Prof Ed : Part 1

1. With R.A. 9155, to which body were all the functions, programs, and activities of the Department of Education related to Sports
competition transferred?
a. Technical Education Services Department Authority
b. Philippine Sports Commission
c. National Commission for Culture and the Arts
d. Commission on Higher Education

2. Parenting style influences children’s development. Read the following parent’s remarks for their children then, answer the question.
Parent C – Tells her child: “You should do it my way or else. There is no discussion.”
Parent D – Tells her husband: “It is 10:00 PM, do you know where your child is?”
Parent E – Tells her child: “You know, you should have not done that. Let’s talk about it so you can handle the situation better next
time.”
Parent F – Tells her child: “You may do what you want. We will always be here for you, no matter what you do.”

Which Parenting style is Authoritarian?

a. D b. F c. E d. C

3. Two identical beakers A and B are presented to the child. Teacher Sonny pours the liquid from B to C which is taller and thinner than
A and B but has equal capacity with B. The teacher asks if the beakers A and C have the same amount of liquid. The child says “NO”
and points to C as the beaker that has more liquid. In which cognitive developmental stage is the child?
a. Sensorimotor stage
b. Concrete operational stage
c. Pre-operational stage
d. Formal Operational stage

4. To determine her students’ level of moral development, Teacher Evangeline presents to her class a morally ambiguous situation
and asks them what they would do in such a situation. On whose theory is Teacher Evangeline’s technique based?
a. Bruner
b. Kohlberg
c. Freud
d. Piaget

5. According to R.A. 9155, which among the following is considered the “heart of the formal education system”?
a. The pupil
b. The teacher
c. The classroom
d. The school

6. You arrange the rows of blocks in such a way that a row of 5 blocks is longer than a row of 7 blocks. If you ask which row has more,
Grade 1 pupils will say that it is the row that makes the longer line. Based on Piaget’s cognitive development theory, what problem is
illustrated?
a. Assimilation problem
b. Accommodation problemc.
Conservation problem
d. Egocentrism problem

7. According to R.A. 9155, a school head has two roles, namely administrative manager and __.
a. Health officer
b. Instructional leader
c. Facilitator
d. Guidance counselor

8. After reading and paraphrasing Robert Frost’s Stopping by the Woods on Snowy Evening, Teacher Marko asked the class to share
any insight derived from the poem. In which domain in Bloom’s taxonomy of objectives is the term paraphrase?
a. Analysis c. Comprehension
b. Application d. Synthesis
9. Which characterizes a constructivist teaching-learning process?
a. Conceptual interrelatedness
b. Multiple perspectives
c. Authentic assessment
d. Passive acceptance of information

10. On what theory is the sequencing of instruction anchored?

a. Gagne’s hierarchical theory
b. B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning theory
c. Bandura’s social learning theory
d. Thorndike’s law of effect

11. A common complaint of teachers about pupils is this: “You give them assignment, the following day they come without any. You
teach them this today, asks them tomorrow and they don’t know. It is as if there is nothing that you taught them at all.” Based on the
theory of information processing, what must teachers do to counteract pupil’s forgetting?

I. Punish every child who can’t give correct answers to questions.

II. Work for meaningful learning by connecting lesson to what pupils know.
III.Reward every child who remembers past lessons.

a. III only c. II and III

b. I and III d. II only

12. When small children call all animals “dogs”, what process is illustrated, based on Piaget’s cognitive development theory?
a. Assimilation c. Reversion
b. Conservation d. Accommodation

13. Based on Bandura’s theory, which conditions must be present for a student to learn from a model?
I. Attention III. Motor reproduction
II. Retention IV. Motivation

a. I and II c. I, II, III and IV

b. I, II and III d. III and IV

14. According to Tolman’s theory on purposive behaviorism, learning is goal-directed. What is its implication to teaching?
a. Evaluate lessons based on your objective/s
b. Set as many objectives as you can
c. Stick to your objectives/s no matter what happens
d. Make the objective/s of your lesson clear and specific

15. Which is the ideal stage of moral development? Stage of _____.

a. Social contract
b. Universal ethical principle
c. Law and order
d. Good boy/good girl

16. Cristina’s family had a family picture when she was not yet born. Unable to see herself in the family picture, she cried despite her
mother’s explanation that she was not yet born when the family picture was taken. What does Cristina’s behavior show?
a. Limited social cognition
b. Egocentrism
c. Semi-logical reasoning
d. Rigidity of thought

17. To help a student learn to the optimum, Vygotsky advises us to bridge the student’s present skill level and the desired skill level by
______.
a. Challenging c. Inspiring
b. Scaffolding d. Motivating
18. Based on Piaget’s theory, what should a teacher provide in the formal operational stage?
a. Stimulating environment with ample objects to play with
b. Games and other physical activities to develop motor skills
c. Activities for hypothesis formulation
d. Learning activities that involve problems of classification and ordering

19. "Do not cheat. Cheating does not pay. If you do, you cheat yourself” says the voiceless voice from within you. In the context of
Freud’s theory, which is/are at work?
a. Id c. Ego
b. Id and Superego d. Superego

20. Here are comments from School Head Carmen regarding her observations on teacher’s practice in lesson planning:
The words “identify,” “tell” and “enumerate” are overused. Many times they make use of non-behavioral terms. Often their lesson
objectives do not include value formation and inculcation.
What can be inferred from the School Head’s comments regarding teacher formulated lesson objectives?
a. Often lesson objectives are in the low level
b. Very often lesson objectives are in the cognitive domain
c. Quite often lesson objectives describe teacher’s behavior
d. Often lesson objectives are in the psychomotor domain

21. Sassi, a Grade I pupil is asked, “Why do you pray everyday?” Sassi answered, “Mommy said so.” Based on Kohlberg’s theory, in
which moral development stage is Sassi?
a. Pre-convention level
b. Conventional level
c. In between conventional and post-conventional levels
d. In between pre- and post-conventional levels

22. Teacher Fatima tells her students: “You must be honest at all times not only because you are afraid of the punishment but more
because you yourselves are convinced of the value of honesty.” Based on Kohlberg’s theory, which level of moral development does
the teacher want her students to reach?
a. Conventional level
b. Between conventional and post-conventional levels
c. Between pre-conventional and post-conventional levels
d. Post-conventional level

23. Why is babyhood referred to as a “critical period” in personality development? Because:

a. At this time the baby is exposed to many physical and psychological hazards
b. Changes in the personality pattern take place
c. At this time the foundations are laid upon which the adult personality structure will be built
d. The brain grows and develops at such an accelerated rate during babyhood

24. It is good to give students creative learning tasks because ______.

a. Development is affected by cultural changes
b. The development of individuals is unique
c. Development is the individual’s choice
d. Development is aided by stimulation

25. According to Havighurst’s development tasks, reaching and maintaining satisfactory performance in one’s occupational career is
supposed to have been attained during ____.
a. Middle age and Early adulthood
b. Middle age
c. Old age
d. Early adulthood

26. Student Deina says: “I have to go to school on time. This is what the rule says.” In what level of moral development is the student?
a. Pre-conventional
b. Post-conventional
c. Conventional
 d. Cannot be specifically determined

27. In planning for instruction, can a teacher begin with assessment?

a. No, it may discourage and scare the learners
b. Yes, determine entry knowledge or skill
c. Yes, to make the class pay attention
d. No, assessment is only at the end of a lesson

28. Which among the following is closest to the real human digestive system for study in the classroom?
a. Drawing of the human digestive system on the board
b. Model of the human digestive system
c. The human digestive system projected on an OHP
d. Drawing of the human digestive system on a page of a textbook

29. Here is a question: “Is the paragraph a good one?” Evaluate. If broken down to simplify, which is the best simplification?
a. Why is the paragraph a good one? Prove
b. Is the paragraph a good one? Why or Why not?
c. If you asked to evaluate something, what do you do? Evaluate the paragraph?
d. What are the qualities of a good paragraph? Does the paragraph have these qualities?

30. Which one is in support of greater interaction?

a. Probing
b. Repeating the question
c. Not allowing a student to complete a response
d. Selecting the same student respondents

31. With this specific objective, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, this is how the teacher developed the lesson.
Step 1 – Teacher stated the rule on how to reduce fractions to their lowest term
Step 2 – Teacher wrote 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
4 6 8 10 12
and showed how to reduce them to 1
2
Step 3 – Teacher wrote 3 , 6 , 4 and
9 9 12
showed how to reduce them to their lowest term.
Step 4 – Teacher gave this written exercise to the class.
Reduce the following fractions to their lowest terms: 3 , 7 , 5 , 8 , 5 , 4
12 14 10 16 15 6

Did the lesson begin with concrete experience then developed into the abstract?

a. No
b. Yes, a little
c. Yes, by way of the examples given by the teacher
d. Yes, the pupils were involved in arriving at the rule on reducing fractions to their lowest terms

32. I want to compare two concepts. Which technique is most appropriate?

a. Attribute wheel
b. K-W-L techniques
c. Venn diagram
d. Spider web organizer

33. Which activity should a teacher have more for his students if he wants them to develop logical-mathematical thinking?
a. Focus group discussion
b. Problem solving
c. Games
d. Small group discussion
34. I want to use a pre-teaching strategy that will immediately engage my students in the content and will enable me to get an insight
into how students think and feel about the topic. Which is most appropriate?
a. K-W-L chart c. Graphic organizer
b. Story boarding d. Document analysis

35. For a discussion of a topic from various perspectives, it is best to hold a ______.
a. Debate c. Panel discussion
b. Brainstorming d. Symposium

36. After establishing my learning objectives, what should I do to find out what my students already know and what they do not yet
know in relation to my lesson objectives in the cognitive domain?
a. Give a pretest
b. Study the least learned competencies in the National Achievement Test
c. Analyze my students’ grades last year
d. Interview a sample of my students

37. What characterizes genuine change? Change in _____.

a. Appearance c. Substance
b. Form d. Physical attribute

38. In which strategy, can students acquire information from various perspectives, and led to reflective thinking and group consensus?
a. Debate
b. Small group discussion
c. Panel discussion
d. Symposium

39. At the end of my lesson on the role of a teacher in learning, I asked the class: “In what way is a teacher an enzyme?” With this
question, it engaged the class in _______.
a. Allegorical thinking
b. Concrete thinking
c. Metaphorical thinking
d. Symbolical thinking

40. Which must be primarily considered in the choice of instructional aide?

a. Must stimulate and maintain student interest
b. Must be updated and relevant to Filipino setting
c. Must be suited to the lesson objective
d. Must be new and skillfully made

41. For lesson clarity and effective retention, which should a teacher observe, according to Bruner’s theory?
a. Begin teaching at the concrete level but go beyond it by reaching the abstract
b. Use purely verbal symbols in teaching
c. Start at the concrete level and end there
d. End teaching with verbal symbols

42. Is it advisable to use realias all the time?

a. No, for the sake of variety of instructional materials
b. No, only when feasible
c. Yes, because there is no substitute for realias
d. Yes, because it is the real thing

43. I want my students to look at the issues on the call for President Arroyo to step down from several perspectives. Which activity is
most fitting?
a. Cross examination c. Symposium
b. Panel discussion d. Debate
44. I intended to inculcate in my students the value of order and cleanliness. I begin my lesson by asking them to share their
experiences about the dirtiest and the cleanest place they have seen and how they felt about them. From there I lead them to the
consequences of dirty and clean home of surroundings. In my lesson development plan, how do I proceed?
a. Transductively c. Deductively
b. Inductively d. Concretely

45. Teacher Neri wants to develop the ability of sound judgment in his students. Which of the following questions should he ask?
a. What is the essayist saying about judging other people?
b. With the elements of a good paragraph in mind, which one is best written?
c. Why is there so much poverty in a country where there is plenty of natural resources?
d. Of the characters in the story, with whom do you identify yourself?

46. The teacher is the first audio-visual aid in the classroom. What does this imply?
a. You take care that you follow the fashion or else students won’t listen to you
b. Your physical appearance and voice should be such that students are helped to learn
c. Make good use of the radio and TV in the classroom
d. Include singing in your teaching method

47. I used the gumamela flower, a complete flower, to teach the parts of a flower. Which method did I use?
a. Demonstration method
b. Type-study method
c. Drill method
d. Laboratory method

48. A teacher would use a standardized test ______.

a. To serve as a unit test
b. To serve as a final examination
c. To engage in easy scoring
d. To compare her students to national norms

49. Other than finding out how well the course competencies were met, Teacher Kathy also wants to know her students’ performance
when compared with other students in the country. What is Teacher Kathy interested to do?
a. Formative evaluation
b. Authentic evaluation
c. Norm-referenced evaluation
d. Criterion-referenced evaluation

50. I want to help my students retain new information. Which one will I use?
a. Questions c. Games
b. Mnemonics d. Simulations
Prof Ed : Part 2

1. I want to use a diagram to compare the traditional and authentic modes of assessment. Which one is most fit?
a. Affinity diagram
b. Tree diagram
c. Venn diagram
d. Fishbone diagram

2. A big story in your local newspaper. You want to use the headlines as an inquiry device. To increase student participation, you
might begin by ____.
a. Asking one to read the news story and interpret what he read after
b. Asking the class to infer connotations and denotations from the headline
c. Explaining what you believe to be the underlying causes
d. Describing the background of the story as you know it

3. If a triadic interaction includes three (3) persons, how many persons are included in a dyadic interaction?
a. Two
b. Two groups composed of two persons each
c. One, the person and himself
d. Four

4. When I teach skills that are critical to the learning of the next topics, what should I employ?
a. Direct instruction
b. Mastery learning
c. Socratic method
d. Cooperative learning

5. I want my students to have mastery learning of a basic topic. Which can help?
a. Drill
b. Socratic method and drill
c. Morrisonian technique and drill
d. Socratic method

6. Teacher Feng wanted to teach the pupils the skill of cross stretching. Her check-up quiz was a written test on the steps of cross
stitching. What characteristic of a good test does it lack?
a. Predictive validity
b. Objectivity
c. Reliability
d. Content validity

7. In the parlance of test construction, what does TOS mean?

a. Table of Specification
b. Team of Specifications
c. Table of Specifics
d. Terms of Specifications

8. If I favor “assessment for learning,” which will I do most likely?

I. Conduct a pre-test results

II. Teach based on pre-test results
III. Give specific feedback to students
IV. Conduct peer tutoring for students in need of help

a. I, II and IV c. I, II and III

b. II, III and IV d. I, II, III and IV
9. After a lesson on the atom, the students were asked to work on a physical model of the atom to determine learning. For which
group of students is building an atom model intended?
a. Interpersonality intelligent
b. Kinesthetically intelligent
c. Mathematically intelligent
d. Linguistically intelligent

10. If I want to develop creative thinking in my students, which one/s should I use?
I. Problem solving II. Brainstorming III. Dramatics

a. I and II c. III only

b. II only d. I, II and II

11. Which is/are effective method/s in teaching students critical reading skills?
a. Read and interpret three different movie reviews
b. Interpret editorials about a particular subject from three different newspaper
c. Distinguish fiction from non-fiction materials
d. Interpret editorials and read and interpret three different movie reviews

12. I want to present the characteristics features of a constructivist approach. What should I use?
a. Fishbone diagram
b. Venn diagram
c. Narrative frame
d. Attribute wheel

13. If all of your students in your class passed the pretest, what should you do?
a. Administer the posttest
b. Go through the unit as usual because it is part of the syllabus
c. Go through the lesson quickly in order not to skip any
d. Go on to the next unit

14. Teacher Vicky shows her students a picture of people in thick jackets. Then she asks them to tell her the kind of climate when
the picture was taken. If she asks 5 questions of this kind and her students do not get them, it is safe to conclude that pupils are quite
weak in the skill of _______.
a. Analyzing c. Synthesizing
b. Inferring d. Generalizing

15. Which must go with self-assessment for it to be effective?

a. Scoring rubric
b. Consensus of evaluation results from teacher and student
c. External monitor
d. Public display of results of self-evaluation

16. Which group of scores is most varied? The group with ________.
a. 0.90 SD c. 0.10 SD
b. 0.50 SD d. 0.75 SD

17. The main purpose in administering a pretest and a posttest to students is to _____.
a. Measure gains in learning
b. Measure the value of the material taught
c. Keep adequate records
d. Accustom the students to frequent testing

18. Assessment is said to be authentic when the teacher ________.

a. Consider students’ suggestion in teaching
b. Gives valid and reliable paper-and-pencil test
c. Gives students real-life task to accomplish
d. Includes parents in the determination of assessment procedures
19. The following are computed means of a hundred-item test: Physical science, 38; Math, 52; English, 33. Based on the data, which
is true?
a. The examinees seem to be very good in Physical Science
b. The Math test appears to be the easiest among the three
c. The examinees seem to excel in English
d. The English test appears to be the easiest among the three

20. An examinee whose score is within x + 1 SD belongs to which of the following groups?
a. Above average
b. Average
c. Below average
d. Needs improvement

21. Which is true of a bimodal distribution?

a. The scores are neither high nor low
b. The group has two different groups
c. The score are high
d. The score are low

22. When you reach the “plateau of learning”, what should you do?
a. Forget about learning
b. Reflect what caused it
c. Force yourself to learn
d. Rest

23. What can be said if student performance in a positively skewed scores distribution?
a. Most students performed well
b. Most students performed poorly
c. Almost all students had averaged performance
d. A few students performed excellently

24. A number of test items in a test are said to be non-discriminating? What conclusion/s can be drawn?
I. Teaching or learning was very good.
II. The item is so easy that anyone could get it right.
III. The item is so difficult that nobody could get it.
a. II only c. III only
b. I and II d. II and III

25. A test item has a difficulty index of 0.51 and a discrimination index of 0.25. What should the teacher do?
a. Revise the item
b. Retain the item
c. Make it a bonus item
d. Reject the item

26. The difficulty index of a test item is 1. This means that _____________.
a. The test item is a quality item
b. The test is very difficult
c. The test is very easy
d. Nobody got the item correctly

27. If the compound range is low, this means that _____________.

a. The students performed very well in the test
b. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is low
c. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is high
d. The students performed very poorly in the test
28. What is the mastery level of a school division in a 100-item test with a mean of 55?

a. 42% b. 55% c. 45% d. 50%

29. A negative discrimination index means that ____________.

a. The test item has low reliability

b. More from the lower group answered the test item correctly
c. The test item could not discriminate between the lower and upper groups
d. More from the upper group got the item correctly

30. In an entrance examination, student Anna’s Percentile is 25 (P25). Based on this Percentile rank, which is likely to happen?

a. Student Anna will be admitted

b. Student Anna will not be admitted
c. Student Anna has 50-50 percent chance to be admitted
d. Student Anna has 75 percent chance to be admitted

31. What does a percentile rank of 62 mean?

a. It is the student’s score in the test

b. The student answered sixty-two (62%) of the items correctly
c. The student’s score is higher than 62 percent of all students who took the test
d. Sixty-two percent (62%) of those who took the test scored higher than the individual

32. What does the computer have in common with the TV?

a. Key board c. Screen

b. File d. Disk drive

33. Which depicts in graphic form the social relations present in a group?

a. Interest inventory
b. Sociogram
c. Anecdotal record
d. Johari’s window

34. Planned ignoring, signal interference, and proximity control are techniques used in _____.

a. Managing temper tantrums

b. Managing surface behavior
c. Operant conditioning
d. Life-space interviewing

35. What should you do to get the child’s attention when she/he is distracted by an object in the room?
I. Call him by his name and tell him to pay attention
II. Put away the distracting influence
III. Involve him in helping with an activity

a. I and II c. II and III

b. I and III d. I, II and III

36. Which practice in our present educational system is in line with Plato’s thought that “nothing learned under compulsion stays
with the mind”?
a. Clarification of school policies and classroom rules on Day 1
b. Presentation of standards of performance in the learner
c. Making the teaching-learning process interesting
d. Involving the learner in the determination of learning goals
37. In Values Education, faith, hope, and love are believed to be permanent values whether they be valued by people or not. Upon
what philosophy is this anchored?

a. Realism c. Idealism
b. Existentialism d. Pragmatism

38. In the schools, we teach realities that cannot be verified by the senses like an Invisible God or Allah. Whose beliefs does this
practice negate?

a. Stoicists’ c. Skeptics’
b. Rationalists’ d. Empiricists’

39. Which emphasized on non-violence as the path to true peace as discussed in peace education?

a. Taoism c. Hinduism
b. Buddhism d. Shintoism

40. I make full use of the question-and-answer as a model for discussion. From whom is this question-and-answer method?

a. Socrates c. Aristotle
b. Kant d. Plato

41. A wife who loves her husband dearly becomes so jealous that in a moment of savage rage, kills him. Is the wife morally responsible
and why?

a. Not necessarily. Antecedent passion may completely destroy freedom and consequently moral responsibility
b. Yes, she killed her husband simply because of jealousy
c. It depends on the case of the wife’s jealousy
d. It depends on the mental health of the wife

42. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Man may understand all about the rotation of the earth but he may still miss the radiance of
the sunset.” Which type of education should be emphasized as implied by Martin Luther King Jr.?

a. Science and education

b. Vocational education
c. Liberal education
d. Technical education

43. Computer-assisted instruction is an offshoot of the theory of _____.

a. J. Piaget c. B.F. Skinner

b. J. Brunner d. J. Watson

44. The use of varied teaching and testing strategies on account of students’ multiple intelligences is in line with the thoughts of
______.

a. Daniel Goleman
b. Jean Piaget
c. Howard Gardner
d. Benjamin Bloom

45. Applying Confucius’s teachings, how would hiring personnel select the most fit in government positions?
a. By record evaluation done by an accrediting body
b. By government examinations
c. By accreditation
d. By merit system
46. “Moral example has a greater effect on pupils’ discipline than laws and codes of punishment” is an advice of teachers from
_________.

a. Confucius c. Lao tzu

b. Mohammed d. Mencius

47. “The principle of spontaneity against artificiality will make you accomplish something. Leave nature to itself and you will have
harmony” is an active advice from the _____.

a. Hindu c. Shintoist
b. Taoist d. Buddhist

48. The significance of liberal education in holistic development of students is supported by _____.

a. Perennialism
b. Pragmatism
c. Confucian teaching
d. Perennialism and Confucian philosophy

49. Is a sick teacher, the only one assigned in a remote school, excused from her teaching duty?

a. No, she is the only one assigned in that school

b. Yes, teaching is a demanding job
c. Yes, she is sick
d. No, she must abide by her contract

50. What is a demonstration of your authority as a professional teacher?

a. You make your pupils run errands for you

b. You decide on how to teach a particular lesson
c. You absent from class to enjoy your leave even without prior notice
d. You select to teach only those lessons which you have mastered