PRACTICE TEST FOR PROFESSIONAL

EDUCATION
1. Honesty remains a value even if
nobody in an organization values it.
This pronouncement comes from the
mouth of a (an) ___________.
a. Pragmatist
b. Idealist
c. Reconstructionist
d. Progressivist
2. I cannot help but recall the sisters
convent, which served as my boarding
house in high school now that I am in
a noisy boarding house. Which
principle of association explains this?

a. Inferring
b. Predicting
c. Concluding
d. Observing
6. Which teaching technique develops
creative thinking by the use of
comparison and analogy?
a. Heuristic
b. Aesthetic
c. Synectic
d. Intrinsic
7. Which is a typical characteristic of
the adolescent?

a. similarity

a. Reasonable and secure

b. contiguity

b. Feels intense emotions and sense of

disequilibrium

c. frequency
d. contrast
3. Which Piagetian term refers to ones
inability to distinguish between ones
own perspective and someone elses?

c. Slow but steady physical growth

d. Passive and obedient

a. Autism

8. In which stage of development does

the childs group begin to exert a
tremendous influence on the childs
attitudes and behavior?

b. Conservation

a. Late childhood

c. Centration

b. late adolescence

d. Egocentrism

c. Early adolescence

4. The use of multi level materials

enables a teacher to do.

d. Middle childhood

a. Review

9. Which is NOT an element of

cooperative learning?

b. Tutoring

a. Positive interdependence

c. application of lesson

b. Group accountability for learning

d. differentiated instruction

c. Individuals accountability for

learning

5. Which process does not fall under

extrapolation?

d. Face to face interaction

10. The reading teacher stays 30

minutes daily after class and teaches
the slow readers how to read. What is
the practice called?
a. make up class
b. enrichment activity
c. remedial instruction
d. development reading
11. Mrs. Ramos provided reading
materials of varying levels of difficulty
to the three groups of learners. Which
principle is implemented by her
action?
a. Focus on individuals need to
achieve
b. Help each student attain goals
c. Focus on student attention
d. Provide informative feedback
12. Using the principles of teaching as
a guide, describe how you would
solve the following problem situation
is a simple thought question on
_________
a. Synthesizing
b. Summarizing
c. Applying
d. Analyzing
13. Which statement on IQ test is
wrong?
a. It measures fixed potential.
b. It can be enriched by environmental
experiences.

14. I use the gumamela to teach the

parts of a complete flower. Later, the
flowers will be studied in comparison
to the gumamela. Which teaching
method did I use?
a. Type study
b. Laboratory
c. Discovery
d. Problem Solving
15. When the teacher Michelle
presents sets of data then asks the
students to enter a conclusion,
generalization or a pattern of
relationship which method does she
use?
a. Unit
b. Type
c. Inductive inquiry
d. Process
16. The claim of a benefactor to the
gratitude of his protg is an example
of a ___________.
a. Acquired right
b. Perfect right
c. Imperfect right
d. Alienable right
17. The last year of pre service
education students is student
teaching. Student teaching may be
classified as ________.
a. Simulation
b. Role Playing

c. It measures current performance.

c. Demonstration

d. It can be advanced by maturational

changes.

d. Field trip

18. At ranged in order, the steps of the

goal oriented instructional model
include.
a. Pre assessment, specification of
objectives, instruction, evaluation.
b. Pre assessment, specification of
objectives, motivation, instruction
c. Specification of objectives,
instruction, pre assessment,
evaluation
d. Specification of objectives, pre
assessment, instructions, evaluation
19. A sufficient wait time can achieve
the following EXCEPT___________ .
a. Provides time for teacher to
evaluate the answers given
b. Decreases the amount of guessing
or wrong interferences
c. Increases the number of correct
responses
d. Discourages slow and fast thinking
students to respond
20. As a naturalists, Jean Jacques
Rousseau claimed that everyone is
essentially good. This view can help
the teacher best when __________.
a. knowing the students potentials
b. teaching the students some values
c. dealing with misbehaving students
d. help the fast learners in class
21. If we teach our students, to think
creatively, what do we encourage
them to do?

d. Think within the box

22. A catalyst teacher is good at the
following skills, EXCEPT
a. Requiring uniform reports.
b. Making effective use of cooperative
learning techniques.
c. Executing inquiry teaching.
d. Asking thought provoking questions.
23. What recent education
development relates to perennialism?
a. Individualizing the learning
experience and activities.
b. Suiting the strategies to the
students learning style
c. Exercising the students higher order
thinking skills (HOTS)
d. Having drills and rote activities that
develop learning skills habits.
24. As a teacher you are a rationalist.
Which among these will be your
guiding principle?
a. I must teach the child so he is
assured of heaven.
b. I must teach the child that we can
never have real knowledge of
anything.
c. I must teach the child to develop his
metal powers to the full.
d. I must teach the child every
knowledge, skill and the value that he
needs for a better future.

a. Do outside the box thinking

25. Variance, standard deviation, and

range are all measures of
________________.

b. To criticize the unreasonable

a. Correlation

c. To question the illogical

b. Grouping

c. Variability
d. Central Tendency
26. Which is a characteristic of a
dyslexic child?
a. hard up in writing and spelling
b. attention getter
c. out of focus
d. hyperactive

b. There is no need to provide

background information
c. Children can be taught how to study
d. Learners have stock knowledge of
things based on background
information and experiences
31. Which term refers to the
collections of students products and
accomplishments for a period of
evaluation purposes?

27. Writing an original essay is an

example of which level of objective in
the cognitive domain?

a. Portfolio

a. Application

c. Observation report

b. Analysis

d. Anecdotal record

c. Synthesis

32. Some of your students dont seem

to like you as a teacher. If you will
regard situation on the level of the
ego, what will you most likely think
about it?

d. Evaluation
28. Which curricula were implemented
immediately before the restructured
Basic Education Curriculum?
b. NSEC and 22 plan

b. Diary

a. To hell with them

c. NESC and 22 plan

b. What wrong have I done to deserve

this?

d. PRODED and SEDP

c. Why should I care if they me or not?

29. Helping in the development of

graduates who are maka diyos is an
influence of ___________.

d. What is it about me that they do not

like?

a. situational morality
b. classical Christian morality
c. naturalistic morality
d. dialectical morality
30. Which principle was observed by
Ausubels schema theory?
a. Teachers must presume that
learners know everything

33. Which test is given to determine

the admission or non admission of the
student to the program?
a. Placement
b. Achievement
c. Aptitude
d. Diagnostic
34. Which question demands the
highest level of thinking?
a. How should you present a report in
class?

b. Was the student reporting well

done? Support you answer.
c. What steps they followed in class
reporting
d. What conditions must be met for
reporting method to be effective?
35. 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?
a. Primary schools for indigenous
peoples

38. Which is an advantage of teacher

made tests over those standardized
test?
a. highly reliable
b. better to the needs of the pupils
c. highly valid
d. more objectively scored
39. Which refers to the Filipino trait of
practicing conflicting values in
different venues and with different
social groups?
a. Crab mentality

b. Deregulated tuition fee hike

b. Kanya kanya mentality

c. Re introduction of the NEAT and

NSAT

c. Procrastination

d. Exclusion of children with special

needs from the formal system
36. In Piagets concrete operational
stage, what is it that a child CANNOT
do?
a. Reasoning applied to specific
example.

d. Existential intelligence
40. Student D says bahala na and
braves the storm for a test. In this
situation which is expressed by the
students bahala na?
a. Lack of self reliance
b. Willingness to take risks

b. Doing mentally what was just

physically done

c. Lack of foresight

c. Classifying objects into different

sets

41. Miss Cruz is teaching a three year

old boy how to put on his shirt. She
might first reward him for placing his
right arm in the right sleeve, then the
left arm in the left sleeve, then
buttoning the front of the shirt, then
tucking the shirt into his pants. The
technique is called.

d. Imagining the steps necessary to

complete an algebraic equation
37. Under what type of guidance
service does the concern of schools to
put students into their most
appropriate courses fall?
a. Research service
b. Individual inventory service
c. Placement service
d. Information service

d. Indolence

a. conditioning
b. fading
c. chaining
d. reinforcement

42. According to Eriksons theory, the

child aged three to five is largely
a. mischievous
b. ego centric
c. lazy
d. altruistic
43. Teacher B wants to check prior
knowledge of his pupils about water
pollution. She writes the main topic
water pollution in the center of the
chalkboard and encircles it. Then she
asks the pupils to provide information
that can be clustered around the main
topic.
Which technique did the teacher
employ?

46. James, age 7, was removed from

his class frequent fights with other
children. He refused to be disciplined
and was to focus in class only for a
very short time. He has also frequent
tantrums. He is suffering from.
a. Mental retardation
b. Down Syndrome
c. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD)
d. Learning disability
47. The basic needs in the hierarchy of
needs must be met so that learning
will effectively take place. This
expresses the theory of.
a. Rogers

a. deductive teaching

b. Murray

b. demonstration

c. Homey

c. Semantic mapping

d. Maslow

d. Particularism

48. The first American teachers in the

Philippines were

44. Conducting follow up studies of

graduates and drop out id guidance
service that falls under.
a. individual inventory service
b. research service
c. counseling service
d. placement service

a. elementary graduates
b. graduates of the normal school
c. missionaries
d. soldiers
49. Which instructional aid requires
pupils to verbalize?

45. Teacher M helps pupils determine

the pronunciation and meanings of
words by analyzing roots, affixes, and
derived forms. This process is called.

a. Diorama

a. contextual attack

d. Graph

b. blending sounds

50. Learning is enhanced when

c. phonetic analysis

a. the learner competes with his

classmates

d. structural analysis

b. Brainstorming
c. Sociodrama

b. the teacher expresses his

disappointment with low scores
c. the expectation of success is high

d. the learner is under stress and is

challenged