Pre Test Chapter 2: Science Education in the Philippines

Science education focuses on teaching, learning, and understanding science.

• True

• False

The following statements are missions of SSES Project except one.

• provide a learning environment to science-inclined children through a special curriculum that recognizes the multiple intelligences of the learners

• foster the holistic development of the learners

• provides students with the learning environment that fosters upright citizenship.

• promote the development of lifelong learning skills; and

Science includes ideas, theories, and all available systematic explanations and observations about the natural and physical world.

• Science as an idea

• Science as a body of knowledge

• Science as an intellectual activity

• Science as a personal and social activity

The Balik Scientist Program was created to encourage Filipino scientists abroad to come home and work in the Philippines, and conduct research and projects with other Filipino scientists

• True

• False

The Philippine Science High School was the first science high school in the country that was established in 1963 which aims to produce scientists.

• True

• False

One of the focuses in science education is learning science, which includes pedagogical theories and models in helping teachers teach scientific concepts and processes effectively.

• True

• False

Science Education Project (SEP) was created in the 1960s to help improve Science and Mathematics teachers, textbooks, and equipment.

• True

• False

When was the Quezon City Regional Science High School established?

• September 17, 1965

• September 17, 1966

• September 17, 1967

• September 17, 1968

it is the first science high school in the Philippines

• Quezon City Regional Science High School

• Manila Science High School

• Central Visayan Institute Foundation

• Philippine Science High School System (PSHSS)

Indigenous science uses science process skills such as observing, comparing, classifying, measuring, problem solving, inferring, communicating, and predicting.

• True

• False