LET Reviewer - Professional Education (Part 1)

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DIRECTION: Select the best answer for each question.

1. Some learners like to find specific and concrete answers. What kind of learners are they?

a. Accomodators

b. Assimilators

c. Convergers

d. Divergers

ANSWER: b. Convergers

2. Mrs. Mercado, the Home Economics teacher, constantly gives verbal guidance to her pupils while practicing a sewing skill. What is the value of giving verbal guidance in improving pupils learning behavior?

a. It promotes the growth of interest in the new learning tasks

b. It serves as informational feedback

c. It facilitates perfection of skills

d. It directs pupils' attention to more adequate and better techniques

ANSWER: b. It serves as informational feedback

3. Why should learning be aided by formulating and asking questions?

a. Students will have a grade in recitation

b. Students will develop their self-confidence

c. The teacher will know who among the students can communicate very well

d. The teacher will not always do the talking but the students will be given a chance to do the same thing.

ANSWER: b. Students will develop their self-confidence

4. In performing the minuet, first raise your heel, second make three steps forward, third step make a point. What kind of knowledge was exhibited?

a. Conditional Knowledge

b. Declarative Knowledge

c. Domain-Specific Knowledge

d. Procedural Knowledge

ANSWER: d. Procedural Knowledge

5.  Ms. Baquiran, the VE teacher, and her pupils, while working on the concept of honesty, agreed that no cabinets and book cases would be locked throughout the day. Which principle in affective learning is being implemented?

a. Provide exemplary models

b. Provide appropriate practice

c. Provide for pleasant emotional experience

d. Provide for independent attitude cultivation

ANSWER: b. Provide appropriate practice

6. Angela focuses her attention on the school work and vigorous play that consume most of her physical energy. Which stage of psychosexual theory illustrates her behavior?

a. Oral

b. Anal

c. Phallic

d. Latency

ANSWER: d. Latency

7. Which of the following is likely to be developed if infants are shown genuine affection?

a. Trust

b. Autonomy

c. Initiative

d. Industry

ANSWER: a. Trust

8. Christian develops an integral and coherent sense of self. He seeks answers to the question.  "Who am I"? Which of the following is Christian likely to develop?

a. Initiative

b. Identity and Role Confusion

c. Intimacy

d. Autonomy

ANSWER: b. Identity and Role Confusion

9. Ms. Reyes uses images and language to represent and understand her various lessons to preschool learners. What stage in the cognitive theory of development explains this?

a. Sensorimotor

b. Preoperational

c. Concrete operation

d. Formal operation

ANSWER: b. Preoperational

10. Which group of technologies has the highest degree of concreteness?

a. Realia and computer

b. Video, picture and television

c. Digital video, film, versatile compact disc

d. Book, imaginative literature, programmed instruction

ANSWER: a. Realia and computer

11. What level has a four-year old learner like Maryann reached when she acquired new skills such as putting the same shapes and the same colors together?

a. Development

b. Maturation

c. Zone of Proximal Development

d. Learning

ANSWER: c. Zone of Proximal Development

12. Teacher A discovered that his pupils are very good in dramatizing. Which tool must have helped him discover his pupils’ strength?

a.   Portfolio assessment

b.   Performance test

c.   Journal entry

d.   Paper-and-pencil test

ANSWER: b. Performance test

13. To remember the six digits, 8, 4, 3, 9, 4, 5, the Math teacher grouped the numbers in two's 84, 39, 45 or in threes 843, 945. What control process of retaining information is referred to?

a. Chunking

b. Interfering

c. Rehearsing

d. Remembering

ANSWER: a.Chunking

14. Teachers are encouraged to make use of authentic assessment. Which goes with authentic assessments?

a.   De-contextualized drills

b.   Unrealistic performances

c.   Answering multiple choices test items

d.   Real world application of lessons learned.

ANSWER: d. Real world application of lessons learned.

15. According to Bronfenbrenner, what system contains structure that has direct contact with the  child?

a. Chronosystem

b. Exosystem

c. Mesosystem

d. Microsystem

ANSWER: d. Microsystem

TRY ALSO: Professional Education Part 2 

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16. Direct instruction is for facts, rules, and actions as indirect instruction is for __________, __________, __________.

a.   hypotheses, verified data and conclusions

b.   concepts, patterns and abstractions

c.   concepts, processes and generalizations

d.   guesses, data and conclusions

ANSWER: c. concepts, processes and generalizations

17. Teacher Y does norm-referenced interpretation of scores. Which of the following does she do?

a.   She describes group performance in relation to a level of mastery set.

b.   She uses a specified content as its frame of reference.

c.   She compares every individual students' scores with others' scores.

d.   She describes what should be their performance.

ANSWER:  c. She compares every individual students' scores with others' scores.

18. The concepts of trust vs. maturity, autonomy vs. self-doubt, and initiative vs. guilt are most closely related with the works of __________.

a.   Erikson

b.   Piaget

c.   Freud

d.   Jung

ANSWER:  a. Erikson

19. For maximum interaction, a teacher ought to avoid __________ questions.

a.   informational

b.   rhetorical

c.   leading

d.   divergent

ANSWER: c. leading

20. What concept can best describes Francisco's ability to walk without a support at age of 12 months because of the "internal ripening" that occured in his muscles, bones and nervous system development?

a. Development

b. Growth

c. Learning

d. Maturation

ANSWER: d. Maturation

21. Teacher H gave her first-grade class a page with a story in which pictures take the place of some words. Which method did she use?

a.   The whole language approach

b.   The Spaulding method

c.   The rebus method

d.   The language experience approach

ANSWER: c. The rebus method

22. Teacher A knows of the illegal activities of a neighbor but keeps quiet in order not to be involved in any investigation. Which foundational principle of morality does Teacher A fail to apply?

a.   The end does not justify the means.

b.   The principle of double-effect

c.   Always do what is right.

d.   Between two evils, do the lesser evil.

ANSWER:  c. Always do what is right.

23. I combined several subject areas in order to focus on a single concept for inter-disciplinary teaching. Which strategy/method did I use?

a.   Problem-entered learning

b.   Thematic instruction

c.   Reading-writing activity

d.   Unit method

ANSWER:  d. Unit method

24. Which method has been proven to be effective in courses that stress acquisition of knowledge?

a.     Socratic method

b.     Cooperative learning

c.     Mastery learning

d.     Indirect instruction

ANSWER:  c. Mastery learning

25. In the context of grading, what is referred to as teacher’s generosity error?

a. Rewarding students who perform well.

b. Being overgenerous with praise

c.  Giving high grades as compared to the rest

d. Giving way to students' bargain for more quiz.

ANSWER: d. Giving high grades as compared to the rest

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