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. In order to assist new teacher, which is the most effective way to clarify the schools‘ goals and responsibilities early in the first year?
A. Student‘s handbook
B. Orientation
C. Principals‘ memorandum
D. School curriculum
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Option B
2. Of components of direct instruction, which involves teachers and students working together on a skill or task and figuring out how to apply the strategy?
A. Consolidation
B. Guided practice
C. Application
D. Modeling
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Option B
3. Teacher JanJan made certain his lesson content is within the capacity of his young forum grade learners. What is the quality of John‘s lesson content when he fits lesson to learner‘s capacity to absorb lesson content?
A. Learnability
B. Balance
C. Validity
D. Interest
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Option A
4. From structures of Multifunctional Cooperative Learning, which makes each group to produce a group product to share with the whole class?
A. Coop-coop
B. Think-pair-share
C. Team Word-Webbing
D. Partners
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Option B
5. This is the more appropriate understanding of technology in education?
A. Methods and process
B. Inventions and equipment
C. Channels and instruments
D. Hardware, designs, and environment
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Option C
6. A teacher introduces herself as teacher only. What does this imply?
A. She must have been forced to pursue a career in teaching.
B. The teaching profession is not a very significant one
C. The teaching profession is the lowest paid profession
D. She takes no pride in the teaching profession
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Option D
7. In the guided exploratory approach to learning, which is not the term used for Inquiry learning?
A. Heuristic learning
B. Problem-solving learning
C. Discovery learning
D. Expository learning
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Option D
8. What is another quality of teacher Lassie Pecson‘s lectures when she used words that are within the grasp of her listeners, avoiding technical terms and jargons?
A. Use of specific descriptions and examples
B. Enriched audiovisuals
C. Normal vocabulary
D. Planned sequence
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Option C
9. In delivering her lessons, teacher Blackie Lou Blanco is careful that no topic is extensively discussed at the expense of other topics. That guiding principle in selection and organization of lesson content is she following?
A. Significance
B. Self-sufficiency
C. Feasibility
D. Balance
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Option D
10. In determining materials and media to use, what consideration did Teacher Grachie adopt when she gave importance to the level of outcome and the learner‘s sense of fulfillment in performing the task?
A. Expectancy
B. Satisfaction
C. Interest
D. Relevance
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Option A
11. In the inductive approach to learning, what is not among the facilitating skills needed on the part of the teacher?
A. Teacher giving generalization of principles
B. Commenting to pave way for generalizations or principles
C. Organizing answers
D. Asking the right questions
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Option A
12. Which Filipino trait works against the shift in teacher‘s role from teacher as a foundation of information to teacher as facilitator?
A. Authoritativeness
B. Authoritarianism
C. Hiya
D. Pakikisama
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Option C
13. If a teacher plans a constructivist lesson, what will he most likely do? Plan how he can________.
A. Do evaluate his students‘ work
B. Do reciprocal teaching
C. Lecture to his students
D. Engage his students in convergent thinking
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Option D
14. How would you select the most fit in government positions? Applying Confucius teachings, which would be the answer?
A. By course accreditation of an accrediting body
B. By merit system and course accreditation
C. By merit system
D. By government examinations
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Option C
15. The test results revealed that a great majority of the student failed. What is the best action that an effective teacher should take to insure that learning will take place?
A. reteach the items that are heavily missed
B. analyze the difficulty, test them again
C. give more difficult test
D. scold the pupils
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Option A
16. In any kind of education endeavor, these three interdependent processes are involved
A. evaluation, application, learning
B. teaching, learning, evaluation of results
C. testing, recording, re-teaching
D. application, valuation, recall
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Option B
17. It is a chart prepared to determine the goals, the content and the number of items to be included in the test
A. test chart
B. test book
C. table of specifications
D. skewed chart
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Option C
18. The entire processes involved in conducting any scientific study include these sequential steps,
A. know the problem, gather and analyze needed data, then make conclusion
B. analyze, gather and collect data
C. gather data, analyze the problem, then conclude
D. give description, make a calculated guess, then conclude
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Option A
19. Mr. Pascual, being a conscientious teacher initially, feels that many of his student dislike him, hence, they failed his course. To verify his hunch, he will conduct what study?
A. descriptive study of student behavior
B. historical study
C. achievement test
D. Self-analysis
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Option A
20. Desiring to find out which among the schools she supervises achieve or underachieve the yearly target goals, Dr. Mendez will use what measure
A. Measure of Dispersion
B. Measure of Central tendency
C. Measure of Popularity
D. Measure of Locality
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Option B
21. A test of intelligence based on the actual measurement of what the individual can actually do of a certain task under time pressure.
A. Performance test
B. Aptitude Test
C. Skill test
D. None of these
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Option C
22. A test given to determine specific aspect of achievement made on certain skills to provide the needed remedial help to the learner.
A. daily test
B. achievement test
C. diagnostic test
D. none of the above
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Option C
23. A test given to get a representative sampling of the general area of accomplishment made on certain field of learning taught and learned.
A. survey test
B. diagnostic
C. aptitude test
D. none of the above
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Option A
24. A child‘s emotional behavior and problems can be measured by:
A. direct observations
B. psychological test
C. behavior checklist
D. all of the above
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Option D
25. Intelligence tests that can used with children who have language difficulties include:
A. the Draw-A-Man test
B. the Letter International Performance Scale
C. raven‘s progressive Matrices Test
D. All of the above
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Option D
26. The law requires school personnel to make a child‘s school records available to his or her parents. Parents have the right to:
A. help plan their child‘s instructional program
B. see their child‘s school records
C. receive an interpretation of any data recorded about their child
D. all of the above
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Option D
27. Ken obtained a percentile rank of 30 on a mathematics test. Ken‘s parents will learn that :
A. Ken is a top student in the above class
B. Ken got 30% of the test items correct
C. Ken obtained a score higher than 30% of the students in the class
D. Ken got 70% of the items correct
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Option B
28. Which of the following is a characteristic of criterion-referenced teaching strategies?
A. Desire behaviors are specified- for example," Given 10 sentences containing errors in noun-verb agreement, the student will be able to correct them with 100% accuracy."
B. Adequate instruction is given to enable students to perform the behaviors that are specified.
C. Using measures such as tests or specified performance, the teacher makes an analysis of whether objects are being met
D. All of the above
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Option D
29. Research shows that students who follow the cognitive learning approach manifest all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:
A. a global orientation toward the discovery of new question and solutions
B. an analytic mind-set toward new problems
C. an impulsive habit in drawing conclusions
D. a reflective manner when examining data
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Option C
30. Blood content that at least 90% of students could reach "mastery level" if appropriate teaching techniques were used. Which of the following would NOT be appropriate advice or a teacher who wants to help underachievers to succeed?
A. Provide more time or slower students to complete a task
B. Break the curriculum into small steps, teaching incrementally
C. Determine grades through competitive examinations, giving constant feedback to comparative performance.
D. Pursue a comprehensive list of performance objectives
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Option D
31. Critics of behavior-referenced instruction find that it limit students in all of the following areas EXCEPT in:
A. The range of behavioral objectives associated with such instruction
B. The expectations for performance held out to gifted students
C. Opportunities for student decision-making
D. The accuracy of evaluations possible with such instruction
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Option D
32. When a teacher reports the outcome of norm-referenced objective tests, he or she includes:
A. the performance of all students in the class
B. the objectives that were to be measured
C. the items missed by each student
D. all of the above
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Option D
33. A teacher planning to use a criterion-reference measurement presumably would begin with:
A. a set of specific objectives for pupils achievement
B. varying norms of students of different abilities
C. modular scheduling
D. a variety of leaning experiences to determine student abilities
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Option A
34. Standardized test for measuring pupil achievement have many advantages over teacher-made test. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of standard tests?
A. Students are tested under matching conditions
B. Such test have high reliability
C. Such test have high variability
D. Such tests are most costly than teacher-made test.
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Option D
35. A non-participating classroom observer can provide valuable information to a teacher because:
A. the observer is probably less subjective than the teacher
B. the observer can spend full time recording observations
C. the observer can focus on certain behaviors and systematically code them for a report
D. all of the above are true
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Option D
36. Research on individual learning differences indicates the need for:
A. the traditional lockstep approach to classroom instruction
B. maximizing off-task behaviors
C. plenty of free time for each pupil
D. the use of the aptitude-treatment-interaction model
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Option D
37. Students with low achievement levels prefer a classroom learning environment that is:
A. innovation-oriented
B. task-oriented
C. well-structured
D. competition-oriented
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Option D
38. For a grade placement, which of the following tests would be best to administer to a 10-year-old Puerto Rican boy who does not speak English?
A. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
B. The test of General Ability
C. The Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test
D. The Arthur Point Scale of Performance Test
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Option B
39. A teacher gave two forms of a standardized test to a class of third graders. She found that the amount of fluctuation between class scores on both forms was as slight as reported in the test publisher‘s:
A. item analysis
B. standard error
C. standard deviation
D. history reliability
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Option B
40. Which one of the following factor is NOT a significant advantage of a standardized test over day-to-day teacher made test?
A. The standardized test is cost-effective.
B. The standardized test is more valid.
C. The standardized test is more reliable.
D. The standardized test is based on national norms.
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Option A
41. Interest inventories are valuable for counseling secondary school student because the are given;
A. In percentiles.
B. In the form of a career advice.
C. In the form of a psychological profile.
D. In staines scores.
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Option A
42. The ratio of exceptional children in general population is about.
A. 1:8
B. 1:20
C. 1:4
D. 1:10
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Option B
43. Which of the following is useful for a teacher involved in a "majesty learning" program?
A. Summative testing over several units.
B. Formative testing during instruction.
C. Diagnostic testing.
D. All of the above.
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Option D
44. when constructing a teacher-made test, it is most important for the teacher to:
A. develop one-fourth of the question at the level of challenge appropriate for the testee.
B. ask question based on both factual and conceptual learnings
C. ask students to express their point of view
D. stress the objectives used during the lesson.
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Option D
45. When teaching concepts at the elementary grade level, it is most helpful to provide pupils with
A. examples and non-examples of the concept
B. a cluster of concepts at one time
C. a definition of the concepts
D. disjunctive concepts
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Option A
46. A junior high school principal wants to evaluate the science program. What is the first he should take?
A. Analyze pupil achievement scores
B. Look at national norms for achievement in the sciences
C. Confer with parents
D. Review and, if necessary, revise objectives for the program
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Option A
47. A personal feeling, either positive or negative towards an object, a person or an institution.
A. attitude
B. aptitude
C. opinion
D. none of these
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Option A
48. Known as one‘s preparedness for learn in a certain task brought about by the influences of heredity and environment.
A. Characteristics
B. Aptitude
C. Interest
D. None of these
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Option C
49. The process of identifying educational goals and the extent to which these objectives have been realized or met.
A. Examination
B. Evaluation
C. Planning
D. None of these
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Option B
50. The degree to which the test scores in a class spread.
A. Discrimination
B. Dispersion
C. Interval
D. None of these
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Option B