1.Who among the following progressivists viewed curriculum as "all the experiences in the classroom which are planned and enacted by the teacher, and also learned by the students"?
A. Marsh and Willis
B. Tyler
C. John Dewey
D. Taba
Answer: A
Rationale: Marsh and Willis
viewed curriculum as the sum of the experiences that happen inside the
classroom which are planned and implemented by the teacher.
2. Traditionalists view the curriculum as
"a body of subject or subject matter prepared by the teacher for the
student to learn." This view is synonymous to:
A. Course outline
B. Subject matter
C. Activity
D. Assignment
Answer: A
Rationale: Course of study
and syllabus are broader in content the course outline and learning tasks.
3. "The teacher is the sole authority
in his/her subject area or field of specialization.' Which philosophical
foundation of curriculum is related to this statement?
A. Essentialism
B. Constructivism
C. Idealism
D. Progressivism
Answer: A
Rationale: Educational
essentialism is an educational philosophy whose adherents believe that children
should learn the traditional basic subjects thoroughly. In this philosophical
school of thought, the aim is to instill students with the
"essentials" of academic knowledge, enacting a back-to-basics
approach.
4. Which best relates to Reconstructionism?
A. Fairness in opportunities in education
for everyone
B. Use of encyclopedia
C. Going back to the basics
D. Free choice
Answer: A
Rationale: Social
Reconstructionism is a philosophy that emphasizes the addressing of social
questions and a quest to create a better society and worldwide democracy.
Reconstructionist educators focus on a curriculum that highlights social reform
as the aim of education.
5. Bobbit and Charters view that curriculum
is
A. Learner-centered
B. Subject-centered
C. Society-centered
D. All of the above
Answer: A
Rationale: Bobbit and
Charters view that curriculum is child-centered. Both of them view that child
is the learner and the end is that the, curriculum will foster learning.
6. Which of the following refers to behaviorist
psychology?
A. Learning should be organized so
learners can experience success in the process of mastering the concept
B. Learning constitutes logical method
C. Learning is concerned with the process
D. All of the above
Answer: A
Rationale: Behavioral
psychology is a psychological foundation and states that "learning should
be organized so that students can experience success in the process of
mastering the subject matter."
7. Which of the following best relates to
social foundations of curriculum?
A. Society is dynamic
B. Society is constant
C. Society is not changing
D. Society is static
Answer: A
Rationale: This statement
relate to social foundations of curriculum: "Society as ever dynamic is a
source of very fast changes which are difficult to cope with."
8. A recommended curriculum is defined as:
A. Proposed by scholars and professional
organizations
B. This is what the teachers implement or
deliver in the schools
C. Based on curriculum that appears in
school
D. The unintended curriculum
Answer: A
Rationale: A recommended
curriculum are those that are being proposed by experts, scholars, and leaders
of professional organizations.
9. Which of the following is a characteristic
of a good curriculum?
I. The curriculum is complex
II. The curriculum is continuous
III. The curriculum provides logical order
IV. The curriculum complements with the programs
of the community
A. I, II, III
B. I, II
C. I only
D. I, II, III, and IV
Answer: D
Rationale: All of the
following options are characteristics of a good curriculum.
10. If
the teacher provides contents that will contribute to basic ideas and
principles to achieve the goal of the curriculum, this is termed as:
A. Significance
B. Interest
C. Utility
D. Ethics
Answer: A
Rationale: Significance of
the curriculum is seen when the content or subject matter will contribute to
the basic ideas, concepts, principles, and generalization to achieve the
overall aim of the curriculum.
11. When politicians, administrators, and
specialists participate in the making of curriculum, this is said to be under
which curriculum levels?
A. Experiential
B. Instructional
C. Institutional
D. Societal
Answer: D
Rationale: In societal
level, it includes participation of stakeholders (politicians, administrators,
professional specialists) in identifying goals, topics to be studied, time
frame and instructional material. Institutional level includes standards,
philosophies, lesson plans, and teaching guides. Instructional level involves
instructional strategies and materials by teachers. In experiential level,
students are now able to use and experience the curriculum that may or may not
fit the learner's abilities due to individual differences.
12. The Enhanced Basic Education Act of
2013 (K-12) is an example of which type of curriculum?
A. Spiral
B. Fused
C. Single
D. Correlated
Answer: A
Rationale: K-12 is a spiral
curriculum where concept learning depends on level of development and maturity
and experiences, It includes wide horizontal organization of scope,
integration, and knowledge. A single subject is independent in content and
time. Correlated subjects include subjects in two or more areas that related in
content and time. A fused curriculum is similar to correlated subjects but the
individual identity of each subject is lost.
13. Which of the following accurately
describes an experience-centered curriculum?
A. It involves mastery of the subject
matter
B. It is learner-centered
C. The learning is provided in a
step-by-step series
D. It does consider learners capacity for
growth
Answer: B
Rationale: An
experience-centered curriculum is a learner-centered approach that gives
emphasis on a holistic development of the learner. Interest and needs of the
learner serve as basis for selection of the subject matter. It includes
self-learning and discovery. All other options describe subject-centered
curriculum.
14. This philosophy in education focuses
on societal change required towards attaining good life today and tomorrow.
A. Essentialism
B. Perennialism
C. Reconstructionism
D. Existentialism
Answer: C
Rationale: Reconstructionism
involves that curriculum should include subjects that deal with social and
cultural crises to prepare students to become analyzers and ensure that
democratic principles are followed. It includes societal reform needed towards
experiencing the good life now and in the future. Essentialism focused on
assimilation of basic subjects. Existentialism focuses on the meaning of life
as a person's goal. Perennialism focuses on traditional approaches.
15. What is the goal of curriculum during
the pre-Spanish time?
A. To learn basic skills
B. To accept Catholicism
C. To train Filipinos the American culture
D. To promote
prosperity
Answer: A
Rationale: The goals of
curriculum during pre-Spanish era include learning basic skills like hunting
and fishing, and to teach Filipinos how to interact with foreign people.
16. If a person says to another, "You
are what you choose to be", the person is more of a/an:
A, Idealist
B. Pragmatist
C. Realist
D. Existentialist
Answer: D
Rationale: The key phrase in
the question is "you are what you choose." This pertains to the quest
for self-development perpetuated by the existentialist.
17. A principal tasked some teachers to write
instructional materials in a subject. Later on, the teachers found out that she
had the materials published under her name. Which act of the principal is
unethical?
A. She took the recognition due to her
teachers
B. She was the only recipient of the
royalty from the materials
C. She had the materials published when
they are already publishable
D. She made the teachers work on an
additional task
Answer: A
Rationale: She took the
recognition due to her teachers. The case is an act of plagiarism of sort. This
means that the real authors of the materials should be credited properly for
their work.
18. A student submitted a narrative report
which was poorly written but very well packaged to make up for the poor quality
of writing. This is an illustration of?
A. Art over science
B. Substance over form
C. Form over substance
D. Art over academics
Answer: C
Rationale: The case presents
a student who is focused on outside appearance rather than on content.
19. Who said that Tyranny is a bad form of
government?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Socrates
D. Alexander the Great
Answer: A
Rationale: Plate listed five
forms of government from best to worse: aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy,
democracy, tyranny. For Plato, tyranny is worse than democracy.
20. Based on R.A. 9155, being an administrative
manager is one of the two roles of a school head. What is the other one?
A. Instructional leader
B. Motivator
C. Facilitator of learning
D. Manager
Answer: A
Rationale: A school head is
an administrative manager and at the same time a role model (leader) for the
teachers.
21. Existentialists say that every person
is in the same predicament and has the same possibilities. What does this mean?
A. Every person must have access to
education
B. Every person must choose to go to a
university
C. Every person must go through the same
form of education
D. Every person must go to a university.
Answer: A
Rationale: Existentialism is the
development of the self. Every person who is in the same predicament must have
the same opportunities and access to the same possibilities.
22. The Basic Education Curriculum encourages
the principle of 'back-to-back." From which educational philosophy does
this spring?
A. Essentialism
B. Perennialism
C. Progressivism
D. Existentialism
Answer: A
Rationale: Essentialism
believes that children should learn the traditional basic subjects and that
these should be learned thoroughly and rigorously.
23. In Grace Goodell's Reading Skills Ladder,
which is at the very bottom and needed to move up to the sequential ladder of
reading skills?
A. Vocabulary building
B. Phonetic analysis
C. Basic sight words
D. Structural analysis
Answer: C
Rationale: Reading Skills Ladder
1. Basic sight words
2. Using phonetic analysis
3. Using structural analysis
4. Using contextual clues
5. Vocabulary building
6. Finding the main idea
7. Finding the supporting details
8. Interfering meanings, drawing
conclusions
9. Classifying and organizing facts
10. Using parts of the book
11. Using the dictionary
12. Using the encyclopedias and other
reference books
13. Borrowing library books for research
and enjoyment
14. Starting your private library
collection
15. Exposure to reading from mass media
16. Reading from the Internet
24. In Grace Goodell's Skill Ladder, which
step should come last, and only when needed?
A. Using contextual clues
B. Using parts of a book
C. Using the dictionary
D. Using phonetic analysis
Answer: C
Rationale: Grade Goodell
provided the reading skills ladder. It covers mainly reading activities as
these happen while students are in school. Among all the steps in the options,
using the dictionary should be the last resort.
25. Of comprehension or thinking
strategies, which is relating one or two items, such as nouns and verbs?
A. Basic elaboration strategies
B. Complex rehearsal strategies
C. Complex elaboration strategies
D. Affective strategies
Answer: A
Rationale: Learning
strategies can be defined as the behaviors and thought that a learner engages
in during learning and that are intended to influence the learners' encoding
process (Weinstein & Mayer, 1986). These strategies range from simple study
skills, such as underlining a main idea, to complex thought processes, such as
using analogies to relate prior knowledge to new information (Weinstein et al.,
1989). Weinstein and Mayer (1986), listed some of learning strategies into
eight major strategies. The categories are: (1) Basic Rehearsal Strategies
(such as repeating learning material), (2) Complex Rehearsal Strategies (such
as copying, underlining or shadowing learning material), (3) Basic Elaboration
Strategies (such as forming a mental image of learning material), (4) Complex
Elaboration Strategies (such as paraphrasing or summarizing learning material),
(5) Basic Organizational Strategies (such as grouping or ordering learning
material), (6) Complex Organizational Strategies (such as outlining a passage
or creating a hierarchy), (7) Comprehension Monitoring Strategies (such as
checking for comprehension failures) and (8) Affective and Motivational
Strategies (such as being alert and relaxed, to help overcome test anxiety).
26. In Grace Goodell's Reading Skills Ladder,
which of the following takes precedence?
A. Basic Sight Words
B. Reading from the Internet
C. Using phonetic analysis
D. Using contextual clues
Answer: A
Reading Skills Ladder
1. Basic sight words
2. Using phonetic analysis
3. Using structural analysis
4. Using contextual clues
5. Vocabulary building
6. Finding the main idea
7. Finding the supporting details
8. Interfering meanings, drawing
conclusions
9. Classifying and organizing facts
10. Using parts of the book
11. Using the dictionary
12. Using the encyclopedias and other
reference books
13. Borrowing library books for research
and enjoyment
14. Starting your private library
collection
15. Exposure to reading from mass media
16. Reading from the Internet
27.Which of the following is not true about
Language Acquisition among children?
A. Language acquisition device assumes
that people are born with innate ability to acquire language
B. Chomsky explains in his model that
children acquired language solely through exposure
C. LAD claims that certain linguistic
structures must already be imprinted on the child's mind at birth
D. Among those who worked on these are
Crystal and Piaget.
Answer: B
Rationale: Language
acquisition in children is said to be innate and is already imprinted on the
child's mind at birth. It is not true that is acquired solely thorough
exposure. Among language acquisition theories are Chomsky, Crystal, and Piaget.
28. This model shows reading as an active
process that depends on reader characteristics, the text, and the reading
situation.
A. Bottom-Up
B. Top-down
C. Interactive
D. Down-top
Answer: C
Rationale: The interactive
reading model recognizes the interaction of bottom- up and top-down processes
simultaneously throughout the reading process. This is also defines reading as
an active process that depends on reader characteristics, the text, and the
reading situation.
29. Which of the following is a feature of
top-down approach in reading? I. Readers can comprehend a selection even though
they do not recognize each word.
II. Readers should use meaning and
grammatical cues to identify unrecognized words.
III. Reading for meaning is the primary
objective of reading, rather than mastery of letters, letters/ sound
A. I only
B. I and 11 only
C. I and III only
D. I,II, and III
Answer: D
Rationale: The top-down
reading model emphasizes what the reader brings to the text; says reading is
driven by meaning; and proceeds from whole to part. All of these are features
of top-down approach in reading.
30. Who is the proponent of language acquisition
device?
A. Chomsky
B. Hizo
C. Taba
D. Tyler
Answer: A
Rationale: The Language
Acquisition Device (LAD) by Noam Chomsky is a hypothetical module of the human
mind posited to account for children's innate predisposition for language
acquisition. It is a component of the nativist theory of language. This theory
asserts that humans are born with the instinct or "innate facility"
for acquiring language.