LICENSURE EXAMINATION REVIEW FOR TEACHERS 2014

Practice Test 3 in Professional Education- Situational

Situation 1- In a faculty meeting, the principal told his teacher: “We need to improve our school
performancein the National Achievement Test. What should we do?

The teacher gave varied answers as follows:

1. Let’s give incentives and rewards to students who get a rating of 85%
2. Let’s teach them to accept complete responsibility for their performance
3. Let’s make the school environment conducive for learning
4. Let’s make use of the experimental methods of teaching

1. Which response/s come/s from a behaviorist?

A. #2 and #4
B. #1 and #2
C. #3 and #4
D. #1 and #3

2. On which educational philosophy is response #1 anchored?

A. Existentialism
B. Essentialism
C. Progressivism
D. Bahaviorism

3. If you learned toward a progressivist philosophy, with which response would you agree?
A. #2
B. #3
C. #4
D. #1

Situation 2- One principle in the utilization of technology of the classroom is appropriateness of

material or activity.

4. Teacher C wants his students to master the concept of social justice. Which series of activities will be
most effective?
A. Pretest-teaching-posttest
B. Pretest-teaching-posttest-re-teaching for unlearned concepts-posttest
C. Review-pretest-teaching-posttest
D. Teaching-posttest

5. Teacher A likes to show how the launching of spaceships takes place. Which of the following
materials available is most fit?
A. Model
B. Mock-up
C. Replica
D. Realia
6. Teacher B likes to concretize the abstract concepts of an atom. She came up with a concrete
presentation of the atom by using wire and plastic balls.

7. How would you classify Teacher B’s visual aids?

A. Chart
B. Replica
C. Model
D. Realia

Situation 3- After reading and paraphrasing Robert frost’s “Stopping by the Wood on a snowy
Evening”. Mr. Sales asked the class to share any insight derived from the poem.

8. The class was asked to share their insights about the poem. The ability to come up with an insight
stems from the ability to .
A. analyze the parts of a whole
B. evaluate the worthiness of a thing
C. relate and organize things and ideas
D. comprehend the subject that is being studied

9. To ask the class any insight derived from the poem is based on the theory of .
A. realism
B. behaviorism
C. conditioning
D. constructivism

10. On which assumption about the learner is Mr. Marquez’s act of asking the class to share their insight
based?
A. Learners are like empty receptacles waiting to be filled up
B. Learners are meant to interact with one another
C. Learners have multiple intelligence and varied learning styles
D. Learners are producers of knowledge not only passive recipients of information

Situation 4- Principal E wants her teachers to apply constructivism in teaching

11. On which assumption/s is the principal’s action anchored?

I. Students learn by personally constructing meaning of what is taught.
II. Students are construct and reconstruct meaning based on experiences
III. Students derive meaning from the meaning that the teacher gives
A. II only
B. I and II
C. I, II, and III
D. I only

12. Which materials will her teachers LEAST prefers?

A. Controversial issues
B. Open-ended topics
C. Unquestionable laws
D. Problem or cases

13. Which concept/s of the learner will Principal E NOT accept?

I. “Empty vesse!”
II. “Tabula rasa”
III. Candle to be lighted
A. III only
B. I only
C. II only
D. I and II

Situation 5- Study the matching type of test then answer the 3 questions that follow:

Column A Column B

1. equilateral triangle A. With 3 equal sides

2. right triangle B. With 5 equal sides
3. octagonC. Has 90- degree angle
4. pentagonD. Means many
5. heptagonE. with 7 sides
6. polyF. with 8 sides

14. How can you make the items homogeneous?

A. Increase the number of items in Column B
B. All items should be on polygons
C. Remove the word triangle in items #1 and #2 in column A
D. The word “gon” must be included in column B

15. What is the main defect of this matching test?

A. the matching type is an imperfect type
B. the items are NOT homogeneous
C. the items quite easy
D. an obvious pattern is followed in the answering

16. Which should be done to improve the matching type of test?

A. Capitalize the items in Column A
B. Items in Column A and B should be exchanged
C. Drop #6 item in Column A
D. The item in Column A should be increased

Situation 6- Below the template for Scoring Rubric.

5-Demonstrate complete understanding of the problem.

All requirements of task are included in response
4-Demonstrate considerable understanding of the problem.
All requirements of task are included
 3- Demonstrate partial understanding of the problem.
Most requirements of task are included
2- Demonstrate little understanding of the problem.
Many requirements of task are missing
1- Demonstrate no understanding of the problem
0-No response/task not attempted

17. Which of these is/are essential in constructing a scoring rubric?

I. Description of criteria to serve as standard
II. Clear descriptions of performance at each level
III. Levels of achievement (mastery)
IV. Rating scheme
A. I, II, III
B. I, II
C. I, II, III, IV
D. I only

18. Which statement is TRUE of the rubric?

A. It is developmental
B. It is analytical
C. It is both holistic and developmental
D. It is holistic

19. Which is TRUE of the scoring rubric?

I. It describes criteria of levels of achievement
II. It has a rating scheme
III. It limit itself to 4 levels of achievement
A. I and II
B. I and III
C. II and III
D. I, II and III

Situation 7- Study the table on item analysis for non-attractiveness and non-plausibility of distracters
based on the results of a tryout test in Science.
The letter marked with a asterisk is the correct answer.

Item No. 1 A B C D E
Upper 27% 10 4 1 1 0
Lower 27% 6 5 2 2 0

20. The table shows that the test item analyzed .

A. has a positive discrimination index
B. has a negative discrimination index
C. is extremely easy
D. is extremely difficult
21. Based on the table, which is the most effective distracter?
A. Option D
B. Option A
C. Option C
D. Option B

22. Based on the table, which group got more correct answer?
A. Upper group
B. It cannot be determined
C. Lower group
D. Data are not sufficient to give an answer

Answer Key

1.D 5.B 9.D 13.A 17.C 21.B

2.D 6.C 10.D 14.A 18.C 22.A
3.C 7.D 11.B 15.B 19.D
4.B 8.D 12.C 16.B 20.B