Midterm Quiz Teaching Science Elem

The MATATAG agenda aims to resolve education challenges. Which of the following BEST describes its first component?

• Enhancing teachers' benefits

• Making the curriculum relevant to prepare responsible citizens

• Promoting inclusive sports programs

• Providing free internet access

The MATATAG agenda emphasizes taking care of learners by:

• Prioritizing only high-performing students

• Promoting well-being, inclusivity, and a positive learning environment

• Focusing solely on academic competition

• Removing extracurricular activities

According to Marope, Griffin, and Gallagher (2017), curricula in times of rapid change should serve as:

• Rigid content frameworks

• Lifelong learning systems with self-renewal and innovation

• Nationalistic-only subject guides

• Teacher-centered tools

The overall goal of the Grades 3-10 Science curriculum is for learners to achieve:

• Basic reading and writing

• Scientific, environmental, and technology and engineering literacy

• Fluency in foreign languages

• Mastery of memorization skills

Which of the following is NOT one of the three interrelated content strands of the Science curriculum?

• Performing scientific inquiry skills

• Understanding and applying scientific knowledge

• Memorizing facts without context

• Developing scientific attitudes and values

The curriculum framework emphasizes that Science should help learners:

• Focus only on laboratory experiments

• Engage in real-world issues using inquiry and collaboration

• Avoid social issues in learning

• Study purely theoretical content

Which learning theory emphasizes that learners construct personal understanding from experience and reflection?

• Behaviorism

• Constructivism

• Structuralism

• Essentialism

Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) refers to:

• The highest skill level a learner can reach without guidance

• The difference between what learners can do alone and with guidance

• Memorization of basic facts

• The fixed limit of learning regardless of environment

Brain-based learning theory emphasizes that teaching should:

• Focus solely on rote memorization

• Reflect how the brain learns best across developmental stages

• Limit activities to abstract concepts

• Avoid emotion in learning

According to Social Cognition Theory, learners acquire behaviors and skills primarily through:

• Punishment and reward

• Modeling and observation

• Trial and error only

• Memorization of instructions