PART 4: PRACTICE TEST FOR PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION CHILD & ADOLESCENT
DEVELOPMENT
76. Which of the following does NOT represent a teachers
contribution to the emotional environment of the
classroom?
a. A strident, compelling voice.
b. A sustained sense of expectation where student
achievement is concerned
c. A wellwritten lesson plan
d. A sense of humor in a tense situation
77. According to Jones, student commitment to
accomplishing a learning goal depends on all of the
following EXCEPT:
a. how interesting the goal is
b. how likely it seems that the goal can be accomplished
c. what degree of challenge the goal presents
d. whether the learner will be able to tell if the goal has
been accomplished
e. whether materials are ready assembled for
undertaking the goal
78. The teacher who understands the adolescents need
to conform will:
82. from the educational viewpoint, intelligence is:
a. an abstract concept
b. a trait that can be manipulated
c. good judgment
d. a form of behavior
83. Every taxonomy of educational objectives:
a. describes increasingly difficult learning activities
b. describes levels of goals for learner development
c. suggest evaluation measure for teacher use
d. Classifies learning outcomes
84. A mathematics teacher following Gagnes theory of
learning believes that:
a. learning can take place under all conditions
b. learning is mainly a matter of accurate discrimination
c. learning takes place only when the student is in a
receptive state
d. learning is reinforced chiefly by classical conditioning
85. Under which of the following conditions is a childs IQ
more likely to increase?
a. If the emotional climate in the classroom improves
a. use sarcasm as a disciplinary device
b. If the child is given a large research project.
b. disregard unique responses in discussion and on
examinations
c. If the child enjoys problem solving and is given ample
opportunity for it
c. establish a learning climate that fosters feelings of
security
d. If A and C are true
d. lecture students on their weakness of character
79. The best public relations agents for a school are the:
a. pupils
b. Teachers and pupils
c. PTA members
d. principals
80. The childcentered curriculum is in decided contrast to
the structured curriculum. The childcentered curriculum:
a. emphasizes fundamental education
b. is changeable and is built around student interest and
needs
c. is oriented to the needs of a democratic society.
d. utilizes the theory of mental discipline
81. According to Bruner, teacher working with young
children should
a. Push the children to maximum cognitive development
as rapidly as possible
b. Present all information verbally so the children will
listen well
c. Present new material from the concrete to the abstract
d. Present new information from the abstract to the
concrete
86. Intelligence is the basis of education. Education is the
effective means for national development, hence, a
country spends a large portion of its budget for the
systematic training of the learner to attain full
development. Why is education one major concern of
every country? Because
a. intelligence has many facets
b. intelligence is useful in testing
c. intelligence is a safe gauge for budgetary allocation
d. intelligence test when carefully conducted, can help in
determining need for future facilities for national building
87. There are no two individuals who are the same.
Individual differences, when early recognize and provided
for, enable the teacher to provide different motivations
and approaches in guiding the learning process. Each
pupil differs physically, mentally, socially and emotionally
from other children. Unless the teacher provides for this
nature of the learner, no amount of modern approaches
in teaching can elicit favorable results.
a. The paragraph highlights the need or motivating
learning
b. Individual differences is an important consideration in
guiding the learner
c. The above paragraph focuses on teacherpupil
relationship
d. It takes about the nature of the learning process
88. Robert Craig, et al, wrote of the phase of steps in
every learning process. These include:
1.) the focusing of attention to the stimulation at hand,
2.) the interplay of the learner and the social factors that
surround him,
3.) the acquisition of a new response or behavior he gives
to the new learning and
4.) Retention which presupposes that the new learning is
acquired.
92. Heredity has a part in determining intelligence. Which
of the following statement supports this principle?
a. Environment affects both fraternal and identical twins.
b. Intelligence hinges in physical structure
c. Identical twins are more alike than fraternal twins
d. Intelligence is determine partly by prenatal nutrition
The above paragraph emphasizes
a. the learning process
93. The first systematic philosopher to work in the field of
education was
b. the steps/phase of how individuals learn
a. Socrates
c. the manifestations of learning
d. why learning is a difficult process
89. Approaches in teaching change from time to time
depending on the traditional of sophistication attached to
the course being taught. Some mentors believe that the
tie tested ways to teaching is effective. Other are easily
carried away to use modern approaches in imparting new
subject matter. It maybe safe to conclude that once
results are realized in teaching, no specific method can
be considered the oneandonly method to use. When
teaching a subject area, it is safe to
a. stick to the traditional way
b. Aristotle
c. Plato
d. Rousseau
94. The first state in the worlds history where all human
capabilities were allowed to develop freely
a. Rome
b. Athens
c. Sparta
d. Germany
b. be modern and most recent
95. They are the most practical, pragmatic people who
absorbed themselves in the management of their state
affairs
c. get results in teaching
a. Spartans
d. to try any method as they are all theories after all
b. Athens
c. Romans
90. In the early 1980s programmed teaching became
popular in helping teachers to provide for individual
differences in learners. The chunks of the subject matter
which are divided into units are supposed to help the
learner master the lesson, since it is simply to understand
the frame of the lessons. No tests on mastery of the units
are done because the purpose is to provide information
on certain subject matter. Would you as a teacher use
programmed instruction if you handle a subject on Values
Education?
a. yes, definitely
b. no, not important for the subject matter
d. Chinese
96. Invented the first system of writing in the orient
a. Phoenicians
b. Chinese
c. Greeks
d. Romans
97. First to introduce the use of printing press in the
Philippines
a. Romans
b. Chinese
c. Greeks
d. Japanese
c. I dont know
d. Why not if the subject matter calls for it
91. The data/subject matter to teach are gathered in
different ways, These include historical sources like
surveys, systematic observations, experimentation,
interviews, etc. to be reliable and valid, the data collected
must be organized, properly analyzed and interpreted.
From these processes, some conclusion or generalization
are done to reveal certain relationships like cause &
effect. Data gathering involves:
a. tedious and serious study
b. easy does it
c. data gathered are tested and filed, then verified before
being used
d. no followup needed
98. Conducted the worlds first civil service test
a. Greeks
b. Romans
c. Chinese
d. English
99. To develop the capacity of man only for war was the
educational aim of the ancient
a. Romans
b. Spartans
c. Athenians
d. Chinese
100. To produce a young man who would be charming in
person and graceful in manner, e.g. a beautiful soul in a
beautiful body is the educational aim of education of the
a. Romans
b. Athens
c. Spartans
d. Italians
