TCNT Diagnostic

What is the correct definition of a trend?`

• Trends are products bearing a definite price tag, touted in advertisements as “cool” or as the new “in” thing.

• Trends are new item or a practice that stabilizes and transform into a habit, lifestyle, or an enduring product.

• Trends are products that has limited design and execution and leaves no more possibility for product innovation.

• Trends are sequential pattern of change in unrecorded data

What do you call a product that became popular in recent and not-so-recent memory and has a short lifespan?

• Megatrend

• Trend

• Trend Projection

• Fad

What is a fad?

• Fads are products bearing a definite price tag, touted in advertisements as “cool” or as the new “in” thing.

• Fads are new item or a practice that stabilizes and transform into a habit, lifestyle, or an enduring product.

• Fads find practical ways to solve social issues and improve well-being.

• Fads are sequential pattern of change in unrecorded data.

What are the small forces that can stir big changes in communities, institutions, and societies around the world; and are usually emergent and unexpected to shape before us?

• Megatrends

• Microtrends

• Fads

• Ideas

What is a trend in a global scale that continues to shape and transform our economic, political, social and cultural lives?

• Megatrends

• Microtrends

• Fads

• Ideas

Chad and Marlon interact as colleagues in the school, friends on the weekend, and teammates in the school’s basketball team. What is their value of complexity?

• Low Tie Value

• Moderate tie value

• High Tie Value

• Average tie value

What do you call a set of units manifesting certain ties or relationships that exist and operate beyond territorial borders of a particular country?

• Interpersonal Global Networks

• Global Networks

• Advocacy Networks

• Technical Global Networks

Which among the following is a form of global network adopted from telecommunication systems that utilize a variety of satellite, cable, and wireless technologies?

• Interpersonal Global Networks

• Global Networks

• Advocacy Networks

• Technical Global Networks

It refers to the policies of the government to transfer government-owned corporations and sell them to the control of the private sector.

• Privatization

• Deregulation

• Liberalization

Read the statements carefully. Classify the following trends as MICROTRENDS or MEGATRENDS.

The growing number of international students presents a challenge for administrators and educators and educators in terms of their preparation to live and work in a globalizing world.

• Megatrend

• Microtrend