Professional Education A

TEACHING PROFESSION
1. After the 1987 Philippine constitution, the first legal bases to make teaching as a
profession or teachers as professionals is __________
A. Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers
B. RA 7836
C. RA 7640
D. PD 1006
2. Among reforms for enhancing teacher professionalism, which has been
implemented by law in order to determine whether prospective teachers have
acquired professional competencies prior to granting them a permit to teach?
A. accrediting a national organization for teachers
B. setting up centered for excellence in teacher education centers
C. licensure examination
D. creation of a professional board for teachers
3. Which program directly embodies both the pre-service and in-service programs?
A. BESRA – Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda
B. TEDP – Technical Education Development Program
C. K-12
D. BEC – Basic Education Curriculum
4. What is the core of the Teacher Education Development Program?
A. High order thinking skills or HOTS
B. Student-centered learning
C. National Competency-Based Teacher Standards
D. Technology integration in instruction
5. How can the efforts of four agencies (DepEd, CHED, PRC, CSC) be best
achieved for the training and development of teachers?
A. synchronization
B. cost-reduction
C. streamlining
D. sharing of resources
6. Which is true of the periodic merit exam for teacher provided for in RA 7836?
i. Consist of oral exam
ii. Consist of written exam
iii. May serve as additional basis for merit promotion in addition to
performance rating
iv. Taken with fee of P 1000 per examinee
A. I only
B. I and IV
C. I, II and III
D. II only
7. Is it professional for a teacher to receive gifts from the student and parents?
A. Not at all
B. No, especially if done in exchange for requested concessions
C. Yes, if deserved
 D. Yes, in-season and out-of-season gifts
8. Among rights of the schools, which is not provided by the law?
A. Right for basic education to determine subjects of the study
B. Right to enforce administrative systems
C. Right to provide proper governance
D. Right for institutions of higher learning to determine academic grounds for
admission
9. In the Education Act of 1901 which established a free public education in the
Philippines, what language was imposed under the one-language policy?
A. Spanish
B. English
C. Tagalog
D. Filipino
10. In the formal education system during Hispanic times in the Philippines, what
was not implemented but which we enjoyed during the American period?
A. vocational education
B. private education
C. religious education
D. public education
11. This powerful European country supplied arms to Afghanistan rebels who were
fighting a terrorist war in the Middle East. What was the principle of moral
discernment applicable in this case?
A. Principle of double effect
B. Principle of lesser evil
C. Principle of material cooperation
D. Principle of moral/formal cooperation
12. How would you characterize the moral attitude of Hispanic friars who taught
religion but were unfaithful to their vow of property by amassing the land
properties of natives?
A. Scrupulous
B. Strict
C. Lax
D. Pharisaical

SITUATIONAL
In a faculty meeting, the principal told his teachers: We need to improve our school
performance in the National Achievement Test. What should we do? The teachers gave
varied answers as follows:
i. Let’s give incentives and rewards to students who get a rating of 85%
ii. Let’s teach them to accept complete responsibility for their performance
iii. Let’s make the school environment conducive for learning
iv. Let’s make use of the experiential methods of teaching
13. On which educational philosophy is response #1 anchored?
A. Behaviorism
B. Progressivism
C. Existentialism
 D. Essentialism
14. Which response/s come/s from a behaviorist?
A. 1 and 3
B. 2 and 4
C. 1 and 2
D. 3 and 4
15. If you lean toward a progressivist philosophy, with which response do you agree?
A. 4
B. 2
C. 1
D. 3
16. Teacher Slash is of the thinking that from the very start students must be made
to realize study is indeed hard work. To which philosophy does Teacher Susan
adhere?
A. Essentialism
B. Perennialism
C. Progressivism
D. Reconstructionism

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

17. Which is the language medium of instruction from K to 3 in accordance to RA

10533 or the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013?
A. Language chosen by parents
B. Mother tongue of the learners
C. English as the official language
D. Language chosen by the school
18. Under RA 10912 or the Continuing Professional Development Act of 2016, how
many CPD units are required for the renewal of the teachers’ professional ID card or
the PIC every three years?
A. 36
B. 30
C. 45
D. 40
19. Teacher Joseph showed the whole mark of being an excellent teacher by being able
to make out of the box positive changes in the curriculum how. As a curricularist, he
is an __________.
A. Innovator
B. Implementer
C. Evaluator
D. Initiator
20. In her desire to finish the curriculum guide plan, Teacher Ivon just lectures while
students listen. Which principle of learning is violated in this case?
A. Learning is collaborative and cooperative
B. Learning is an active process
C. Learning is the discovery of the personal meaning of ideas
 D. Learning begins with setting of clear expectations and learning outcomes
21. What can the multi-grade system be set in place in order to respond to the needs of
remote elementary schools where enrollment is low?
A. Upgrade students to heigher level
B. Mainstream special with regular students
C. Assign teachers to specific grade level
D. Combine two to three grade levels
22. How do you describe transfer of learning across subject matter, e.g value of thrift
in Economic and Social Science?
A. Horizontal
B. Spiral
C. Vertical
D. Cyclic
23. On types of curriculum, which includes the course study, syllabi, modules, books
and lesson plan?
A. Hidden curriculum
B. Recommended curriculum
C. Written curriculum
D. Supported curriculum
24. In OBE, assessment of learning should match with __________.
A. Learning content
B. Learning references
C. Learning outcomes
D. Learning materials
25. Does quarterly assessment have the same weight for all the subject areas in Grades
11 and 12?
A. Yes
B. No
C. For the academic tracks
D. It depends on schools

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
26. Can technology take the place of the teacher in the classroom? Select the most
appropriate answer:
A. No. It is only an instrument or a tool
B. Yes, when they hire less teachers and acquire more computers
C. Yes. When teachers are not competent
D. Yes, such as in the case of Computer-assisted instruction (not teacher-
assisted instruction)
27. What kind of tool is technology as evidenced by its use in word processing
databases, spreadsheets, graphics design and desktop publishing?
A. Analyzing tool
B. Encoding tool
C. Productivity tool
D. Calculating tool
 28. In determining the materials and media to use, what consideration did Teacher
Ina A. Mag adopt when he chose materials that can arouse and sustain in
curiosity?
A. Satisfaction
B. Interest
C. Expectancy
D. Relevance
29. From structures in Multifunctional Cooperative Learning, which involves each
student writing in turn one answer as a paper and pencil is passed around the
group?
A. Jigsaw
B. Inside-outside circle
C. Roundtable
D. Partners
30. Of components of direct instruction, which involves teachers and students
working together on a skill or task and figuring out how to apply the strategy?
A. Consolidation
B. Guided practice
C. Application
D. Modeling
31. From structures of Multifunctional Cooperative Learning, which makes each
group to produce a group product to share with the whole class?
A. Coop-coop
B. Think-pair-share
C. Team Word-Webbing
D. Partners
32. This is the more appropriate understanding of technology in education?
A. Methods and process
B. Inventions and equipment
C. Channels and instruments
D. Hardware, designs, and environment
33. When does Teacher Roxan apply pedagogical knowledge in planning for technology
integration in her Science lesson?
A. Researches on plasma as another state of matter
B. Looks for characteristics and interest of learners for choice of instructional
activities
C. Learns to set and include pictures in her lesson about predation
D. Studies how to attach video to her audiovisual presentation
34. What technology integration is achieved by teacher Nina who encourages
adaptation of tool based software that allows the student to choose a tool and modify
its use to accomplish a task at hand?
A. Adaption
B. Transformation
C. Infusion
D. Adaptation
DEVELOPMENTAL READING
35. Of comprehension or thinking strategies, which is relating one or two items, such
as nouns and verbs?
A. Basic elaboration strategies
B. Complex rehearsal strategies
C. Complex elaboration strategies
D. Affective strategies
36. Of skills teacher should understand and students need to acquire, which is the
ability to integrate complex information into categories through its attributes
(characteristics, principles or functions)?
A. Scanning
B. Complex cognitive
C. Sharpening-leveling
D. Complexity-simplicity
37. Among models of reading strategies, what did student Jk adopt when she reads
back and forth, attending to both what is in her mind and what’s on the page?
A. Bottoms-up
B. Interactive
C. Down-top
D. Top-down

PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF TEACHING

38. There are various functions a fellow teacher or peer coach can help new
teachers. What role does a peer coach play by being present/available to share
ideas, problems and success with a new teacher?
A. a provider of technical feedback
B. a facilitator of strategies
C. an analyzer of teaching job
D. a close peer or companion
39. Teacher Nancy is directed to pass an undeserving student with a death threat.
Which advise will a utilitarian give?
A. Don’t pass him. You surely will not like someone to give you a death threat in
order to pass
B. Pass the student. That will be off use to the student, his parents and you.
C. Pass the student. Why suffer the threat?
D. Don’t pass him. Live by your principle of justice. You will get reward, if not in
this life, in the next!
40. Following the principles for punishing students, which of the following is the
LEAST desirable strategy for classroom management?
A. Punishing while clarifying why punishment is done
B. Punishing while angry
C. Punishing the erring student rather than the entire class
D. Give punishment sparingly
41. For group guidance in classroom management, what element is lacking when
there is too much competitiveness and exclusiveness with the teacher being
punitive and partial to some students?
 A. Dissatisfaction with classroom work
B. Poor interpersonal relations
C. Poor group organization
D. Disturbance in group climate
42. How do you describe the effects of escalating situations of uncontrolled
misbehaviors inside a classroom?
A. Ripple effect
B. Rainbow effect
C. Mushroom effect
D. Step-up effect
43. Of subcategories of movement behavior, what is happening when the teacher
ends an activity abruptly?
A. Thrust
B. Truncation
C. Stimulus-bounded
D. Flip-flop
44. Among mistaken goals in the Acceptance Approach to discipline, what happens
when students defy adult by arguing, contradicting, teasing, temper tantrums,
and low level hostile behavior?
A. Power seeking
B. Withdrawal
C. Revenge seeking
D. Attention getting
45. Teaching English, teacher Krizzy is careful about her lesson content. What
quality of content did he achieve when she made certain her information came
with the “information explosion” which she got in the Internet, such as how to
effectively teach phonetics?
A. Learnability
B. Significance
C. Balance
D. Interest
46. Teacher Kevin made certain his lesson content can be useful to his students,
taking care of their needs in a student-centered classroom. What is this kind of
quality content?
A. Utility
B. Balance
C. Self-sufficiency
D. Interest
47. In the implementation of the curriculum at the classroom level, ineffective
strategies are called “Red”. Which of the following belongs to the Red Flag?
A.Content applied to real-life situations
B.Overemphasis on drill and practice
C. Available enrichment activities
D. Integration of problem solving
48. In the guided exploratory approach to learning, which is not the term used for
Inquiry learning?
 A.Heuristic learning
B.Problem-solving learning
C. Discovery learning
D. Expository learning
49. What kind of classroom management is applied in the case of Teacher Lenny who
attends to every situation as it comes, hoping to meet it as it comes without much
foresight and preparation?
A. Proactive
B. Reinforcing
C. Heading-on
D. Reactive
50. When you begin teaching with a generalization and then bringing details, which
teaching method do you employ?
A. It depends on the type of your generalization
B. It depends on the quantity of the details you bring in
C. Inductive
D. Deductive
51. For Visual spatial learners, which tool can be applied for an effective learning?
A. Root wording
B. Interview segment
C. Graphic organizer
D. Puzzle
52. Which order follows the basic rule in framing interaction?
A. Call on a student, pause, ask the question
B. Ask the question, call on a student, pause
C. Ask the question, pause, call on a student
D. Call on a student, ask the question, pause

FACILITATING LEARNING
53. Which of the following belongs to the more sophisticated learning-to-learn skills
for the individual learner?
A. To ask and gather data
B. To listen and observe
C. To process and select information
D. To read with understanding
54. Of the following effects on learning, what is the effect of simulations that make
students feel and sense experience in the classroom?
A. Reinforcing learning
B. Providing experiences that otherwise might not have
C. Motivating students
D. Changing attitudes and feelings
55. Which of the following is not an advanced process of meta-cognition among
learners?
A. Learning how to recognize thoughts
B. Acquisition of new knowledge
C. Assessing own thinking
 D. Learning how to study
56. How can new information be made more meaningful to students?
A. Relating it to knowledge they already know
B. Valuing new knowledge
C. Demonstrating novelty of new knowledge
D. Increasing retention of new knowledge
57. Under the domains of learning, to what domain do reflex movements, perceptual
abilities, and non-discursive communication belong?
A. Psychomotor
B. Affective
C. Cognitive
D. Reflective
58. On categories of exceptionality in the young, what is difficulty in focusing and
maintaining attention, and/or recurrent hyperactive and impulsive behavior?
A. ADHD
B. Emotional/conduct disorders
C. Autism
D. Speech and communication disorders
59. Of the following, how can self-esteem be best developed among learners?
A. Doing fair share in community work
B. Fulfilling commitments
C. Through relationships with others
D. Displaying self-control
60. Which is the most basic in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
A. Socialization
B. Actualization
C. Self-esteem
D. Altruism
61. Which aspect of multi-intelligence is enhanced by asking students to work on a
physical model of the atom after a teacher’s discussion on the subject of the
atom?
A. Interpersonal
B. Linguistic
C. Kinesthetical
D. Mathematical
62. What type of learners learn best with others particulary during lectures, discussions
and other forms of oral communication discourse?
A. Tactile learners
B. Auditory learners
C. Visual learners
D. Kinesthetic learners
63. Using motivational assessment, what could be the most noble motive in students
pursuing a lifetime work and mission for the teaching profession?
A. Promise of high rank and prestige
B. Social service to upcoming generations
C. Economic security and welfare
 D. Respected position in society
64. What is Daniel Kolman’s term for interpersonal effectiveness?
A. PR index
B. XY theory
C. Superior IQ
D. Emotional quotient EQ
65. Which of the following question is best to ask to relate the lesson of water
conservation to the lives of students?
A. In what ways do people add to water wastage?
B. Which community observes water conservation?
C. What is the meaning of water conservation?
D. How can you help conserve water?
66. What learning style is characterized by doing things that has immediate practical use
to the learners?
A. Intuitive feeling
B. Intuitive thinking
C. Sensing feeling
D. Sensing thinking
67. Which description matches the mirror principle of Maxwell?
A. The first person we must examine is ourselves
B. The journey with others is lower than the journey alone
C. When we help others, we help ourselves
D. Trust is the relationship of every relationship

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT

68. Sequence the steps in prenatal growth.
I. Fertilization
II. Attaches to the wall of uterus
III. Male and Female sperm and egg cell unite
IV. Zygot divides from two, four, etc
A. III, I, IV, II
B. III, I, II, IV
C. I, II, III, IV
D. IV, III, II, I
69. What is the pattern of change which can affect child’s development such as in
parents going abroad for work?
A. Microsystem
B. Mesosystem
C. Macrosystem
D. Cronosystem

70. In Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, which is the tendency of the child to
only see his point of view and to assume that everyone has the same point of
view?
A. Reversibility
B. Egocentrism
 C. Symbolic function
D. Centration
71. Of Piaget’s Cognitive Concepts, which refer to the process of fitting a new
experience to a previously created cognitive structure or schema?
A. Assimilation
B. Schema
C. Accommodation
D. Equilibrium
72. For Sigmund Freud, which is the deciding agent of human personality by which we
reason and consider the best response to situations?
A. Id
B. Superego
C. Ego
D. Unconscious
73. In Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development, what is applicable to the statement
“I am confident of carrying out my plans to a successful conclusions”?
A. Initiative
B. Intimacy
C. Identity
D. Trust

SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATION

74. Which of the following is not John Dewey’s contribution to the sociological
foundation of education?
A. Facilitating learning along social conditions of the learner
B. As a social process, education begins at birth
C. True education is transmission of knowledge
D. The school is a continuation of home
75. In educating the whole person as demanded by the “Learning to be” pillar of the
21st century education, where does the concept of meaning, purpose and
engagement belong?
a. Mind and body
b. Aesthetic sense
c. Spiritual values
d. Personal responsibility

76. What is the cultural trait of conflicting values that aims to please people in
different venues and situations rather than abide by principles?
A. Crab mentality
B. Split personality
C. Kanya-kanya system
D. Bahalana mentality
77. For a school, which of the following is most significant in repairing shorelines with
depleted coral reefs?
A. outreach by depositing rubber tires as artificial coral reefs
B. implement reporting system against dynamite fishermen
 C. legislative lobby to disallow tourism in endangered shorelines
D. outreach by educating the villagers on protection of coral reefs
78. Among qualities which employers look for in the 21st century workplace, which is
the most challenging and demanding?
A. Aptitude for teamwork
B. Skills and social behavior
C. Readiness to take risks
D. Specific competencies for work
79. In the learning to do pillar of new education, what is the enabling factor that can
make the learner fully contribute to a peaceful and just society?
A. knowledge
B. skills
C. insights
D. values
80. Before being able to fully learn to live and work together under the pillar of the
21st century education, what must the learner attain for himself?
A. find peace within oneself
B. attain an altruistic mind
C. love his fellowmen
D. become self-actualized
81. Of the three aspects of learning, which is not mentioned as needed so that the
individual learner in the 21st century can learn how to learn?
A. Ability to think
B. Mathematical skills
C. Memory skills
D. Concentration
82. Which of the following best defines a morally mature person?
A. Cultural values clarification
B. Unhampered exercise of one’s right
C. Transmittal of one’s moral viewpoint
D. Knowledge and practice of universal moral values
83. From global competence as defined by international educators, which is the most
appropriate characteristic of globally competent individual?
A. familiarity with new culture
B. open-mindedness to new culture
C. adaptability to new work environment
D. foreign-language policy
84. Which of the following is not among the major targets of the child-friendly school
system (CFSS)?
A. All school children are friendly
B. All children complete their elementary education within six years
C. All children 6-12 years old are enrolled in elementary schools
D. All grade six students pass the division, regional, and national tests
85. These are sectarian values EXCEPT __________.
A. Islamic truth
B. Christian charity
 C. Buddhist peace
D. Social justice

ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING
86. Teacher Mae makes sure that she checks understanding to ensure that the
students are following the lesson. Of what part of assessment is she occupied
with?
A. Assessment of learning
B. Assessment for learning
C. Assessment as learning
D. Assessment for and as learning
87. What type of portfolio is displayed when teachers want to see the penmanship
skills of his students at the beginning, middle and after the school year?
A. Development portfolio
B. Assessed Portfolio
C. Evaluation Portfolio
D. Showcase Portfolio
88. Among standardized tests, which reveals strengths and weaknesses for
purposes of placement and formulating an appropriate instructional program?
A. Personality tests
B. Achievement tests
C. Diagnostic tests
D. Competency tests
89. Of the following subjects, which does not belong to performance-based subjects
in which direct instruction is effectively used?
A. Values education
B. Music
C. Science
D. Mathematics
90. Of the types of validity tests, what is concerned with the relation of test scores to
performance at some future time, e.g. Freshmen college test can show success
in college?
A. Curriculum validity
B. Criterion validity
C. Content validity
D. Predictive validity
91. Teacher BeaBunana makes her tests easy for students to understand, easy to
administer and score and suitable to test conditions, e.g. time. What is she
achieving for her tests?
A. Efficiency
B. Usability
C. Reliability
D. Validity
92. To what process of evaluation does determining the extent objectives are met
belong?
A. Authentic
 B. Formative
C. Criterion-referenced
D. Norm-referenced
93. Which form of the foundation of all cognitive objects without which the next level
of higher thinking skills cannot be attained?
A. Knowledge
B. Synthesis
C. Application
D. Analysis
94. In the context of the 6 facets of understanding cited by Wiggins and McTIghe,
what is a proof of a student’s understanding a principle?
A. Stating given examples
B. Repeating it as given by the teacher
C. Applying it to solve his problem
D. Retaining it in memory for a long period of time
95. What should be done with test item whose difficulty index is .98?
A. Revise it
B. Retain it
C. Reject it
D. Reserve it for another group of students
96. What is known as the scoring guides for rating open-ended questions?
A. Rubrics
B. Outcomes
C. Scales
D. Outputs
97. In preparing classroom tests, which of the following checklists is the FIRST
among steps in tests preparation?
A. How are the objective items to be scored?
B. How are the test results to be reported?
C. How I have prepared a table of specifications?
D. How are the test scores to be tabulated?
98. What can be said of student performance in a positively skewed score
distribution?
A. A few students performed excellently
B. Most students performed well
C. Almost all students had average performance
D. Most students performed poorly
99. Which is true when the standard deviation is small?
A. Scores are toward both extremes
B. Scores are spread apart
C. Scores are tightly bunched together
D. The bell curve is relatively fat
100. What is the meaning of a negative correlation between amount of practice and
number of errors in tennis?
A. The increase in the amount of practices does not at all affect the number of
errors
B. As the amount of practice increases, the number of errors decreases
C. The decrease in the amount of practice sometimes affects the number of
errors
D. Decrease in the amount of practice goes with decrease in the number of errors