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1. Which is one role of play in the pre-school and early childhood years?
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?
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
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?
12. Direct instruction is for facts, rules, and actions as indirect instruction is for __________, __________,
__________.
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?
15. John Watson said:Men are built not born.What does this statement point to?
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 __________.
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
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. informational
B. rhetorical
C. leading
D. divergent
27. The teacher's first task in the selection of media in teaching is to determine the ______.
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
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
32. Study this group of tests which was administered with the following results, then answer the question.
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
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
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. 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?
38. As a teacher, what do you do when you engage yourself in major task analysis?
39. With-it-ness, according to Kounin, is one of the characterestics of an effective classroom manager. Which phrase
goes with it?
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?
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.
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?
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
D. Mean
53. Out of 3 distracters in a multiple choice test item, namely B, C, and D, no pupil chose D as answer. This implies
that D is __________
A. an ineffective distracter
B. a vague distracter
C. an effective distracter
D. a plausible distracter
54. I drew learners into several content areas and encouraged them to solve a complex question for inter-disciplinary
teaching. Which strategy did I use?
A. Problem-centered learning
B. Unit method
C. Reading-writing activity
D. Thematic instruction
55. Value clarification as a strategy in Values Education classes is anchored on which philosophy?
A. Existentialism
B. Christian philosophy
C. Idealism
D. Hedonism
56. Teacher A is a teacher of English as a Second Language. She uses vocabulary cards, fill-in-the-blank sentences,
dialogues, dictation and writing excercises in teaching a lesson about grocery shopping. Based on this information,
which of the following is a valid conclusion?
57. If teacher has to ask more higher-order questions, he has to ask more __________ questions.
A. closed
B. fact
C. concept
D. convergent
59. Which method has been proven to be effective in courses that stress acquisition of knowledge?
A. Socratic method
B. Cooperative learning
C. Mastery learning
D. Indirect instruction
A. Obedient citizenry
B. The reciprocation of rights and duties
C. Strong political leadership
D. Equitable distribution of wealth
63. Who among the following puts more emphasis on core requirements, longer school day, longer academic year
and more challenging textbooks?
A. Perennialist
B. Essentialist
C. Progressivist
D. Existentialist
A. Objective test
B. Short answer test
C. Essay test
D. Problem type
65. Read this question:How will you present the layers of the earth to your class?This is a question that
A. directs
B. leads the student to evaluate
C. assesses cognition
D. probes creative thinking
66. In Krathwohl's affective domain of objectives, which of the following is the lowest level of affective behavior?
A. Valuing
B. Characterization
C. Responding
D. Organization
67. Rodel is very aloof and cold in his relationships with his classmates. Which basic goal must haye not been
attained by Rodel during his developmental years, according to Erikson's theory on psychological development?
A. Autonomy
B. Trust
C. Initiative
D. Generativity
68. Two students are given the WISE II. One has a full scale IQ of 91, while the other has an IQ of 109. Which
conclusion can be drawn?
69. To come closer to the truth we need togo back to the things themselves.This is the advice of the
A. behaviorists
B. phenomenologists
C. idealists
D. pragmatists
70. Which guideline in test construction is NOT observed in this test item: Jose Rizal wrote __________.
A. The central problem should be packed in the stem.
B. There must be only one correct answer.
C. Alternatives must have grammatical parallelism.
D. The alternates must be plausible.
71. In what way can teachers uphold the highest possible standards of quality education?
72. Each teacher is said to be a trustee of the cultural and educational heritage of the nation and is, under obligation
to transmit to learners such heritage. Which practice makes him fulfill such obligation?
73. Studies in the areas of neurosciences disclosed that the human brain has limitless capacity. What does this
imply?
A. Operant conditioning
B. Social Learning Theory
C. Associative Learning
D. Attribution Theory
A. delineate
B. diagram
C. integrate
D. comprehend
76. Which guideline must be observed in the use of prompting to shape the correct performance of your students?
77. On whose philosophy was A. S. Neil's Summerhill, one of the most experimental schools, based?
A. Rousseau
B. Pestalozzi
C. Montessori
D. John Locke
78. "In the light of the facts presented, what is most likely to happen when ... ?" is a sample thought question on
A. inferring
B. generalizing
C. synthesizing
D. justifying
80. Whose influence is the education program that puts emphasis on self-development. through the classics, music,
and rituals?
A. Buddha
B. Mohammed
C. Confucius
D. Lao Tsu
A. Characterization
B. Organization
C. Responding
D. Valuing
83. 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) were the scores most homogenous?
A. Math
B. English
C. Physics
D. Physics and Math
84. We encounter people whose prayer goes like this: "O God, if there is a God; save my soul, if I have a soul" From
whom is this prayer?
A. Stoic
B. Empiricist
C. Agnostic
D. Skeptic
85. The test item "Group the following items according to shape" is a thought test item on __________.
A. creating
B. classifying
C. generalizing
D. comparing
86. Teacher B is a teacher of English as a Second Language. She uses vocabulary cards, fill-in-the-blank sentences,
dictation and writing exercises in teaching a lesson about grocery shopping. Based on this information, which of the
following is a valid conclusion?
A. The teacher is reinforcing learning by giving the same information in, a variety of methods.
B. The teacher is applying Bloom's hierachy of cognitive learning.
C. The teacher wants to do less talk.
D. The teacher is emphasizing listening and speaking skills.
A. 7
B. 6
C. 8.5
D. 7.5
88. Teacher P wants to develop the skill of synthesizing in her pupils. Which one will she do?
A. Ask her students to formulate a generalization from the data shown in graphs.
B. Ask her students to answer questions beginning withWhat if ...
C. Tell her pupils to state data presented in graphs.
D. Directs her students to ask questions on the parts of the lesson not understood.
89. Bruner's theory on intellectual development moves from enactive to iconic and symbolic stages. In which
stage(s) are diagrams helpful to accompany verbal information?
91. An effective classroom manager uses low-profile classroom control. Which is a low-profile classroom
technique?
A. Note to parents
B. After-school detention
C. Withdrawal of privileges
D. Raising the pitch of the voice
92. Which type of report refers toon-the-spotdescription of some incident, episode or occurrence that is being
observed and recorded as being of possible significance?
A. Autobiographical report
B. Biographical report
C. Value and interest report
D. Anecdotal report
93. By what name is Indirect instruction the Socratic method also known?
A. Mastery learning
B. Indirect Method
C. Morrison method
D. Questioning method
94. Teacher A knows of the illegal activities of a neighbor but keeps quiet in order not to be involved in any
investigation. Which foundational principle of morality does Teacher A fail to apply?
95. What should a teacher do for students in his class who are not on grade level?
A. Give them materials on their level and let them work at a pace that is reasonable forthem, trying to bring
them up to a grade level.
B. Give them the same work as the other students, because they will absorb as much as they are capable of.
C. Give them the same work as the other students, not much, so that they won't feel embarrassed.
D. Give them work on the level of the other students and work a little above the classmates level to challenge them.
96. A child who gets punished for stealing candy may not steal again immediately. But this does not mean that the
child may not steal again. Based on Thorndike's theory on punishment and learning, this shows that __________
A. naturalistic morality
B. classical Christian morality
C. situational morality
D. dialectical morality
98. Teacher H gave her first-grade class a page with a story in which pictures take the place of some words. Which
method did she use?
99. Soc exhibits fear response to freely roaming dogs but does not show fear when a dog is on a leash or confined to
a pen. Which conditioning process is illustrated
A. Generalization
B. Extinction
C. Acquisition
D. Discrimination
100. Teachers often complain of numerous non-teaching assignments that adversely, affect their teaching. Does this
mean that teachers must be preoccupied only with teaching?
A. Yes, if they are given other assignments, justice demands that they be properly compensated.
B. Yes, because other community leaders, not teachers, are tasked to leadin community activities.
C. NO, because every teacher is expected to provide leadership and initiative in activities for betterment of
communities.
D. Yes, because teaching is enough full time job.