PRACTICE TEST FOR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION b.

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1. Which is a teaching approach for c. Attribute

kindergarten that makes real world experiences
d. Predictor
of the child the focal point of educational
stimulation? 6. What is the mean of this score distribution: 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10?
a. Montessori approach
a. 8.5
b. traditional approach
b. 6
c. Eclectic approach
c. 7.5
d. Situational approach
d. 7
2. The use of mnemonics helps a
pupils___________ information. 7. Which statement correctly applies to student
who got a score of 72 in the test?
a. analyze
a. He surpassed the scores of 72 students
b. understand
b. He correctly answered 72% of the items in
c. apply
the test
d. remember
c. He obtained a raw score of 72
3. Which program was adopted to provide
d. He answered only items in the test
universal access to basic education to eradicate
illiteracy? 8. Which measure (s) of central tendency can be
determined by mere inspection?
a. “Paaralan­ sa­ Bawat­ Barangay”
a. Median
b. Education for All
b. Mode
c. Values Education Framework
c. Mean
d. Science and Education Development Plan
d. Mode & Median
4. Teacher Z instructs her class to refer to the
dictionary in correcting their spelled words. 9. Teacher C adds the number of cases and 1
over 2 to obtain
Which particle is exemplified?
a. mode
a. Curriculum indigenization
b. median
b. Computer- assisted instruction
c. median and mode
c. Multi- level instruction
d. mean
d. Self- evaluation
10. It is not wise to laugh at a two- year old
5. In research, which is the dependent variable?
child when he utters bad words because in his
a. Stimulus stage he is learning to:
a. Consider other’s views d. 33

b. Distinguish right and wrong 15. If a teacher is concerned with the

development of student’s higher order thinking
c. Socialize
skills, his lesson objectives must go beyond.
d. Distinguish sex differences
a. Analysis
11. Mothers who demand their 3 to 5 children
b. Recall
to spend their time in serious academic study
forget that early childhood is the c. Comprehension

a. questioning age d. application

b. pre- school age 16. Which statement on counseling is FALSE?

c. initiative age a. The ultimate goal of counseling is greater

happiness on the part of the counselee.
d. toy age
b. For counseling to be successful, the
12. Which refers to a single word or phrase that
counselee is willing to participate in the
tells the computer to do something with a
process.
program or file?
c. The school counselor is primarily responsible
a. Computer program for counseling

b. Command d. Counseling is the program that includes

guidance.
c. Password
17. A test item has a difficulty index of .81 and
d. Computer language discrimination index of .13. What should the
13. To determine student’s entry knowledge test constructor do?
and skills that test should be given? a. Retain the item
a. Aptitude b. Make it a bonus ite
b. Standardized c. Revise the item
c. Diagnostic d. Reject the item
d. Placement 18. Which is the final, indispensable component
14. What is the mode in the following score of a lesson plan?
distribution: 96, 97, 98, 97, 93, 90, 89, 97, a. Assignment
81, and 80? b. References
a. 96 c. Activity
b. 98 d. Evaluation
c. 97 19. For mastery of learning in a certain subject,
which type of testing is appropriate?
a. Formative testing
b. Criterion reference testing
c. Aptitude testing
d. Norm reference testing
20. Which is NOT included in item analysis?
a. Determining the percentage equivalent of the
cut off score
b. Identifying the highest score
c. Determining the cut off score
d. Determine the effectiveness of distracters
21. The first thing to do in constructing a
periodic test is for a teacher to.
a. decide on the type of test to conduct
b. go back to her instructional objective
c. decide on the number of items for the test
d. study the content
22. The strengthening of liberal education
which includes classical literature in the
curriculum is based on the thought of the
a. rationalists
b. hedonists
c. humanists
d. stoics
23. Which statement of human right is
CORRECT?
a. Human rights are unlimited.
b. Human right is a moral power not a physical
power.
c. All human rights are inalienable.
d. Human right is might.
24. Which is an example of an alienable right?
a. Right to possess a house through inheritance
b. right to life
c. Right to alms
d. Right to marry
25. It is an area of philosophy which deals on
the nature of knowledge and the best methods
of teaching is
a. Epistemology
b. Metaphysics
c. Ethics
d. Aesthetics
26. To occupy a government position, one has
to pass an examination on Confucian thought.
From whom did this influence come?
a. Hebrews
b. Chinese
c. Hindus
d. Greeks
27. Who was a strong supporter of inclusive
education and “education for all” concept?
a. Dewey
b. Hegel
c. Rousseau
d. Kung- fu- tsu
28. A son put a time bomb in the luggage of his
mother who took it abroad a Philippine airline.
The bomb exploded while the airplane was in
flight killing the mother and forty other
passengers. Although the motive of the criminal
act was never revealed by the son, he aroused
suspicion, when he named himself beneficiary
to an insurance policy he had previously taken
out on his mother’s life. Was the son
accountable for the death of his mother and the 32. In what way can teachers uphold the
other passengers? highest possible standards of quality education?

a. Yes. He may have been directly interested a. By working out undeserved promotions.
only in the insurance money but directly as
b. By putting down other professions to lift the
foreseen consequence, he willed the death for
status of teaching
all passengers.
c. Wearing expensive clothes to change
b. No. He did not directly the death of his
people’s poor perception of teachers
mother and the other passengers.
d. By continually improving themselves
c. No, if he refused to get the insurance money
personally and professionally
after the incident.
33. Which learning activity is most appropriate
d. Yes, if he got the insurance money after the
if teacher’s focus is attitudinal change?
death.
a. Field trip
29. Which software allows teachers and
students to write, edit, and polish assignments b. Role play
and reports?
c. Game
a. Spreadsheets
d. Exhibit
b. Word processing
34. Which questioning practice promotes more
c. Database class interaction?
d. Graphics a. Asking rhetorical questions.
30. To have a test with a wide coverage, power b. Focusing on convergent actions.
to test analytical thinking and ease of scoring.
Which type should teachers use? c. Focusing in divergent questions.

a. Completion d. Calling a student to answer before asking the

question
b. Short answer
35. Which holds true to norm- reference
c. Alternate response testing?
d. Multiple choice a. comparing individual’s performance to the
average performance of a group
31. What does a conservative Filipino student
experience when she migrates to the United b. Determining tasks that reflect instructional
States and witness for herself public display of objectives
affection?
c. Constructing test items in term of
a. Acculturation instructional objective
b. Culture shock d. Identifying an acceptable level of mastery in
advance
c. Colonial mentality

d. Enculturation
36. The mode of a score distribution is 25. This ___________.
means that
a. found the test item was neither easy nor
a. twenty- five is the average of the score difficult
distribution.
b. performed very well against expectation
b. twenty- five is the score that occurs least.
c. were hard up in that item
c. twenty- five (25) is the score that occurs
d. gained mastery over that item
most
41. Jose reads WAS for SAW or D for P or B.
d. there is no score of 25.
from his reading behavior, one can say that
37. If a teacher gets the difference between the
Jose suffers from ___________.
highest and lowest score, he obtains the
a. dysgraphia
________
b. dyslexia
a. range
c. dysphasia
b. standard deviation
d. dyspraxia
c. level of difficulty
42. If you want a child to eliminate an
d. median
undesirable behavior, punish him. This in
38. Which one described the percentile rank of accordance with Thorndike’s law of
a given score? ____________.

a. The percent of cases of a distribution within a. multiple response

the given score
b. reinforcement
b. The percent of cases of a distribution above
c. exercise
the given score
d. effect
c. The percent of cases of a distribution below
and above a given score 43. In which cognitive development stage is a
child unable to distinguish between his own
d. The percent of cases of a distribution below
perspective and someone else’s?
the given score
a. Pre- operational stage
39. To the rationalist, which is the highest
faculty of a man? b. Concrete operational stage
a. Senses c. Sensorimotor stage
b. Reason d. Formal- operational
c. Emotion 44. Which developmental stage is sometimes
called the pre- school years?
d. Will
a. Middle childhood
40. The index of difficulty of a particular test is
.10. What does this mean? My student’s b. Adolescence
c. Early childhood
d. Late Infancy
45. According to Piaget’s theory, in which
developmental stage can the child do symbolic
thinking and go beyond the connection of
sensory information and physical action?
49. What is the possible effect of an
overcrowded curriculum?
a. In- depth learning tends to be given greater
emphasis
b. Lifelong learning skills tend to be fully
developed

a. Pre- operational c. There is lack of personal analysis and

reflection on major concepts
b. Concrete operational
d. There is greater concept of understanding
c. Formal operational
50. Teacher D begins her lesson with concrete
d. Sensorimotor
life experiences then leads her students to
46. In which competency do the students find abstraction. Which method does she employ?
greatest difficulty? In the item with the
a. Inductive
difficulty index of __________.
b. Deductive
a. 0.10
c. Transductive
b. 0.90

c. 1.00

d. 0.50

47. What psychological principle is invoked

when a teacher connects the new lesson to the
one just completed so that the student may
gain a holistic view of the subject?

a. Conceptualization

b. Recognition

c. Stimulation

d. Apperception

48. Which teaching method is intended

primarily for skill and concept mastery by way
of practice?

a. Project

b. Supervised study

c. Drill

d. Review