What philosophy of education advocates that the curriculum should only include universal and
unchanging truths?
Essentialism
Existentialism
Perennialism
Pragmatism
2. Teacher Joan views his students as unique, free-choosing and responsible individuals. All classroom
activities revolve around the said premise. What theory underlies this?
Essentialism
Existentialism
Progressivism
Realism
3. What philosophy is related to the practice of schools acting as laboratory for teaching reforms and
experimentation?
Essentialism
Progressivism
Existentialism
Social reconstructionism
4. Who asserted that children must be given the opportunity to explore and work on different materials
so that they will develop the sense of initiative instead of guilt?
Kohlberg
Ericson
Maslow
Gardner
5. Specialization is knowing more and more about less and less. Hence, it is better to be a generalist,
claims Teacher Nelcy. Which philosophy does Teacher Nelcy subscribe to?
Existentialism
Perennialism
Essentialism
Progressivism
6. Who stressed the idea that students cannot learn if their basic needs are not first met?
Thorndike
Gardner
Dale
Maslow
7. Which of the following situations may lower the validity of the test?
Increasing the number of items measuring each specific skill from five to ten.
8. With Blooms cognitive taxonomy in mind, which objective is in the highest level?
To rate a project along relevance, originally, and craftmanship
10. Teacher Angie puts so much significance on values development and discipline. What could be her
educational philosophy?
Idealism
Pragmatism
Progressivism
Realism
Obedient citizenry
12. Brian enjoys games like scrabble, anagrams, and password. Which type of intelligence is strong in
Brian?
Bodily kinesthetic intelligence
Linguistic intelligence
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Spatial intelligence
13. With which goals of educational institution as provided for by the constitution is the development of
work skills aligned?
To develop moral character
14. Scouting and Citizens Army Training (CAT) give training in character-building, citizenship training,
etc. which leads to social order. What philosophy supports this?
Existentialism
Perennialism
Progressivism
Social reconstructionism
15. Teacher Mylene demonstrated the technique on how to group students according to their needs and
interests. Which philosophy is manifested in this activity?
Essentialism
Progressivism
Realism
Social Reconstructionism
16. Which is the most obvious and familiar way of reporting variability?
Range between highest and lowest scores
Standard deviation
17. You are assessing FOR learning. Which of these will you likely do?
Giving grades to students
18. Identical twins are more alike than fraternal twins. Which of the following statements/principles is
supported by this?
Heredity has a part in determining physical appearance
19. Most Filipino parents have the tendency to be overprotective about their children. If this tendency
goes way beyond the reasonable level, children could
become dependent.
20. Teacher Nicolle discovered that her pupils are weak in comprehension. To further determine in which
particular skill(s) her pupils are weak, which test should Teacher Nicolle give?
Standardized test
Aptitude test
Placement
Diagnostic
21. A class got a mean raw score of 50 and a S.D. of 5 in an 80-item Physics test. If Gerson is a member of
the class and his score is 60, which of the following describe his performance?
Gerson scores 2 standard deviations below the class mean.
22. The practice of motivating students before we proceed to our lesson proper is in accordance with the
law of
exercise
effect
readiness
belongingness
What type of remedial work will be most helpful for a slow-learning pupil?
25. Which schools are subject to supervision, regulation and control by the state?
Public schools
Private schools
Mr. Ancheta who is counting the scores obtained by the students in his test.
Ms. Carino who is computing the final grade of the students after completing all their requirements.
Mrs. Murcia who is planning for a remedial instruction after knowing that students perform poorly
in her test.
27. Here is a test item:
The improvement of basic education should be the top priority of the Philippine government. Defend or
refute the position.
Under what type of question does this test item fall?
Low-level
Evaluative
Analysis
Convergent
28. Mrs. Manalo who is a high school teacher in science would like to measure the specific learning
outcome recalls chemical formulas. What is the most appropriate objective test item to use for
measuring it?
Test-retest
True-false
Matching Type
Multiple test
RA 7784
RA 7743
RA 7776
30. The mode of a score distribution is 23. What does this mean?
There is no score of 23.
31. Which philosophy approves of a teacher who lectures most of the time and requires his students to
memorize the formulas used in solving problems?
Progressivism
Realism
Pragmatism
Idealism
32. Religious rituals in the classroom and in the school programs prove the deep natural religiosity of the
Filipinos. Which philosophy has greatly contributed to this tradition?
Buddhism
Confucianism
Hinduism
Islam
33. To earn units for promotion, a teacher pays her fee but does not attend class at all. Does this
constitute professional growth?
Not immediately but yes after promotion.
34. About what percent of the cases falls between -1 and +1 in normal curve?
48%
68%
82%
96%
35. With a death threat over his head, Teacher D is directed to pass an undeserving student. Which will
a utilitarianist do?
Pass the student. Why suffer the threat?
Don't pass him; live by your principle of justice. You will get reward, if not in this life, in the next.
Pass the student. That will be of use to the student, his parents and you.
Don't pass him. You surely will not like someone to give you a death threat in order to pass.
36. Edgar Dale found out that people generally remember 10% of what they read but generally
remember 90% of what they do. What does this imply to a teachers instructional planning?
Plan a detailed lecture and provide the students with your lecture outline.
Give many reading materials to the students.
37. The Department of Education gives greater emphasis on the development of basic skills. What is the
philosophical basis for this?
Essentialism
Existentialism
Perennialism
Pragmatism
The first American teacher soldiers to help establish the public educational system in the
Philippines.
The teachers who first taught at the University of Sto. Tomas.
39. What psychological principle is used when teacher links the new information to the previous one to
enable the students gain a holistic view of the topic?
Stimulation
Accommodation
Assimilation
Conceptualization
40. What may be the result of a teacher violating any of the provisions of the Code of Ethics for
Professional Teachers?
early retirement
reduced salary
immediate demotion
41. Teacher Brian would like to provide hands-on experience on the expansion and contraction of
matter. Which of the following materials would be the best to use?
Models
Pictures
Realia
Slides
42. I like to develop the synthesizing skills of my students. Which one should I do?
Ask my students to formulate a generalization from the data shown in the graphs.
Direct my students to point out w/c part of the graph are right and w/c part is wrong.
Reflective
Process
Cooperative learning
45. What primary criterion should guide a teacher in the choice of instructional devices?
Novelty
Cost
Appropriateness
Attractiveness
46. The wide acceptance of bottom up management style has influenced schools to practice which
management practice?
Exclusion of politicians from the pool of guest speakers during graduation exercises
47. If the proportion passing for the upper and lower group is .87 and .30 respectively, what is the
discrimination index?
.30
.53
.57
.87
48. The Filipino learner envisioned by the Department of Education is one who is imbued with the
desirable values of a person who is
Makabayan, makatao, makahalaman, at maka-Diyos.
49. Here are raw scores in a quiz: 98, 97, 95, 93, 89, 87, 85, 80, 15,14, 13. To get a picture of the groups
performance, which measure of central tendency is MOST reliable?
Median
Mode
Mean
Range
50. Which of the different types of test covers a wide variety of objective?
True false
Matching
Multiple choice
Essay
51. Which is in accordance with the with-it-ness principle of classroom management of Kounin?
Students agree to disagree in class discussions.
52. Which factor in curriculum planning is concerned with the identification of required resources and a
list of expenditures and revenue estimates?
Budget determination
Goal setting
Situation analysis
53. Teacher H strives to draw participation of every student into her classroom discussion.
Which of these student needs is she trying to address? The need to
show one's oral abilities to the rest of the class
be creative
The stress on the superiority of formal education over that of alternative learning systems
55. Why is it sound to encourage our students to define terms in their own words? Because
students remember information better when they mentally process it in some way.
they ought to connect the terms that they learn with other terms
defining the terms in their own words helps them memorize the definition faster
Teacher C secretly gives way to a special favor (e.g. add 2 points to grade) requested by student A
Socrates
Confucius
Plato
58. Mrs. Santarin allows her 3 year old daughter to dress herself, fix her own room and sweep the floor.
What would Mrs. Santarins daughter develop?
Autonomy
Identity
Initiative
Mastery
59. You are very much interested in a quality professional development program for teachers. What
characteristic should you look for?
Prescribed by top educational leaders
60. Teacher Bettina had been teaching in a public school for nine years. He wanted to take a study leave
but knows little about this. Which document will give him the needed information?
Code of Ethics for Teachers
62. As provided for in the Education Act of. 1982, how are the institutions of learning encouraged to set higher
standards of quality over the minimum standards required for state recognition?
Granting of Special Permit
Academic freedom
Voluntary accreditation
63. Mark 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?
Generalization
Acquisition
Discrimination
Extinction
Study this matching type of test. Then answer the question below.
__1. Measure of relationship A. Mean
__2. Measure of central tendency B. Standard deviations
__3. Measure of reliability C. Percentile rank
__4. Measure of position D. t-score
__5. Measures of variability E. Spearman rho
64. WHICH IS A WAY TO IMPROVE THE ABOVE MATCHING TEST?
Add five items in both columns
65. Teacher Grace would like to show the behavior of animals in their natural habitat but due to
financial constraint, she couldnt bring the students to the zoo. What should she do to make the
teaching-learning process more realistic and meaningful?
Go to the zoo and relate all observations made.
Let the students bring animals inside the classroom.
66. For more efficient and effective management of schools as agents of change, one proposal is for the DepEd
to cluster remote stand-alone schools under one lead school head. Which factor has the strongest influence
on this proposal?
Psychological
Historical
Geographical
Social
67. Teacher Cora observes cleanliness and order in her classroom to create a conducive atmosphere for
learning. On which theory is her practice based?
Psychoanalysis
Gestalt psychology
Behaviorism
Humanistic psychology
68. For grades to made valid indicators of students achievements which process should be observed?
Adopting letter grades such as A, B, C, D
6&7
7.4
70. Which type of curriculum emphasizes on sequential room arrangements, timed segments of formal
instruction, disciplined messages where concentration equates to student behaviors were they are
sitting up straight and are continually quiet?
Concomitant curriculum
Received curriculum
71. Ms. Marquez wants to teach the students the performance of a certain skill such as dancing. Which
technology would be the most appropriate and convenient to use?
Radio
Video
Audio tape
Printed material
72. Which question is inappropriate when we select the content of an instructional material?
Is it current?
73. The right of a teacher to uphold his freedom to discuss lessons within his field of expertise without
fear of being persecuted is
Professional Growth
Academic Freedom
Right of Suffrage
Freedom of Speech
74. The specialization required of every professional teacher for him/her to be competent is in line with
which pillar of learning?
Learning to know
Learning to be
Learning to do
75. To reach out to clientle who cannot be in the classroom for one reason or another, which of the
following was established?
K-12 program
Special education(SPED)
Pre-school education
76. Under no circumstance shall a teacher be neither prejudiced nor discriminatory against any learner,
says the Code of Ethics. When is a teacher prejudice against any learner?
When he makes a nearsighted pupil sit at the front
78. The Philippine Teacher Professionalization Act of 1994 adapted and promulgated the
Code of Professional Teachers
79. A student complains to you about his failing grade. When you recomputed you found out that you
committed an error in his grade computation. Your decision is not to accept the erroneous
computation before the student and so leave the failing grade as is for fear that you may lose
credibility. Is this morally right?
No, you should accept your mistake and correct the grade.
80. Teacher Myra uses direct instruction strategy. Which will she first do?
Presenting and Structuring
Independent practice
81. Which phase of curriculum development involves the decision to make as evaluation results are
utilized?
Curriculum change
Curriculum organization
Curriculum implementation
Curriculum planning
82. The State shall protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels. Which
government program is in support of this?
Exclusion of children with special needs from the formal system
83. The most important contribution of the Gestalt psychology to the theories of learning is
The use of multimedia approaches
Cognitive insight
84. Mrs. Bernardo, a good teacher has a constant bout with asthma. Which would be affected if she
continues teaching?
Self-discipline
Efficiency
Self-realization
Punctuality
85. Mrs. Trajeco wants to establish the reliability of her achievement test in English. Which of the
following activities will help achieve her purpose?
Administer two parallel tests to different groups of students.
Those things that students actually take out of classroom; those concepts and content that are truly
89. Teacher Celia always checks on entry knowledge and skills before she proceeds to her new lesson. On
which principle is Teacher Celias practice grounded?
Effective teaching proceeds from the concrete to the abstract.
90. Mrs. Panaligan developed an Achievement Test in Math for her grade three pupils. Before she
finalized the test, she examined carefully if the test items were constructed based on the competencies
that have to be tested. What test of validity was she trying to establish?
content-validity
concurrent validity
predictive validity
construct validity
The scores are concentrated more at one end or the other end
93. Teachers are encouraged to make use of authentic assessment. Which goes with authentic
assessments?
De-contextualized drills
Unrealistic performances
Inductive reasoning
Modeling
Interactive teaching
95. By which process do children become participating and functioning members of society by fitting
into an organized way of life?
Socialization
Acculturation
Accommodation
Enculturation
96. Teacher Violie wants to check prior knowledge of his pupils about water pollution. She writes the
main topic Matter in the center of the chalkboard and encircles it. Then, she ask the pupils to provide
information that can be clustered around the main topic. Which technique did the teacher employ?
Vocabulary building
Demonstration
Semantic mapping
Deductive teaching
97. How can you exhibit expert power on the first day of school?
By making them feel you know what you are talking about.
By reminding your students your authority over them again and again.
98. What does the principle of individual differences require teachers to do?
Give less attention to gifted learners.
99. Which is a classroom application of this principle: Students learn more effectively when they
elaborate on new information. Ask your students to
write the principle five times
print the principle in bigger letters then put it in a place where they can read it time and again
outcome of instruction.
Teacher Siena who gave a ten-item test to find out the specific lessons which the students failed to
understand.
Teacher Michelle who administered a readiness test to the incoming grade one pupils.
101. The right hemisphere of the brain is involved with the following functions EXCEPT
Nonverbal functions.
Visual functions.
Intuitive functions.
Detail-oriented functions.
R A 7836
R A 4670
R A 7722
R A 9293
106. Republic Act No. 7836 otherwise known as LET is required for those who are engaged in
teaching in
107. Mr. Manuel is retiring next month. Which provision of the Magna Carta would be applicable to
him?
give him a higher position
108. Children learn what they live by. Treat them with respect and they will respect others. Shout at
them and they will be shouting at others, too. How would you explain this behavior?
110. Mrs. Del Prado made an evaluation of her students behavior. She also sent questionnaires to the
parents of her students and interviewed the previous and present teachers of her students to get a
global result of her evaluation. What principle of evaluation did Mrs. Del Prado is applying?
Evaluation should be diagnostic
111. Public school children can take optional religious instruction provided
112. Ms. Villar, an accounting graduate would like to teach mathematics in the high school. How will
she qualify for this?
take MA in mathematics
114. Which does not belong to the group of alternative learning systems?
Graded education
Multi-age grouping
Multigrade grouping
Non-graded grouping
115. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the new Basic Education Curriculum?
It aims to provide more attention on the means of learning and at the same time promote values
It also helps to keep pace with the changes in the global context of our educational system and to
It develops wider views of each subject matter while reducing redundancy of content.
116. The use of Filipino and English as media of instruction in separate subject areas is called
Language Law
Tag-lish Act
Language Education
Bilingual Education
117. With indirect instruction in mind, which does NOT belong to the group?
Experiential method
Inductive method
Lecture-recitation
Discovery method
118. For which lesson objective will use the direct instruction method?
The items in the right and left columns are equal in number.
121. Which graphic organizers are used to show event in chronological order?
122. The document that embodies the rights of public school teachers is
Eradication of illiteracy
126. After doing the exercise on verbs, Teacher Mercy gave a short quiz to find out how well the
students have understood the lesson. What type of assessment was done?
Summative Assessment
Formative Assessment
Diagnostic Assessment
Placement Assessment
127. Marlyn, a new BEED graduate would like to have a teaching position. What should she do first
to be taken in a public school?
take MA units
128. Mr. Fabic, a teacher who is about to retire still continues attending seminar-workshops, in-
service training and other teacher conferences. What could be his reason for this action?
130. Teacher Dianne used a video in her Makabayan class. Which generalization could best support
the utilization of the instructional material?
She wanted her students to observe things with audio and visual elements.
131. Which is a teaching approach for kindergartens that makes real world experiences of the child
the focal point of educational stimulation?
Situation approach
Traditional approach
Eclectic approach
Montessori approach
133. Ms. Manalo would like to develop students keenness in identifying sounds in the environment.
Which of the following is the most appropriate technology to use?
film
printed material
The lower the standard deviation the more spread the scores are.
The higher the standard deviation the more spread the scores are.
The higher the standard deviation the less spread the scores are.
135. Which one can help student development the habit of critical thinking?
138. The last year of pre-service education of education is student teaching. Student teaching is
classified as
Role playing
Simulation
Field trip
Demonstration
139. What is the advantage of knowing the developmental tasks for the stage of development that the
students are in?
The teacher will be able to determine whether or not the tasks she plans for the students are
appropriate
The students will be able to make adjustments with their teachers styles and activities.
140. Which among the following objectives in the psychomotor domain is highest in level?
To contract a muscle
142. What principle is violated by overusing the chalkboards, as though it is the only education
technology available?
Isolated use
Flexibility
Variety
Uniformity
143. Bruners theory on intellectual development moves from enactive to iconic and symbolic stages.
Be interactive in approach
Do direct instruction
The farther you are from the base, the more direct the learning experience becomes.
The farther you are from the bottom, the more direct the learning experience becomes.
The closer you are to the base, the more indirect the learning experience become
The closer you are to the base, the more direct the learning experience becomes.
146. The grade one pupils were given a diagnostic test in addition and subtraction of whole numbers
to find out if they can proceed to the next unit. However, the results of the test were very low. What
should the teacher do?
Proceed to the next lesson to be able to finish all the topics in the course.
Construct another test parallel to the given test to determine the consistency of the scores.
Count the frequency of errors to find out the lessons that the majority of students need to relearn.
Record the scores then inform the parents about the very poor performance of their child in
mathematics.
Technology transfer
Peer mentoring
Facilitating
Independent study
148. Which practice does NOT fit in a classroom that recognizes individual differences?
Uniform requirements
149. The following terms refer to performance objectives EXCEPT __________ objectives.
teacher's
behavioral
learner's
lesson
One of its purposes is to link the past with the new lesson.
It is repeating the lesson on the previous day to find out if students learned the lesson.