PRACTICE TEST FOR PROFESSIONAL

EDUCATION
1. The child fainted in your class
because she has not eaten her
breakfast. What is the best thing for
you to do in this situation?
a. Ignore the situation
b. Comfort the child
c. Give the child food
d. Call the parent
2. Who perpetuated the idea that
reason is superior to experience as a
source of knowledge, thus schools
must develop human reason?
a. Humanist
b. Stoics
c. Hedonists

d. Idealism
5. The old adage Do not do to others
what you want others do to you is a
teaching of
a. Lao Tse
b. Confucius
c. Mohammad
d. Buddha
6. If the student is encouraged to
develop himself to the fullest, which of
Maslows hierarchy of needs should be
satisfied?
a. safely needs
b. Physiological needs
c. Belongingness
d. Self actualization

d. Rationalists

7. Which is unethical for teachers to

do?

3. Faith, hope, and love are values now

and forever whether they will be
valued by people

a. obeying the legitimate policy of the

school administration

or not. Upon what philosophy is this

anchored?
a. Idealism
b. Existentialism
c. Realism
d. Pragmatism
4. When teachers are convinced that it
is best to teach students the skill to
adapt to change since change is the
only thing permanent in this world,
they subscribe to the philosophy of

b. cordial relation parents

c. refusing to serve in worthwhile
neighborhood activities as these will
adversely affect her teaching
d. conferring with the next of kin about
the problems and needs of a student
8. Which characteristic of a good test
will pupils will assured of when a
teacher constructs a table of
specification for test construction
purpose?
a. Scorability

a. Realism

b. Reliability

b. Existentialism

c. Economy

c. Pragmatism

d. Content validity

9. Which of the following is the most

important contribution of Gestalt
psychology to the theories of learning?
a. Cognitive insights
b. Use of the multimedia approaches
c. Concept of readiness
d. Importance of reinforcement in the
learning process
10. Which of the following could
produce more than one value?
a. mean
b. mode
c. median
d. mean of grouped data
11. Which statement on test result
interpretation is CORRECT?

a. Content
b. Concurrent
c. Criterion
d. Construct
14. Which applies when there are
extreme scores?
a. The median will not be very reliable
measure of central tendency
b. The mode will be the most reliable
measure of central tendency
c. There is no reliable measure of
central tendency
d. The mean will not be very reliable
measure of central tendency
15. What does a negatively skewed
score contribution imply?

a. a raw score by itself is meaningful

a. The scores congregate on the left

side of the normal contribution curve

b. A students score is a final

indication of his ability

b. The scores are widespread

c. The use of statistical technique

gives meaning to pupils score
d. Test scores do not in any way reflect
teachers effectiveness
12. This embodies the teachers duties
and responsibilities as well as the
proper behaviour in performing them?
a. Code of Ethics for teachers
b. Magna Carta for Public School
Teachers

c. The students must be academically

poor
d. The score congregate on the right
side of the normal contribution curve
16. The more in direct the classroom
instruction, the more ______________ it
is.
a. Topic focused
b. Student centered
c. Teacher centered

c. Bill of Rights

d. Individualized

d. Philippine Constitution of 1987

17. Which terms to the act of

educating a child with special
education needs partially in a special
education classroom and partially in
regular classroom?

13. What type of validity is needed if a

test must course objective and
scopes?

a. Mainstreaming

a. Mastery

b. Inclusion

b. Formative

c. Individualization

c. Summative

d. Head Start

d. Post test

18. It is good to give students

challenging and creative tasks
because

22. It is the process of judging an

attribute based on certain goals or
standards.

a. development is aided by stimulation

a. Counseling

b. the development of individual is

unique

b. Measuring
c. Evaluating

c. development is effective by cultural

changes

d. Testing

d. development is the individuals

choice

23. Which of the following criteria is

the most important in test
construction?

19. The process of ones thinking to

develop critical thinking is known as
_________.

a. Preparation of Table of Specification

b. Items must jive with the objectives

a. Metacognition

c. Arrange events in occurrence

b. Hypothesizing

d. The stem should contain the central

problem

c. Reflection
d. Meditation
20. It is an intensive investigation of a
particular individual, institution,
community or any group considered as
a unit which includes the
development, adjustment, remedial or
corrective procedures that suitably
follow diagnosis of the causes of
maladjustment or of favorable
behaviors.

24. Which of the following type of test

is not advisable to be used as a
diagnostic test?
a. Multiple choice
b. Short response
c. essays
d. true false

a. Experimental

25. Why should negative terms be

avoided in the stem of multiple choice
items?

b. Descriptive

a. They may be overlooked

c. Historical

b. It increases the difficulty of scoring

d. Case study

c. It increase the length of the stem

21. Which of the following test is used

as a basis in giving grades or rating?

d. They make the construction of

alternatives more difficult
26. It is equivalent to the average
score of the group or class?
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode

a. construct validity
b. content related validity and criterion
reference
c. content validity and construct
validity
d. content validity and content related
validity

27. The result of the item analysis

showed that item no. 4 has a
discrimination index of

31. Aura Vivian is one half standard

deviation above the mean of his group
in arithmetic and one standard
deviation above in spelling. What does
this imply?

0.67. What could be true about this

item?

a. she excels both in spelling and

arithmetic

a. Difficult

b. She is better in arithmetic than in

spelling

d. Standard Deviation

b. Valid
c. Easy
d. Average
28. What is the norm of a test?
a. The mean of grouping scores
b. The standard of for adequate
performance

c. She does not excel in spelling nor in

arithmetic
d. She is better in spelling than in
arithmetic
32. Given the scores 1,3,3,3,5,5,6,6,6
and 10, the mode(s) is (are)
a. 3

c. The standard deviation of a group of

scores

b. 3 and 6

d. The typical performance of a certain

group of individuals who took the test

d. 6

c. 5

29. Which of the following is the most

important stage in testing process?

33. NSAT and NEAT results are

interpreted against set mastery level.
This means that

a. Constructing test items

NSAT and NEAT fall under?

b. Establishing test reliability

a. criterion reference test

c. Improving test items

b. intelligence test

d. Interpreting test result

c. aptitude test

30. What does a Table of Specification

establish?

d. norm reference test

34. These are significant in formation

about a student, gathered through the
use of various techniques, assembled,
summarize and organized in such a
way that they may be used effectively.
What is referred to?

38. It is an area of philosophy which

on the nature of knowledge and the
best method of teaching is.

a. Cumulative record

c. Metaphysics

b. Case studies

d. Aesthetics

c. Test profiles

39. A test is considered reliable if

d. personnel inventory

a. it is easy to score

35. Which measure(s) of central

tendency is (are) most appropriate
when the score distribution is badly
skewed?

b. it served the purpose for which it is

constructed

a. Mean and mode

d. it is easy to administer

c. Median

40. Which is an element of norm

referenced grading?

b. Mode
d. Mean
36. The inclusion of the study of Rizal
and other national heroes in the
school curriculum in order to inculcate
love of country is based on a(an).
a. pragmatist philosophy
b. existentialist philosophy

a. Epistemology
b. Ethics

c. It is consistent and stable

a. the students pat performance

b. an absolute standard
c. the performance of the group
d. what constitutes a perfect score
41. Mario obtained an NSAT percentile
rank of 80. This indicates that

c. idealist philosophy

a. He surpassed in performance 80%

of her fellow examinees

d. realist philosophy

b. He got a score of 80

37. What concept of education makes

every individual a useful citizen to the
state?

c. He surpassed in performance 20%

of her fellow examinees

a. Conformity

42. In the problem solving method of

teaching, which is the primary role of
the teacher?

b. Security
c. Humanitarianism
d. Utilitarianism

d. He answered 80 items correctly

a. Director
b. Clarifier
c. Lecturer

d. Judge
43. Which element should be present
for brainstorming to be effective?
a. Lax atmosphere
b. Teachers non judgmental attitude
c. Teachers use of put down
strategy
d. Threatening atmosphere
44. Which is a selective reading
technique meant at getting important
facts very fast?
a. Silent reading
b. Skim reading
c. Oral reading
d. scanning
45. The study type of reading
exercises gives practice in.
a. picking out the main ideas
b. all sorts of study methods
c. reading skills needed in other
subjects
d. recognizing the precise meaning of
words
46. Which is the best reason why Mr.
Cruz begins a lesson in Math by
checking and reviewing on the
previous days assignment practice
and drills?
a. Prepare the students for the
mastery test
b. Make learning interesting and
enjoyable for students
c. Check if parents guide their children
in the making of assignment

d. Make sure that the students

understand the pre requisite skills of
the lesson
47. The test item Group the following
items according to shape is a thought
question on.
a. creating
b. generalizing
c. comparing
d. classifying
48. Which one should teacher B use if
he wants to teach to pupils the
relationship among details?
a. Journal entries
b. Story frame
c. Graphic organizers
d. Learning log
49. What I hear, I forget. What I see I
remember. What I do, I understand.
This means that pupils learn best
when they.
a. learn independently
b. work with groups
c. watch TV
d. take active part in the learning
process
50. Which is a type of graph in which
lines represent each score or set of
scores
a. Scattergram
b. Histogram
c. Frequency polygon
d. Scatterplot