These are very important MCQS for Head Teacher Exam Preparation
- UNESCO pillars/foundations of education or Curriculum are04
- The four pillars of education for the 21stcentury that Jacques Delores (2001) refers to UNESCO, in the form of a report, Learning to know, Learning to do, Learning to live and, Learning to be.
- 3 I of Curriculum areIntent, Implementation, Impact
- Intent means goals
- Implementation(how we do it- teaching strategies that we use in the classroom )
- Impact(difference after implementation- the development of our children)
- There10 sub goals of Sustainable developmental goal-4 SDG-4
- SDG 4.1Quality primary and secondary education for all
- SDG 4.2ECE and Pre-Primary Education
- SDG 4.3Equal access to TVET and Higher education
- SDG 4.4Skill for work
- SDG 4.5Gender equality and equal access for all
- SDG 4.6Youth and adult literacy
- SDG 4.7SDGs and citizenship
- SDG 4aSafe and inclusive learning environment
- SDG 4bScholarship for higher education
- SDG 4cProfessional development for teachers.
- Still 57 million children(primary age) are out of school (UNDP website)
- Material presented for consideration in discussion, thought, or study. Knowledge, skills, experiences, theories, presented in the description of course.Subject matter/Content
- Method of content selection where Content is selected by the judgment of curriculum developers or planner; success or failure depends upon planner. Judgmental Procedure
- Content is selected based on proper inquiry or experiment, selection by hypothesis development, testing, verification and Analysis of experience. Experimental Procedure
- It is the most widely used procedure for content selection. Analytical Procedure
- People’s activities are analyzed to know their functions, performance and based on analysis, content is selected.Analytical Procedure
- Collecting information by interviews, questionnaires, documentary analysis, observing the performance of people, it follows principle of utility. Analytical Procedure
- Principle of curriculum content organization is A.S.I.Crefers to Balance, Articulation, Sequence, Integration and Continuity.
- Components of organization of content involves Scope, Sequence, Integration
- Refers to actual amount of material incorporated into program. It has further two elements breadth & depth. Scope
- Breadth: range of material to be covered in a program
- Depth: amount of information that is to be provided on each item included
- It is order in which the content is to be presented.Sequence
- David Ausubel argued that content should be introduced in instructional sequence
- Gagne argued that it should be according to structure of content.
- Logical order of content means organization of content according to logical sequence.
- Vertical Organization: Relationship in subjects at different levels (classes), it follows principle of continuity.
- Horizontal Organization: Relationship in different subjects at the same level (class), It follows principle of integration.
- Integration Process of merging different subjects or parts of subjects through coordination
- Intra-Disciplinary: integration of subject within a particular field of knowledge
- Inter-Disciplinary: integration of subjects from different field of knowledge into a new curriculum,
- Traditional View of curriculum: it is a body of subject or subject matter prepared by teachers for students, a course of study or syllabus
- Progressive View of curriculum The total learning experiences of the individual. This definition is based on john Dewey’s definition of experience and education
- Pilot Test: APilot test a test administrated to a representative sample of participants solely for the purpose of determining properties of test before its large-scale application.
- Survey Test:Method uses to gather information from sample of people in the form of questionnaire, written/online. A test used to measure many skills with few items
- Pre-Test: It is a test to check preparedness of students for further study or test before a real test usually given to assess what is already known.
- Qualitative assessment:Subjective based on concept, describe a process without quantifying it, collection of information from natural setting, observation, interview, case study
- Quantitative assessment:objective & based on measurement, quantification, which describe a phenomenon using quantities- tests, checklist, survey etc.
- Convergent Questions:Allows for only one correct answer-year of independence?
- Divergent Questions:Allows for many correct answer-reason of independence?
- Projective Techniques:Are Used to measure personality (detail in research chapter)
- Internal Exam:Test taken by institution where learner study
- External Exam:Test taken by outside body
- Oral Fluency Assessment:Informal assessment of reading to identify errors or problems of children in oral reading
- Oral Reading Assessment:An oral & silent reading test used to identify development of literacy level of children through oral retelling & reading inventory of individual reading.
- Need Assessment:Process of identifying needs & establishing relative priority of those needs
- Decision-making matrixis a method for assigning numerical values to criteria, and the extent to which alternatives satisfy
- When the teacher checks the students’ work using multiple sources of information, the task is called cross-checking
- Assessment plan:Document that outlines SLOs, assessment methods to attain each also, timeframe for collecting data & the individual responsible for collection/ review of data.
- Quantitative Variables:Variables in the numeric form e.g., age, height
- Qualitative Variables:Variables in the quality form e.g., gender
- A Reliable measurement is not always valid i.e., the results of test might be reproducible, but they’re not necessarily Correct
- A valid measurement is generally Reliable i.e., If a test produces accurate results, they might be reproducible
- Proactive Questions These are questions people ask to themselves
- Rhetorical Questionis one for which the questioner does not expect a direct answer
- Funnel Questions These are always a series of questions, question in sequence
- Inference questions Inference questions require learners to use inductive or deductive reasoning to eliminate responses or critically assess a statement
- Convergent Questionshaving only one correct answer i.e., objective question
- Divergent Question many correct answers for a single question,Subject question
- Polar Questions Yes/no questions are called Polar questions
- Tag-Questions Questions asked for confirmation of something.
- Retrospective Questionquestions get the students to reflect on the last learning
- Daniel Stufflebeam’s decision-oriented model to evaluate program and identify strengths and limitations in content or delivery, to improve program effectiveness CIPP Model
- It consists of 4 components CIPP Model
- C- Context (Context “What needs to be done?”) Overall goals or mission
- I- Input (“How should it be done?”) The plans and resources
- P- Process (Process “Is it being done?”) Activities or components
- P- Product (“Did the project succeed?”) Outcomes or objectives
- Interdisciplinary or thematic curriculum are other names ofIntegrated curriculum
- Activity centered curriculum is considered
- The purpose of integrated curriculum is: Decrease in number of books
- The relationship of different concepts at one level is Horizontal organization
- Development of curriculum at higher level and its application at different level is
- After partition University of Punjab played a role in developing school curriculum
- National bureau of curriculum and textbook(curriculum wing) established in February 1967.
- The main functions of the curriculum bureau included the need for integration, coordination of the work of the provinces and setting standards of education.
- The national bureau of curriculum and textbooks was supported by the provincial bureausof curriculum, textbook boards, and other related institutions
- In Punjab: Punjab curriculum and textbook board (PCTB) [formerly Punjab curriculum authority (PCA), Punjab textbook board PTB)
- In Sindh: Bureau of curriculum and extension wing (BCEW)
- In KPK: Directorate of curriculum and teacher education (DCTE)
- In Baluchistan: Bureau of curriculum and extension center Baluchistan (BCEC)
- In ISB, GB, AJK: Curriculum wing is responsible for the develop curriculum for these areas.
- It is a joint function of federal and provincial governments. The concurrent legislative list contains subjects like policy, planning, curriculum, syllabus, standards of education and Islamic education Concurrent legislative list 1973
- The ‘federal supervision of curricula, textbooks and maintenance of standards of education act, 1976’empowered federal ministry of education [MOE] to supervise the educational matters present on the concurrent list.
- In 18th amendment in the constitution 2010the concurrent legislative list was abolished Education is now the sole responsibility of the provinces including curriculum,
- Article 25-A was also introduced in 18th amendment in the constitution 2010
- Word ‘Khatam un Nabiyeen’ ﷺapproved in Senate of Pakistan on June 24,2020, It is must to write word ‘Khatam un Nabiyeen’ ﷺ with the name of Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (ﷺ) in all official and unofficial documents
- Fiscal year in Pakistan its duration is 01 July-30 June
- Academic year in Punjab its duration is 01Apri-31 March(Due to COVID-19 it was disturbed from 2020 to 2022 and it was from 01 August to 30 June)
- Educational Census year in Punjab its duration is 01November-31 October
- Dividing various subjects into department isdepartmentalization
- Planned learning experiences with specific goalsDirect learning experience
100-Un-planned learning experiences without specific goals Indirect learning experience