Professional Education Practice Quiz| Volume 3 Part 4

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
  • Facilitating Learning, Child and Adolescent Development
  • Assessment of Student Learning, Developmental Reading
  • Field Study, Practice Teaching

Practice Exam Test Questions

Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.

1. To determine her students’ level of moral development, teacher E presents to her class a morally ambiguous situation and ask them what they would do in such a situation. On whose theory is Teacher E’s technique based?

A. Bruner

B. Piaget

C. Freud

D. Kohlberg

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Option D

Lawrence Kohlberg Moral Development Theory 
1) Pre-conventional= Punishment/Obedience orientation; Exchange/Reciprocity mentally (if you do good, you get a reward) 
2) Conventional = Good boy Good Girl orientation (concordance orientation) and law and order orientation(doing what is right as a duty In the society) 
3) Post-conventional = Social contract & Legalistic Orientation (Obey society’s laws/constitution) and Universal Ethical Principles (using moral perspectives)

2. A support instructional material has meaningfulness if it is characterized as

A. flexible in purpose.

B. age appropriate.

C. sensitive to cultural issues.

D. available at the time of use.

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Option A


3. In Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development, what is the pre-school age in which a child's intelligence is intuitive, able to make mental representations, and close to the use of symbols?

A. Formal Operational Stage

B. Concrete-Operational Stage

C. Sensory-motor Stage

D. Pre-Operational Stage

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Option D


4. In Piaget's Concrete-Operational stage in cognitive development, which refers to the ability to order or arrange things logically based on dimensions such as weight, volume or size?

A. Conservation

B. Reversibility

C. Seriation

D. Classification

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Option C


5. In Piaget's Concrete-Operational Stage in cognitive development, which refers to the ability of the child to perceive different features of objects and situations, e.g. toughness in stone, elasticity in rubber, etc?

A. Decentering

B. Seriation

C. Classification

D. Egocentrism

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Option A


6. Of the following classroom activities, which best relate to child visual learning and development?

A. Drawing and coloring

B. Singing and acting

C. C.Textbook reading

D. Games and sports

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Option A


7. Rene exhibits fear response to freely roaming dogs but does not show fear when a dog is on a leash or confined to a pen. Which conditioning process is illustrated?

A. Discrimination

B. Extinction

C. Generalization

D. Acquisition

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Option A


8. A negative discrimination index means __________.

A. More from the lower group answered the test item correctly.

B. More from the upper group answered the test item correctly.

C. The test item could not discriminate between the upper and the lower group

D. The test item has low reliability

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Option A


9. How will you interpret a student’s 80% percentile score? The student scored _____________.

A. Higher than 80% of the members of the group

B. Better, relative to the competencies targeted

C. High in all the skills being tested

D. 80% of the specified content

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Option A


10. Piagetian stage characterized by the development of logical operations for seriation, classification, and conservation. Thinking is tied to real events and objects.

A. Concrete operations

B. Formal operations

C. Pre-operations

D. Sensorimotor

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Option A


11. Piagetian stage characterized by the development of abstract systems of thought that allow them to use propositional logic, scientific reasoning, and proportional reasoning.

A. Concrete operations

B. Formal operations

C. Pre-operations

D. Post-conventional

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Option B


12. When asked about her order, a little girl tells the waiter “yong kagaya kahapon.” With Piaget’s theory in mind, what is the little girl’s behavior called?

A. Egocentrism

B. Conservation

C. Reversibility

D. Transductive reasoning

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Option A


13. What do you call the quantitative increase in terms of height and weight as observed by the school physician during the physical examination of the students?

A. Development

B. Growth

C. Learning

D. Maturation

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Option B


14. Which philosophy has the educational objective to indoctrinate Filipinos to accept the teachings of the Catholic Church which is to foster faith in God?

A. Realism

B. Pragmatism

C. Idealism

D. Existentialism

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Option C


15. Virtue as one component in the teaching of Rizal as a course focuses on the teaching of good and beauty in God. What philosophy supports this?

A. Existentialism

B. Idealism

C. Progressivism

D. Social Reconstructionism

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Option B


16. The emphasized the individuality of the child. What is the concern of the reconstructionists?

A. Experiential learning

B. Socialization

C. Social Problem

D. Values Education

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Option C


17. Any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity within the range considered normal.

A. Exceptionality

B. Impairment

C. Disability

D. Handicap

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Option C

Explanation

Impairment: a loss or abnormality of ORGAN FUNCTION

Example: Vision impairment due to cataract; delayed speech and joint stiffness 

Handicap (Physically disadvantaged): a disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or disability, that limits or prevents the fulfillment of a role that is normal (PARTICIPATION RESTRICTION like Immobility) 

Disability: any restriction or lack of the ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being (ACTIVITY LIMITATIONS)

Example: Inability to speak clearly (stuttering or lisp) or speech disorder (mute) 

 Exceptionality: exceptional children are individuals who deviate from the norm to such an extent that special education services are required (SPECIAL / GIFTED individuals)


18. A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and non-verbal communication and social interaction. This disability is usually evident before the age of three.

A. Autism

B. Impairment

C. Down Syndrome

D. Handicap

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Option A


19. Miss Calma is an excellent Physical Education teacher. She started teaching volleyball to her grade 2 class. Despite all her efforts her class does not seem to learn how to play the game. What law of learning was disregarded?

A. Law of disuse

B. Law of effect

C. Law of exercise

D. Law of readiness

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Option D


20. It refers to the integration of the students with special needs into the general classroom for all or part of the school day.

A. Mainstreaming

B. Integrating

C. Incorporating

D. Reinforcing

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Option A


21. It is a difficulty in developing reading skills.

A. Dyslexia

B. Dyscalculia

C. Dysgraphia

D. Dyspraxia

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Option A


22. An aid in presenting large two-dimension materials is hung on the wall is the

A. flip chart.

B. pocket chart.

C. diorama.

D. overhead projector.

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Option A


23. Pictures with minimal details are effective for children who have_________

A. High intellectual abilities.

B. Attention deficits.

C. Creative and artistic talents.

D. Speech disorders.

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Option B

Explanation

 ADHD

  • ADHD can have difficulty disregarding stimuli that are not relevant to the present task. They can also pay so much attention to one stimulus that they cannot absorb another stimulus that is more relevant at that particular time.


24. Ms. Penny showed a picture to a group of learners assessed with problem behaviors. Upon seeing the picture the class became noisy – some pointing to the picture and laughing, some stood up and went around to the other seats, some talked with a seatmate. As a whole, the class became chaotic. What assumption can you infer for this kind of reaction?

A. The picture has many irrelevant cues serving as distracters.

B. The picture is small and not clear to everyone.

C. The picture has a balance between cool and warm colors.

D. The picture is only one unit (single object) in the picture.

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Option A


25. To what domain does the pre-school lesson objective “to color the fruits correctly apply?”

A. Affective

B. Behavioral

C. Psychomotor

D. Cognitive

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Option C


26. For young Filipino learners studying English as a second language, which of the following can best generate language learning?

A. Simple exercise by use

B. Listening activity

C. Drills

D. Study of grammar

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Option A


27. In the teaching career, which forms the essence of professional competence, expertise and consciousness among teachers?

A. Excellence in the practice of teacher

B. Academic post-graduate specialization

C. High position and ranking

D. Making the highest salary for teaching

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Option A


28. To manage behavior, the teacher needs to be able to identify the mistaken goals of students. What is the hidden goal of students who refuse to cooperate or participate?

A. Goal is to isolate self

B. Goal is to get revenge

C. Goal is to seek power

D. Goal is to get attention

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Option A


29. How do you classify the objective “to summarize the salient features of a good essay” in terms of Bloom’s hierarchy of educational objectives at the cognitive level?

A. Analysis

B. Application

C. Knowledge

D. Synthesis

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Option D


30. In the scientific process, what thinking skill is referred as the process of mentally analyzing and evaluating data on evidence?

A. Constructive thinking

B. Creative thinking

C. Problem-solving

D. Interpretative thinking

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Option C


31. Among unit plan components, to what cluster do models, replicas, charts, graphs and specimens belong?

A. Objectives

B. Evaluation

C. Learning activities

D. Resources and materials

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Option D


32. Which is true when standard deviation is high?

A. Scores are tightly bunched together.

B. The bell curve is relatively flat.

C. Scores are toward both extremes.

D. Scores are spread out.

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Option D


33. In the implementation of the curriculum at the classroom level, effective strategies are called ”green”. Which of the following belong to the Green flag?

A. Rigidity of movement

B. Student interest and teacher enthusiasm

C. Excess in chalkboard talk

D. Homogeneous students grouping

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Option B


34. In science teaching, what can classified as self-directed strategies in knowing concepts, principles and innovations?

A. Field trips

B. Realia

C. Project

D. Role playing

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Option C


35. In the revised basic education curriculum, what is the basic tool subject and essential learning areas in addition to Filipino, English and Science?

A. Music

B. Philippine culture

C. Mathematics

D. Physical education

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Option C


36. Mrs. Karen Kims asks her fourth year high school son what course he would like to take. She is in little way applying:

A. perennialism

B. Essentialism

C. Progressivism

D. Existentialism

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Option D


37. Increasing the time for basic subjects to facilitate culturation of basic literacy by providing basic and needed essential skills is anchored on the philosophy of____

A. Reconstructionism

B. Perennialism

C. Essentialism

D. Progressivism

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Option C


38. Involving students in extension activities such as community projects make them aware of people’s needs and problems, suggest ways to minimize them if not totally solved them is identified with:

A. social realism

B. social reconstructionism

C. social philosophy

D. social responsibility

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Option B


39. A type of education which aims to develop individual for maximum usefulness in the state is:

A. Humanism

B. Realism

C. Utilitarianism

D. Progressivism

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Option C


40. Which is NOT a perennialist point of view about education?

A. Education should cultivate human’s rational mind

B. Education should stimulate humans to think critically

C. Experience is the real test of the worth of all things

D. Truth is unusual and unchanging and therefore good education is constant

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Option C


41. Violeta goes with her mother in school. She enjoys the workplace of her mother. Which of the following ecological theories is illustrated by the situation?

A. Microsystem

B. Mesosystem

C. Exosystem

D. Macrosystem

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Option C


42. A music teacher is careful in planning activities for each lesson. He praises liberally and rewards correct answers. What view of learning is exhibited?

A. Classical conditioning

B. Operant conditioning

C. Meaningful learning

D. Social learning

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Option B


43. Teacher Rachel consults students and parents when she makes decisions. Which classroom management style does Teacher Rachel observe?

A. Democratic

B. Laissez Faire

C. Assertive

D. Consultative

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Option D


44. The class of Mr. San Juan was asked to provide feedback on each other’s learning. Which form of assessment was used?

A. Summative

B. Formative

C. Peer

D. Self

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Option C


45. The class of Ms. Jose belongs to a fast learners’ group. She gave activities for each to develop personal responsibility. Which activity was utilized?

A. Independent learning

B. Cooperative learning

C. Competitive learning

D. Evaluative learning

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Option A


46. A test was given to the students by Mr. Lapid to determine what the students already know and not know about the subject before he taught. Which did he give?

A. Peer

B. Self

C. Pre-test

D. Post test

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Option C


47. Miss Aluna would like to cover a wide variety of objectives in the quarterly examination in her History class. Which of the following types of test is the most appropriate?

A. True-False

B. Multiple Choice

C. Matching Type

D. Essay

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Option B


48. What should Dr. Mina do to ensure the suitability of her assessment tool?

A. Provide more items with similar content.

B. Pay attention to scoring procedures.

C. Match test items to instructional objectives.

D. Make the test instructions clear

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Option C


49. Which is the first consideration in selecting specific type of test to be used when constructing a test?

A. Characteristics of the group

B. Desired learning outcomes

C. Nature of the subject matter

D. Purpose of the test

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Option B


50. Who is retained in the same grade level for Grades 1 to 10 under the revised Basic Education Curriculum? Any students who did not meet expectations ________.

A. In three or more learning areas

B. In 2 learning areas

C. In 1 learning area

D. As shown in the general average

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Option A

Explanation




 

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