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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
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
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
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
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
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 reliability
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
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.
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
45. What was the most prominent educational issue of the mid
1980s?
A. Bilingual Education
B. Values Education
C. Accountability
D. Mainstreaming
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. The teacher wants to make her teaching easier by having less talk.
D. The teacher is emphasizing reading and writing skills.
57. If teacher has to ask more higher-order questions, he has to ask
more __________ questions.
A. closed
B. fact
C. concept
D. convergent
58. Are percentile ranks the same as percentage correct?
A. It cannot be determined unless scores are given.
B. It cannot be determined unless the number of examinees is given.
C. No
D. Yes
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
60. A teacher's summary of a lesson serves the following functions,
EXCEPT
A. it links the parts of the lesson
B. lt brings together the information that has been discussed
C. it makes provisions for full participation of students.
D. it clinches the basic ideas or concepts of the lesson.
61. Which is a true foundation of the social order?
A. Obedient citizenry
B. The reciprocation of rights and duties
C. Strong political leadership
D. Equitable distribution of wealth
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?
A. The second student has significantly higher intellectual ability
B. The first student is probably below average, while the second has
above average potential
C. Both students are functioning in the average range of intellectual
ability
D. Another IQ test should be given to truly assess their intellectual
potential
D. comprehend
76. Which guideline must be observed in the use of prompting to
shape the correct performance of your students?
A. Use the least intrusive prompt first.
B. Use all prompts available.
C. Use the most intrusive prompt first.
D. Refrain from using prompts.
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
79. Which applies when skewness is zero?
A. Mean is greater than the median
B. Median is greater than mean
C. Scores have three modes
D. Scores are normally distributed
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
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.
87. What is the mean of this score distribution: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10?
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?
A. Enactive and iconic
B. Symbolic
C. Symbolic and enactive
D. Iconic
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 for them, 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. punishment strengthens a response
B. punishment removes a response
C. punishment does not remove a response
D. punishment weakens a response