LET Reviewer - Professional Education (Part 5)

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Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer.

1. What is the main source of emotional support for most young people who are establishing independence from their parents?

a. Older adolescents of the opposite sex

b. Older sibling

c. Teachers

d. Peer groups

ANSWER: d. Peer groups

2. The failure of independent study with most Filipino students may be attributed to students’

a. unpreparedness for schooling

b. being responsible learners

c.  high degree of independence

d. high degree of dependence on authority

ANSWER: d. high degree of dependence on authority

3.  Republic Act No. 7836 otherwise known as LET is required for those who are engaged in teaching in _______.

a. all elementary and secondary schools

b. all public elementary schools

c.  all private elementary schools

d. all public and private tertiary schools

ANSWER: a. all elementary and secondary schools

4. Teacher Celia always checks on entry knowledge and skills before she proceeds to her new lesson. On which principle is Teacher Celia’s practice grounded?

a. Effective teaching proceeds from the concrete to the abstract.

b. Learning increases when the lesson is relevant.

c.  Attention is essential for learning.

d. New learning builds on previous learning.

ANSWER: d. New learning builds on previous learning.

5. “Specialization is knowing more and more about less and less”. Hence, it is better to be a generalist, claims Teacher Nelcy. Which philosophy does Teacher Nelcy subscribe to?

a. Existentialism

b. Perennialism

c.  Essentialism

d. Progressivism

ANSWER: a. Essentialism

6. QUESTION: What is the correct sequence of information processing?

a. Sensory register-STM-LTM

b. STM-sensory register-LTM

c. Sensory register-LTM-STM

d. LTM-sensory register- STM

ANSWER: a. Sensory register-STM-LTM

 

7.  What should be the hierarchy of the following types of learning according to the cumulative learning theory?

      I.         Problem solving learning

    II.         Rule learning

  III.         Discrimination learning

  IV.         Concept learning

a.     I, II, III and IV

b.     III, I, IV and III

c.     IV, III, I and I

d.     II, IV, III and I

ANSWER: d. II, IV, III and I

8. Which is essential in meaningful reception learning?

a. Concepts are presented to learner and received by them.

b. Concepts are discovered by the learner

c. Concepts are related to one another

d. Concepts are solicited from the learners

ANSWER: c. Concepts are related to one another

9.  Which category of curriculum design is organized around the analysis of performance task and process sequencing rather than content?

a. Academic curriculum design

b. Social curriculum design

c.  Personal curriculum design

d. Technical curriculum design

ANSWER: d. Technical curriculum design

10. Zero standard deviation means that _______.

a.   The students scores are the same

b.   50% of the scores obtained is zero

c.   More than 50% of the score obtained is zero

d.   Less than 50% of the scores obtained is zero

ANSWER: The students scores are the same

Zero standard deviation means that all observations are identical.

11. What does a skewed score distribution mean?

a.     The mode, the mean, and the median are equal

b.     The mean and the median are equal

c.     The scores are normally distributed

d.     The scores are concentrated more at one end or the other end

ANSWER: d. The scores are concentrated more at one end or the other end

12. Which graphic organizers are used to show event in chronological order?

a.   Time line and Spider map

b.   Time line and series of events

c.   Cycle & Venn Diagram

d.   Time line and Fishbone diagram

ANSWER: b. Time line and series of events

13. Which of the following democratizes access to education?

a. Using one’s dialect in school campus

b. Freely choosing one’s curricular subjects in school

c.  Deciding not to come to school if not interested

d. Attending convocations on one’s free will

ANSWER: b. Freely choosing ones curricular subjects in school

14. What primary criterion should guide a teacher in the choice of instructional devices?

a. Novelty

b. Cost

c.  Appropriateness

d. Attractiveness

ANSWER: c. Appropriateness

15. The Philippine Teacher Professionalization Act of 1994 adapted and promulgated the

a. Code of Professional Teachers

b. Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers

c.  Code of Ethics for Public School Teachers

d. Code of Ethics for Private School Teachers

ANSWER: b. Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers

16. What is the main purpose of compulsory study of the Constitution?

a. Develop students into responsible, thinking citizen.

b. Acquaint students with the historical development of the Phil. Constitution.

c.  Make constitutional experts of the students

d. Prepare students for law-making

ANSWER: a. Develop students into responsible, thinking citizen.

17. Which does not belong to the group of alternative learning systems?

a.   Graded education

b.   Multi-age grouping

c.   Multigrade grouping

d.   Non-graded grouping

ANSWER: a. Graded education

18.  As a teacher, you are a reconstructionist. Which among these will be your guiding principle?

a.   I must teach the child every knowledge, skill, and value that he needs for a better future.

b.   I must teach the child to develop his mental powers to the full.

c.   I must teach the child so he is assured of heaven.

d.   I must teach the child that we can never have real knowledge of anything.

ANSWER: a.  I must teach the child every knowledge, skill, and value that he needs for a better future.

19. Which is a description of an electronic curriculum?

a. Those lessons learned through searching the Internet for information

b. Those things that students actually take out of classroom; those concepts and content that are truly learned and remembered

c. Those processes, content, knowledge combined with the experiences and realities of the learner to create new knowledge

d. None of these

ANSWER: a. Those lessons learned through searching the Internet for information

20. Which statement about standard deviation is CORRECT?

a.   The lower the standard deviation the more spread the scores are.

b.   The higher the standard deviation the more spread the scores are.

c.   The higher the standard deviation the less spread the scores are.

d.   It is a measure of central tendency.

ANSWER: b. The higher the standard deviation the more spread the scores are.

21. Which teaching activity is founded on Bandura’s social learning theory?

a.   Questioning

b.   Inductive reasoning

c.   Modeling

d.   Interactive teaching

ANSWER: c. Modeling

22. Mrs. Santarin allows her 3 year old daughter to dress herself, fix her own room and sweep the floor. What would Mrs. Santarin’s daughter develop?

a.     Autonomy

b.     Identity

c.     Initiative

d.     Mastery

ANSWER: a. Autonomy

23. Grace is bilingual. She speaks both English and Filipino fluently. She begins to study Spanish and immediately recognizes many similarities between the Spanish and Filipino languages and uses this information to acquire the new language faster. What kind of transfer was Grace able to use?

a. Lateral Transfer

b. General Transfer

c. Specific Transfer

d. Vertical Transfer

ANSWER: c. Specific Transfer

24. Cristina is almost asleep when she felt the need to go to the bathroom. She tried to sleep it off but after a while, she was forced to stand up and go to the bathroom. What theory of motivation explains Cristina's behavior?

a. Attribution Theory

b. Drive Theory

c. Expentancies and Values Theory

d. Solomon's Opponent Theory

ANSWER: c. Expentancies and Values Theory

25. According to Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development, a child during the sensorimotor period does not see things in abstract forms. Therefore, in teaching mathematics to young children, the

a.   use of pictures may not be necessary.

b.   use of concrete objects is not needed.

c.   concrete state should precede the abstract style.

d.   abstract stage must come before the concrete stage.

ANSWER: c. concrete state should precede the abstract style.

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