Professional Education Practice Quiz| Volume 2 Part 2
This is the Multiple Choice Questions in Professional Education part 1 as one coverage of Licensure Examinations for Teachers (LET). The exam is divided into two classifications. First is the elementary level exam which covers topics from General Education (GenEd) 40% and Professional Education (ProfEd) 60%. Secondly is the secondary level which covers GenEd 20%, ProfEd 40% and area of specialization 40%. I assume you are looking for a reviewer that will help you achieve your goal to become a professional License teacher very soon. Yes, you are in the right place to make your dream come true. Make sure to familiarize each and every questions to increase the chance of passing the Licensure Examinations for Teachers (LET).
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (Elementary and Secondary) Coverage
- Teaching Profession, Social Dimensions of Education
- Principles of Teaching, Educational Technology, Curriculum Development
- Provides a means of organizing content before instruction. It is to introduce (set) the learning task in advance. It has both psychological (motivation) and cognitive (knowledge) function. The psychological function is mainly to get greater attention of students’ motivation to learn. The cognitive function is set through advance organizers that help students learn meaningfully
- Provides contextual movement using inductive (specific to general) and deductive (general to specific) methods.
- Uses examples and non-examples: it is to give examples (real world or tangible examples) and non-examples (ideal world or non-tangible examples) explanations of concepts to promote accurate generalizations.
- Uses questions to guide the search and discovery process.
- Encourages students to relate ideas to past learning and use references from their own experience, to seek clarification, and to draw parallels and associations that aid understanding and retention.
- Permits students to assess the appropriateness of their own responses and if necessary provides guidance.
- Uses discussion to encourage critical thinking/scrutinizes various ways, to forecast, and to come up with generalization etc/.
- Create real-world environments that employ the context in which learning is relevant;
- Focus on realistic approaches to solving real-world problems;
- The instructor is a coach and analyzer of the strategies used to solve these problems;
- Stress conceptual interrelatedness, providing multiple representations or perspectives on the content;
- Instructional goals and objectives should be negotiated and not imposed;
- Evaluation should serve as a self-analysis tool;
- Provide tools and environments that help learners interpret the multiple perspectives of the world;
- Learning should be internally controlled and mediated by the learner. (pp.11-12)
- Selecting a focus or thematic topic.
- Generating ideas or connections between related topics.
- Establishing guiding questions for the scope and sequence of the unit.
Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.
1. Which is a characteristic of an imperfect type of matching test?
A. An item may have no answer at all
B. An answer may be repeated
C. There are two or more distracters
D. The items in the right and left columns are equal in number
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Option B
Explanation
In imperfect matching type, the number of premises in column A is not equal to the number of responses in Column B, or the other way around. The response or premise can be used more than one, which means it may be repeated.
2. Teacher Kevin has not practiced his profession for the past five years. Can he go back to teaching immediately?
A. Yes, if nobody can take his place
B. No, unless she has enrolled in refresher course of 12 units
C. No
D. Yes
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Option B
Explanation
Professional teachers who have not practiced their profession for the past five (5) years shall take at least twelve (12) units of education courses, consisting of a least six (6) units of pedagogy and six (6) units of context courses or the equivalent training and number 1 hours to be chosen from a list of courses to be provided by the Board and the Department of Education, before they can be allowed to practice their profession in the country. (RA 9293)
3. How does the “humaneness” of the teacher best described when he/she is full interest and enthusiasm in the work of teaching?
A. Responsiveness
B. Perceptiveness
C. Knowledge
D. Sensitivity
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Option D
Explanation
Research tells us that teachers who are aware of and respond to each child, supportively facilitate the ability of all children in the classroom to explore actively and learn.
Teacher Sensitivity is not about how “nice” or “caring” teachers are; rather, it is about how teachers consistently demonstrate awareness and responsiveness to children’s current academic and emotional abilities and needs.
4. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy, the highest among the following is:
A. Critical Comprehension
B. Critical evaluatio
C. Integration
D. Literal comprehension
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Option C
Explanation
Bloom’s Taxonomy, particularly the Revised taxonomy, is one of the frameworks applied by the K-12 and its highest is the CREATE level, of which INTEGRATION belongs.
5. What does Gagne’s hierarchy theory propose for effective instruction?
A. Be concerned with the socio-emotional climate in the classroom
B. the socio-emotional climate in the classroom b.
C. Teach beginning with the concrete
D. Reward good behavior
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Option B
Explanation
Gagne proposed a hierarchy of learning, therefore, a sequence instruction.
6. Which statement applies correctly to Edgar Dale’s “CONE of experience”?
A. The farther you are from the base, the more direct the learning experience becomes
B. The farther you are from the bottom, the more direct the learning experience becomes
C. The close you are to the base, the more indirect the learning experience become
D. The closer you are to the base, the more direct the learning experience becomes
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Option D
Explanation
Direct Purposeful Experiences (Hands-On Practice)
Concrete reality. At the base of Dale's Cone of Experience, we learn through first-hand participation with responsibility for the outcome:
It is the rich, full-bodied experience that is the bed-rock [sic] of all education. It is the purposeful experience that is seen, handled, tasted, felt, touched, and smelled. It is the unabridged version of life itself—tangible experience, which we commonly refer to as "something you can get your fingers on," "something you can sink your teeth into,"
7. Based on Edgar Dale’s “Cone of Experience,” which activity is farthest from the real thing?
A. Watching demo
B. Video disc
C. Attending exhibit
D. Viewing images
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Option A
Explanation
Based on the Cone of Experience, Viewing images is the farthest, followed by B, C and A, respectively.
8. The nearest to the real thing according to Edgar Dale’s Cone of Experience is:
A. Watching demo
B. Viewing images
C. Attending Exhibit
D. Hearing and listening
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Option A
Explanation
Watching demo is the nearest to the real thing
9. For lesson clarity and effective retention, which should a teacher observe, according to Bruner’s theory?
A. Begin teaching at the concrete level but go beyond it by reaching the abstract
B. Use purely verbal symbols in teaching
C. Start at the concrete level and end there
D. End teaching with verbal symbols
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Option A
Explanation
Bruner’s Stages of Representation include Enactive (Action-based), Iconic (Image-based) and Symbolic (Language-based). Enactive stage is sometimes called the concrete stage, this first stage involves a tangible hands-on method of learning. Bruner believed that "learning begins with an action - touching, feeling and manipulating" (Brahier, 2009, p. 52).10. With indirect instruction in mind, which does not belong to the group?
A. Lecture-recitation
B. Experiential method
C. Inductive method
D. Discovery method
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Option B
Explanation
Lecture – recitation is a form of Direct Instruction which is teacher centered. BCD are all forms of indirect instruction which are student-centered.
11. When Teacher Demi presents a set of data then asks the students to enter a conclusion, generalization or a pattern of relationship which method does she use?
A. Process approach
B. Type method
C. Unit method
D. Inductive inquiry method
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Option D
Explanation
Inductive/Inquiry method begins with questions, problems and details and end up with answers, generalization, conclusions
12. Which questioning technique would be appropriate for inductive lessons?
A. Involve students actively in the questioning process
B. Expect participation only among the more motivated students
C. Use questions requiring only memory responses
D. As a teacher, you ask no questions
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Option A
Explanation
Inductive instruction makes use of student “noticing”. Instead of explaining a given concept and following this explanation with examples, the teacher presents students with many examples showing how the concept is used. The intent is for students to “notice”, by way of the examples, how the concept works.
13. When necessary conditions are present, the use of inductive method is preferred because:
A. It gives the teacher more time to rest
B. There is greater active participation on the part of the pupils
C. It needs only few instruction materials
D. Academic time is used wisely
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Option B
Explanation
Inductive activities are generally more stimulating and require greater student participation.
14. If you plan to develop a lesson on using s-verb with the third person singular as subject deductively, what is the first step in your lesson development outline?
A. Give sentences using s-verb form
B. Ask the students about s-verb form and third person singular as subject
C. State the rule on subject-verb agreement for third person as subject
D. Conduct appropriate sentence drill
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Option C
Explanation
Deductive method is one in which teacher begins by stating the rule in adding fractions. Then she will give examples. After which, she will give written exercise
15. If you make use of the indirect instruction method, you begin your lesson with:
A. Guided practice
B. A review of previous day’s work
C. Advance organizers that provide an overall picture of the lesson
D. Independent
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Option C
Explanation
16. By what name is indirect instruction or Socratic methods also known?
A. Questioning method
B. Morrison method
C. Indirect method
D. Mastery learning
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Option A
Explanation
The Socratic Method also can be known as maieutics, method of elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate, is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presumptions.
17. For which lesson objective will a teacher use the direct instruction method?
A. Distinguish war from aggression
B. Appreciate Milton’s Paradise Lost
C. Use a microscope properly
D. Become aware of the pollutants in the environment
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Option C
Explanation
Direct instruction is used in teaching procedural knowledge such as in the performance of a task of using a microscope properly.
18. To encourage introspection, which teaching method is MOST appropriate?
A. Cognitive
B. Reflective
C. Process
D. Cooperative learning
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Option B
Explanation
Introspection is the examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings. In psychology, the process of introspection relies exclusively on observation of one's mental state, while in a spiritual context it may refer to the examination of one's soul. Introspection is closely related to human self-reflection which is the capacity of humans to exercise introspection and the willingness to learn more about their fundamental nature, purpose and essence.
19. You choose cooperative learning as a teaching approach. What thought is impressed on your students?
A. Interaction is a must, but not necessarily face to-face interaction
B. Student’s success depends on the success of the group
C. Student’s individuality evaluates how effectively their group worked
D. The accountability for learning is on the group not on the individual
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Option B
Explanation
The cooperative classroom ties my success to your success. There is no way I can succeed if you fail and there is no way you can succeed if I fail. In the cooperative classroom the achievement focus shifts from the individual to the group. The most refreshing and affirming thing about the cooperative classroom is that when the focus shifts from the individual to the team, individual learning is enhanced, not diminished (Marzano, 2003; Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001; Slavin, 1995, 1996).
20. The greatest happiness lies in the contemplative use of the mind”, said Plato. Therefore, let us give more opportunities for our students to do __________.
A. Social interaction
B. Introspection
C. Role playing
D. Cooperative learning
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Option B
Explanation
21. Which activity is meant for kinesthetically intelligent pupils?
A. Independent study
B. Individualized study
C. Pantomime
D. Cooperative learning
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Option C
Explanation
Learners who possess bodily-kinesthetic intelligence have the ability to work skilfully with objects involving both fine and gross motor skills. They are characterized by a well-developed sense of balance and motor control. In addition, they are skilful at translating intention into action. These learners are most successful by doing. Activities: Pantomime an activity, task, or chore, Play a sport, Play charades, Act out a scene from a novel, Perform a dance to express an emotion, Learn sign language, Plan and present a puppet show, Go on a nature hike, Go on a scavenger hunt, Exercise
22. When a school decides to work on a thematic curriculum which should be out of the picture?
A. Peer collaboration
B. Integration
C. Team teaching
D. Competition
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Option D
Explanation
Thematic learning is a newer concept in pedagogy. It is proved to be a powerful instructional method for integrating various concepts in curriculum by daily life examples and experiences. Thematic learning is geared towards accommodation of interests of individual learners and abilities. Thematic learning techniques fosters teamwork and support in the group since the group is a heterogeneous mixture being taught by a team of two facilitators. Thematic learning comprises teams with varied sizes, and work using problem solving techniques and project methods. The individual is made to progress at one's own pace, and thus develop decision making skill and responsibility.[4] Thematic learning does not have a fixed upper limit. Thematic learning helps in promoting learning with understanding and discourages rote learning
23. Which approach makes you think of your thinking?
A. Constructivist
B. Metacognitive
C. Cognitive
D. Integrative
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Option B
Explanation
Metacognition is thinking about thinking or learning how to learn. It began with John Flavell who is considered as the father in the field.
24. One learns Math by building on the Math concepts previously learned. This is an application of:
A. Constructivist
B. Humanist
C. Physiological
D. -R
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Option A
Explanation
Constructivist view learning as an active process that results from self-constructed meanings. A meaningful connection is established between prior knowledge and the present learning activity.
25. Which characterizes a constructivist teaching-learning process?
A. Conceptual interrelatedness
B. Multiple perspectives
C. Authentic assessment
D. Passive acceptance of information
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Option A
Explanation
26. If a teacher is an advocate of banking concept in Education he or she viewed student as?
A. Clear account to be filled up by the teacher
B. Dormant account to be activated by the teacher
C. Wobble account to be balanced by the teacher
D. All of the above
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Option A
Explanation
In banking teachers assume students are passive, take all control, determine what will be learned, and “fill” students with pre-selected information. Freire first introduces the “banking” concept of education as being an analogy—the student is a bank and the teacher is the depositor. This concept is what leads to human beings becoming oppressed.
27. The following are characteristics of interdisciplinary teaching except:
A. Allows learners to see connectedness between things
B. Provides learning opportunities in a real-world context
C. Eliminates boundaries between content area
D. Discussion from a single perspective
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Option D
Explanation
Interdisciplinary instruction entails the use and integration of methods and analytical frameworks from more than one academic discipline to examine a theme, issue, question or topic. Interdisciplinary education makes use of disciplinary approaches to examine topics, but pushes beyond by: taking insights from a variety of relevant disciplines, synthesizing their contribution to understanding, and then integrating these ideas into a more complete, and hopefully coherent, framework of analysis.
28. I combined several subject areas in order to focus on a single concept for interdisciplinary teaching. Which strategy did I use?
A. Reading-writing activity
B. Thematic instruction
C. Unit method
D. Problem-centered learning
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Option B
Explanation
29. Which term refers to the collection of students’ products and accomplishment for a period of evaluation purposes?
A. Portfolio
B. Observation report
C. Anecdotal record
D. Diary
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Option A
Explanation
A portfolio is "a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits the student's efforts, progress and achievements in one or more areas. The collection must include student participation in selecting contents, the criteria for judging merit and evidence of student self-reflection" (Paulson, Paulson & Meyer, 1991, p60).
30. You want your students to answer the questions at the end of a reading lesson. “What did I learn?”, “What still puzzles me?”, “What did I enjoy, hate and accomplish in the class today?” and “How did I learn from the lesson?”.Which of the following are you asking them to do?
A. Work on an assignment
B. Make journal entry
C. Work on a drill
D. Apply what they learned
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Option B
Explanation
Journals (also called learning logs or learning diaries) are written by students over a period of time, such as a semester, in order to record and reflect on their personal learning experiences and outcomes. They provide an opportunity for students to express their feelings, thoughts and beliefs about the content and process of learning and themselves as learners using an informal writing style and structure.
31. If I want to hone my student’s meta-cognitive ability, which is most fit?
A. Drill
B. Debate
C. Brainstorming
D. Journaling
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Option D
Explanation
Metacognition, the ability to think about your own thinking process, becomes an essential ability for teaching in nowadays schools, where pupils no longer need just information (seen today as perishable goods), but need to be taught how to use the information they get. As students need a more personal approach, a specific feedback according to their own personality traits, both teachers and students are moving towards more formative assessment, new strategies of achieving this are required, one of these being the reflective journal.
32. Which of the following statements BEST describes metacognition as a strategy for curriculum augmentation?
A. it is learning how to learn and thinking about how one thinks
B. it is learning strategies for success
C. it is learning through interaction with the environment
D. it is learning through computer aided instruction
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Option A
Explanation
Metacognition is thinking about thinking, learning how to learn.
33. If a reader is vocalizing his thoughts to be able to understand the text, what metacogitive strategy is he using
A. Reciprocal teaching
B. Think a loud strategy
C. Request procedure
D. Directed reading thinking activity
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Option B
Explanation
34. Ausubel recommends the use of visuals designed to bridge the gap between what the learners already know and what they need to know. Which visual is referred to?
A. Pictures
B. Concept maps
C. Comparison pattern
D. Overviews
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Option B
Explanation
Concept maps are graphical tools that show relationships between different concepts, ideas, or parts of a whole. They can be used to help students connect new learning to prior learning. These connections are what David Ausubel, an American psychologist, refers to as “meaningful learning” (Novak, 1998). While we can’t force students to learn we can provide the tools to guide them, and concept maps are one of these tools.
35. Which test item is in the highest level of Bloom’s taxonomy of objectives?
A. Explain how a tree functions in relation to the ecosystem
B. Explain how trees receive nutrients
C. Rate three different methods of controlling tree growth
D. Write a paragraph that observes coherence unity and variety
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Option D
Explanation
In the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy, CREATE is the highest which is Putting elements together to form a coherent whole. That’s what writing a paragraph is. It is generating or producing ideas to form you own based on what you have learned.
36. Which objective in the affective domain is in the highest level?
A. To resist alcoholism
B. To approve of rules agrees upon
C. To listen to the narration of identified models
D. To relinquish member in a gang
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Option A
Explanation
The taxonomy is presented in five stages:37. Which objective in the affective domain is in the lowest level
A. To respond positively to a comment
B. To formulate criteria for honesty
C. To support viewpoint against abortion
D. To accumulate examples of authenticity
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Option A
Explanation
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38. Which objective in the psychomotor domain is in the highest level?
A. To play the piano skillfully
B. To endure fatigue in the entire duration of a game
C. To discriminate shapes by touching
D. To move hands and legs in a coordinated fashion
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Option A
Explanation
39. Which objective in the psychomotor domain is in lowest level?
A. To relax the abdominal muscle
B. To increase speed as required
C. To dance waltz gracefully
D. To move in space while remaining in one place
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Option A
Explanation
40. With whom is the Cumulative Learning School Model mostly associated?
A. Montessori
B. Gagne
C. Bruner
D. Piaget
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Option B
Explanation
41. A student has been staring at a puzzle. He/She is figuring out how to solve it and suddenly, an idea flashed in the student’s mind and excitedly she was able to learn how to solve the puzzle. This exemplifies ______.
A. Metacognition
B. Analytical learning
C. Insight learning
D. Trial and error learning
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Option C
Explanation
Insight, in learning theory, immediate and clear learning or understanding that takes place without overt trial-and-error testing. Insight occurs in human learning when people recognize relationships (or make novel associations between objects or actions) that can help them solve new problems.
42. If a teacher believes that a child’s mind in TABULA RASA, then the teacher will most likely to engage the students in ______ process for them to learn.
A. Sensory impressions
B. Reflection
C. Reasoning
D. Metacognition
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Option A
Explanation
In Locke's philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory that at birth the (human) mind is a "blank slate" without rules for processing data, and that data is added and rules for processing are formed solely by one's sensory experiences. The notion is central to Lockean empiricism.
43. Interpersonal intelligence is best shown by a student who ____.
A. Works on his/her own
B. Keeps interest to himself/herself
C. Seeks out a classmate for help when problem occurs
D. Spends time meditating
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Option C
Explanation
Interpersonal intelligence is “people smart. It promotes working in collaboration with others.
44. A student is finding it hard to read. When the guidance counselor traced the child’s history, the counselor was able to find out that the student came a dysfunctional family, aside from that, the child was abused and neglected. What could have caused the student’s reading disability?
A. Emotional factors
B. Neurological factors
C. Poor teaching
D. Immaturity
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Option B
Explanation
45. A person who is friendly and has a capacity to make people laugh possess:
A. Naturalistic intelligence
B. Intrapersonal intelligence
C. Spatial intelligence
D. Interpersonal intelligence
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Option B
Explanation
46. When is a teacher prejudicial against a learner?
A. When she refuses a pupil with a slight physical disability in class.
B. When she makes a farsighted pupil to sit at the back.
C. When she makes a nearsighted pupil to sit in front.
D. When she considers multiple intelligences in the choice of her teaching strategies
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Option A
Explanation
Being prejudicial is unfair or showing bias. Education must be inclusive especially now that we observe the Education for All policy. Hence, any physical disability must never be a standard of admission in the class.
47. A teacher only teaches whenever she wants it. What does she lack?
A. Emotional intelligence
B. Competence
C. Integrity and accountability
D. Intelligence
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Option C/p>
Explanation
Teachers are accountable towards high learning outcomes. Accountability is the acceptance of responsibility to fulfill a certain obligation or duty.
48. A group activity wherein one group representative presents the output to the bigger group rather than individual pupils presenting the output is known as:
A. Consensus decision
B. Jury trial
C. Composite report
D. Agenda
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Option A
Explanation
The output presented by the representative is the consensus decision of the whole group. The concept of a jury trial in the classroom setting was used to present and discuss a current, controversial topic.
49. Which illustrates vicarious punishment?
A. We feel so bad to a classmate who is punished for being tardy so we convince him go to school on time
B. Out of comparison, we volunteer to get punished in place of a friend
C. We charge to experience our being punished
D. See someone get punished for habitual tardiness. In effect, we are less likely to be tardy
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Option D
Explanation
Vicarious punishment occurs when the tendency to engage in a behavior is weakened after having observed the negative consequences for another engaging in that behavior.50. What is the basic feature of the latest Performance Appraisal System for teachers (PAST)?
A. Competency base
B. Value Based
C. Knowledge based
D. Practice base
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Option A
Explanation
As an appraisal system the CB-PAST adheres to standards of the competency-based performance which is the National Competency-Based Teacher Standards