Professional Education Set I

Professional Education Set I
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. Rationalists
3) Faith, hope, and love are values now and forever whether they will be valued by people 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?
a. Realism
b. Existentialism
c. Pragmatism
d. Idealism
5) The old adage “Do not do to others what you want others do to you” is a teaching of?
a. Lao Tsu
b. Confucius
c. Mohammad
d. Buddha
6) If the student is encouraged to develop himself to the fullest, which of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs should be satisfied?
a. Safely needs
b. Physiological needs
c. Belongingness
d. Self-actualization
7) Which is unethical for teachers to do?
a. Obeying the legitimate policy of the school administration.
b. Cordial relationship with 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
b. Reliability
c. Economy
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. A raw score by itself is meaningful.
b. A student’s score is a final indication of his ability.
c. The use of statistical technique gives meaning to pupil’s score.
d. Test scores do not in any way reflect teacher’s effectiveness.
12) This embodies the teacher’s duties and responsibilities as well as the proper behavior in performing them?
a. Code of Ethics for teachers
b. Magna Carta for Public School Teachers
c. Bill of Rights
d. Philippine Constitution of 1987
13) What type of validity is needed if a test must course objective and scopes?
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. The scores congregate on the left side of the normal contribution curve.
b. The scores are widespread.
c. The students must be academically poor.
d. The score congregate on the right side of the normal contribution curve.
16) The more indirect the classroom instruction, the more ________ it is.
a. Topic-focused
b. Student-centered
c. Teacher-centered
d. Individualized
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?
a. Mainstreaming
b. Inclusion
c. Individualization
d. Head Start
18) It is good to give students challenging and creative tasks because:
a. development is aided by stimulation
b. the development of individual is unique
c. development is effective by cultural changes
d. development is the individual’s choice
19) The process of one’s thinking to develop critical thinking is known as ________.
a. Metacognition
b. Hypothesizing
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.
a. Experimental
b. Descriptive
c. Historical
d. Case-study
21) Which of the following test is used as a basis in giving grades or rating?
a. Mastery
b. Formative
c. Summative
d. Post test
22) It is the process of judging an attribute based on certain goals or standards.
a. Counseling
b. Measuring
c. Evaluating
d. Testing
23) Which of the following criteria is the most important in test construction?
a. Preparation of Table of Specification
b. Items must jive with the objectives
c. Arrange events in occurrence
d. The stem should contain the central problem
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 or false
25) Why should negative terms be avoided in the stem of multiple choice items?
a. They may be overlooked.
b. It increases the difficulty of scoring.
c. It increases the length of the stem.
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
d. Standard Deviation
27) The result of the item analysis showed that item no. 4 has a discrimination index of 0.67. What could be true about this item?
a. Difficult
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. The standard deviation of a group of scores.
d. The typical performance of a certain group of individuals who took the test.
29) Which of the following is the most important stage in testing process?
a. Constructing test items
b. Establishing test reliability
c. Improving test items
d. Interpreting test result
30) What does a Table of Specification establish?
a. construct validity
b. content related validity and criterion reference
c. content validity and construct validity
d. content validity and content related validity
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?
a. She excels both in spelling and arithmetic.
b. She is better in arithmetic than in spelling.
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
b. 3 and 6
c. 5
d. 6
33) NSAT and NEAT results are interpreted against set mastery level. This means that NSAT and NEAT fall under?
a. criterion-reference test
b. intelligence test
c. aptitude test
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?
a. Cumulative record
b. Case studies
c. Test profiles
d. Personnel inventory
35) Which measure/s of central tendency is/are most appropriate when the score distribution is badly skewed?
a. Mean and mode
b. Median
c. 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
c. idealist philosophy
d. realist philosophy
37) What concept of education makes every individual a useful citizen to the state?
a. Conformity
b. Security
c. Humanitarianism
d. Utilitarianism
38) It is an area of philosophy which on the nature of knowledge and the best method of teaching is?
a. Epistemology
b. Ethics
c. Metaphysics
d. Aesthetics
39) A test is considered reliable if:
a. it is easy to score
b. it served the purpose for which it is constructed
c. it is consistent and stable
d. it is easy to administer
40) Which is an element of norm-referenced grading?
a. the student’s 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:
a. He surpassed in performance 80% of her fellow examinees.
b. He got a score of 80.
c. He surpassed in performance 20% of her fellow examinees.
d. He answered 80 items correctly.
42) In the problem-solving method of teaching, which is the primary role of the teacher?
a. Director
b. Clarifier
c. Lecturer
d. Judge
43) Which element should be present for brainstorming to be effective?
a. Lax atmosphere
b. Teacher’s non-judgmental attitude
c. Teacher’s 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 day’s 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
ANSWERS:

1. C
2. D
3. A
4. A
5. B
6. D
7. D
8. D
9. B
10. B
11. C
12. A
13. A
14. D
15. D
16. B
17. A
18. A
19. A
20. D
21. C
22. C
23. A
24. C
25. D
26. A
27. D
28. D
29. D
30. C
31. D
32. B
33. A
34. A
35. D
36. D
37. D
38. A
39. C
40. C
41. A
42. B
43. B
44. D
45. C
46. D
47. D
48. C
49. D
50. A

PROF ED (14)
1) Which statement about Median is CORRECT?
a. It is a measure of variability.
b. It is the most stable measure of central tendency.
c. It is the 50th percentile.
d. It is significantly affected by extreme score.
2) The strongest disadvantage of the alternate-response type of test is:
a. the demand for critical thinking
b. the absence of analysis
c. the encouragement of rote memory
d. the high possibility of guessing
3) A child who gets punished by 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
4) The use of process approach gives the students the opportunity to:
a. learn how to learn
b. make use of laboratory apparatus
c. apply the scientific method
d. learn on their own
5) Which type of test measures higher order thinking skills?
a. Enumeration
b. Matching
c. Completion
d. Analogy
6) It is necessary that the parts of a lesson plan from the first to the last have:
a. completeness
b. conciseness
c. symmetry
d. coherence
7) What can be said of Jones who obtained a score of 75 in a grammar test?
a. He perform better than 75% of his classmates.
b. He answered 75 items correctly.
c. He got a raw score of 75.
d. He answered 75% of the test items correctly.
8) Which guideline in test construction is NOT observed in this test item? EDGAR ALLAN POE WROTE ________.
a. The length of the blank suggests the answer.
b. The central problem is not packed in the stem.
c. It is open to more than one correct answer.
d. The blank is at the end of the question.
9) Which is a characteristic of infused or integrated instruction?
a. Does not allow deviation from intended objective.
b. Includes all thinking process from low level to high level.
c. Exclude related topics.
d. Confines itself to higher level thinking process.
10) Your teacher is of the opinion that the world and everything in it are ever changing and so teaches you the skill to cope with change which is his governing:
a. Existentialism
b. Realism
c. Idealism
d. Experimentalism
11) To be an effective classroom manager teacher must be friendly but at the same time be:
a. highly demanding
b. business-like
c. rigid
d. buddy-buddy
12) What percent of the cases in a set of measure lie before the third quartile or Q3?
a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 75%
d. 65%
13) At the end of periodical examination, Ms. Ramos administered a summative test in Filipino. After scoring the test papers she assigned grades to each test score such as 95, 90, 85, 80 etc. What process did Ms. Ramos use?
a. Ranking
b. Computation
c. Measurement
d. Evaluation
14) Teacher subscribes to the idealist philosophy. Which type of knowledge will most likely advance? Knowledge arrived at through:
a. trial and error
b. concrete experience
c. experimenting
d. reasoning
15) The commonly used question-and-answer method that includes debate and discussion in consonance with the method of:
a. Confucius
b. Plato
c. Aristotle
d. Socrates
16) Which word is acceptable in the writing of performance objectives?
a. Appreciate
b. Think
c. Understand
d. Demonstrate
17) Median is to point as standard deviation is to ________.
a. area
b. volume
c. distance
d. square
18) What measure of position is appropriate when the distribution is skewed?
a. Mean
b. Stanine
c. Z-value
d. Percentile rank
19) In the context of the theory on multiple intelligence, one weakness of the paper-pencil test is:
a. It utilizes so much time.
b. It puts the non-linguistically intelligent at a disadvantage.
c. It lacks reliability.
d. It is not easy to administer.
20) Like a TV, the computer has a?
a. Disk drive
b. Keyboard
c. Screen
d. CPU
21) Which assessment tool shows evidence of student’s writing skills?
a. Project
b. Portfolio
c. Critiquing sessions
d. Daily journal
22) Ian’s raw of score in the Filipino class is 23 which is equal to the 70th percentile. What does this imply?
a. 70% of Ian’s classmates got a score lower than 23.
b. Ian’s score is higher than 23% of his classmates.
c. 70% of Ian’s classmate got a score of above 23.
d. Ian’s score is higher than 23 of his classmates.
23) Which of the following measures is more affected by an extreme score?
a. Semi-interquartile range
b. Median
c. Mode
d. Mean
24) Which is another name for collaborative learning?
a. Interactive learning
b. Team building
c. Cooperative learning
d. Integrated learning
25) He believes that we acquire knowledge of our world through our senses. He’s also the pioneer of the inductive and scientific method.
a. John Comenius
b. Johann Pestalozzi
c. Jean Piaget
d. John Locke
26) Which one should teacher AVOID to produce an environment conducive for learning?
a. Tests
b. Seat plan
c. Individual competition
d. Games
27) If teacher wants to test student’s ability to organize ideas, which type of test should she formulate?
a. Technical problem type
b. Essay
c. Short answer type
d. Multiple-choice type
28) The inclusion of Logic in the curriculum is perhaps an influence of the importance of logic that ________ stressed.
a. St. Augustine
b. The Humanists
c. The Hedonists
d. The Scholastics
29) Why are test norms established? To have basis for:
a. computing grades
b. establishing learning goals
c. identifying pupil’s
d. interpreting test results
30) The focus of social philosophy among societal orders, institutions, structures, system, functions and processes is the?
a. progress
b. deterioration
c. destiny
d. morality
31) Social philosophy differs from social sciences because of the fact that the latter is limited to?
a. searching for values
b. observable phenomena
c. scholastic understanding
d. interpretative living
32) Which of the following demonstrates human existence as fundamentally social?
a. needs for others
b. personal creating
c. historic of character
d. all of the above
33) A philosophy based primarily on science and scientific discoveries is?
a. positivism
b. realism
c. liberalism
d. pragmatism
34) Who among the following that viewed individual man and his native state as at war with himself?
a. William James
b. Karl Marx
c. Immanuel Kant
d. Thomas Hobbes
35) The school of philosophy that maintain that powers developed an any faculty by the study of a school subject can be used equally well in any other subjects or to meet any other experience in life is ________.
a. communism
b. disciplinism
c. idealism
d. realism
36) “Since the labor of many workers is required to support a simple capitalist, members of the capitalist class are parasites living at the expense of the workers who are being exploited.” This was the observation of ________.
a. Max Wertheimer
b. Karl Marx
c. George Hegel
d. Thomas Malthus
37) The theory of hedonism is fallacious because sex:
a. has a higher purpose
b. is an end in itself
c. essential to pleasure
d. basically for pleasure
38) What theory stresses the idea that good is that which administers to the temporal welfare and happiness of man, bad which abstracts or hinders retards this happiness?
a. Kantian theory
b. Utilitarianism
c. Hedonism
d. Communism
39) Republic Act No. 6713 is an act of?
a. Establishing anti-violence against women and their children.
b. Providing for free public secondary education.
c. Creating Commission on Higher Education.
d. Establishing a code of conduct and ethical standards for public officials and employee.
40) What is the most convenient style of solving conflicts on the part of a manager or any person in authority?
a. accommodative
b. collaborative
c. competitive
d. compromising
41) What school of philosophy believes that truth is that which works and successful in solving problem?
a. communism
b. positivism
c. pragmatism
d. personalism
42) All of the following serve as grounds for legal separation except ________.
a. repeated physical violence
b. attempt to corrupt
c. faithfulness and exclusiveness
d. respondent’s bigamy
43) One of the following concretely illustrates the responsibility of a teacher as a trustee.
a. gives assignments for more practice
b. waits for the informed parents to pick up their child in moments of danger
c. teaches children to do their assignments
d. sells instructional materials to children
44) Which of the following is not true of graft and corruption?
a. It lessens allegiance and loyalty.
b. It impairs national economic planning.
c. It causes wasteful depletion of resources.
d. The culprit are easily identified, apprehended and prosecuted.
45) Republic Act No. 3019 is known as:
a. Anti-violence against women and their children
b. Code of Conduct for Government officials and Employees
c. Anti-Graft and Corrupt practice Act
d. The Family Code of the Philippines
46) The theory that states that man has the responsibility to take care of his environment is known as:
a. Extensionism
b. Exhibitionism
c. Liberalism
d. Essentialism
47) Professionalism on the part of the Government officials and employees does not mean:
a. Performing and discharging duties with the highest degree of excellence.
b. Working less intelligently when salary is low.
c. Entrance with the public service with utmost devotion.
d. Discouraging wrong perception of government employee’s role.
48) The idea that man is free and deserves to be punished for the evil he freely commits comes from:
a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. Thomas Aquinas
d. Socrates
49) Which of the following is a good guide in choosing values?
a. education over early marriage
b. opportunity over common good
c. family first before public service
d. devotion to move idol over worthwhile hobby
50) To solve moral ambiguity among us Filipinos, we must:
a. Excuse ourselves whenever we do wrong.
b. Blame our government for not doing anything about it.
c. Be aware and responsible about the problem.
d. Be comfortable with the present state affairs.
ANSWERS:

1. C
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. A
7. C
8. C
9. B
10. B
11. C
12. D
13. A
14. D
15. D
16. D
17. B
18. D
19. C
20. C
21. D
22. A
23. D
24. C
25. D
26. C
27. B
28. B
29. C
30. D
31. B
32. D
33. A
34. D
35. B
36. B
37. A
38. B
39. D
40. B
41. C
42. C
43. B
44. D
45. C
46. A
47. B
48. A
49. A
50. C