The tightly structured lesson that is taught with little flexibility is least conductive to the learning of the student who ______.
(a) Is culturally disadvantaged
(b) Is hyperactive
(c) Has a 125 IQ
(d) None of these
Answer: c
The discovery method of teaching is best exemplified by______.
(a) Play activities
(b) Rote learning
(c) Independent study projects
(d) None of these
Answer: c
The best procedure for a teacher to follow when a pupil habitually calls out in class is to______.
(a) Ask for a percent conference
(b) Put a demerit in the making book on each occasion
(c) Call on the pupil to answer questions that are within his/her ability level
(d) None of these
Answer: c
Akmal tells her teacher that three other girls, who the teacher knows are Akmal’s friends, copy from each other on all the tests. Of the following the teacher is best advised to first______.
(a) Give the three girls a zero on the last two tests
(b) Confer with Akmal’s mother
(c) Try to understand why Akmal said this
(d) None of these
Answer: c
Most educators agree that oral reading______.
(a) Comes naturally to good readers
(b) Is do difficult to do well that it is waste of time to teach it
(c) Requires an audience situation
(d) None of these
Answer: c
After a lesson is taught the teacher’s lesson plan should be______.
(a) Sent to the supervisor for evaluation
(b) Annotated
(c) Filed for use by a substitute teacher
(d) None of these
Answer: a
Of the following, the least appropriate opening day activity is______.
(a) Saluting the flag
(b) Assigning homework
(c) Outlining the day’s schedule
(d) None of these
Answer: b
The discovery method of learning is best exemplified by______.
(a) Programmed instruction
(b) Experimentation in a science laboratory
(c) Team teaching
(d) None of these
Answer: b
You find that in your class, a group of students are not obeying you. You will ______.
(a) Avoid the students
(b) Punish them
(c) Speak and convince them
(d) None of these
Answer: c
You have a brilliant student who is very good at studies but not taking part in curricular activities. You will ______.
(a) Convince him by counselling
(b) Avoid him
(c) Inform parents/Principal
(d) None of these
Answer: a
In your class you came to know that the mother of one student is expired. You will ______.
(a) Behave in a way that you are not aware of anything
(b) Speak with that student about his mother
(c) Try to make that student normal in class.
(d) None of these
Answer: c
In the class you come to know that a student wants to work part time to give his school fees. You will ______.
(a) Pay his school fees
(b) By collecting donation from others
(c) Make him understand about the consequences and inform his parents.
(d) None of these
Answer: c
On a school education trip, a student gets hurt. You will ______.
(a) After first aid send him back to school
(b) Inform the parents and Principal and take him to nearest hospital
(c) Shout for help from others
(d) None of these
Answer: b
As a class teacher, you will tackle the regularly late coming students by ______.
(a) Punishing them
(b) Avoiding them
(c) Consulting them and their parents
(d) None of these
Answer: c
You will behave in class on extra arrangement by being______.
(a) Lenient
(b) Very strict
(c) Engaging them in some activity
(d) None of these
Answer: c
If some students are not in a mood to study in the class, you will ________.
(a) Force them to study
(b) Tell those students to leave the class and enjoy
(c) Tell them some interesting things related to their interests or your own subject
(d) None of these
Answer: c
Child development is defined as a field of study that________.
(a) Examines change in human abilities.
(b) Seeks to explain behaviour across the life span.
(c) Accounts for the gradual evolution of the child’s cognitive, social, and other capacities.
(d) None of these
Answer: c
The term ‘identical elements’ is closely associated with________.
(a) Group instruction
(b) Transfer of learning
(c) Jealousy between twins
(d) None of these
Answer: b
A person believes that nurture strongly influences the development of his child. He would not agree with the importance of________.
(a) Genetic factors
(b) Exposure to peers
(c) The types of toys at home
(d) None of these
Answer: a
If student is too shy to participate in the class, you will________.
(a) Not ask questions from him
(b) Ask only those questions from him whose answers can be given by him
(c) Ask questions from him only when he is keen to answer them
(d) None of these
Answer: c
A good teacher will bring a hyperactive child on the right path by ________.
(a) Making him sit in front of the class and keep a strict vigil on him
(b) Allocating a seat for him in a corner of the class
(c) Giving him tasks of watering trees, cleaning the blackboard, making toys of clay, etc.
(d) None of these
Answer: c
Knowledge of child psychology is a must for a primary teacher because________.
(a) It helps in making children disciplined
(b) The examination result is improved
(c) It helps the teacher in understanding the behaviour of children
(d) None of these
Answer: c
The movement of behaviour modification, wherein tokens are awarded for correct responses, is a reflection of________.
(a) Herbart’s Five Steps
(b) Lock’s Tabula rasa
(c) Thorndike’s Law of Effect
(d) None of these
Answer: c
Subjects are said to be assigned randomly when________.
(a) They are assigned to experimental and control groups from a sample which is representative of the larger population.
(b) They each have an equal chance of being assigned to either the experimental or control group.
(c) Neither the experimenter nor the subject knows whether the subject is in the experimental or control group.
(d) None of these
Answer: b
Students who do better in high school tend to do better in college. This is an example of a________ correlation
(a) Negative
(b) Zero
(c) Positive
(d) None of these
Answer: c
Fifteen-years-old Ahsan wears the same style shirts that his teacher wears. This is called ________ behaviour.
(a) Compensation
(b) Transference
(c) Identification
(d) None of these
Answer: c
At least one third of the learning that will determine later levels of school achievement has already taken place by age six. This was said by ________.
(a) Benjamin Bloom
(b) Margaret Mead
(c) Martin Mayer
(d) None of these
Answer: a
________ is the he most unreliable predictor of educational achievement.
(a) Inherited biological potential for learning
(b) Ethnic origin of parents
(c) Family background and training
(d) None of these
Answer: b
________ is not an acceptable goal for dealing with behaviour problems in the classroom.
(a) Utilizing appeals to children that have personal implications
(b) Being impersonal and objective
(c) Understanding the offense
(d) None of these
Answer: d
In preparing a class to take a standardized reading test the teacher should________.
(a) Tell the children the test is very important and they should do the best they can
(b) Ditto key questions from a previous test and allow the pupils to answer them
(c) Give the pupils practice in answering questions similar to the type that will appear on the test
(d) None of these
Answer: c
______ is likely to cause the greatest difficulty for a child in the initial stages of reading instruction.
(a) Confusion of left and right directionality
(b) Possessing an IQ of 90
(c) Having older siblings who are successful readers
(d) None of these
Answer: a
An essential of learning called ______ is the one that takes procedure over the other.
(a) Desire to learn
(b) Ability to read
(c) An intact home
(d) None of these
Answer: a
A child from a disorganized home will experience the greatest difficulty with______.
(a) Well structured lessons
(b) Independent study
(c) Programmed instruction
(d) None of these
Answer: b
The normal twelve-year-old child is most likely to______.
(a) Have difficulty with gross motor coordination
(b) Have anxiety feelings about pleasing adults
(c) Be eager for peer approval
(d) None of these
Answer: c
The term ‘identical elements’ is closely associated with______.
(a) Group instruction
(b) Transfer of learning
(c) Jealousy between twins
(d) None of these
Answer: b
The peculiar characteristic of first grade children is that they are______.
(a) Too young to be taught classroom routines
(b) Not yet concerned with group approval
(c) Very concerned with adult approval
(d) None of these
Answer: a
The evaluation of personality is best made through the use of an______.
(a) Inventory test
(b) Projective test
(c) Survey test
(d) None of these
Answer: b
When a pupil’s misbehaviour persists even after the teacher punishes the child for each infraction, the teacher is probably practicing a policy of______.
(a) Retribution
(b) Corporal punishment
(c) Negative reinforcement
(d) None of these
Answer: c
Ayaz and Asad have the same mental age 8.0. We can conclude that______.
(a) They have the same potential for success in school.
(b) They have the same IQ
(c) Their ability to learn may be quite different
(d) None of these
Answer: c
A child whose class is in a windowless room may have to be assigned to another class if he/she suffers from______.
(a) Acrophobia
(b) Agoraphobia
(c) Claustrophobia
(d) None of these
Answer: c
