50 Confidence Boosters for Professional Education

1. Children with sub-average intelligence and deficits in adaptive behaviour,

experience difficulty in managing daily activities and conducting themselves
appropriately in social situations have this disability. (MENTAL RETARDATION)

2. The child concept of right and wrong is based on external criteria laid down by
adults during the stage of pre-conventional morality. This is based on the idea
of_________ (KHOLBERG)

3. The tendency to imitate elders is very strong in the early childhood stage.
Teachers should therefore be good in being __________ (ROLE MODELS).

4. The teaching method which can help a learner draw generalization from a
discipline with the end of applying the same to similar situations in the future?
(CONCEPTUAL APPROACH)

5. What principle of development can be gleaned from the saying: “as a tree is bent,
so shall it grow”? (THE EARLY FORMATIVE EARS ARE MORE CRUCIAL
THAN LATER DEVELOPMENT)

6. A mode of grouping which can facilitate the skills and values desired in a
cooperative learning approach. (HETEROGENOUS GROUPING)

7. According to cognitive psychologists, the teachers’ role in the classroom is

_____________(HELP THE LEARNER CONNECT WHAT HE KNOWS WITH
THE NEW INFORMATION LEARNED).

8. Under what principle do problems of discipline and class management be

considered? (ALL ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE GEARED TOWARDS THE
STUDENTS PERFORMANCE)

9. In problem-solving, the strategy that best reflects the principle: “how a student
learns is more important than what he/she learned”. (PROCESS ORIENTED:
KNOWING THE STEPS IN SOLVING A PROBLEM)

10. It is the transition age from childhood to adulthood where rapid physical changes
and sex maturity occur resulting in emotional disequilibrium and changes in
thinking and acting. (PUBERTY)’

11. The reinforcement of a person’s responses by presentation or removal of

rewards and punishments. (OPERANT CONDITIONING).

12. A principle highlighted in Multiple Intelligence. (INTELLIGENCE IS MEASURED

IN MULTIPLE FORMS)

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13. When a teacher always provide for the development of all essential knowledge,
of understanding, intellectual and manipulative skills and attitude, he/she adheres
to what principle? (PRINCIPLE OF BALANCE)

14. Teaching Method which proceeds from details of the lesson towards
generalization is called___. (INDUCTIVE)

15. These are non-verbal symbols used to maximize learning. (INSTRUCTIONAL

DEVICES)

16. Orderly procedure covering psychological processes of learning and

management through which learning is employed by the teacher (METHODS OF
TEACHING)

17. The knowledge and skills which the learner is expected to accumulate and
develop at the end of the class. (TERMINAL BEHAVIOR)

18. The measurement of personality which is the result of dividing the mental age by
the chronological age. (IQ)

19. One of the most important contributions of Gestalt Psychology to the theories of
learning. (INSIGHT LEARNING/COGNITIVE INSIGHT)

20. When the teacher makes a link between the new and the previous lesson for
holistic view of the topic, he/she is using what psychological principle?
(APPERCEPTION)

21. The ability to perceive how objects are related in order to mentally perceive what
is seen, thus creating concrete visual images from memory refers to ____.
(VISUAL-SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE)

22. The information which is not entered in Form 1 of the school register. (GRADES
OBTAINED BY THE STUDENT IN EACH SUBJECT AREA)

23. It tells you what may happen based on one’s scheme and observation.
(PREDICTING)

24. The technique best suited to developing skill in asking and answering questions.
(INTERVIEW)

25. When a teacher recasts what is said in order to be understood by a student,

he/she is using ____ (DECODING STRATEGY)

26. The best instructional aid in teaching the parts of the human digestive system.
(MODEL)

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27. Parents who demand their children, age 3-5, to spend their time in serious
academic study forget that early childhood is the ___ (TOY AGE)

28. The best time for a teacher to set up routine activities that will result to effective
classroom management. (ON DAY 1 OF THE SCHOOL)

29. What is the best thing to do if somebody confided to you an offense which
implicates your brother? (TELL HIM TO REPORT THE MATTER TO THE
AUTHORITIES)

30. Free public elementary and secondary education is in line with the government’s
effort to address the problems on _______________(ACCESS AND EQUITY).

31. On which policy is RA 4670 otherwise known as the Magna Carta for Public
School Teachers focused? (TO PROMOTE AND IMPPROVE THE SOCIAL AND
ECONOMIC STATUS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS).

32. Under a democracy, education equips citizens with the principles and duties of
citizenship to guarantee national stability. Such is the ideology of ____________.
(NATIONALISM)

33. To make man distinctly civilized, educated, and refined is the philosophy
behind____________. (HUMANISTIC EDUCATION).

34. The aim is to produce globally competitive graduates. Which will be the emphasis
of Philippine education? (ENGLISH, SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS)

35. Social adjustment means the ability to behave in accordance

with___________(UNIVERSAL NORMS).

36. The Royal Decree of December 20, 1863 established in the

Philippines_______________ (PRIMARY EDUCATION)

37. A popular mass education for the Filipinos under the American regime came into
being with the passage of______________ (Act 70 in 1901)

38. What can be said of a student performance in a positively skewed score

distribution? (MOST STUDENTS PERFORMED POORLY)

39. What does a negatively skewed distribution imply? (STUDENTS PERFORMED

WELL)

40. It is made after certain norms have been established. (STANDARDIZED TEST).

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41. Most delinquents are found to have low IQ. They can hardly read and
comprehend. How can a teacher help them? (GIVE THEM REMEDIAL
CLASSES)

42. A high school principal would like to know the causes of drop-outs in his school
so he could find solutions to this problem. What type of research is used?
(ACTION RESEARCH)

43. It embodies the operation: “Return to the Basics”. (NEW ELEMENTARY

SCHOOL CURRICULUM)

44. A contemporary aid to teaching utilizes carefully-planned materials where each

step of learning requires repetition and practice until such step is thoroughly
learned. (PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION)

45. It is the main concern of spiralling of a curriculum. (VERTICAL ARTICULATION

OF A GIVEN SUBJECT ACROSS GRADE LEVELS)

46. The type of test used to discover attitudes about self and others.
(PERSONALITY TEST)

47. A teacher wants to make a scoring rubric for a students' output. The format that
will use differential weights for the qualities of a product or a performance is
__________ (ANALYTIC RUBRIC)

48. Multiple choice test is considered as the bet type of test because_______(IT
MEASURES SEVERAL COMPETENCIES IN ONE TEST)

49. You want to find out if the lesson objective has been attained. What type of test
will you use? (CRITERION-REFERENCED)

50. A tool for evaluating personal social adjustment of students. (SOCIOMETRY)

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