Professional Education - SET D - Part 1

1. Which is one role of play in the pre-school and early childhood years?

A. Develops competitive spirit.

B. Separates reality from fantasy.
C. Increases imagination due to expanding knowledge and emotional range.
D. Develops the upper and lower limbs.

2. Student Z does not study at all but when the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) comes, before he takes the LET,
he spends one hour or more praying for a miracle, i.e. to pass the exam. Which attitude towards religion or God is displayed?

A. Religion as fake
B. Religion as magic
C. Religion as authentic
D. Religion as real

3. As a teacher, you are a rationalist. Which among these will be your guiding principle?

A. I must teach the child that we can never have real knowledge of anything.
B. I must teAch the child to develop his mental powers to the full.
C. I must teach the child so he is assured of heaven.
D. I must teach the child every knowledge, skill, and value that he needs for a better future.

4. All men are pretty much alike. It is only by custom that they are set apart, said one Oriental philosopher. Where can this
thought be most inspiring?

A. In a multi-cultural group of learners

B. In multi-cultural and heterogeneous groups of learners and indigenous peoples' group
C. In a class composed of indigenous peoples
D. In heterogeneous class of learners

5. Teacher A discovered that his pupils are very good in dramatizing. Which tool must have helped him discover his pupils'
strength?

A. Portfolio assessment
B. Performance test
C. Journal entry
D. Paper-and-pencil test

6. NSAT and NEAT results are interpreted against set mastery level. This means that NSAT and NEAT fall under __________.

A. intelligence test
B. aptitude test
C. criterion-referenced test
D. norm-referenced test

7. In a social studies class, Teacher I presents a morally ambiguous situation and asks his students what they would do. On
whose theory is Teacher I's technique based?

A. Kohlberg
B. Bandura
C. Piaget
D. Bruner

8. Which is a sound classroom management practice?

A. Avoid establishing routines

B. Establish routines for all daily needs and tasks.
C. Apply rules and policies on a case to case basis.
D. Apply reactive approach to discipline.

9. A sixth grade twelve-year old boy comes from a dysfunctional family and has been abused and neglected. He has been to
two orphanages and three different elementary schools. The student can decode on the second grade level, but he can
comprehend orally material at the fourth or fifth grade level. The most probable cause/s of this student's reading problem
is/are __________.

A. emotional factors
B. poor teaching
C. neurological factors
D. immaturity

10. Teacher U teaches to his pupils that pleasure is not the highest good. Teacher's teaching is against what philosophy?

A. Realism
B. Hedonism
C. Epicureanism
D. Empiricism

11. With which goals of educational institutions as provided for by the Constitution is the development of work skills aligned?

A. To develop moral character

B. To teach the duties of citizenship
C. To inculcate love of country
D. To develop vocational efficiency

12. Direct instruction is for facts, rules, and actions as indirect instruction is for __________, __________, __________.

A. hypotheses, verified data and conclusions

B. concepts, patterns and abstractions
C. concepts, processes and generalizations
D. guesses, data and conclusions

13. To elicit more student's response, Teacher G made use of covert responses. Which one did she NOT do?

A. She had the students write their response privately.

B. She showed the correct answers on the overhead after the students have written their responses.
C. She had the students write their responses privately then called each of them.
D. She refrained from judging on the student's responses.

14. What should you do if a parent who is concerned about a grade his child received compared to another student's grade,
demands to see both students' grades?

A. Refuse to show either record.

B. Show both records to him.
C. Refuse to show any record without expressing permission from principal.
D. Show only his child's records.

15. John Watson said:Men are built not born.What does this statement point to?

A. The ineffectiveness of training on a person's development.

B. The effect of environmental stimulation on a person's development.
C. The absence of genetic influence on a person's development
D. The effect of heredity.

16. A guest speaker in one graduation rites told his audience: "Reminder, you are what you choose to be." The guest speaker
is more of a/an __________.

A. realistic
B. pragmatist
C. idealist
D. existentialist

17. The best way for a guidance counselor to begin to develop study skills and habits in underachieving student would be
to __________.

A. have these underachieving students observe the study habits of excelling students
B. encourage students to talk about study habits from their own experiences
C. have them view film strips about various study approaches
D. give out a list of effective study approaches

18. Principal C shares this thought with his teachers:Subject matter should help students understand and appreciate
themselves as unique individuals who accept complete responsibility for their thoughts, feelings, and actions.From which
philosophy is this thought based?

A. Perennialism
B. Essentialism
C. Existentialism
D. Progressivism
19. The search for related literature by accessing several databases by the use of a telephone line to connect a computer
library with other computers that have database is termed __________.

A. compact disc search

B. manual search
C. on-line search
D. computer search

20. Teacher W wants to review and check on the lesson of the previous day? Which one will be most reliable?

A. Having students identify difficult homework problems.

B. Having students correct each other's work.
C. Sampling the understanding of a few students.
D. Explicitly reviewing the task-relevant information necessary for the day's lesson.

21. During the Spanish period, what was/were the medium/media of instruction in schools?

A. The Vernacular
B. English
C. Spanish
D. Spanish and the Vernacular

22. With indirect instruction in mind, which does NOT belong to the group?

A. Problem solving
B. Lecture-recitation
C. Inductive reasoning
D. Discovery

23. I combined several subject areas in order to focus on a single concept for inter-disciplinary teaching. Which
strategy/method did I use?

A. Problem-entered learning
B. Thematic instruction
C. Reading-writing activity
D. Unit method

24. Read the following then answer the question

TEACHER: IN WHAT WAYS OTHER THAN THE PERIODIC TABLE MIGHT WE PREDICT THE UNDISCOVERED ELEMENTS?

BOBBY: WE COULD GOTO THE MOON AND SEE IF THERE ARE SOME ELEMENTS THERE WE DON'T HAVE.

BETTY: WE COULD DIG DOWN INTO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH AND SEE IF WE FIND ANY OF THE MISSING ELEMENTS.

RICKY: WE COULD STUDY DEBRIS FROM THE METEORITES IF WE CAN FIND ANY.

TEACHER: THOSE ARE ALL GOOD ANSWERS. BUT WHAT IF THOSE EXCURSIONS TO THE MOON, TO THE CENTER OF THE
EARTH, OR TO FIND METEORITES WERE TOO COSTLY AND TIME CONSUMING? HOW MIGHT WE USE THE ELEMENTS WE
ALREADY HAVE HERE ON EARTH TO FIND SOME NEW ONES?

Question: The Teacher's questions in the above exchange are examples of __________ questions.

A. fact
B. concept
C. direct
D. closed

25. In his second item analysis, Teacher H found out that more from the lower group got the test item # 6 correctly. This
means that the test item __________.

A. has a negative discriminating power

B. has a lower validity
C. has a positive discriminating power
D. has a high reability

26. For maximum interaction, a teacher ought to avoid __________ questions.

A. informational
B. rhetorical
C. leading
D. divergent

27. The teacher's first task in the selection of media in teaching is to determine the ______.

A. choice of the students

B. availability of the media
C. objectives of the lesson
D. technique to be used

28. Principal B tells her teachers that training in the humanities is most important. To which educational philosophy does
he adhere?

A. Existentialism
B. Perennialism
C. Progressivism
D. Essentialism

29. Who among the following needs less verbal counseling but needs more concrete and operational forms of assistance?
The child who __________.

A. has mental retardation

B. has attention-deficit disorder
C. has learning disability
D. has conduct disorder

30. After giving an input on a good paragraph, Teacher W asks her students to rate a given paragraph along the elements of
a good paragraph. The students' task is in level of __________

A. application
B. analysis
C. evaluation
D. synthesis

31. In the Preamble of the Code of Ethics of Professional Teachers, which is NOT said of teachers?

A. LET passers
B. Duly licensed professionals
C. Possess dignity and reputation
D. With high-moral values as well as technical and professional competence

32. Study this group of tests which was administered with the following results, then answer the question.

Subject Mean SD Ronnels's Score

Math 56 10 43
Physics 41 9 31
English 80 16 109

In which subject(s) did Ronnel perform most poorly in relation to the group's performance?

A. English
B. English and Math
C. Math
D. Physics

33. Teacher G's lesson objective has something to do with the skill of synthesizing? Which behavioral term is most
appropriate?

A. Test
B. Assess
C. Appraise
D. Theorize

34. Standard deviation is to variability as mean is to __________.

A. coefficient of correlation
B. central tendency
C. discrimination index
D. level of difficulty
35. If you agree with Rizal on how you can contribute to our nation's redemption, which should you work for?

A. Opening our doors to foreign influence

B. Upgrading the quality of the Filipino through education
C. Stabilizing the political situation
D. Gaining economic recovery

36. Teacher T taught a lesson denoting ownership by means of possessives. He first introduced the rule, then gave examples,
followed by class exercises, then back to the rule before he moved into the second rule. Which presenting technique did he
use?

A. Combinatorial
B. Comparative
C. Part-whole
D. Sequence

37. Theft of school equipment like tv, computer, etc. by teenagers in the community itself is becoming a common
phenomenon. What does this incident signify?

A. Prevalence of poverty in the community.

B. Inability of school to hire security guards.
C. Deprivation of Filipino schools.
D. Community's lack of sense of co-ownership.

38. As a teacher, what do you do when you engage yourself in major task analysis?

A. Test if learning reached higher level thinking skills.

B. Breakdown a complex task into sub-skills.
C. Determine the level of thinking involved.
D. Revise lesson objectives.

39. With-it-ness, according to Kounin, is one of the characterestics of an effective classroom manager. Which phrase goes
with it?

A. Have hands that write fast.

B. Have eyes on the back of your heads.
C. Have a mouth ready to speak.
D. Have minds packed with knowledge.

40. Ruben is very attached to his mother and Ruth to her father. In what developmental stage are they according to Freudian
psychological theory?

A. Oedipal stage
B. Latent stage
C. Anal stage
D. Pre-genital stage

41. Teacher Y does norm-referenced interpretation of scores. Which of the following does she do?

A. She describes group performance in relation to a level of mastery set.

B. She uses a specified content as its frame of reference.
C. She compares every individual students' scores with others' scores.
D. She describes what should be their performance.

42. As a teacher, you are a reconstructionist. Which among these will be your guiding principle?

A. I must teach the child every knowledge, skill, and value that he needs for a better future.
B. I must teach the child to develop his mental powers to the full.
C. I must teach the child so he is assured of heaven.
D. I must teach the child that we can never have real knowledge of anything.

43. From whom do we owe the theory of deductive interference as illustrated in syllogisms?

A. Plato
B. Scorates
C. Aristotle
D. Pythagoras

44. Teacher B engages her students with information for thorough understanding for meaning and for competent application.
Which principle governs Teacher B's practice?
A. Contructivist
B. Gestalt
C. Behaviorist
D. Cognitivist

45. What was the most prominent educational issue of the mid 1980s?

A. Bilingual Education
B. Values Education
C. Accountability
D. Mainstreaming

46. A teacher/student is held responsible for his actions because s/he __________.

A. has instincts
B. is mature
C. has a choice
D. has reason

47. For which may you use the direct instruction method?

A. Become aware of the pollutants around us.

B. Appreciate Milton's Paradise Lost.
C. Use a microscope properly.
D. Distinguish war from aggression.

48. The concepts of trust vs. maturity, autonomy vs. self-doubt, and initiative vs. guilt are most closely related with the works
of __________.

A. Erikson
B. Piaget
C. Freud
D. Jung

49. What measure of central tendency does the number 16 represent in the following data: 14, 15, 17, 16, 19, 20, 16, 14, 16?

A. Mode
B. Median
C. Mode and median
D. Mean

50. The principle of individual differences requires teachers to __________.

A. give greater attention to gifted learners

B. provide for a variety of learning activities
C. treat all learners alike while in the classroom

D. prepare modules for slow learners in class