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WorksheetsProfessional Education – Set D (Worksheet Questions)
Total questions: 150
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
Kristen, an education student, was asked by Prof. Santos to describe accurately education. Which of the following statement will Kristen most likely choose?
A process of individual growth and social development
Growth resulting from academic study
Acquired basically through the teacher
Synonymous to formal schooling
Miss Bernales has been rated a very effective teacher. Which intellectual trait does Miss Bernales manifest?
Well groomed
Tolerance
Widely read
Intellectual honest
Miss Morgado is a newly appointed teacher. The principal handed a copy of the Teacher's Code of Ethics. Which could have been the motive of the principal?
Acquaint her with principles of moral behavior, conduct and relationship in the practice of profession
Make her aware of the principles and rules prescribed under the authority of the state
Familiarize her with the generally accepted customs of right living in a society
Provides her a set of rules and regulation to observe in school
As a pioneer in the world ideas, what would be the teacher’s task?
Establishing instructional goals
Establishing standards of behavior
Leading children to acquire about his environment
Articulating social, political and economic traditions
Mr. Alferez is a newly appointed teacher. The principal advised him to avoid any conduct which discredit the teaching profession. Which conduct should he avoid?
Writing anonymous letters
Revealing confidential information to authorities concerned
Assigning underserved grades
Joining social drinking and gambling session
Education is a functional part of society. All except one are statements of social values of education. Which one is not?
Education refines human sentiments and feelings
Education orders and humanizes economic life
Education promotes wholesome family life
Education furthers community health
A teacher was found to be giving high grades to pupils who attend her church and low grades to those who are not. What human right is she violating?
Right to life
Right to work
Right to worship
Right of expression
Ms. Manaytay is badly in need of money. A rich parent of her pupil has offered; however, the pupil is a candidate for failure. What could be the best action for Ms. Manaytay to take?
Refuse politely the offer and inform parents concerned that teachers are not allowed to receive money or favors from parents
Accept the money on condition that the parent promise to keep everything confidential
Accept the money but make it clear that this is not a condition for passing his child
Refuse the money and report the parent to the principal and to the PTA board
The school principal came to see and ask Mrs. Cruz if he can observe her class. Mrs. Cruz has not informed her pupils of the coming visitor. What should she do?
Sidetrack the principal when he visits by discussing problems with pupils and parents
Tell the principal that the children have not been informed and to come some other time
Ask the principal to give you enough time to prepare for his visit
Teach the class and continue with what has been planned
You have been promised the next promotion but you strongly feel that your closest friend who was considered for promotion is less qualified than you. You would like to complain but you do not want your best friend to know it. What would you do?
Convince your friend not to accept the new position
Accept the arrangement anyway you are next in rank
Talk the principal and tell him/her how you feel about the matter
Discuss the problem directly with the principal and let him suggest a solution
You observed that your principal is playing favorites. Some of your co-teachers can go home ahead of official time and can even choose the best schedule. What would be your appropriate reaction to this situation?
Try to win your principal and ask to be given the same privilege next time
Give warning to the principal’s favorites that they’d rather be careful about their behavior
Follow strictly your official time, do not be influenced by your co-teacher’s behavior
Report both your principal’s behavior and your co-teachers’ violation of official time to your supervisor
Such psychological characteristics as the helplessness of nursery kids, the inborn curiosity of the primary school pupils, the social consciousness of high school students and the practical purpose of college students establish that:
the individual has certain characteristics of each level of development that makes him educable
Education is a basic need of the individual at every level of development
Education is psychologically based
Education is adjustment and adaptation
Intelligence plays a significant role in learning. Which statement is untrue?
The higher the intelligence, the greater the ability to earn
Education is a basic need of the individual at every level of development
Education is psychologically based
Education is adjustment and adaptation
Ms. Pulido, a Grade One teacher, has observed that her pupils respond actively to various class activities. Why are her pupils teachable?
Their economic competence makes him receptive to education
Their independent makes them more obedient
They are more open to experience
Any of three is correct
As a teacher you enjoy certain rights which have corresponding responsibility. Which situation reflects balance of rights and authority?
Allow your husband a once a week completely free night out with his own friends
Ask your husband to give you once a week, a similar completely free night out with friends
Insist on going together on your once a week free night out
Refuse your husband request for a once a week night out
Which of the following is less evil? A teacher had to collect money from parents to defray expenses of an elaborate Graduation Program
Request rich parents to start the collection and serve as model for the poor parents
Teach children to find means and ways to get the amount money needed
Ask children to deposit half of their money for recess to the teacher
Present a simple program to cut down on expenses
Your colleague has become a habitual borrower of money. How can you help her?
Request him to pay interest for money borrowed
Tell her to regularly bet in the lotto
Recommend your rich friend to her
Do not lend him anymore
In education as agent of modernization the curriculum tends to focus on well defined orientation. Which described best the curriculum in this sociological views?
future oriented
past oriented
present oriented
tradition oriented
Miss Teves who is firm believer of education as cultural transmission is equally interested in the following except one. Which is not a concern of education as cultural transmission?
current social issues
intentions or objectives
changes in the learners behavior
manner of making the learner functions
Mr. de Jesus, a teacher in araling Panlipunan, strongly believes in education as agent of social and cultural change. What would be the emphasis of his lessons?
current social issues and problems of the student’s own community
social life of the “past” and the “far away”
political history of the “great” countries
The function of schooling is determined largely by the generally accepted social conception of education. What is the function of the school curriculum in a school that regards education as cultural transmission?
To serve as a unifying element among social classes
To serve a boundary-breaking between social classes
To serve as an instrument to remove social status stratification
To serve as a boundary maintaining structure between social classes
Education and culture tend to be cyclical. Which of the following clearly explains this statement?
Culture is influenced by the school and the school is shaped by the school
Culture influences the school function as change agent
Culture is primarily transmitted by the school
Culture is learned basically from the school
Mr. delos Reyes views his students as unique and responsible individuals. He plans activities and structures his teaching in such a manner that his students can develop his uniqueness. Which theory does he uphold?
Perennialism
Realism
Existialism
Essentialism
Ms. de Guzman is a firm believer of Rousseau theory that education should be according to nature. To be in accord with nature, which of the following will Ms. De Guzman do?
Treat the child as little adults
Treat the child as a “noble savage”
Treat the child as though he was little adult
Treat the child according to he laws of growth and development
Ms. Pumaren is a pragmatic teacher. Which of the following ideas will she reject?
that knowledge is produced by a transaction between man and his environment
the values must alter as cultures and societies must change
that the mind is passive and receptive
that what works best is true
John Dewey regarded education as a continuous process of experiencing and recognizing experience. Which statement explains best his ideas?
Education takes place in school
Education goes on throughout life
Education continues anywhere, anytime
Education takes place formally with the teacher
The Philippine New Elementary School Curriculum (NSEC) gives greater emphasis on the development of basic skills especially the 3 R’s. What is the philosophical basis for this?
essentialism
Existentialism
Progressivism
Reconstructionism
Values Education is an additional subject in the Philippine New Secondary Curriculum. Which educational philosophy justifies this change in the curriculum?
Humanism
Existentialism
Reconstructionism
Progressivism
The establishment of special classes for the deaf-mute and the blind in various schools in the system is in consonance with education as:
formal discipline
the study of humanities
social reconstruction
scientifically determined process
The early Filipinos learned the rudiments of domestic work from their parents. Which method was used?
Trial and error method
Indoctrination
Tell me/show me method
Experimental method
In the recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on nonformal education. What is the major concern of nonformal education in the Philippine context?
Acquisition of appropriate vocational and technical skills
Dislike of white collar jobs
Eradication of illiteracy
Love of arts in all forms
The Philippine Education Act of 1982 defines the areas of concern of the three levels of the educational system. Which is the mission of elementary education?
An enlightened, disciplined, creative and productive citizen
Modern and up-to-date methods and materials
An effective and efficient teacher
Relevant and quality curriculum
Which of the following is the value thrust of the New Elementary Education?
Pursuit of higher intellectual and moral values
extension and deepening of social concerns
Development of a sense of nationhood
Preservation of democratic values
Socrates: Idealism: ________: Pragmatism
Plato
Confucius
Dewey
Locke
Rochelle brings all her books to school because she wants to please the teacher and get good grades. To which of the following levels of morality according to Kohlberg does she belong?
Conventional
Preconventional
Postconventional
Either preconventional or conventional
Following Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development, Mrs. de Leon provides her students varied activities that enable them to classify objects according to more than one variable, rank order items in logical series and understand that amounts of mass or liquid do not change because their shape does. The development tasks can be expected to be performed by
elementary school children
high school students
college students
preschoolers
The nature-nurture controversy gave rise to conflicting theories of human development. Mrs. Gloria, a grade school teacher, however believes that both heredity and environment interact to facilitate the total development of her pupils. Therefore, Mrs. Gloria is likely to support which of the following statements?
Intelligence is entirely hereditable
intelligence is a function of 50% heredity and 50% environment
Intelligence is more influenced by environmental than hereditary factors
Intelligence can be improved by exposing a child to a stimulating environment
Ms. Lagdameo a high school teacher, is aware of the fact that puberty brings new feelings about the self, as well as new attitudes in other people who relate to the maturing child adolescent. How may she best help her high school students develop positive attitudes towards self and others?
Orient them on the typical characteristics of adolescents
Ask them to write their own perceptions of themselves and others
Encourage a seminar on personality development among adolescents
Organize a seminar on personally development among adolescents
Allysa does not do anything in class. She will only complete a task if you sit with her and continually tells her that what she is doing is correct. During her free time she sits at her desk staring into space. If you ask her what she’d like to do she just smiles sweetly and shakes her head negatively. How would you describe Allysa’s behavior?
passive-antagonistic
passive-dependent
indifferent-shy
proud-aggressive
Mrs. Rubio, a kinder teacher, observed that the pre school children have generally short attention and interest span. What kind of class activities should she select for them?
long but interesting
both easy and difficult
challenging and interesting
short, varied and interesting
Mrs. Ledesma is observing Patrick frequently misbehaving every time the class is in session. She believes that every behavior of an individual has its underlying causes. Therefore, what would be her initial reaction towards Patrick’s misbehavior?
find out why he misbehaves
report him to the principal
talk with his parents
reprimand him
In mathematics the teacher believes that how students learn may be more important than what they learn. From this principle which of the following is particularly important?
Knowing how to solve problems
Understanding the concepts underlying mathematical processes
Knowing the facts and principles of mathematics
Learning the mathematical procedures
In the class of Mrs. Riza some children are usually more active than others, as in other class. Extremely high levels of activity or hyperactivity are sometimes considered problematic. How may she help a child who is hyperactive?
Give him challenging activities that are appropriate to his ability level and interests
Allow him to spend longer time at the playground until he gets tired
Make him the leader of the class
Transfer him to another class
Richard and Raymund are identical twins. Should Mrs. Legaspi, their teacher, put them in one class?
No, they should be given a chance to develop their own identity
Yes, the teacher can handle both of them in one class anyway
Yes, they have to be together to lend support to each other
No, competition would be a problem
Grace usually used the correct plural form of “loaves” and later used the plural but incorrect form “loafs”. Which best account for learning?
Rule theory
Reception theory
Discovery learning theory
Conditioning theory
Mrs. Lopez is starting a new unit “Matter and Energy”. She starts off with an advance organizer. Which principle does Mrs. Lopez apply?
Assist students to identify meaningful relationships
Organize material into appropriate learning units
Provide for correct responding on the first trial
Arrange for appropriate practice
Mrs. Martinez asked her pupils to use the Atlas in correcting their answers to test in geography. Which teaching principle is exemplified by such teacher’s action?
Organize material into appropriate learning units
Provide for correct corresponding on the first trial
Encourage for independent evaluation
Arrange for appropriate practice
Mrs. Zobel, a home economics teacher, constantly gives verbal guidance to her pupils while practicing a sewing skill. What is the value of giving verbal guidance in improving pupils learning behavior?
Directs pupils attention to more adequate and better techniques and those already acquired
Promote growth of interest of pupils into the learning tasks
Improves the informational feedback
Facilitates perfection skills
As part of their guitar lesson, Mrs. Araneta the guitar teacher, scheduled the young beginners to play for 30 minutes daily three times per week. In terms of psychomotor learning, Mrs. Araneta’s action illustrates
Skill perfecting
Skilled performance
Distributed practice
Mass practice
Mrs. Ayala has observed that several of her pupils do not show respect for school authorities. Which of the following would best help her?
Use more rewards initially with the pupils who have shown respect for authorities for the first time
Maintain the same level of rewards for all pupils who have shown respect for authorities
Hold rewards until everyone in her class manifest respect for authorities
Vary levels of reward for those who have shown respect for authorities
It is important for Sharmaine to study to pass her subjects. If she fails she cannot take the regular loads next semester. Which of the following concepts of motivation best describes the situation?
Motivation is a number of ideas that directs an individual
Motivation is the desire to approach some things
Motivation is a statement of desires and goals
Motivation is likes and dislikes
Angelie is learning to change fraction to percentage. Every time she answers correctly the practice exercise, his teacher gives her a peso. In this situation which of the above is the operant
Peso
Angelie
The practice exercises
The act of changing fraction to percentage
Marielle differentiates between bungalow, nipa hut, a wooden 2 storey structure and apartment and treat them as house. Marielle now has attained a concept of house at the
Formal level
Classificatory level
Identity level
Concrete level
Mrs. Valdez provided a reading material of varying levels of difficulty to the three groups of learners. Which principles is implemented by her action?
Utilize individual’s need to achieve
Help each student attain goals
Provide informative feedback
Focus students attention
Mrs. Livara is a teacher of Freshman English. Which development sequence in language development should she follow?
Discriminates colors, discriminates objects, discriminates words
Discriminates objects, discriminates colors, discriminates words
Discriminates words, discriminates objects, produce speech
Discriminates objects, discriminates words, produce speech
Mrs. Vidanes wants to eliminate Bryan’s behavior of shouting answers without being called. Which is the initial action for the teacher to take?
Reward Bryan whenever he demonstrates acceptable behavior
Find out what reinforces Bryan’s behavior
Yell at Bryan whenever he shouts answer
Assess Bryan’s level of achievement
Michael has been caught cheating in the examination several times. As always he would give her a very repentant, “I’m sorry, give me another chance” What makes “I’m sorry, give me another chance” appealing for fair minded teacher?
It make students acknowledge wrong doing and promise to do something about it
It provokes a battle giving the teacher greater fire power
It places a premium on being liked and disliked
It makes teacher feel helpless and guilty
Mrs. Balagtas, a science teacher, is developing the concept of evaporation. Which of the following tasks would not help her students to develop such concept?
Presents the concepts successively rather than simultaneously
Present adequate examples and nonexamples of the concept
Present concepts of high than of high than low dominance
Establish the limits of the concept
In handling the communication of displeasure, Mrs. Santos always writes down what happened and what she wants to happen. When would be the best time to do this?
After cooling down period
Before the situation cools off
Anytime the teacher is in the mood to do it
Immediately after occurrence of displeasing behavior
Dianne’s fear of the doctor most likely can be overcome though
Counter conditioning
Instrumental learning
Generalized reinforcement
Spontaneous recovery
Teachers may tend to regard affective development as secondary or supplementary to a significant tasks. Which of the following indicates such view?
Understanding the causes of pupil’s behavior
Assisting students to overcome negative behaviors
Getting samples of activities that are exciting to learners
Understanding how he/she reacts to varying pupil’s behavior
Kaye fainted during the first object of the morning session. When asked, she reported that she did not have any breakfast. What psychological principle explains the situation?
Self-actualization need principle
Psychological need principle
Physiological need principle
Safety need principle
Which of the following principles of motivation is applied by a teacher who uses specific comments such as “Excellent”, keep it up!, “Try o do still better!” “You can do it” and “You can raise this grade?”
acquiring information concerning appropriate behaviors is associated with better performance
Attending to a learning task is essential in initiating a learning sequence
Setting goals require learning tasks at an appropriate difficulty level
Intending to achieve success is essential to realistic goal setting
When a teacher specifies an objective in her lesson plan, he is motivating through
commitment
goal setting
conceptual cluster
reasoning
Patricia’s parents were killed by the Japanese during the war. Which would be least effective in changing her strongly biased attitude towards the Japanese?
Using group techniques
Providing informative experience
Using counter-conditioning techniques
Providing for pleasant emotional experience
When a Physical Education teacher lists the specific skills the student should be able to demonstrate at the end of a semester, he is
engaging in skill analysis
establishing prerequisites
specifying instructional objectives
communicating the courses content
In providing for the needs of her children who among the following pupils will Mrs. Abad most likely overlook?
Jerome, a slow learner
Shaina, a frequent absentee
Stephanie, a timid quiet girl
Janelle, an impoverished child
To make of the consequences of having a big family, the Araling Panlipunan teacher asked her students to present some situations common in the home of big and small families by group. She gave the students ten minutes to think and organize before they act out the situations, What technique is used by the teacher?
Socio-drama
Pageant
Role playing
Dramatization
Every teacher has develop varied mental processes and skills among students. Which mental process is being emphasized when it tries to develop among them the skill of remembering words or ideas in a definite order, such reciting rhymes and poems, or singing a song from memory?
analytical thinking
rote association
reflective thinking
logical sequencing
Mrs. Varela asked her Grade VI children to narrate some experiences during the recent earthquake before she tackles how earthquakes develops. What process is this?
Apperception
Evaluation
Application
Motivation
Miss Palmery, an English teacher, taught her children how to make use of the dictionary. She tried to illustrate how to use this, because she knows they can apply dictionary skills in all subjects. What type of lesson is being illustrated by Miss Palmier y?
Examination
Review
Supervised-study
Appreciation
The science teacher gave a test before a unit was taken up. The purpose in administering the test was find out the weaknesses and strengths of the class with regards to the unit. What type of lesson is being illustrated by Miss Palmier y?
Standardized
Diagnostic
Summative
Formative
Ms. Morales started her lesson with the statement of generalization. Then she asked her pupils to undertake activities to prove the correctness of the generalization before letting her pupils give specific examples or cases. What method did she use/
Discovery
Problem solving
Deductive
Inductive
Ms. Palma always motivates her lesson by singing songs, reciting rhymes and poems and playing games related with the new lesson. Then she solicits information from the class by letting them cite own experiences. This is apperception. In what part of the plan do motivation and apperception fall?
Application
Evaluation
Development
Preparation
All these objectives are general, which one is specific?
To describe the process of evaporation and condensation
To understand the plot development in scene 1 & 2
To acquire proficiency in typewriting
To develop a lasting love for poetry
To prove the truth of the concept “Air has weight”, Mr. Roman grouped his children into four groups. He gave each group a ser of materials to perform some experiments which will verify the correctness and wrongness of the concept. The groups were also given activity cards where he procedures from the experiments are indicated. So al the groups performed the experiments, after which they filled up a chart to show the result of such activities. This is an illustration of
demonstration method
Laboratory method
Process approach
Discovery approach
When Elizabeth looked at her textbook it says that the population of the Philippines is 74,000,000. When she looked up the world alamanac its 65,000,000, when she referred to the reference books of her sister she found another data? What does this try to show?
The textbook serves as a reliable and accurate source of data
The textbook should not be regarded as infallible
The textbook gives the most accurate data
The textbook data are changeable
In what teaching situation can an experiment turn to be a demonstration lesson?
When few children perform the experiment in front while others observe
when children set-up a control to test the variable being tested
when children gather data before formulating conclusions
when children perform the experiment by themselves
Ms. Manalo lacks materials and equipment for several groups to perform an experiment. What alternative method may she use?
Project
Laboratory
Experimentation
Demonstration
In her Art class, Miss de Leon allows her students to draw and paint using varied media. She invites every student to present their finish composition and talk about them. What principle of method is illustrated by the teacher’s action?
Method liberates the earners
Method stimulates thinking and reasoning
Method provides for individual differences
Method provides for growth and development
The lesson that the teacher intends to take up this coming week are the lives of great men, significance of some innovations, and emulating the good characters the good characters found in stories and movies. What type of lesson will be best for these topics?
Development lesson
Appreciation lesson
Supervised study lesson
Application lesson
Panel discussion has its place in almost all objects. Which lesson is most appropriate for panel discussion?
Structure of atom
Occurrence of tides
Preparing balance diets
Prons and cons in using antibiotics
In inquiry, the teacher asks opening questions to invite responses from children which require great range of cognitive skills. Which opening is most fitted for inquiry lesson?
What is the name of the movable part of an airplane wing?
How many legs does a grasshopper have?
Why do birds fly south in the winter?
Which planet is closest to the sun?
Mrs. Lacson is excited about trying out cooperative learning. Which should be her primary consideration?
At least 10 members in a group
Homogenously grouped
Interdependence of students in performing learning should be stressed
Permanet roles for everyone in the group activity
successfully implement cooperative learning approaches?
Identify academic and social objectives
determine group size and membership
Establish positive interdependence
Arrange the learning environment
Ms. Sagmit has shifted from a very traditional to contemporary notion of an experiential learning in her teaching. She always finds means and ways by which students learn with and from each other by attempting to identify, and then implement solutions to their problems and opportunities. what kind of learning is emphasized by Ms. Sagmit?
action learning
self learning
group learning
personal learning
Problem-based learning has been conceptualized in various ways. What is the first essence of this procedure?
Implement solution
Start with a problem
Generate possible solution
Explore the problem
Mrs. Aparejado a teacher in Values Education, focuses her activities on effective learning. She employs experiential methods, centered around group discussion, or peer work/co-counseling, guiding imaging, narrative exercises, diaries and autobiographies. What type of experience is prioritized by these experiential strategies?
Non traditional learning
social change
personal development
problem-based learning
In Mrs. Pangilinan’s lesson plan one of the objectives is “Described the water cycle form a given diagram”. this objective
States the condition for the performance behavior
describes observable performance behavior
follows all the criteria of a useful objective
describes learner performance
In the partner learning approach it is necessary that effective instructions and effective interpersonal skills are acquired. Who has or needs to acquire these skills?
tutees
tutor
teacher
all of these
Migs Zulieta upholds that the needs and interest of the learner should be the basis of his educational program. Which is more likely to be the strongly reflected in Miss Zulieta’s plan?
Objectives that are focused on social judgment
Objectives that are activity centered
Objectives that are social nutrition
objectives that are child centered
When effective planning allows for revision, adaptation of preselected methodologies, activities, materials and evaluation instrument to meet student needs, the teacher considers
success
flexibility
congruence
motivation
In any planning process, which variable will stongly affect the teacher’s action
content
students
teacher
materials
In which of the following instructional events in the lesson–plan the principle of variety would be most important?
Providing feedback
Assessing the behavior
Eliciting the desired behavior
Presenting the stimulus material
Ms. Campos, a newly appointed teacher, was assigned to teach science in the intermediate grades for which she has very little background. As a result, she has been experiencing considerable anxiety both because she is new and because she lacks confidence in the subject where she was assigned. After spending considerable time in planning she discovered that the use of transparencies will keep the floe of her discussion going. What planning function manifests itself in this teaching situation?
Planning personalizes the curriculum
Planning reduces expenditures of time and effort
Planning serves as means or organizing instruction
Planning considers the relevance and congruence of contents with objectives
Long before the start of every school year, Mrs. Solis has already started developing her own comprehensive plan based on the recommended curriculum. Which explains best Mrs. Solis action in relation to the curriculum?
Planning “Screened” possible differences between the curriculum plan and the implementation process
Planning reduces possibilities of getting out of the planned curriculum
Planning is entirely dependent on the approved curriculum
Planning personalizes the curriculum making it her own
A part of Miss Medina’s planning in Consumers Mathematics is displaying can if diet softdrink, box of milk, one pound package of spaghetti, and box of cereal for the unit in ratio, proportion and percentage. What could be the teacher’s purpose for this particular planning task in science?
Gain attention
Present stimulus material
Elicit desired behavior
Stimulate recall of prerequisite
Miss Tengco taped one of the “Sesame Street” series and showed this to class. Which of the following generalization under which the utilization of “Sesame Street” as an instructional materials was developed/
Children learn by observing and imitating
Instruction should be reduced to entertainment
The TV teacher is accepted by younger children
Indirect method should be used to teach cognitive skills
During her planning, Mrs. Geronimo always provides for he development of all essential knowledge and understanding, intellectual, manipulative skills and attitudes. What principle is reflected in her action?
Principle of organization
Principle of unity
Principle of balance
Principle of need oriented
Mr. Fernando, a Geography teacher, integrates the learning activities and materials with real life. In line with the principle of expanding environment her context should start with
projection into the future
adventures into outer space
local situations and community
lands and people beyond Philippine shores
When Ms. Narvaez selects activist and materials for her Social Studies lessons that stimulate curiosity and satisfy the need to know, which criterion is meet?
Criterion of organization
Criterion of authenticity
criterion of appropriateness
Criterion of interest
The Grade 6 Science teachers are engaged in panning the units for Science. Which of the following activities will not be engaged in by the group of teachers?
rearranging or adding lesson content to provide task-relevant prior knowledge
translating unit outcomes/objectives into specific lesson objective
classifying unit outcome/objectives at a higher level of behavior
breaking the lesson contents into chunks
Miss Tantengco is teaching a lesson on “sounds”. Assuming that no task-relevant prior knowledge is required, what should be the starting point of her lesson?
comprehension of principles
knowledge of principle
comprehension of concepts
knowledge of concepts
What is the primary reason why teacher should take a system perspective?
Lessons prepared will always be a part of something greater
Lesson plan is composed of interrelated parts of a system
Lesson plan is a part of the total school system
Lesson planning is a systematic process
Ms. Valenciano is using questions to initiate earning. Which of the following questions focus learner’s attention or a given topic or issue?
Will you read your assignment?
Mike is transferring to another school
When do energy requirement decrease?
What do you think will happen if I combine this two chemical?
In which of the following situations does a teacher formulate low level questions?
when learners need to analyze a situation
when he wants learner to draw inferences
when he wants to recall information
when he wants to use divergent thinking
During a cooking demonstration lesson, Mrs. Cojuangco asked this question: “Why don’t you pare the apple?” What does this question express?
A directive without implicit questions
Expresses command with implicit question
A command with an interrogative operation
Sounds like a question with an implicit command
Everytime Ms. Montalban introduces a unit in Social Studies she always prepares five or six pivotal questions. What is the function of these questions in the whole instructional process?
Allows for deliberation
Fosters an active audience
Gives the lesson unit and coherence
Encourages students to think about the question
Which of the following high level questions ask the learner to understand certain stimuli before making any interpretation?
What connection does the chart show between the number of accidents and the frequency of holidays?
Describe in your words the scene which greeted the main character on his arrival airport
What are the three situations in which other questions would be appropriate?
Ms. Abelardo has been having discipline and management problems in her English class. What question tip may sustain the students’ attention?
Ask questions that contribute to continuous learning
Ask questioning that are memory testing
Ask questions that are stimulating
Ask questions that are sequential
Miss Reyes is using questions for instructional purposes. What characterizes best instructional questioning?
generally divergent
generally convergent
designed to elicit information from students
intended to get feedback on students learning
At the start of the school year, Ms. Orindo attends first to matters pertinent to management task. What could have been her primary goal?
Increase the proportion of classroom time to constructive and productive activities
Increase the pupils’ interest in her daily instructional activities
Increase the effectiveness of her teaching strategies
Increase the quality of her teaching performance
Every morning it is routinely for Miss Canlas to arrange pupils’ chairs and tables appropriate for the lesson for today, check the safety of the room and materials and other similar activities that will promote an orderly and safety environment. She is exemplifying
content management
conduct management
context management
combination of A, B, C
How can Mrs. Nolasco best handle the routine of attendance taking upon entering the room?
Ask students to write their names on slips of paper and drop them in an “Attendance Box”
ask students to turn their names from a pocket chart placed inside the room
ask a monitor to check and record orally the attendance by rows and tablets
call the roll as fast as possible before starting the day’s lesson
Whenever Ms. Sanchez gives statements such as, Do you think you can do that again? and Can you try as hard tomorrow?, she is rendering:
Feedback progress
consequential reward
motivated challenge
praise statement
Mrs. Medina, a Grade VI teacher, is faced with problem of gender bias in assigning work task. Every time she would request for volunteers she would receive remarks such as “those are boy’s task or girl’s task.” A boy never got to dust the desk because dusting is a girl’s task or a girl did not empty the waste can because that was reserved for boys. Those gender-biased stereotypes simply no longer exists even in the curriculum of the elementary schools. Which is the key criterion that should guide Mrs. Medina to avoid gender bias in assigning work task?
Ability of the individual whether male or female to complete the task
No criterion is needed; both boys and girls can be assigned any task
Alternated opposite gender task assignment
Intellectual and physical demands of task
For quite sometime, Liezl habitually says “no” to work assigned to her by the teacher. Which of the following is a questionable technique in handling Liezl who refuses school work?
Focus on situations where the pupil shows an interest
Treat all pupils who refuse to any work equally
Reduce criteria for the correctness of a task
Immediately confront the pupil concerned
Mrs. Pabalan wanted to establish control on the very first day. Which action is imperative for her to take?
Give only compliments and no scolding or correcting pupils
Establish yourself immediately as the supreme commander
Give a long assignment to command respect
Be in room when the pupils arrive
It has been a routine for Ms. De Belen the first fifteen minutes collecting materials from students. What is the primary reason why this practice should not be established?
Students have the habit of packing up their things and shutting down their minds at the beginning of the class
Low profile form of control minimizes teacher’s visibility
Low profile form of control directs attention of the class to target pupils
Low profile form of control has low probability of its distracting other members of the class
Miss Rivera is busy developing a cluster of concepts on matter. She notices Dave busily making several paper airplanes. Which of the following is the best way of handling Dave’s misbehavior?
Continue teaching but make your way to Dave. Without a word place a ready note card “It seems you are disturbing the class. Please stop right now. return card after class.”
Stop the lesson. Tell the class to look at Dave and observe what he is doing. Let them comment on what they observe
Call Dave to bring all the paper airplanes and ask him to discuss the importance of airplanes in the modern age
Ask difficult questions and call Dave to answer them in succession
Mrs. Estrada prefers to use low profile classroom control like eye contact and hand gesture to high profile form like, “Stop walking around, settle down and get to work.” Which of the following justifies Mrs. Estrada’s action?
Low profile form of control is simple and time saving
Low profile form of control minimizes teacher’s visibility
Low profile form of control directs attention of the class to target pupils
Low profile form of control has low probability of its distracting other members of the class
Mrs. Cortez is bothered by many pupils who are off tasks during her demonstration of a science process. Which of the following intervention is most effective?
Eye contact
Touch/Gesture consistently
Asking an answer
Questioning
Mrs. Santillan has caught several students peeking at their notebook during an examination. What should be the initial action on her part?
Confirm the dishonesty and send the pupils caught cheating to the principal’s office
Call class attention to the cheating committed by pupils
Announce disapproval of the pupils’ behavior
Take the pleasure of the pupils
Pauline in spite of her I.Q., has been getting low grades and performing poorly in almost all the academic subjects. Her father went to see her teacher. What is the best way to manage the situation?
Tell Pauline’s father a solution by which she can be helped to improve her performance
Tell Pauline’s father that he should not complain because you computed her grades objectively
At the end of the periodical examination, Mrs. Gonzales administered a summative test in Filipino. After scoring the test papers she assigned grades to each test score such as 95, 90, 85, etc. What process did Mrs. Gonzales use?
Ranking
Measurement
Computation
Evaluation
Which measure of central tendency is usually affected by extreme scores?
Mode
Mean
Median
Quartile
The graduating students need information regarding future occupation where they will most likely succeed. What kind of test will the guidance counselor administer?
Survey test
Achievement test
Aptitude test
Attitude test
In Sta. Teresita Barangay High School, majority of the students who got very high scores in the entrance examination got very low grade point averages at the end of the year. What type of validity does the examination lack?
Content
Predictive
Construct
Concurrent
Which will you least use as measure of central tendency?
Median
Mean
Mode
Arithmetic Mean
In terms of given difficulty and discrimination indices, which item should be rejected?
Difficulty index .21 and discrimination index .24
Difficulty index .25 and discrimination index .30
Difficulty index .70 and discrimination index .65
Difficulty index .16 and discrimination index .15
Janice in Grade VI has a percentile rank of 90 in an achievement test in language. This means that ______
The score Janice obtained was as high as the scores made by 90% of the pupils to whom the test was given
Eighty-nine pupils obtained scores lower than what Janice obtained
90 percent of the sixth graders obtained scores higher than Janice
In the class of 100 sixth graders Janice is 90th from the top
What is the first and perhaps the most important step which a teacher should take in constructing a test?
Know the objectives
Look over the old test questions
Prepare the table of specification
Write the preliminary draft of the test
Mr. Villamin graded the essay question of his class in Literature. What procedure could he use to reduce the subjectivity of the essay examination?
Correct the papers of the bright pupils first to establish the highest score possible
Grade the paper twice and get the average of two grading
Grade all of one paper before going on the next
Ask another teacher to grade the paper
Miss Nava is constructing 100 test items for the fourth grading period in Mathematics. How many items should she have in the preliminary draft?
125 to 150 items
150 to 200 items
110 to 125 items
200 to 250 items
What percent of the cases in a set of measure lie before the third quartile Q3?
25%
50%
75%
65%
Which is not an example of research?
Preparation of a project report in Science
A survey of the survey habits of BEED Freshman students
Development and validation of learning modules on Statistics
A study of the effect of the level of aspiration on achievement of prospective teachers
A teacher-researcher wanted to know the attitude of college students toward the school uniform. She stood by the canteen door at lunch time and asked every fifth student who came for lunch. What sample did she use?
Biased sample
Random sample
Fixed sample
Uneven sample
Why should guidance be an integral part of the school program?
Learners are confronted with present-day realities and challenges which they themselves cannot handle
Learners need to be guided so that they may become useful members of society
Learners need help in their personal and academic problems
Learners are still young to be left to themselves
Being part of the total guidance program, the first task of the classroom teacher is to
exemplify a high level of personal adjustment and self-actualization
foster the development of positive attitudes
know and understand the student
be warm to each other
Michelle has been reported by her teacher to be a habitual absentee and consequently a poor achiever in the class. What initial step should she take?
Report her to the discipline officer for appropriate action
Talk with her and encourage her to unload her problems
Recommend her to transfer to another school
Call her parents to a case conference
There are indications that Shaina is an autistic child. What should Mrs. Abella, her teacher, do to help her?
Recommend a tutor for Shaina
Tell her parents to transfer her to another school
Ask Shaina to stay and give her extra care and attention
Advise her parents to take her to a specialist for diagnosis
Ms. Revilla, a classroom teacher, is aware that she is also expected to perform guidance functions. She has been helping her pupils in their personal and academic problems. What must she do if there are cases which she finds difficult to handle?
Refer them to the guidance counselor who has the professional competence to handle such cases
Try to solve them. There are practical solutions to every problem
Bring them to the attention of the school principal
Make referrals to outside agencies
For quite some time, Joseph, a Grade VI pupil, has been displaying unusual behaviors which have adversely affected his performance. How may Ms. Ramos, his teacher, best give the necessary help?
Seek the advice of a child psychologist
Refer the pupil to a psychiatrist
Arrange for a case conference
Conduct a case study
Margaret, a Grade V pupil, can hardly express her inner feelings to the guidance counselor. What guidance technique may be utilized so that she may unload herself and be given the necessary help?
Personality test
Projective technique
Sociometric test
Autobiography
At the beginning of the school year, Ms. Mina wants to acquaint herself with the personal background of her Grade VI pupils, particularly their needs, interests, and characteristics. What is the most practical thing that she must do?
Give them a series of psychological tests
Ask them to fill up personal data sheets
Send a questionnaire to their parents
Interview them one by one
What is the focus of developmental guidance?
Developing the varied interests, abilities and needs of students, individually and collectively
Providing students with ample opportunities to develop their innate talents
Identify students with personality and behavior problems
Facilitating the total development of the students
Charlene, a graduating high school student, is confused about what course to take in college. She seems to be torn between teaching and accountancy. How would you help her?
Persuade her to follow your step as a teacher
Tell her to heed the advice of her parents
Refer her to a college guidance counselor
Ask her to take an aptitude test
Valerie’s parents often times complains about her low grades in the report card. Despite the explanations of her teachers, Mr. and Mrs. Cariño insist that Valeria deserves higher ratings. What is the proper thing for her teacher to do?
Change Valerie’s grade to pleased her parents
Request the principal to talk with Valerie’s parents
Show to the parents the actual computation of Valerie’s grade
Ignore Valerie’s parents. The would not listen to explanations anyway
Mrs. Serna administered a sociometric test to her class. The sociogram reveals that three students have formed an “island” in the class. What is the best thing for Mrs. Serna to do?
Ignore the result of the sociogram
Let the thee students be together all the time
Discourage them form being together in every class activity
Introduce activities where they can join other members of the group
Sheryl, a freshman education student, was asked by his professor to describe education accurately. Which of the following statement will Sheryll most likely choose?
Synonymous to formal schooling
Growth resulting from academic study
Acquired basically through the teacher
A process of individual growth and social development
