1. In order to develop the spirit of labour in students
(1) The teacher himself
should indulge in labour
(2) The teacher should
deliver lectures on the importance of labour
(3) Students should be
given opportunities to do labour from time to time
(4) Students should be
given examples of laboring people
2. The essential
element of the syllabus for the children remained out of school should be-
(1) Literacy competencies
(2) Life-skills
(3) Numerical
competencies
(4) Vocational
competencies
3. A child has been
admitted to your school who belongs to a back ward family/
background from the cultural
viewpoint. You will
(1) Keep him in a class
in which, there are many more students of backward
background from the cultural
viewpoint
(2) Send a teacher to
know more about the backward cultural background of the
child
(3) Keep him in a normal
class but will make special arrangements for teaching him,
keeping his special needs in
view
(4) Advise him to take up
vocational education
4. All of the
following can be signs that a child is gifted, except
(1) Early
development of a sense of time
(2) Interest in
encyclopaedias and dictionaries
(3) Uneasy relationships
with peers.
(4) Easy retention of
facts
5. If heredity is an
important determinant of a specific behaviour, what prediction can
we make about expression of
the behaviour in identical twins reared apart compared
to its expression in
fraternal twins reared apart?
(1) Fraternal twins
will express the behaviour more similarly than identical twins.
(2) There will be
little similarity in the expression of the behaviour in either set of
twins.
(3) Identical twins
will express the behaviour more similarly than fraternal twins.
(4) The behaviour
will be expressed as similarly by identical twins as it is by
fraternal twins.
6. Frobel’s most
important contribution to education was his development of the
(1) Vocational
school (2) Public high school (3) Kindergarten
(4) Latin School
7. A time bound
testing programme for a students should be implemented in Schools so
that-
(1) The progress of
the students should be informed to their parents
(2) A regular
practice can be carried out
(3) The students can be
trained for final examinations
(4) The remedial
programme can be adopted on the basis of the feedback from the
results
8. Of the following,
the main purpose of state certification of teachers is to
(1) Monitor the
quality of teacher training institutions
(2) Provide for a
uniform standard of entry-level teacher competency throughout
the state
(3) Exclude from
the profession those not trained in pedagogy
(4) Exclude from
the profession those who are mentally unhealthy
9. The key difference
between evolutionary and cultural change is that evolutionary
change alters __________
whereas cultural change alters ____________.
(1) Reproduction;
environment
(2) Heredity;
environment
(3) Environment;
behaviour
(4) Development;
learning
10. The incorrectly
associated pair is
(1) Joseph
Lancaster –contract plan
(2) Benjamin
Franklin-academy
(3) James B Conant –high
school
(4) Horace Mann
–elementary education
11. Which of the
following forms of mental retardation is caused by the presence of an
extra chromosome?
(1) Down
syndrome
(2) Cretinism
(3) PKU
(4)
Cultural-familial retardation
12. The problem of
drop-out in which students leave their schooling in early years can be
tackled in a better way
through-
(1) Reduction of
the weight of curriculum
(2) Sympathy of
teachers
(3) Attractive
environment of the school
(4) Encouragement
of the students
13. The educator who
advanced the idea of the five formal steps in leaving was:
(1) Rousseau
(2) Comenius
(3) Pestalozzi
(4) Herbart
14. Monica is 9 years
old and has always done things independently. However, what her
parents tend to find more
bothersome is her total lack of concern about their
approval or disapproval of
the things she does. Monica appears
(1) To have
developed a healthy attachment to her parents.
(2) To have failed
to develop an attachment to her parents.
(3) To be
redefining her attachment with her parents.
(4) To be overly
attached to her parents.
15. If a teacher does not
know the answer to a question asked by a student what he
should do?
(1) Give a wrong
answer to the students
(2) Admit his
ignorance
(3) put off by
promising to tell the next day
(4) Snub the
student
16. The disadvantaged
child’s chances for success in school will be maximized when:
(1) He/she is given
a high concentration of skills subjects
(2) He/she is
provided with vocational training earlier than other children
(3) He/she is
treated like any other child
(4) His/her
intellectual potential is discovered and his/her educational deficiencies
are overcome
17. According to John
Bowlby, children become depressed as a result of
(1) Self-devaluing
cognitive schema.
(2) Exposure to
prolonged, uncontrollable negative experiences.
(3) Insecure
attachments
(4) Living with
depressed parents.
18. “The individual
develops through the head, the heart, and the hand”, this was the
educational philosophy of:
(1) Herbart
(2) Comenius
(3) Pestalozzi
(4) Froebel
19. Asking questions form
the students is an important aspect of teaching. What purpose
does it achieve?
(1) Students may
remain alert
(2) Students should
understand the lesson
(3) Students should
participate actively in going through the lesson
(4) All the three
depending on the subject taught
20. A teacher can
motivate the students by-
(1) giving suitable
prizes
(2) giving proper
guidance
(3) giving examples
(4) delivering
speech in class
21. A parent of a fourth
grader refuse to give permission for her child to go on a class
trip. The teacher should
first:
(1) Refer the
matter to the guidance counselor
(2) Confer with the
parent to discuss the educational purpose of the trip
(3) Give the class
a homework assignment for all parents to sign; giving reasons
why each child wants to go on
the trip
(4) Ask another
teacher in the same grade to take that child on the day of the trip
22. The cognitive structures
into which children organize their behaviour and knowledge
are called
(1) Accommodations
(2) Frameworks
(3) Operations
(4) Schemata
23. An increase in
comprehension skill is most likely to result from:
(1) Guided silent
reading (2) Guided oral reading (3)
Unstructured silent reading (4) The teacher reading to the class
24. Education is called a
triangular process. Which are the three sides of the triangle?
(1) School, Knowledge,
Teacher
(2) Books, School,
Teacher
(3) Social environment,
Teacher and Students
(4) None of these
25. Piaget claimed
that all of the following are true of his stages of cognitive development
EXCEPT:
(1) All children
progress through the various stages at exactly the same age.
(2) All children
throughout the world pass through the stages in the same order.
(3) All normal
children reach the stage of concrete operations.
(4) The changes
from stage to stage can sometimes be very abrupt.
26. Kindergarten
system of education was contributed by-
(1) T. P. Nunn
(2) Spencer
(3) Froebel
(4) Montessori
27. A child who
frequently loses his/her place where reading can be temporarily helped
by
(1) Allowing
him/her to fingerpoint
(2) Giving him/her
a card to place under each line being read
(3) Providing
him/her with a large-print reader such as those used by the visually
handicapped
(4) Letting him/her
listen to taped stores
28. Of the following
activities in a science class, the one with least educational value is
(1) Viewing a
filmstrip
(2) Constructing a model
(3) Drawing a design
(4) Reading about a
simple experiment
29. Montessori System of
education is based on
(1) Freedom to the
child to play games
(2) Motivation of
children by the teachers
(3) Development of
the talents of the child
(4) Freedom to the
child to express his interests
30. Piaget's theory of
cognitive development has been criticized for all of the following
reasons EXCEPT:
(1) Piaget may have
been incorrect in suggesting that children pass through the
stages in an unvarying
sequence.
(2) Certain tasks
may be solved without the underlying operations that Piaget
claimed were necessary.
(3) Piaget
underestimated the capabilities of infants.
(4) Cross-cultural
findings suggest that Piaget may have overemphasized the
importance of schooling and
other experiential factors.
ANSWER
1. In order to develop the spirit of labour in
students
(1) The teacher himself should indulge in
labour
(2) The teacher should deliver lectures on
the importance of labour
(3) Students should be
given opportunities to do labour from time to time (answer)
(4) Students should be given examples of
laboring people
2. The essential element of the syllabus for
the children remained out of school should be-
(1) Literacy competencies
(2) Life-skills
(3) Numerical competencies
(4) Vocational
competencies (answer)
3. A child has been admitted to your school
who belongs to a back ward family/
background from the cultural viewpoint. You will
(1) Keep him in a class in which, there are
many more students of backward
background from the cultural viewpoint
(2) Send a teacher to know more about the
backward cultural background of the
child
(3) Keep him in a normal
class but will make special arrangements for teaching him,
keeping his special needs in
view (answer)
(4) Advise him to take up vocational
education
4. All of the following can be signs that a
child is gifted, except
(1) Early development of a sense of
time
(2) Interest in encyclopaedias and
dictionaries
(3) Uneasy relationships
with peers. (answer)
(4) Easy retention of facts
5. If heredity is an important determinant of
a specific behaviour, what prediction can
we make about expression of the behaviour in
identical twins reared apart compared
to its expression in fraternal twins reared apart?
(1) Fraternal twins will express the
behaviour more similarly than identical twins.
(2) There will be little similarity in
the expression of the behaviour in either set of
twins.
(3) Identical
twins will express the behaviour more similarly than fraternal twins.
(answer)
(4) The behaviour will be expressed as
similarly by identical twins as it is by
fraternal twins.
6. Frobel’s most important contribution to
education was his development of the
(1) Vocational school (2) Public
high school (3) Kindergarten
(answer) (4) Latin School
7. A time bound testing programme for a
students should be implemented in Schools so
that-
(1) The progress of the students should
be informed to their parents
(2) A regular practice can be carried
out
(3) The students can be trained for final
examinations
(4) The remedial
programme can be adopted on the basis of the feedback from the
results (answer)
8. Of the following, the main purpose of
state certification of teachers is to
(1) Monitor the quality of teacher
training institutions
(2) Provide for a
uniform standard of entry-level teacher competency throughout
the state
(answer)
(3) Exclude from the profession those
not trained in pedagogy
(4) Exclude from the profession those
who are mentally unhealthy
9. The key difference between evolutionary
and cultural change is that evolutionary
change alters __________ whereas cultural change
alters ____________.
(1) Reproduction; environment
(2) Heredity;
environment (answer)
(3) Environment; behaviour
(4) Development; learning
10. The incorrectly associated pair is
(1) Joseph
Lancaster –contract plan (answer)
(2) Benjamin Franklin-academy
(3) James B Conant –high school
(4) Horace Mann –elementary education
11. Which of the following forms of mental
retardation is caused by the presence of an
extra chromosome?
(1) Down
syndrome (answer)
(2) Cretinism
(3) PKU
(4) Cultural-familial retardation
12. The problem of drop-out in which students
leave their schooling in early years can be
tackled in a better way through-
(1) Reduction of the weight of
curriculum
(2) Sympathy of teachers
(3) Attractive environment of the
school
(4) Encouragement
of the students (answer)
13. The educator who advanced the idea of the
five formal steps in leaving was:
(1) Rousseau
(2) Comenius
(3) Pestalozzi
(4) Herbart
(answer)
14. Monica is 9 years old and has always done
things independently. However, what her
parents tend to find more bothersome is her total
lack of concern about their
approval or disapproval of the things she does.
Monica appears
(1) To have developed a healthy
attachment to her parents.
(2) To have failed
to develop an attachment to her parents. (answer)
(3) To be redefining her attachment
with her parents.
(4) To be overly attached to her
parents.
15. If a teacher does not know the answer to a
question asked by a student what he
should do?
(1) Give a wrong answer to the students
(2) Admit his
ignorance (answer)
(3) put off by promising to tell the
next day
(4) Snub the student
16. The disadvantaged child’s chances for
success in school will be maximized when:
(1) He/she is given a high
concentration of skills subjects
(2) He/she is provided with vocational
training earlier than other children
(3) He/she is treated like any other
child
(4) His/her
intellectual potential is discovered and his/her educational deficiencies
are overcome
(answer)
17. According to John Bowlby, children become
depressed as a result of
(1) Self-devaluing cognitive schema.
(2) Exposure to prolonged,
uncontrollable negative experiences.
(3) Insecure
attachments (answer)
(4) Living with depressed parents.
18. “The individual develops through the
head, the heart, and the hand”, this was the
educational philosophy of:
(1) Herbart
(2) Comenius
(3) Pestalozzi
(answer)
(4) Froebel
19. Asking questions form the students is an
important aspect of teaching. What purpose
does it achieve?
(1) Students may remain alert
(2) Students should understand the
lesson
(3) Students should participate
actively in going through the lesson
(4) All the three depending on the
subject taught (answer)
20. A teacher can motivate the students by-
(1) giving suitable prizes
(2) giving proper
guidance (answer)
(3) giving examples
(4) delivering speech in class
21. A parent of a fourth grader refuse to
give permission for her child to go on a class
trip. The teacher should first:
(1) Refer the matter to the guidance
counselor
(2) Confer with
the parent to discuss the educational purpose of the trip
(answer)
(3) Give the class a homework
assignment for all parents to sign; giving reasons
why each child wants to go on the trip
(4) Ask another teacher in the same
grade to take that child on the day of the trip
22. The cognitive structures into which children
organize their behaviour and knowledge
are called
(1) Accommodations
(2) Frameworks
(3) Operations
(4) Schemata
(answer)
23. An increase in comprehension skill is
most likely to result from:
(1) Guided silent
reading (answer) (2) Guided oral reading
(3) Unstructured silent reading (4) The teacher reading to the
class
24. Education is called a triangular process. Which
are the three sides of the triangle?
(1) School, Knowledge, Teacher
(2) Books, School, Teacher
(3) Social environment,
Teacher and Students (answer)
(4) None of these
25. Piaget claimed that all of the following
are true of his stages of cognitive development
EXCEPT:
(1) All children
progress through the various stages at exactly the same age.
(answer)
(2) All children throughout the world
pass through the stages in the same order.
(3) All normal children reach the stage
of concrete operations.
(4) The changes from stage to stage can
sometimes be very abrupt.
26. Kindergarten system of education was
contributed by-
(1) T. P. Nunn
(2) Spencer
(3) Froebel
(answer)
(4) Montessori
27. A child who frequently loses his/her
place where reading can be temporarily helped
by
(1) Allowing him/her to fingerpoint
(2) Giving him/her a card to place
under each line being read (answer)
(3) Providing him/her with a
large-print reader such as those used by the visually
handicapped
(4) Letting him/her listen to taped stores
28. Of the following activities in a science
class, the one with least educational value is
(1) Viewing a filmstrip
(2) Constructing a model
(3) Drawing a design
(4) Reading about a
simple experiment (answer)
29. Montessori System of education is based
on
(1) Freedom to the child to play games
(2) Motivation of children by the
teachers
(3) Development of the talents of the
child
(4) Freedom to the child to express his interests
(answer)
30. Piaget's theory of cognitive development
has been criticized for all of the following
reasons EXCEPT:
(1) Piaget may have been incorrect in
suggesting that children pass through the
stages in an unvarying sequence.
(2) Certain tasks may be solved without
the underlying operations that Piaget
claimed were necessary.
(3) Piaget underestimated the
capabilities of infants.
(4) Cross-cultural
findings suggest that Piaget may have overemphasized the
importance of schooling and
other experiential factors. (answer)
