PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

50 Items with Answer

1. Which of the following would be the most fitting action of a teacher who is having a relationship with
his/her student?

a. Deny the relationship.

b. Enjoy the relationship while it lasts.

c. Defer the relationship until they are ready to admit it.

d. Continue the relationship and exercise utmost professional discretion about this.

2. Ms. de Leon is a sickly teacher. She gets to school even late and not feeling well. What provision in
R.A. 7836 does she violate?

a. Teachers must be devoted, honest and punctual in performing their duty.

b. Teachers should be physical, mentally and morally fit to teach.

c. Teachers should manifest genuine enthusiasm and pride in teaching as a noble profession.

d. All of the above

3. "Education is a continuous process of experiencing and of visiting or reorganizing experiences"

a. Education begins and ends in school.

b. Education takes place anytime and anywhere.

c. Education happens formally and informally.

d. Education goes on throughout life.

4. If you have a foreign visitor, what would be the best gift to buy?

a. Imported antiques

b. Expensive Buddha figurines

c. Porcelain wares

d. Embroidered products from Quezon province

a. Teacher to inflict corporal punishment to offending student upon the approval of parents.

b. Teacher to inflict corporal punishment on offending student secretly.

c. Teacher to inflict corporal punishment to offending student at all times.

d. Teacher to inflict no corporal punishment on offending student at all times.

6) Which of the following is a characteristic of a Pragmatist Teacher?

a. Equipping the learners with the basic abilities and skills.

b. Providing the learners with the opportunities to apply theories and principles.

c. Requiring the learners the full mastery of the lessons.

d. Encourage the learners to memorize factual knowledge.

7) In line with the philosophy of Reconstructivism, which of the following should be given emphasis in
teaching?

a. To seek for a better position in the society.

b. To compare oneself with the less fortunate.

c. To become economically self-reliant.

d. To designate one's superiority over the others.

8) One of the responsibilities of school administrators and faculty members is to communicate and
cooperate harmoniously with the community. Which of the following attributes best applies to this
responsibility?

a. Interfacing

b. Alignment

c. Partnership

d. Kinship

9) This principle was violated when Teacher Rey talked badly about the new school principal in front of
his students by telling them that the new principal is incompetent and arrogant.

a. Respect for authority

b. Fidelity
c. Loyalty

d. Confidentiality

10) Which of the following is an integral part of the teaching process?

a. Teacher and principal

b. Lesson plan

c. Classroom management

d. Rubrics

11) Which of the following is the Fundamental Moral Principle?

a. Stealing is wrong.

b. Health is wealth.

c. Do good and avoid evil.

d. Cheating is immoral.

12) "Moral example has greater effect on pupils' discipline than laws and punishment" is an advice for
teachers from ________.

a. Confucius

b. Mohammed

c. Lao Tzu

d. Plato

13) According to Max Scheler's Hierarchy of Values, ________ is the highest form of values.

a. Pleasure values

b. Vital values

c. Spiritual values

d. Values of the Holy.

14) Which of the following prepositions is attributed to Plato?

a. Truth is relative to a particular time and place.

b. Human beings create their own truth.

d. Sense perception is the most accurate guide to knowledge.

15) If reality is politically socially and economically formed, this philosophy is being followed:

a. Essentialism

b. Existentialism

c. Progressivism

d. Pragmatism

16) In Piaget's concrete operational stage, a teacher should provide ________.

a. Activities for hypothesis formulation.

b. Learning activities that involve problems of classification and order.

c. Activities for evaluation purposes.

d. Stimulating environment with ample objects to play with.

17) A grade 1 pupil likes to play with his friends, but gets angry when defeated. Piaget's theory states
that this pupil is under what development stage?

a. Concrete-operational stage

b. Sensorimotor stage

c. Formal-operational stage

d. Pre-operational stage

18) Fear of something that was caused by a painful experience in the past is an example of?

a. Insight

b. Classical conditioning

c. Operant conditioning

d. Imitation

19) A teacher rewards a child for doing things correctly. This technique is called:

a. Conditioning

b. Fading
c. Chaining

d. Reinforcement

20) A person who is friendly and has a capacity to make people laugh possesses:

a. Naturalistic intelligence

b. Spatial intelligence

c. Intrapersonal intelligence

d. Interpersonal intelligence

21) A student with Attention Deficit Disorder exhibits:

a. Care for his/her personal things

b. Impatient while waiting for his/her turn during games

c. Completes work before shifting to another

d. Excessively quiet

22) A child treats his friends highly aggressive. The reason behind this attitude is his past experiences
with his father who is also highly aggressive. This is demonstrated on what theory?

a. Social cognitive theory

b. Cognitive developmental theory

c. Operant conditioning

d. Classical conditioning

23) Based on Jung's psychological theory, a child who is shy and prefers to be alone falls under what
classification?

a. Extrovert

b. Ambivert

c. Paranoid

d. Introvert

24) ________ puts emphasis on the importance of sensitive periods in development.

a. Ecological theory
b. Social Cognitive theory

c. Psychoanalytic theory

d. Ethnological theory

25) Contrary to Freud's concept that the primary motivation of human behavior is sexual in nature,
Erikson's is ________ in nature.

a. Social

b. Cultural

c. Physical

d. Biological

26) ________ is described by Freud as the component/s of personality that is concerned with the idea of
right and wrong.

a. Superego

b. Superego and ego

c. Id

d. Ego

27) What idea about age is NOT right?

a. Chronological age is different from biological and psychological age.

b. Chronological age, biological age, psychological age and social age are related.

c. Psychological age and social age are two different things.

d. Chronological age is the same as biological and psychological age.

28) ________ reflects the teacher's understanding of development as results of maturation and
learning.

a. Patience when dealing with the slower ones.

b. Creativity with classroom strategies or task.

c. Fairness when giving grades or school marks.

d. Cheerfulness and enthusiasm when discussing.

29) ________ is Erikson's, Piaget's and Freud's thought about play.

b. Makes a child's life enjoyable that he will tend to hate school life later.

c. Prepares a child for an excellent academic performance in formal schooling.

d. Develops the child's highly competitive attitude because of the nature of play.

30) A student has been staring at a puzzle. He is figuring out how to solve it and suddenly, an idea
flashed in the student's mind and excitedly he was able to learn how to solve the puzzle. This
exemplifies ________.

a. Metacognition

b. Insight learning

c. Analytical learning

d. Trial and error learning

31) A teacher attempting to develop a student's metacognitive skills teaches the student to:

a. Recall past lesson

b. Visualize

c. Formulate hypothesis

d. Think about their thinking

32) An adolescent exhibits what common characteristics?

a. Reasonable and secure

b. Feels intense emotions and sense of disequilibrium

c. Slow but steady physical secure

d. Passive and obedient

33) Instincts are under what mental dimension?

a. Ego and Superego

b. Ego

c. Id

d. Superego
34) A child cannot do ________, according to Piaget's concrete operational stage.

a. Doing mentally what was just physically done.

b. Reasoning applied to specific example.

c. Classifying objects into different sets.

d. Imagining the steps necessary to complete an algebraic expressions.

35) What should teachers teach students to eradicate bullying among kids in school?

a. Full development of talents

b. Athletic skills

c. Respect for the dignity of persons

d. Full development of physical power

36) Education is the acquisition of the art and the utilization of knowledge. This statement means:

a. A learner's application of what she has learned is necessary.

b. A learner's interest in art is commendable.

c. A learner's acquisition of information is sufficient.

d. A learner's acquisition of information is not important.

37) Student's initiative is stifles by:

a. Rationalism

b. Extreme authoritarianism

c. "Utang na loob"

d. "Bahala na"

38) A piece of music may sound sad, but when each note is played, there is nothing sad about it. This is
based on the doctrine that says:

a. The whole experience is equal to the sum of its parts.

b. The whole experience is more than the sum of its parts.

c. The whole experience is less than the sum of its parts.

d. The whole experience is not in any way related to the sum of its parts.
39) Which among the words below does NOT prevent the emergence of truth which the learners and
teachers are in search of?

a. Mindset

b. Mask

c. Open mind

d. Defense

40) What a teacher should do if students are misbehaving in class?

a. Send the misbehaving pupils to the guidance counselor.

b. Involve the whole class in setting rules of conduct in the whole class.

c. Make a report to the parents about their children's misbehavior.

d. Set the rules for the class to observe.

41) What is an inappropriate method in teaching young children?

a. Individual difference are expected and accepted

b. Integrated teaching-learning

c. Isolated skill development

d. Positive guidance techniques

42) If a teacher believes that a child's mind is TABULA RASA, then the teacher will most likely engage the
students in ________ process for them to learn.

a. Sensory impressions

b. Reasoning

c. Reflections

d. Metacognition

43) A child received a candy after correctly completing his task. The child always tries to complete all
tasks correctly for him to have a candy once again. What is being shown in the situation?

a. Associative learning

b. Classical conditioning

c. Operant conditioning
d. Pavlovian conditioning

44) A child learns by association and by insights. This states that the association and cognitive theories
of learning are:

a. Diametrically opposed

b. Complementary

c. Partly wrong

d. Partly correct

45) Emotion's role on success and happiness is highlighted by Daniel Goleman's theory on emotional
intelligence. How can the teacher best show empathy in the case of fighting students?

a. Reprimand the students so that other will not follow the misbehavior.

b. Tell the students to stop fighting so that there will be peace in the classroom.

c. Make them realize how fighting negatively affects themselves and others.

d. Establish roles and responsibilities to avoid arguments among them.

46) The television program BATIBOT was developed because:

a. Children learn by conditioning.

b. Children learn by discovery.

c. Children learn by trial and error.

d. Children learn by observing and imitating.

47) Comprehension skills comprises the following, EXCEPT for:

a. Finding the main idea

b. Recreational reading

c. Sequencing events chronologically

d. Reading critically

48) Who was responsible for stating that modeling is essential in pedagogy?

a. Bandura

b. Bruner
c. Skinner

d. Thorndlike

49) To make her students participate more often during class discussions, teacher Chai believes that she
can apply Operant Conditioning by way of:

a. Giving more incentives to her students, such as additional grades and small tokens.

b. Emphasizing group sharing and guiding them in thinking critically and innovatively.

c. Instilling metacognition in them through modeling.

d. Letting them reflect on how they think about their subjects.

50) "Porma" over substance is evident in students in one of these instances.

a. Dolly submitted his comprehensive written report to Mrs. Topacio even if it was slightly soiled with
tomato ketchup.

b. Harvey submitted his written report on time to Mrs. Francisco even if it reeked of the cigarette she
smoked before class.

c. Joel submitted his written report to Mrs. Cantiveros a week in advance.

d. Olivia submitted her poorly written report, which was printed on perfumed stationery to her English
teacher, Mrs. Estrada.

KEY TO CORRECTION

1. D

2. B

3. D

4. D

5. D

6. B

7. C

8. C

9. A
10. C

11. C

12. A

13. D

14. C

15. C

16. B

17. D

18. B

19. D

20. D

21. B

22. A

23. D

24. C

25. A

26. A

27. D

28. A

29. A

30. B

31. D

32. B

33. C

34. D
35. C

36. A

37. B

38. D

39. C

40. B

41. C

42. C

43. C

44. B

45. C

46. D

47. B

48. A

49. A

50. D