind of behavior, you can do much better?

 

a.    Invoke peer reaction

b.    Exert authority

c.    Internalizing student‘s image of themselves

d.    Teacher-student relationship

 

74. What is the term for the leap from theory to practice in which the teacher applies theories to effective teaching methods and theories?

 

a.    Integration process

b.    Informational process

c.    Conceptualization process

d.    Construction process

 

75. Of subcategories of movement behavior, what is happening when the teacher ends an activity abruptly?

 

a.    Thrust

b.    Truncation

c.    Stimulus-bounded

d.    Flip-flop

 

 

76. Of subcategories of teacher movement behavior, what is happening when the teacher goes from topic or activity toother topic or activities, lacking clear direction and sequence of activities?

 

a.    Truncation

b.    Dangle

c.    Thrust

d.    Flip-flop

 

77. Of subcategories of teacher movement behavior, what is happening when the teacher is too immersed in a small group of students or activity, thus ignoring other students or activity?

 

a.    Truncation

b.    Flip-flop

c.    Stimulus-bounded

d.    Thrust

 

78. From classroom management strategies applied on erring students, which of the following should not be done?

 

a.    Surprise quiz

b.    Communicating problems to parents

c.    Parent-principal conference

d.    Shaming erring student before the class

 

79. Among mistaken goals in the Acceptance Approach to discipline, what happens when students defy adult by arguing, contradicting, teasing, temper tantrums, and low level hostile behavior?

 

a.    Power seeking

b.    Withdrawal

c.    Revenge seeking

d.    Attention getting

 

80. Teacher Ann Patuan dealt effectively with a minor infraction of whispering by a student to a neighbor during class. Which of the following did she do?

 

a.    Reprimand quietly

b.    Continue to teach and ignore infraction

c.    Reprimand student after class

d.    Use nonverbal signals (gesture or facial expression)

 

81. What mistake is teacher Senemin Basic trying to avoid by never ignoring any student or group of students in her discussions and other activities?

 

a.    Non-direction

b.    Dangled activity

c.    Divided attention

d.    Abrupt end

 

82. Teacher Dra D Explorer is a great lecturer and so she is invited to speak and represent the school on many occasions. What is one quality of her lecturers when she follows a planned sequence, not diverting so as to lose attention of her listeners?

 

a.    Explicit explanations

b.    Continuity

c.    Inclusion of elements

d.    Fluency

 

83. Teacher Aldub makes certain content interesting to his students. Focusing on learners, he also uses many simple examples, metaphors and stories. What is this quality of lesson content?

 

a.    Interest

b.    Feasibility

c.    Self-sufficiency

d.    Balance

 

84. Teaching English, teacher Krizzy is careful about her lesson content. What quality of content did he achieve when she made certain her information came with the information explosion which she got in the Internet, such as how to effectively teach phonetics?

 

a.    Learnability

b.    Significance

c.    Balance

d.    Interest

 

85. Teacher Kevin made certain his lesson content can be useful to his students, taking care of their needs in a student-centered classroom. What is this kind of quality content?

 

a.    Utility

b.    Balance

c.    Self-sufficiency

d.    Interest

 

86. In the implementation of the curriculum at the classroom level, effective strategies are called Green. Which of the following belongs to the Green Flag?

 

a.    Homogenous students grouping

b.    Content delivery based on lessons

c.    Excess in chalkboard talk

d.    Student interest and teacher enthusiasm

 

87. In the implementation of the curriculum at the classroom level, in effective strategies are called ―Red. Which of the following belongs to the Red Flag?

 

a.    Content applied to real-life situations

b.    Overemphasis on drill and practice

c.    Available enrichment activities

d.    Integration of problem solving

 

88. Teacher Maggie explains by spicing her lectures with examples, descriptions and stories. What is this quality in her lectures?

 

a.    Planned sequence

b.    Elaboration through elements

c.    Use of audiovisuals

d.    Simple vocabulary

 

89. Can technology take the place of the teacher in the classroom? Speleothems appropriate answer:

 

a. No. It is only an instrument or a tool

b. Yes, when they hire less teachers and acquire more computers

c. Yes. When teachers are not competent

d. Yes, such as in the case of Computer-assisted instruction (not teacher-assisted instruction)

 

90. What kind of tool is technology as evidenced by its use in word processing databases, spreadsheets, graphics design and desktop publishing?

 

a.    Analyzing tool

b.    Encoding tool

c.    Productivity tool

d.    Calculating tool

 

91. In avoiding implying sickness or suffering, which of the following is the most preferable way to refer to those with disabilities like polio?

 

a.    Is polio-stricken

b.    Had polio

c.    Polio victim

d.    Suffers from polio

 

92. If threat of punishment is necessary on erring students, how should this best be done?

 

a.    Make the threat and reinforce with warning

b.    Make the threat with immediate punishment

c.    Ward and threat at the same time

d.    First a warning before the threat

 

93. Among cognitive objectives, what is also known as an understanding and is a step higher than more knowledge of facts?

 

a.    Comprehension

b.    Analysis

c.    Synthesis

d.    Application

 

94. What is the quality of teacher Pining Garcia‘s lecture when she makes use of various pictures, charts, graphs, videos to support her lectures?

 

a.    Simplified vocabulary

b.    Enrichment through visual aids

c.     Causal and logical relationships

d.    Continuing sequence

 

95. In determining the materials and media to use, what consideration did Teacher Ina A. Mag adopt when he chose materials that can arouse and sustain in curiosity?

 

a.    Satisfaction

b.    Interest

c.    Expectancy

d.    Relevance

 

96. Which of the following is true of a democratic classroom?

 

a.    Teacher acts as firm decision maker

b.    Students decide what and how to learn

c.    Consultation and dialogue

d.    Suggestions are sent to higher officials for decisions

 

97. This is appropriate use of technology which can unite people of the world rather than exploit them?

a.    For pornography

b.    For social media

c.     For financial fraud

d.    For propaganda

 

98.  From structures in Multifunctional Cooperative Learning, which involves each student writing in turn one answer as a paper and pencil is passed around the group?

 

a.    Jigsaw

b.    Inside-outside circle

c.    Roundtable

d.    Partners

 

99. How does the ―humaneness of the teacher best described when he/she is full interest and enthusiasm in the work of teaching?

 

a.    Responsiveness

b.    Perceptiveness

c.     Knowledge

d.    Sensitivity

 

100. Teacher Lester Cruz Valdez gets more information about how his students learn in order to upgrade his pedagogy. What principle is he following?

 

a.    Teachers should keep track of learning outcomes

b.    Teachers should value information

c.     Teachers should document information data on students

d.    Teachers should teach and test learning

 

 

 

 

 

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