Professional Education

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MULTIPLE CHOICE:
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

1. Which is NOT a provision for the development of each learner in a good curriculum?
a. Extensive arrangements are made for the educational diagnosis of individual learners.
b. Self-directed, independent study is encouraged wherever possible and advisable.
c. Self-motivation and self-evaluation are stimulated and emphasized throughout the learning opportunities of the
school.
d. The program provides a wide range of opportunities for individuals with same abilities, needs and interests.

2. Teacher Lily would like to take part in developing a subject-centered curriculum because she believes that all subjects
in this type of curriculum are geared towards the holistic development of the learner. Is her belief about the subject-
centered curriculum true?
a. Yes, because the subject-centered curriculum focuses on the learners needs, interests and abilities.
b. No, because it is the experience-centered curriculum that emphasizes the teaching of facts and knowledge for future
use.
c. Yes, because the subject-centered curriculum involves cooperative control.
d. No, because it is the experience centered and not the subject-centered curriculum that emphasizes integration of
habits and skills in learning the knowledge component of subject areas.

3. In the elementary level, English literature and Social studies relate well. While history is being studied, different
literary pieces during the historical period is being studied as well. What curriculum design is shown here?
a. Separate subject design
b. Correlation design
c. Discipline design
d. Broad field design

4. This phase of curriculum development involves decisions, among other things, on grade placement and sequencing of
content. Which phase is this?
a. Curriculum planning
b. Curriculum evaluation
c. Curriculum organization
d. Curriculum implementation
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5. One example of this design of subject-centered curriculum is that which shows social studies being combined with
geography, civics, culture and history to comprises subject area. Which design is this?
a. Correlated
b. Broadfields
c. Separate Subject
d. Core

6. Ms. Ortiz, as Science teacher tries to enrich the content of her lesson by identifying related concepts in Math. What
pattern of organizing subjects did Ms. Ortiz consider?
a. Broadfield
b. Correlated
c. Core
d. Separate Subject

7. Which design is easy to deliver because complementary books and materials are commercially available?
a. Experience centered design
b. Problem design
c. Process design
d. Subject centered design

8. What refers to the matching between curriculum and test to be used to assess the learners?
a. Alignment
b. Auditing
c. Articulation
d. Delivery

9. Ms. Mateo, a History teacher considers the element of time in arranging content of her lessons in World History.
What way of establishing sequence is given emphasis by Ms. Mateo?
a. Simple to complex
b. Part to whole
c. Concrete to abstract
d. Chronological

10. Mr. Rivera, a new teacher believes that education is a process of development and is life itself; therefore, experience
related to the child's need and interest should be given primary consideration. What educational philosophy is being
exhibited by Mr. Rivera?
a. Idealism
b. Reconstructionism
c. Progressivism
d. Realism

11. A stakeholder in curriculum development, Mr. Cruz, a district supervisor and a member of the school board has one
of the following primary roles.
a. Support and participate in parent-school organization activities.
b. Authorize school expenditures for curriculum development, implementation and evaluation
c. Enact legislation to effect curriculum improvement.
d. Recommend changes in curriculum.
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12. The schools in the first District plan to adopt the reading program used in the third district. What level of curriculum
improvement is used?
a. Variation
b. Value orientation
c. Substitution
d. Restructuring

13. Mr. Bernardo, a curriculum consultant on Economics insists that in selecting the curriculum content, it is better that
throughout the high school years, economic geography concepts be used to recur and be repeated with depth for
effective learning. What criterion in content selection is shown here?
a. Validity
b. Continuity
c. Significance
d. Learnability

14. The Filipino learners envisioned by the Department of Education (DepEd) in the light of K-12 Curriculum is
a. Technologically literate or logistically developed Filipino
b. Functionally literate or logistically developed Filipino
c. Scientifically Advanced and Values Oriented Filipino
d. National Oriented and Internationally Competitive Filipinos

15. Teacher Dominguito believes that a new respect for the child is fundamental in curriculum. Thus, all activities in the
classroom are geared towards the development of the child - the center of the educative process. To which approach in
curriculum does Teacher Dominguito adhere?
a. Learner-centered
b. Subject-centered
c. Problem-centered
d. Pragmatic

16. Mrs. Manuel, the Principal of Bagong Barrio Elementary School invited the Brgy. Captain in the school to solicit
inputs for a new curriculum in Social Science which highlights indigenous knowledge in the community. What is shown in
this situation?
a. Community members as supporters of curriculum
b. Community members as curriculum resources
c. Community members as managers of curriculum
d. Community members as beneficiaries of curriculum

17. Teacher Bert puts emphasis on the immediate felt interests and needs of his students and not on the anticipated
needs and interests. What type of curriculum does teacher Bert adheres?
a. Subject-centered
b. Learner-centered
c. Experience-centered
d. Culture-based

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18. What type of curriculum divides the school day into different periods such as language arts, social studies, science
and health, arithmetic, etc.?
a. Correlated
b. Broad fields
c. Integrated
d. Separate Subject

19. Which curriculum design element is taking place when Eduardo, a 4th year student can connect the lessons he
learned in a subject area to a related content in another subject area?
a. Articulation
b. Balance
c. Continuity
d. Integration

20. The following curricular changes took place in what particular period? Restore Grade VII, double-single session was
abolished and more textbooks were written by Filipino authors.
a. American Period
b. Philippine Republic
c. Japanese Occupation
d. New Society

21. This concept includes the sub-processes of curriculum planning, organization, implementation and evaluation. Which
concept is this?
a. Curriculum development
b. Curriculum assessment
c. Curriculum management
d. Curriculum and instruction

22. If curriculum is the "means", what is the "end"?

a. Strategies
b. Instruction
c. Technique
d. Approaches

23. The curriculum used during the period in Philippine history terminated the use of English as a medium of instruction,
What period is this?
a. American
b. Spanish
c. Commonwealth
d. Japanese

24. Which of the following statements about the concept of curriculum is NOT quite acceptable?
a. It refers to all experiences that both the school and the teacher provide the students with.
b. It is the set of acquired knowledge, habits and skills
c. It consists of everything that goes within the school.
d. It is a planned action for instruction

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25. What process is being undertaken by curriculum developers when they enrich or modify certain aspects of a
particular program without changing its fundamental conceptions?
a. Curriculum improvement
b. Curriculum change
c. Curriculum design
d. Curriculum implementation

26. What design element establishes the vertical linkage from level to level to avoid glaring gaps and wasteful overlaps?
a. Articulation
b. Balance
c. Scope
d. Sequence

27. What refers to the authenticity of the content selected by the curriculum developer?
a. Feasibility
b. Learnability
c. Significance
d. Validity

28. What do we call the allocation of content to a definite grade capable of learning?
a. Time allotment
b. Grade placement
c. Grade level
d. Maturity level

29. Which pattern of experience-centered curriculum centers around the normal activities of children and is based on
each child's needs, interests and potentials?
a. Child-centered
b. Activity
c. Social function
d. Specific competencies

30. Which curriculum development phase focuses on the change which will take place in certain aspects of the
curriculum without changing the fundamental conceptions?
a. Curriculum planning
b. Curriculum design
c. Curriculum improvement
d. Curriculum evaluation

31. Which is not a component of curriculum designing?

a. Objective
b. learning content
c. learning experiences
d. Diagnosis of needs

32. Which type of curriculum design serves as a response to society's demand for integration of knowledge and enables
the learner to see relationship among various aspects?
a. Broadfield
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c. Core
d. Separate subjects

33. Who controls the subject centered-curriculum?

a. Learner
b. Teacher
c. Parent
d. Teacher and parent

34. To provide individual differences in the classroom, how is curriculum designed?

a. Minimum learning competencies are included
b. Realistic and meaningful experiences are provided
c. Some degree of flexibility is provided
d. Social skills are emphasized

35. To ensure success in curriculum development, which of the following specific actions should a curriculum leader
avoid?
a. Work with people over them.
b. Use your status frequently to establish discipline
c. Keep channels of communication open
d. Show that you too desire to improve

36. Which of the following is a reason for the continuous appraisal of the existing curriculum in all levels?
a. New national policies in government
b. Changing needs and condition of society
c. Economic status of the people
d. Political trust of the country

37. Which of the following best defines curriculum development?

a. The total mental phenomena directly received at any given time
b. The planning of learning opportunities intended to bring about certain desired changes in pupils and the assessment
of the extent to which these changes have taken place.
c. A continuous cycle of activities in which all elements of curriculum are considered.
d. Education is aiding each child to be socially creative individuals.

38. To build a sense of pride among Filipino youth, which should be done in the curriculum?
a. Re-study our history and stress on our achievements as a people.
b. Re-study our history from the perspective of our colonizer.
c. Replace the study of folklore and myths with technical subjects.
d. Set aside the study of local history.

39. What do you call the curriculum when the teacher puts into action all the different planned activities in the
classroom?
a. Recommended Curriculum
b. Written Curriculum
c. Taught Curriculum
d. Supported Curriculum

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40. Which statement about the subject-centered curriculum is NOT true?
a. There is a high level of cooperative interaction
b. It covers much content in a short period of time
c. The teacher has full control of the classroom activities
d. The main task is mastery of learning

41. Schools divide the school hours to different subjects such as reading, grammar, literature, math, science, history and
geography. What curriculum design is referred here?
a. Problem-centered
b. Learner-centered
c. Subject-centered
d. Culture-based

42. Which is NOT a description of the learner-centered curriculum?

a. Emphasis is on the total growth and development of the learners
b. Controlled and cooperatively directed by learners, teachers and parents
c. Education is a means to develop social creative individual
d. Emphasis upon facts and knowledge for future use

43. The K-12 curriculum is otherwise called as

a. 2002 Basic Education Curriculum
b. Revitalized Basic Education Curriculum
c. Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum
d. Extended Basic Education Curriculum

44. What refers to an individual or group of individuals who have a direct and indirect influence in curriculum
development?
a. Stockholders
b. Stakeholders
c. Promoters
d. Incorporators

45. What refers to the appropriateness of the content in the light of the particular students who are to experience the
curriculum?
a. Significance
b. Validity
c. Interest
d. Learnability

46. Which of the following statements is NOT acceptable?

a. Instruction is the actual engagement of learners in the planned learning activities.
b. Curriculum determines what assessment should be done, and how to do it.
c. Instruction requires teachers to use a variety of action to accomplish a variety of functions.
d. Assessment establishes what is to be accomplished in teaching and learning.

47. Which characteristic of a good curriculum highlights the psychological nature of the learner?
a. Provisions are made for the smooth transition and continuing achievement of pupils.
b. Curriculum plans in areas which extend over several years are developed vertically.
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c. Classroom practices give attention to the maturity and learning problems of each pupil.
d. Cooperative planning and teaching provide for exchange of information about pupil's learning experiences.

48. Objectives must be evaluated in the light of practical considerations, including teacher competence, availability of
instructional materials, time allotment, etc. What characteristic of educational objective is defined by the
aforementioned statement?
a. Comprehension
b. Attainability
c. Consistency
d. Feasibility

49. "Knowledge is true if it is workable". What philosophical foundation supports this statement?
a. Idealism
b. Realism
c. Pragmatism
d. Essentialism

50. As a member of the curriculum committee, your chief concern is to give the child freedom to choose what to learn
and believe, as you allow them to set their own identities and standards. What philosophy will you consider?
a. Existentialism
b. Realism
c. Idealism
d. Pragmatism

51. In the bottom-up perspective, a reader could read a text when he/she
a. uses his prior knowledge to make sense of the text.
b. selects only the meaningful segments in the text.
c. can translate the visual symbols to their aural equivalent.
d. relates the text to other texts previously read.

52. Which of the following reading skills or strategies is the closest to outside-in processing or reading?
a. inferencing
b. outlining
c. predicting outcomes
d. structural analysis

53. Before a reader could read the WORD, he must learn to read the WORLD first. This statement implies that
a. students or readers must know the names of the letter first before they will know what the word means.
b. readers must know the sounds of the letters first before they will know what the word means.
c. words are only representations of the concepts that the child or reader knows before encountering the print.
d. the text supplies the readers with the necessary knowledge they need to make sense of the print.

54. Teacher A explicitly teaches his/her students the rhetorical patterns of an informational text taken from a science
textbook. Which of the following does the teacher want to develop in the reader?
a. print skill
b. content schemata
c. formal schemata
d. vocabulary knowledge

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55. Teacher B uses the timeline as a graphic organizer to teach the readers to understand a given expository text. Which
of the following organizational structures might be the one used in the exposition of the text’s information?
a. cause and effect
b. comparison and contrast
c. enumeration-description
d. sequence or procedural

56. Teacher C has presented a reading lesson to her students. The lesson went on for a span of a week. After a day or
two, when the teacher introduced a new lesson that requires them the knowledge of the previous lesson, the students
no longer remember it. What could be the cause of this problem?
a. There was a lack of constant drill and practice given by the teacher.
b. The text used and the instruction given in the previous lesson is within the students’ independent level.
c. There was a lack of activities that integrate the students’ background experiences to the text presented.
d. The text used and the instruction given in the previous lesson is within the students’ instructional level.

57. A reader was asked to fill in words to the sentences that are found inside the box below. Which of the following
cueing systems did the reader fail to consider?
The candy is in the sweet. It’s in the inside bowl.

a. graphophonic cues
b. syntactic cues
c. semantic cues
d. pragmatic cues

58. A reader read the word “plan” with a pronunciation like “plane” in the sentence, “It’s my plan to sail across the
ocean.” The deviation of the reader in reading the text can be explained by the reader’s use of
a. syntactic cues
b. semantic cues
c. graphophonic cues
d. pragmatic cues

59. An office secretary encoded her boss’s memorandum for the company’s employees. The boss returned the memo to
the secretary along with the note, “Please justify this!” The secretary felt bad and wanted to resign immediately
because she thinks that it’s not her job to explain the contents of the memo. What cueing system did the secretary fail
to consider?
a. graphophonic
b. syntactic
c. semantic
d. pragmatic

60. A reader was asked to read the sentence found inside the box below. Instead of reading the word “moved”, he
substituted it with the word “ran”. Which of the cueing systems could have interfered his reading so that he manifests
such a deviation from the text?
The car moved fast.

a. graphophonic cues
b. syntactic cues
c. semantic cues
d. pragmatic cues

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61. Which of the following refers to the movement of the eyes across a line of text?
a. saccades
b. fixation
c. clustering
d. regression

62. A reader was asked to read a short story. When the reader started reading the text, he encountered several words
that are unfamiliar. He tried to pause for a moment and tried to convert the word from visual to aural. Which of the
following physiological correlates of effective reading does the reader evidently practice in this situation?
a. saccadic movements
b. return sweeps
c. fixations
d. clustering

63. The following are the reasons why fixation is not encouraged at times EXCEPT for
a. Fixation allows readers to think of the meaning of a word encountered.
b. Fixation slows down fluency.
c. Readers are given the chance to do subvocalization when they fixate.
d. Too much fixation results to poor comprehension.

64. It refers to the learned ability to see words in groups rather than as individual words.
a. subvocalization
b. regression
c. fixation
d. clustering

65. You asked a group of students to read a passage silently. After a minute of observation, you noticed that they are
moving their lips as they do saccadic movements along the page. Which of the following terms refers to the practice that
you have observed from your students?
a. subvocalization
b. regression
c. fixation
d. clustering

66. You asked your students to silently read the passage you have prepared for them. The passage is all about
arthropods. As a student go over his passage, you noticed that he sweeps his hands along the page. After a while, his
eyebrows met, as if he doubts what the passage is all about. You noticed that he made return sweeps to the text in a
backward manner, as if trying to search for a previously read word. This situation implies that the reader is doing
a. regression.
b. saccades.
c. fixation.
d. subvocalization.

67. Regression is BEST when the reader uses it as a means to

a. search for keywords in a text.
b. monitor comprehension when the text seems not to make sense.
c. read a passage all over again.
d. highlight important lines in the text for retrieval purposes.

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68. Teacher D entered the classroom and posted images that she has taken from the story she is about to tell the
students. Before she started telling the story to the class, she grouped the students and asked them to make a story out
of the pictures posted on the board. Which of the following approaches reflects the practice of the teacher?
a. Explicit Phonics
b. Basal Approach
c. Embedded Phonics
d. Language Experience Approach

69. Teacher E entered the classroom and showed a list of word families like cat, mat, fat, rat, pat, and bat. This practice
clearly shows that the teacher employs
a. Whole-language approach.
b. Language experience approach.
c. Literature-based approach.
d. Phonics approach.

70. A student asked the teacher to tell him the meaning of the word “disestablishmentarianism”, which is found in the
text that the student read. Instead of explicitly stating the meaning of the word, the teacher asked the student to
segment the word and look for its base word, prefix, and suffixes so that they may construct the meaning of the word
through these word parts. Which of the following vocabulary strategy did the teacher use to help the students arrive at
the meaning of the unfamiliar word?
a. semantic feature analysis
b. semantic mapping
c. structural analysis
d. context clues

71. You were given a long passage to read in a short period of time. Along with the passage, you were also asked to
answer questions regarding the text you have read. Which of the following reading strategies should you use to
successfully meet your aim?(correct answer re-telling)
a. skimming
b. scanning
c. close reading
d. summarizing

72. You want your students to give you a detailed account of what they have understood from the story you have all
read in the classroom. Which of the following assessment measures, tools, or procedures should you use to meet your
goal? ( correct answer re-telling)
a. think-aloud
b. cloze procedure
c. miscue analysis
d. standardized tests

73. A teacher wants to know the current functional reading level of a student in her reading class in terms of word
recognition. Which of the following assessment measures, tools, or procedures should the teacher use to meet her aim?
a. think-aloud
b. miscue analysis
c. standardized tests
d. informal reading inventory

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74. You want to know the quality of responses the students make as they process a text while they are in the act of
audibly reading it. You recorded their reading and found out that they stop at times and give personal reactions to the
text. Some of the students’ reactions are even stated in their mother tongue. Which of the following assessment tools or
procedures refers to this practice?
a. think-aloud
b. miscue analysis
c. standardized tests
d. cloze procedure

75. You want to know the range of your students’ vocabulary, graphophonic knowledge, syntactic knowledge, semantic
knowledge, and pragmatic knowledge by filling in gaps within an information. Which of the following should you use to
achieve your goal?
a. think-aloud
b. miscue analysis
c. standardized tests
d. cloze procedure

76. Teacher A has found out that the results of the curriculum that was implemented call for an alteration in the set of
objectives and competencies. Which of the following curriculum development stages does teacher A want to happen?
a. curriculum planning
b. curriculum evaluation
c. curriculum change
d. curriculum improvement

77. Ms. Natividad, a classroom teacher, wants to try-out to her class another strategy she has learned from a seminar-
workshop she has attended. Which level of curriculum is shown in this situation?
a. societal
b. experiential
c. instructional
d. institutional

78. Mr. Reyes, the principal of Bagumbato National High School, opted to use the curriculum that employs the
integration of Music, Arts, P.E., and Social Studies on a longer time block. This situation clearly shows that the principal
prefers to use
a. core curriculum design.
b. correlated subjects design.
c. broad-fields curriculum design.
d. single-subject curriculum design.

79. The sub-processes of curriculum planning, organization and designing, implementation and evaluation sum up the
process of
a. curriculum and instruction.
b. curriculum management.
c. curriculum development.
d. curriculum assessment.

80. When the aim of the curriculum is to provide the learners with the needed skills in this ever- changing world, the
curriculum reflects the belief that it should
a. provide learner’s with the knowledge needed for social relevance.
b. perpetuate cumulative tradition of organized knowledge.
c. provide avenues for the students to do self-expression.
d. allow learner’s self-actualization.
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81. The following statements are characteristics of the subject-centered curriculum EXCEPT for
a. The main task is mastery learning.
b. The teacher has full control of the lesson.
c. There is a high level of cooperative interaction.
d. It covers much of the content in a short span of time.

82. The phase of curriculum development which involves a survey of the current needs of the learners and the demands
of society is curriculum
a. planning.
b. evaluation.
c. organization.
d. Implementation

83. Ms. Oliveros, a language teacher, has noticed that Bryan, a diagnosed dyslexic child, has already improved in his
reading, writing, gross, and fine motor abilities. She recommended to her principal that Bryan should be learning in a
regular classroom. Which of the following does the teacher want to happen?
a. promotion
b. intervention
c. inclusion
d. exclusion

84. When developers try to obtain relevant information to be able to judge the worth of an educational program, its
product, procedures, and objectives, the developers are in the process of curriculum
a. planning.
b. designing.
c. evaluation.
d. alignment.

85. Johnny, a junior high school student, connected his lesson on fractions with his Social Studies lesson on land
ownership during the time of Feudalism. Which curriculum design element is reflected in Johnny’s practice?
a. articulation
b. integration
c. continuity
d. balance

86. Teacher B wants to give his student the freedom to choose what to learn and believe, and allow the student to set
his own identity and standards. Teacher B clearly shows that he believes in
a. Realism.
b. Idealism.
c. Perennialism.
d. Existentialism

87. A curriculum developer wants to combine geography, civics and culture, and history to complete the subject area of
Social Studies. The curriculum developer clearly manifests favor for the
a. correlated subjects curriculum design.
b. broad fields curriculum design.
c. fused curriculum design.
d. core curriculum design.

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88. Teacher C has found out that there was a mismatch between the content she was teaching in the class and the
competencies tested in the standards-based assessment (SBA) given after a year of instruction. This situation calls for
curriculum
a. planning.
b. designing.
c. alignment.
d. implementation.

89. The following are characteristics of the experience-centered curriculum EXCEPT for
a. The classroom activities are cooperatively controlled by the learner and the teacher.
b. The emphasis is on the holistic development of the individual learner.
c. Education aims to develop a socially creative individual.
d. Facts and knowledge are to be mastered for future use.

90. The students’ first languages are to be the medium of instruction during the first three years of formal schooling
both in the public and private schools. Which of the following stakeholders in curriculum development asks for this
requirement?
a. parents
b. teachers
c. publishers
d. legislators

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