Professional Education
1. Which Republic Act provides government assistance to students and teachers in private education?
a. RA 7836
b. RA 7784
c. RA 6728
d. RA 6675
2. In the preamble of the CODE of ethics for Professional Teachers, which of the following teacher descriptions is included in the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers?
a. With satisfactory teaching performance
b. Passed the licensure exams for teachers
c. Duly licensed professional
d. Persons of dignity and reputation
3. Which stage according to Erickson is the stage of trust and mistrust?
a. Young adulthood c. Adolescence b. Early childhood d. Infancy
4. In the history of education system, including that of the Philippines, which system was first and last remained a partner of other systems of education?
a. Formal
b. Non-formal
c. Informal
d. Pre-school
5. Who among the following subscribe to the theory that the good, the true and the beautiful are universally valid in all places at all times?
a. Realists and idealists
b. Realist and existentialists
c. Pragmatists and idealists
d. Pragmatists and realists
6. The 1987 Constitution mandates the state to encourage among others self-learning, independent and out-of-school study programs particularly those that respond to community needs. Which is an off shoot of this mandate?
a. Institutionalization of early childhood care and development
b. Principal empowerment program
c. Multi-grade teaching
d. Practices of community-based learning
7. Authors claim that education is given greater in the 1987 Philippine Constitution than in the past Constitution. Which article provision on education is found only in the 1987 Constitution?
a. Support to teacher education
b. Provision on assigning the highest budget priority to education
c. The establishment of the integrated system of education
d. The creation of CHED
8. According to Hurlock, studies of children’s play revealed that toy play reaches its peak during the
a. Middle childhood years
b. Early childhood years
c. Babyhood
d. Late childhood
9. In a DECS memorandum issued last 1998, the new name for multi-grade class is:
a. A.Friendly school
b. School-of-the-future
c. Paaralan ng bahay
d. Escuela nueva
10. The student-centered curriculum belongs to which group of educators?
a. Reconstructionist-Essentialist
b. Progressivist, Perennialist
c. Perennialist, Essentialist
d. Progressivist, Reconstructionist
11. Daniel Goleman talks about emotional intelligence. Which of the following characterize a student with a high degree of emotional intelligence?
a. Sensitive to points of view and feeling of others
b. Prodded by others
c. Obsessed with achieving at any cost
d. Unable to delay gratification
12. The history of curriculum development includes the hidden curriculum approach. Which is the content emphasis of the hidden curriculum?
a. Students experiences and activities
b. Implicit processes and social norms
c. Student needs and interest
d. Introspection and choice
13. Teacher T is concerned with conceptual matters since reality is mental teacher T’s thinking is quite-
a. Realistic
b. pragmatic
c. existential
d. Idealistic
14. The authoritarian setting in the Filipino home is reinforced by a classroom teacher who-
a. Asks open –ended questions
b. Encourages pupils to ask questions
c. Prescribes what pupils should do
d. Is open to suggestions
15. A number of researches found that the effects of maternal employment on children’s achievement are-
a. Hardly established
b. Positive and negative
c. Fully established
d. Negative
16. Which one correctly describes the phenomenon of latchkey children?
a. They turn to empty homes after school either to sit by the television or to roam the streets
b. They are truant school children
c. They are engaged in child labor
d. They are engaged in child labor
17. Teacher Q regards the student as a spiritual entity and as part of the larger spiritual universe. To what philosophy does teacher Q subscribe?
a. Idealism
b. Existentialism
c. Realism
d. Pragmatism
18. The 1987 Constitution mandates the state to assign the highest budgetary priority to-
a. Health
b. Education
c. Social work
d. defense
19. Moral development in early childhood is characterized by-
a. Questioning rules
b. Willful disobedience of rules
c. Acting out of conviction
d. Acting without knowing why they do so
20. According to Piaget, by adolescence boys and girls must have reached what stage?
a. Concrete operations stage
b. Sensorimotor stage
c. Formal operations stage
d. Pre-operational stage
21. Ruth dances well. She can figure out how something works or how to fix something that is broken, without asking for help. Based on Garden’s theory of multiple intelligence under what intelligence is she strong?
a. Musical
b. Logical-mathematical
c. Spatial intelligence
d. Kinesthetic intelligence
22. Who among the following believes that learning requires disciplined attention regular homework, and respect for legitimate authority?
a. Reconstructionist
b. Perennialist
c. Essetialist
d. Progressivist
23. Which developmental task is expected of the adolescent according to havughurst?
a. Achieving new and more mature relations with age-mates of both sexes
b. Skilled games
c. Getting started in an occupation
d. Learning to get along with age-mates
24. Mr. Roy wants his pupils to be creative. Which of the following will he REFRAIN from doing?
a. Heighten the student’s sense of unusual
b. Develops students’ ability to recognize and analyze problems and relationships
c. Encourage sustained attention in an area of interest
d. Develop solely skill mastery
25. The creation of Student’s Loan Fund to give equal opportunity to all persons who desire to pursue higher education is the essence of:
a. RA 6014
b. RA 7836
c. RA 6655
d. RA 7784
26. In his/her teaching, Teacher D moves from particular instances to tentative generalizations that are Subjected to further verification. Teacher D engages himself/herself in:
a. Intuition
b. Inductive logic
c. Deductive logic
d. Philosophical analysis
27. Which of the correct statement of emotional intelligence is based on Daniel Goleman’s theory?
a. Emotional intelligence is feeling approximately and effectively
b. Emotional intelligence id being nice to people
c. Emotional intelligence is giving free rein to feeling
d. Emotional intelligence changes less considerably than IQ through life.
28. Which of the following is not a subject-centered curriculum?
a. Perennialist
b. back to basic
b. values centered
d. Subject area
29. Which program is assisted financially by the World Bank and OECF and is meant for the improvement of elementary education in the SRA provinces?
a. Program for Decentralized Education
b. First Elementary Education Project
c. Kinesthetic intelligence
d. Second Elementary Education Project
30. Mr. Z, A fifty-five year old American citizen, even though very educationally qualified to be president an educational institution in third country cannot be appointed as President because: He_____
a. Does not belong to a religious group
b. Is nearing retirement
c. Is not Filipino Citizen
d. Is not an official of a corporation
31. Which of the following is not a hazard to the mastery of developmental tasks?
a. Unfavorable social judgment
b. Bypassing of stage of development as a result of failure to master the tasks for that stage of development
c. Crisis when individuals pass from on stage to another
d. Inappropriate or impossible expectations
32. Teacher U emphasizes to her students the importance of deep personal reflection on one’s commitments and choices. Teacher U subscribes to which Philosophy?
a. Realism
b. Idealism
c. Existentialism
d. Pragmatism
33. The constitutional provision on language has the following aims, Except:
a. To make Filipino the national language and medium of instruction and official communication b. To make the regional dialect as auxiliary media of instructions in regional schools
c. To make Filipino the sole medium of instruction
d. To maintain English as a second language
34. Which periods in the life span of an individual are characterized by growth spurt?
a. Early childhood and adolescence
b. Prenatal period and early childhood
c. Early childhood
d. Pre-natal and puberty
35. The introduction of non-formal education in line with the Constitutional Provision on:
a. Protection of teachers
b. Promoting the rights of all citizens to make quality education accessible to all
c. Optional religious instructions
d. Promoting the rights of all citizens to quality education at all levels
36. Teacher X is often times frustrated. The students in her class hardly volunteer to recite and to do other learning-related task. This is a proof of the Filipino’s:
a. Sense of humor
b. Lack of resourcefulness
c. Lack of reflection
d. Passivity and lack of initiative
37. The tendency to emphasize so much on school beautification to the detriment of pupil’s performance illustrated the:
a. Filipino’s sense of humor
b. Filipino’s lack of reflection
c. Filipino’s love for “ Porma” at the expense of substance
d. Filipino’s lack of seriousness
38. A president body to study Philippines education created by virtue of Executive Order No. 46 during the incumbency of DECS secretary Andrew Gonzales with an aim to study Philippine Education is the:
a. Presidential Commission on Educational Reform
b. Philippine Commission to Survey Philippine Education
c. Survey to outcomes of elementary Education
d. Commission on Philippine Education
39. Which is a danger signal of adolescent mal-adjustment?
a. Inappropriate body-build
b. Irresponsibility as shown in neglect of studies in favor of having a good time
c. Attraction to the opposite sex
d. Prolonged treatment as children
40. To democratize access to secondary education, public secondary education was made free. In whose presidency was this implemented?
a. Ferdinand Marcos
b. Joseph Estrada
c. Corazon C. Aquino
d. Fidel Ramos
41. Which is not a characteristic of democratic discipline?
a. Child obeys blindly
b. Child understands the meaning of rules
c. Child is given punishment us related to the misdeed
d. Child has opportunity to express his/her opinion
42. The three A’s of happiness according to Hurlock are:
a. Adjustments, affection, altruism
b. Attitude, ability, adjustment
c. Acceptance, affection, and achievement
d. Affection, ability, attitude
43. Babyhood is often referred to as a “ Critical period” in the development of personality because:
a. At this time the foundations are laid upon which the adult personality structure will be built
b. Changes in the personality pattern take place
c. The brain grows and develops at such an accelerated rate during babyhood
d. At this time the baby is exposed to many hazards both physical and psychological
44. Who among the following stressed the processes of experiences and problem solving?
a. Plato
b. Hegel
c. Dewey
d. Aristotle
45. Teacher L believes that creation of knowledge in by way of the learners’ interaction with their environment. Teacher L is more of:
a. An idealist
b. A pragmatist
c. An existentialis
d. A realist
46. To reach out clientele who cannot be in the classroom for one reason or another, which of the following was established
a. Non-formal education
b. Informal education
c. Pre-school education
d. formal education
47. The encouragement of self-learning, independent, and out-of-school study programs as stated in the 1987 constitution has given rise to:
a. The implementation of open universities and distance learning programs
b. Institutionalization of early childhood care and development
c. The conduct of NEAT and NSAT
d. The clamor for a Grade VII
48. Which of the following statement on developmental tasks is wrong?
a. Failure to master developmental tasks at a certain developmental stage has far reaching consequences in a person’s development
b. The mastery of development tasks is a result of physical maturation, societal pressure and individual’s aspiration
c. There are essential skills expected to be acquired and mastered in each developmental stage
d. Retirees are not expected to work on mastering certain develop mental tasks
49. The 1987 Philippines Constitution states the following, Except:
a. The official languages of the Philippines are Filipino and English
b. The national language of the Philippines is Filipino
c. Filipino is the Tagalog of the Tagalog –speaking provinces
d. The government shall initiate and sustain the use of Filipino as a medium of official communication and as a language of instruction in the education system
50. Which among the following has been said to play an irreplaceable role in the education of the young?
a. community
c. school
b. church
d. Home
51. For the drill method to be effective there should be:
a. Much practice on a few skills
b. Little practices on few skills
c. Much practice on many skills
d. Little practice on many skills
52. Which of the following classroom management practices runs counter to the reality therapy approach of William Glasser?
a. The teacher asks a misbehaving student what he or she is doing
b. Teacher requires the students to prepare a plan in writing and sign it as means of increasing personal motivation to maintain and fulfill the plan
c. The teacher evaluates pupil’s behavior as good or bad
d. Teacher assists the students in making realistic plans to change behavior
53. Which of the following does not apply to mastery learning?
a. It makes use of varied instructional time for different groups of students
b. It makes use of norm-reference tests
c. It is effective in teaching basic skills
d. It requires the use of carefully crafted instructional objective
54. The teacher’s role in problem solving methods is:
a. To test the conclusions
b. To set up the problem
c. To propose ways of obtaining the needed data
d. To help the learners what is it that is being solved
55. To nurture creativity in student, teacher should:
a. Vary the length and difficulty of question
b. Allow for one-minute wait-time
c. Ask convergent questions
d. Emphasize the necessity of giving right answers
56. The content of a good lesson plan is self-sufficient. This means that:
a. The content should match with student’s aptitude
b. The content should help students learn how to learn
c. The content should be broad and treated thoroughly
d. The content should be verifiable
57. Which one can NOT help individuals reduce their own fears about change?
a. Reflect on the extent of change in one’s life so far and how it has coped with
b. Identify shortfalls in skills or knowledge and take action to remedy them
c. Identify skills which will be useful in a new situation
d. Keep feeling of anxiety to themselves
58. The following are generating thinking skills, Except:
a. Connecting new ideas
b. Predicting
c. classifying
d. Inferring
59. Mrs. Valdez wants to generates as many ideas as she can as the class is about to embark on a community outreach program. Which of the following will she employ?
a. role playing
b. brainstorming
c. brainwashing
d. simulation
60. Which teaching practice will most likely decrease learner’s attention?
a. Questioning
b. Assessing learning as an integral part of instruction
c. Assessing learning as an integral part of instruction
d. Teaching by telling
61. For efficiency, if in the process of teaching a teacher realizes that too little has been planned, which of the following may she NOT do?
a. Discuss possible problems of the new assignment.
b. Pose additional questions to explore various facets of the content
c. Drill the students on the major points of the lesson.
d. Give a quiz
62. Correct practice makes perfect. This maxim is based on Thorndike’s law of exercise and the finding that reinforcement of a response increases the likelihood its occurrence. Whose research finding is the underlined statement?
a. Skinner
b. Bruner
c. Palo
d. Lewin
63. Here is a lesson objective: Given a microscope and a slide, the students must be able to focus the prepared slide. Applying Robert F. Mager’s principle, which does this lesson objective lack?
a. Criterion measure
b. Condition
c. performance
d. time element
64. Which is a focusing thinking skill?
a. Identifying key concepts
b. Summarizing
c. Obtaining information
d. Clarifying through inquiry
65. In the use of television in the classroom, which of the following should be avoided?
a. The TV program lasts the whole class period.
b. There is a pre-viewing orientation
c. Select programs that match the learners’ level of interest and maturity
d. Life should be left on if students are to take notes
66. Based on Victor Lowenfield’s classification, which sequence in the developmental stages of children in art is followed?
a. Scribbling stage, pre-schematic stage, schematic stage, dawning realism stage, pseudo-realistic stage b. Scribbling stage, pre-schematic stage, schematic stage, pseudorealistic stage, dawning realism stage c. Pre-schematic stage, schematic stage, scribbling stage, pseudorealistic stage, dawning realism stage d. Pre-schematic, schematic stage, scribbling dawning realism stage, pseudo-realistic stage
67. In relation to teacher’s ratings research suggests the following, Except one:
a. Teachers favor self-evaluation over all other forms of evaluation
b. Peer and supervisory evaluation are not reliable
c. Student raters of teachers are more reliable and valid than other raters
d. Student work and test outcomes are supplementary sources for evaluating teachers
68. Suppose defined 3 levels of computer-assisted instruction: dialogue, tutoring, practice-drill. Which ones are two higher levels in the correct order?
a. Tutoring and dialogue
b. Practices-drill and tutoring
c. Dialogue and tutoring
d. Practice-drill and dialogue
69. In what condition is the use of the lecture method appropriate?
a. Higher cognitive learning is sought
b. The information is not available
c. The subject matter is quite easy
d. Long term learning is desired
70. Which refers to the time when students learn at a maximum level?
a. Wait time
b. Engaged time
c. Allocated time
d. Academic learning time
71. What is a sign of the underachiever in the classroom?
a. Resist authority and carry on a power struggle with a teacher.
b. Holds back from class participant unless sure of self
c. Frustrated about quality of work
d. Minimum work output.
72. If after calling on a number of students, a teacher is unable to obtain the desired response, what should teacher do?
a. Ask leading questions
b. Re-teach parts of the lesson that need re-teaching
c. Probe student’s answers.
d. Rephrase the questions
73. For global competitiveness, a school must embark on a proactive change. Which one is a characteristic of proactive change?
a. radical and inventive
b. imitative of others
c. late in the game
d. problem-driven
74. Which guideline on the use of the chalkboard should a teacher AVOID?
a. Establish routine uses for the chalkboard
b. While writing, proceed from right to left
c. Don’t talk to the chalkboard while writing on it
d. Limit your board writing to major ideas
75. To teach the democratic process to the pupils, Mabuhay Elementary School decided that the election of class and school officers shall be patterned after local election of the class and school officers shall be patterned after local election process. There are qualifications set for candidates, limited period for campaign and rules for postingcampaign materials, etc. Which of the following did the school use?
a. Simulation
b. Philips 66
c. role playing
d. Symposium
76. Which is NOT a characteristic of preventive discipline.
a. Proactive
b. Anticipatory
c. Inventive
d. Reactive.
77. One criterion that has been proposed in the selection and organization of content in the development section of a lesson plan is balance. When does lesson content possess balance.
a. The content should have practical application for the learners
b. The content is not cluttered by masses of more trivial content
c. The content should enable the learners to experience the broad sweep of content and give them the opportunity to go deeper
d. The content should help student learns how to learn
78. The burnout malady gets worse if a teacher doesn’t intervene to change whatever areas he or she can control. Which one can renew a teachers enthusiasm.
a. Engage in self-pity
b. Stick to the job
c. Judge someone else as wrong
d. Initiate changes in job.
79. Although learning can take place anywhere and anytime, the more systematic the teacher, the greater the probability for success. This points out the need for teachers to:
a. Specify their objectives
b. Plan their lessons
c. Set their teaching priorities
d. Select their instructional materials
80. Below are teachers effective classroom management practices, Except One.
a. Teachers make sure students understand and follow rules and procedures
b. Disruptive behavior is handled every weekend
c. Teachers clearly establish consequences for not following rules
d. Teachers spend more time in the beginning of the year explaining and reminding students of rules.
81. A teacher’s summary of a lesson serves the following functions except;
a. It links the parts of the less
b. It makes provisions for full participation of the students
c. It clinches the basic ideas or concepts of the lesson
d. It brings together the information that has been discussed
82. Which ones are projected visuals?
a. Graphs on a book c. Realias
b. Models
c. realias
d. Slides
83. The lesson is on the pros and cons of capital punishment. Mr. Milan wants to do high level thinking and to develop a view of capital punishment from a different perspective. Which technique will be most appropriate?
a. Lecture
b. Simulation
c. Role playing
d. Panel discussion
84. Which is used to emphasize individualized instruction?
a. Tutorial group c. Inquiry group
b. Philips 66
c. Inquiry group
d. Task group
85. Here a question: FROM THE DATA PRESENTED FORM GENERALIZATIONS THAT ARE SUPPORTED BY THE DATA. Under what type of question does this test item fall?
a. Evaluate
b. Convergent
c. Divergent
d. Application
86. Ms. Estira cannot bring her pupils to the sea for a lesson on marine community. Which of the following will be closest to an actual experience of marine community?
a. Motion picture on marine community
b. Description of marine community
c. Pictures of marine community
d. Taped lesson of marine community
87. Which can NoT help organizations reduces fears about change?
a. By training people in new skills
b. By keeping people informed about plans
c. By cladestine moves
d. By consultation
88. After a lesson in air pollution, teacher C gives each pupil mimeographed sheets, which contain statements to which each is expected to react. Examples of these statements are. Do you in any way contribute to air pollution? What solutions do you propose to minimize, if not eliminate, air pollution. Then the students are grouped for sharing. In this case what does the teacher make use of _______
a. Value sheet
b. Conflict story
c. Rank ordering
d. Contrived incident
89. Which orders consist of the goal-oriented instructional model?
a. Pre-assessment, specification of objectives, pre-assessment, instruction, evaluation
b. Specification of objectives, pre-assessment, instruction evaluation
c. Pre-assessment, specification of objectives, instruction, evaluation
d. Specification of objectives, evaluation, pre-assessment, instruction
90. Teacher B’s lesson was on abortion. She wanted to get her student’s maximum participation and reaction. She showed slides on abortion accompanied by an audiotape that presented the reasons for and against abortion. Teacher took a stand in favor of abortion and came up with all her justifications. At the end, however, she made clear her stand on abortion. Which did the teacher use?
a. She made use of value clarifying discussion
b. She made use of contrived incident
c. She made use of simulation
d. She played the role of the devil’s advocate
91. In on of the pages of her reference material, Ms. Estrada finds the life cycle of a frog. Assuming that the following are available to her, the quickest way to effectively present the life cycle of a frog to the class is by way of
a. An overhead projector
b. An opaque projector
c. Describing the life cycle
d. A drawing on the chalkboard
92. Below are questions that must be considered in developing appropriate learning activities/ experience, Except one
a. Do the experiences encourage pupils to inquire further?
b. Do the experiences save the pupils from learning difficulties?
c. Can be experiences profit the pupils?
d. Are the experiences in accordance with an increasing amount of learning?
93. Which order of the senses goes with an increasing amount of learning?
a. Sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell
b. Taste and smell, sight , touch, hearing
c. Taste and smell, touch, sight, hearing
d. Taste and smell, touch, hearing, sight
94. Which of the following statements on peer tutoring is true?
a. Teacher has time with more severe learning problems
b. The atmosphere is threatening
c. The social skills of pear tutors are not enhanced
d. the peer tutor’s achievement goes down
95. A lesson in Philippines history was presented by Mrs. Palaroan by making her class view a videotape on EDSA revolution. The videotape which Mrs. Palaroan used in class points to what property of instructional media?
a. Manipulative
b. Multi-sensory
c. Fixative
d. Distributive
96. Read the following teacher-student- situation. Teacher: Why is the process called photosynthesis? Student: I don’t know. Which questioning technique should the teacher use?
a. Concept
b. Prompting
c. clarification
d. Multiple response
97. Miss Lee’s objective is to focus student’s attention on and quickly create interest in a problem or concept. She makes use of:
a. Task group
b. Panel discussion
c. tutorial group
d. Philips 66
98. The content of the lesson must be feasible. This means that:
a. The lesson should be interesting to the student
b. The lesson must be within the capacity of the students
c. The teacher must considered the time needed and resources available
d. The lesson must be useful
99. Which questioning behavior is appropriate:
a. Not allowing a student to complete a long response
b. Repeating all student’s response
c. Allowing choral responses
d. Asking varied questions
100. Research on teacher effective practices has shown the following except:
a. Planning has title impact on student learning
b. Questioning strategies are ineffective monitoring technique
c. Teaching procedures on classroom routines early in the school year are essential
d. Directives should be few and best delivered in a casual manner
Answer Key
1. C 2. D 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. D 7. B 8. D 9. B 10. C 11. A 12. B 13. D 14. C 15. A 16. A 17. B 18. B 19. D 20. C 21. D 22. B 23. A 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. A 28. C 29. A 30. C 31. C 32. C 33. C
34. A 35. B 36. D 37. C 38. A 39. B 40. C 41. A 42. C 43. A 44. C 45. D 46. A 47. A 48. D 49. A 50. D 51. A 52. A 53. B 54. D 55. A 56. B 57. C 58. B 59. B 60. D 61. D 62. A 63. A 64. B 65. B 66. A 67. B
68. B 69. B 70. A 71. B 72. D 73. A 74. C 75. A 76. D 77. C 78.D 79. B 80. B 81. B 82. D 83. D 84. A 85. A 86. A 87.C 88. A 89. C 90. D 91. D 92. B 93. D 94. A 95. B 96. C 97. B 98. B 99. D 100. C
