1. Under no circumstance shall a teacher be prejudiced nor
discriminatory against any learner according to the Code of Ethics. When is a
teacher prejudice against any learner?
a. When he makes a nearsighted pupil sit at the front
b. When he considers multiple intelligences in the choice of his
teaching strategies
c. When he makes a farsighted pupil sit at the back
d. When he refuses a pupil with a slight
physical disability in class
2. The mode of a score
distribution is 25. This means that:
a. There is no score of 25
b. Twenty five (25) is the score that occurs
most
c. Twenty five is the average of the score distribution
d. Twenty five is the score that occurs least
3. The following characterize a child-centered kindergarten except:
a. Focus on the education of the whole child
b. Importance of play in development
c. Extreme orientation on academic
d. Emphasis on individual uniqueness
4. As a classroom manager, how can you exhibit expert power on the
first day of school?
a. By citing to my students the important of good grades
b. By making my students feel my authority over them
c. By making them feel a sense of belongingness and acceptance
d. By making my students feel I know what I am
talking about
5. Which may help an
adolescent discover his identity?
a. Parents pushing in to follow a specific path
b. Relating to people
c. Decision to follow one path only
d. Exploring many different roles in a healthy
manner
6. Which terms refers to a teacher helping a colleague grow
professionally?
a. Technology transfer
b. Peer mentoring
c. Facilitating
d. Independent study
7. A mathematics test was given to all Grade V pupils to determine
the contestants for the math quiz bee. Which statistical measure should be used
to identify the top 15?
a. Percentage score
b. Mean percentage score
c. Quartile score
d. Percentile score
8. Which is the true foundation of the social order?
a. Strong, political leadership
b. The reciprocation of rights and duties
c. Equitable distribution of wealth
d. Obedient citizenry
9. The following are sound specific purposes of questions except:
a. To stimulate learners to ask questions
b. To call the attention of an inattentive
student
c. To arouse interest and curiosity
d. To teach via student answers
10. What is not a sound purpose in making questions?
a. To remind students of a procedure
b. To probe deeper after an answer is given
c. To encourage self-reflection
d. To discipline a bully in class
11. A student passes a book report written but ornately presented in a
folder to make up for the poor quality of the book content. Which Filipino
trait does this practice prove?
a. Art over science
b. Art over academic
c. Substance over porma
d. Porma over substance
12. Between pursuing a college course where there is no demand and a
vocational course which is highly in demand, the Filipino usually opts for the
college course. Which Filipino trait is shown?
a. Interest to obtain a skill
b. Penchant for a college diploma
c. Desire for entrepreneurship
d. Appreciation of manual labor
13. Which of the following does extreme authoritarianism in the home
reinforce in pupils?
a. Sense of initiative
b. Dependence on other for direction
c. Ability for self-direction
d. Creativity in work
14. Teacher Bart wants his students to master the concept of social
justice. Which series of activities will be most effective?
a. Pre-teaching > posttest > re-teaching of unlearned concept
> posttest
b. Pre-test > teaching > posttest
c. Review > pretest > teaching >
posttest
d. Teaching > posttest
15. To provide for individual differences how is curriculum designed?
a. Minimum learning competencies are included
b. Realistic and meaningful experiences are
provided
c. Some degree of flexibility is provided
d. Social skills are emphasized
16. Which types of play is most characteristic of a four- to
six-year-old child?
a. Solitary and onlooker plays
b. Associative and cooperative plays
c. Associative and onlookers plays
d. Cooperative and solitary plays
17. How can you exhibit referent power on the first day of school?
a. By making the students feel you know what you are talking about
b. By telling them the importance of good grades
c. By reminding your students your authority over them again and
again
d. By giving your students a sense of belonging
and acceptance
18. To ensure that all Filipino children are functionally literate,
which mechanism is meant to reach out to children who are far from a school?
a. A school in every barangay
b. Multi-grade classroom
c. Mobile teacher
d. Sine‘s skwela
19. Referring to the characteristics of the latest Basic Educational
Curriculum which does not belong to the group?
a. More flexible
b. Less prescriptive
c. More compartmentalized
d. More integrated
20. If student‘s inappropriate behavior is low level or mild and that
it appears that the misbehavior will not spread to others, it is sometimes best
for the teacher not to take notice of it. What influence technique is this?
a. Planned ignoring
b. Antiseptic bouncing
c. Proximity control
d. Signal interference
21. Which among the following objectives in the psychomotor domain is
highest in level?
a. To distinguish distant and close sounds
b. To contract a muscle
c. To run a 100-meter dash
d. To dance the basic steps of the waltz
22. Which material consists of instructional units that cater to
varying mental level pupils?
a. Plantilia
b. Multi-level materials
c. Multi-grade materials
d. Minimum learning competencies
23. Which statement on counseling is false?
a. For counseling to be successful, the counselee is willing to
participate in the process
b. The ultimate goal of counseling is greater
happiness on the part of the counselee
c. Counseling is the program that includes guidance
d. The school counselor is primarily responsible of counseling
24. Arianna describes Teacher Monica as ―fair, caring and approachable.‖
Which power does Teacher Monica possess?
a. Legitimate power
b. Expert power
c. Referent power
d. Reward power
25. Kounin claims ―with-it-ness‖ is
one of the characteristics of an effective classroom manager. Which among the
following is a sign of ―with-it-ness‖?
a. Giving attention to students having difficulty with school work
b. Seeing only a portion of the class but intensively
c. Knowing where instructional materials are kept
d. Aware of what‘s happening in all part of the
classroom
26. When a significantly greater number from the lower group gets a
test item correctly, this implies that the test item:
a. Is not highly reliable
b. Is not very valid
c. Is highly reliable
d. Is very valid
27. Which statement about guidance is false?
a. The classroom teacher is not part of the
school guidance program since she is not trained to be a guidance counselor
b. Guidance embraces curriculum, teaching, supervision and all other
activities in school
c. Guidance is a function of the entire school
d. A guidance program is inherent in every school
28. A teacher should not be a slave of his lesson plan. This means
that:
a. A teacher must be willing to depart from her
lesson plan if students are interested in something other than her intended
lesson
b. A lesson plan must be followed by a teacher no matter what
c. A teacher must be ready to depart from her lesson plan if she
remembers something more interesting than what she earlier planned
d. Teacher is the best lesson plan designer
29. With a death threat over her head, Teacher Donita is directed to
pass an undeserving student. What will a utilitarianist do?
a. Pass the student, why suffer the threat?
b. Pass the student. That will be of use to the
student, his parents and you
c. Don‘t pass him; live by your principle of justice. You will get
reward, if not in this life, in the next
d. Don‘t pass him. You surely will not like someone to give you a
death threat in order to pass
30. Teacher Alessandra knows of the illegal activities of a neighbor
but keeps quiet in order not to be involved in any investigation. Which
foundational principle of morality does Teacher Alessandra fail to apply?
a. Always do what is right
b. The end does not justify the means
c. The end justifies the means
d. Between two evils, do the lesser evil
31. You are very much interested in a quality professional development
program for teachers. What characteristic should you look for?
a. Prescribe by top educational teachers
b. Responsive to identified teacher‘s needs
c. Dependent on the availability of funds
d. Required for renewal of professional license
32. As a community leader, which of the following should a teacher not
do?
a. Solicit donation from philanthropists in the community
b. Support effort of the community to improve their status in life
c. Make herself aloof to ensure that her
decisions will not be influenced by the community politics
d. Play an active part in
the activities of the community
33. A teacher is said to be ―trustee of the cultural and educational
heritage of the nation and is under obligation to transmit to learners such
heritage‖.
Which practice makes the teacher fulfill such obligation?
a. Use interactive teaching strategies
b. As a class, study the life of Filipino
heroes
c. Use the latest educational technology
d. Observe continuing professional education
34. The failure of independent study with most Filipino students may be
attributed to students‘?
a. Unpreparedness for schooling
b. Ambivalence
c. High degree of independence
d. High degree of independence on authority
35. The following are characteristics of interdisciplinary teaching
except:
a. Allows learners to see connectedness between things
b. Provides learning opportunities in a real-world context
c. Eliminates boundaries between content area
d. Discussion from a single perspective
36. What does the acronym EFA imply for schools?
a. The acceptance of exclusive schools for boys and for girls
b. The stress on the superiority of formal education over that of
alternative learning system
c. Practice of inclusive education
d. The concentration on formal education system
37. The wide acceptance of ―bottom up‖
management style has influenced schools to practice which management practice?
a. Exclusion of politicians from the pool of guest speakers during
graduation exercises
b. Prescription of what ought to be done from the Center Office
c. Involvement of students, parents, teachers,
and community in school planning
d. Allowing schools to do what they think is best
38. Material development at the expense of human development points to
the need to do more in school. This is base on which pillar of learning?
a. Learning to do
b. Learning to know
c. Learning to live together
d. Learning to be
39. The specialization requires of every professional teacher for
him/her to be competent is in line with which pillar of learning?
a. Learning to know
b. Learning to be
c. Learning to live together
d. Learning to do
40. Widespread abuse of Mother Earth prompted schools to teach
sustainable development. Which one does this prove about schools?
a. The curricula of schools are centered on Mother Earth
b. Environment factors influence the school as
an agent of change
c. Schools can easily integrate sustained development in their
curriculum
d. Sustained development cannot be effectively taught in the
classroom
41. Which pillar of learning is aimed at the holistic development of
man and his complete fulfillment?
a. Learning to live together
b. Learning to be
c. Learning to know
d. Learning to do
42. A father tells his daughter ―You are a woman. You are meant for the
home and so for you, going to school is not necessary.‖ Is
the father correct?
a. It depends on the place where the daughter and the father live
b. No, there is gender equality in education
c. Yes, women are meant to be a mother only
d. No, today women can take on the jobs of men
43. Is there a legal basis for increasing the teacher‘s starting salary
to PHP18,000 a months?
a. No, it is a gift to teachers from Congress
b. Yes, R.A 7836
c. Yes, the Philippine Constitution
d. No, it is simply an act of benevolence from President GMA
44. As provided for the Educational Act of 1982, how are the
institutions of learning encouraged setting higher standards of equality over
the minimum standards required for state recognition?
a. Voluntary accreditation
b. Continuing Professional Education
c. Granting of Special Permit
d. Academic freedom
45. Despite of opposition from some school official, DepEd has
continuously enforced the ―no collection of fees‖
policy during enrolment period in public schools. In this policy in accordance
with EFA goals?
a. No, it violates the mandate of equality education
b. Yes, it somewhat eliminates gender disparities
c. Yes, it supports equitable access to basic
education
d. No, it does not support parent of adult education
46. A student complains to you about his failing grade. When you
recomputed you found out that you committed an error in his grade computation.
Your decision is not to accept the erroneous computation before the student and
so leave the failing grade as is for fear that you may lose credibility. Is
this morally right?
a. No, the reason for not accepting the error before the students is
flimsy
b. No, the end does not justify the means
c. Yes, the end justifies the means
d. Yes, as a teacher you must maintain your credibility
47. To earn units for promotion, Teacher Flora pays her fee but does
not attend class at all. Does this constitute professional growth?
a. Not immediately but yes after promotion
b. No, it is simply earning MA units for
promotion
c. It depends on the school she is enrolled in
d. Yes, just enrolling in an MA program is already professional
growth
48. Misdemeanor has a ―ripple effect.‖
This implies that as a classroom manager, a teacher:
a. reinforces positive behavior
b. responds to misbehavior promptly
c. is consistent in her classroom management practice
d. count 1 to 10 before she deals with a misbehaving student
49. The students of Teacher Yue scan an electronic encyclopedia, view a
film on subject, or look at related topics at the touch of a button right there
in the classroom. Which device/s does teacher Yue‘s class have?
a. Teaching machines
b. CD
c. Video disc
d. Videotaped lesson
50. Which is an inappropriate way to manage off-task behavior?
a. Redirect a child‘s attention to task and check his progress to
make sure he is continuing work
b. Stop your class activity to correct a child
who is no longer on task
c. Make eye contact to communicate what you wish to communicate
d. Move closer to the child to make him feel your presence
51. Teacher Hannah strives to draw participation of every student into
her classroom discussion. Which of these student needs is she trying to
address? The need to .
a. feel significant and be part of a group
b. show one‘s oral abilities to the rest of the class
c. get everything and be part of a group
d. be creative
52. Which of the following questions must be considered in evaluating
teacher-made materials?
a. In the material new?
b. Does the material simulate individualism?
c. Is the material expensive?
d. Is the material cheap?
53. Kounin claims that ―with-it-ness‖ is
one of the characteristics of an effective classroom manager. What is one sign
of ―with-it-ness‖?
a. Giving attention to students who are having difficulty with
school work
b. Aware of what‘s happening in all parts of
the classroom
c. Seeing only a portion of the class but intensively
d. Knowing where instructional materials are kept
54. Which characteristics must be primarily considered as a choice of
instructional aides?
a. Stimulate and maintain students interests
b. Suited to the lesson objectives
c. Updated and relevant to Filipino setting
d. New and skillfully made
55. You can exhibit referent power on the first day of school by _.
a. telling them the importance of good grades
b. giving your students a sense of
belongingness and acceptance
c. making them feel you know what you are talking about
d. reminding your students your authority over them again and again
56. What must Teacher Luke do to ensure orderly transitions between
activities?
a. Have the materials ready at the start of the
activity
b. Allow time for the students to socialize in between activities
c. Assign fewer exercise to fill the allotted time
d. Wait for students who lag behind
57. The task of setting up routine activities for effective classroom
management is a task that a teacher should undertake:
a. as soon as the students have adjusted to their schedules
b. on the very first day of school
c. every day at the start of the session
d. every homeroom day
58. Teacher Sandra uses the low-profile classroom control technique
most of the time.
What does this imply?
a. She is reactive in her disciplinary orientation
b. She manages pupils personalities
c. She reacts severely to a misbehaving student
d. She stops misbehaving without disrupting
lesson flow
59. If you make use of the indirect instruction method, you begin your
lesson with:
a. Guided practice
b. A review of previous day‘s work
c. Advance organizers that provide an overall
picture of the lesson
d. Independent
60. School curriculum reflects the world‘s economic and political
integration and industrialization. What does these points in curriculum
development?
a. The trend towards the classical approach to curriculum
development
b. The trend towards the globalization and localization
c. The trend towards participatory curriculum development
d. The shift in the paradigm of curriculum
development from a process-oriented to a product-oriented one
61. You choose cooperative learning as a teaching approach. What thought
is impressed on your students?
a. Interaction is a must, but not necessarily face to-face
interaction
b. Student‘s success depends on the success of
the group
c. Student‘s individuality evaluates how effectively their group
worked
d. The accountability for learning is on the group not on the
individual
62. 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 closer you are from the base, the more indirect the learning
experience becomes
d. The closer you are from the base, the more
direct the learning experience becomes
63. ―When more senses are stimulated, teaching and learning become more
effective.‖ What is an application of this principle?
a. Appeal to student‘s sense of imagination
b. Use multisensory aids
c. Make your students touch the instructional material
d. Use audiovisual aids because the eyes and the ears are the most
important senses in learning
64. Which is a classroom application of the theory of ―operant
conditioning‖?
a. Help student see the connectedness of facts, concepts, and
principles
b. Create a classroom atmosphere that elicits relaxation
c. Reinforce a good behavior to increase the
likelihood that the learner will repeat the response
d. Make students learn by operating manipulatively
65. Teacher Atilla teaches English as a Second Language. She uses
vocabulary cards, fill-in-the-blanks sentences, dialogues, and dictation and
writing exercises in teaching a lesson about grocery shopping. Based on this
information, which of the following is a valid conclusion?
a. The teacher wants to make her teaching easier by having less talk
b. The teacher emphasizing reading and writing skills
c. The teacher is applying Bloom‘s hierarchy of cognitive learning
d. The teacher is teaching in a variety of ways
because not all students learn in the same manner
66. Teacher Georgina, an experienced teacher, does daily review of past
lessons in order to:
a. introduce a new lesson
b. reflect on how she presented the previous lessons
c. provide her pupils with a sense of
continuity
d. determine who among her pupils are studying
67. I combined several subject areas in order to focus on a single
concept for interdisciplinary teaching. Which strategy did I use?
a. Reading-writing activity
b. Thematic introduction
c. Unit method
d. Problem-centered learning
68. When I teach, I often engage in brainstorming. Which do I avoid?
a. Break down barriers
b. Selectively involves pupils
c. Increase creativity
d. Generate many ideas
69. Teacher Sammy teaches a lesson in which students must recognize
that ¼ is the same as 0.25. He 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 of decimals and
relationships between fractions and decimals
b. Numeration skills
c. Place value of decimals
d. Relationship between fraction and decimals
70. What is the best way to develop math
concept?
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
71. Teacher Carlo, a Reading teacher, advised the class to read between
the lines‖.
What does she want his
pupils to do?
a. Determine what is meant by what is stated
b. Make an educated guess
c. Apply the information being read
d. Describe the characters in the story
72. To nurture students‘ creativity, which activity should a teacher
avoid?
a. Ask What if…‖ questions
b. Emphasize the need to give right answers
c. Ask divergent thinking questions
d. Be open to out-of-this-world‖
ideas
73. Teacher Rodel wants to develop his students‘ creativity. Which type
of questions will be most appropriate?
a. Synthesis questions
b. Fact questions
c. What if questions
d. Analysis questions
74. Floramay enjoyed the roller coaster when she and her family went to
Disneyland. The mere sight of a roller coaster gets her excited. Which theory
explains Floramay‘s behavior?
a. Operant conditioning
b. Pavlovian conditioning
c. Social learning theory
d. Attribution theory
75. You want your students to answer the questions at the end of a
reading lesson.
What did I learn?, What
still puzzles me?, What did I enjoy, hate and accomplish in the class today?
and How did I learn from the lesson? Which of the following are you asking them
to do?
a. Work on an assignment
b. Make journal entry
c. Work on a drill
d. Apply what they learned
76. William Glasser‘s control theory states that behavior is inspired
by what satisfies a person want at any given time. What then must a teacher do
to motivate students to learn?
a. Make schoolwork relevant to students‘ basic
human needs
b. Make teaching-leaning interactive
c. Avoid giving assignments
d. Organize a curriculum in a spiral manner
77. After reading an essay. Teacher Beatrice 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
78. Research says that mastery experiences increase confidence and
willingness to try similar or more challenging tasks as reading. What does this
imply for children‘s reading performance?
a. Children who have not mastered the basic skills are more likely
to be motivated to read in order to gain mastery over basic skills
b. Children who have mastered basic skills are more likely to be
less motivated to
read because they get fed up
with too much reading
c. Children who have gained mastery over basic
skills are more motivated to read
d. Children who have a high sense of self-confidence are not
necessarily those who can read
79. Bruner‘s theory on intellectual development moves from enactive to
iconic and symbolic stages. Applying Bruner‘s theory. How would you teach?
a. Be interactive in approach
b. Begin with the abstract
c. Begin with the concrete
d. Do direct instruction
80. A person who has painful experiences at the dentist‘s office may
become fearful at the mere sight of the dentist‘s office building. Which theory
can explain this?
a. Generalization
b. Operant Conditioning
c. Attribution theory
d. Classical conditioning
81. According to Erikson, what years are critical for the development
of self-confidence?
a. High school years
b. Elementary school years
c. College years
d. Preschool years
82. Which of the following does not describe the development of
children aged 11 to 13?
a. They exhibit increased objectivity in thinking
b. Sex difference in IQ become more evident
c. They shift from impulsivity to adaptive ability
d. They show abstract thinking and judgment
83. What does Gagne‘s hierarchy theory propose for effective
instruction?
a. Be concerned with the socio-emotional climate in the classroom
b. Sequence instruction
c. Teach beginning with the concrete
d. Reward good behavior
84. Which appropriate teaching practice flows from this research
finding on the brain: ―The brain‘s emotional center is tied into its ability to
learn.
a. Establish the discipline of being judgmental in attitude
b. Come up with highly competitive games where winners will feel
happy
c. Create a learning environment that
encourages students to explore their feeling and ideas freely
d. Tell the students to participate in class activities or else
won‘t receive plus points in class recitation
85. Research on Piagetian tasks indicates that thinking becomes more
logical and abstract as children reach the formal operation stage. What is an
educational implication of this finding?
a. Engage children in analogical reasoning as early as preschool to
train them for higher order thinking skills (HOTS)
b. Learners who are not capable of logical reasoning from ages 8
to11 lag behind in their cognitive development
c. Let children be children
d. Expect hypothetical reasoning for learners
between 12 to 15 years of age
86. Research says: People
tend to attribute their successes to internal causes and their failures to
external causes. Based on this finding, what
should be taught to students for them to be genuinely motivated to succeed?
a. Tell them the research finding when applied will make them
genuinely motivated
b. Convince them that genuine motivation is the only factor that
matters for a person to succeed
c. Make them realize that failure is a part of
life
d. Make them realize that both success and failure are more a
function of internal causes
87. Which of the following steps should be completed first in planning
an achievement test?
a. Define the instructional objective
b. Set up a table of specialization
c. Select the types of test items to use
d. Decide on the length of the test
88. The computed r for scores in Math and Science is 0.92. What does
this mean?
a. Math score is positive related to Science
score
b. The higher the Math score, the lower the Science score
c. Math score is not in any way related to Science score
d. Science score is slightly related to Math score
89. Which types of test is most appropriate if Teacher Yanny wants to
measure student‘s ability to organize thoughts and ideas?
a. Short answer type of test
b. Extended response essay
c. Modified alternative response
d. Limited response essay
90. I want to test student‘s synthesizing skills. Which has the highest
diagnostic value?
a. Multiple choice test
b. Performance test
c. Essay test
d. Completion test
91. If Teacher Betty wants to measure her students‘ ability to
discriminate, which of these is an appropriate type of test item as implied by
the direction?
a. Outline the Chapter on
The Cell.”
b. Summarize the lesson
yesterday.
c. Group the
following items according to shape.
d. State a set of principle
that can explain the following events.
92. A test item has a difficult index of 0.89 and a discrimination
index of 0.44. What should the teacher do?
a. Reject the item
b. Revise the item
c. Make it a bonus item
d. Make it a bonus item and reject it
93. A mathematician‘s test was given to all Grade V pupils to determine
the contestants for the Math Quiz Bee. Which statistical measure should be used
to identify the top 15?
a. Mean percentage score
b. Quartile Deviation
c. Percentile Rank
d. Percentage Score
94. Which can be said of Nina who obtained a score of 75 out of 100
items in a Grammar objective test?
a. She performed better than 25% of her classmates
b. She answered 75 items in the test correctly
c. Her rating is 75
d. She answered 75% of the test items correctly
95. The criterion of success in Teacher Butch‘s objective is that the
pupils must be able to spell 90% of the words correctly‖.
Student Dave and 24 others in the class spelled only 40 out of 50 words
correctly while the rest scored 45 and above. This means that Teacher Butch .
a. attained his lesson objective
b. failed to attain his lesson objective as far
as the 25 pupils are concerned
c. did not attain his lesson objective because of the pupils‘ lack
of attention
d. attained his lesson objective because of his effective spelling
drill
96. Which of these can
measure awareness of values?
a. Sociogram
b. Moral dilemmas
c. Projective techniques
d. Rating scales
97. Marking on a normative basis means that:
a. the normal distribution curve should be
followed
b. some should fall
c. some get high marks
d. the grading is based on a present criteria
98. Which process enhances the comparability of grades?
a. Using a table specifications
b. Determining the level of difficulty of the tests
c. Giving more HOTS (higher order thinking skills)
d. Constructing departmentalized exams for each
subject area.
99. If the scores of your test follow a negatively skewed score
distribution, what should you do? Find out______?
a. why your items were easy
b. why most of the scores are high
c. why most of the scores are low
d. why some pupils scored high
100. Principal Gemma is talking about grading on the curve‖ in
a faculty meeting. What does this expression refers to?
a. A student‘s mark compares his achievement to his effort
b. A student‘s grade or mark depends on how his
achievement compares with the achievement of other students in a class
c. A student‘s grade determines whether or not a student attains a
defined standard of achievement
d. A student‘s mark tells how closely he is achieving to his
potential