Professional Education Reviewer Part 9: 50 Questions with Answers

Professional Education Reviewer Part 9: 50 Questions with Answers

1. Research on Piagetian tasks indicates that thinking becomes more logical and abstract as children reach the formal operation stage. What is an educational implication of this finding?

a. Engage children in analogical reasoning as early as preschool to train them for higher order thinking skills (HOTS)

b. Learners who are not capable of logical reasoning from ages 8 to 11 lag behind in their cognitive development

c. Let children be children

d. Expect hypothetical reasoning for learners between 12 to 15 years of age

Ans: d

2. Research says: “People tend to attribute their successes to internal causes and their failures to external causes.” Based on this finding, what should be taught to students for them to be genuinely motivated to succeed?

a. Tell them the research finding when applied will make them genuinely motivated

b. Convince them that genuine motivation is the only factor that matters for a person to succeed

c. Make them realize that failure is a part of life

d. Make them realize that both success and failure are more a function of internal causes

Ans: c

3. Which characterize/s a learning environment that promotes fairness among learners of various cultures, family background and gender?

I. Inclusive III. Gender-sensitive

II. Exclusive

a. I only c. I and III

b. III only d. II and III

Ans: c

4. Which of the following steps should be completed first in planning an achievement test?

a. Define the instructional objective

b. Set up a table of specialization

c.   Select the types of test items to use

d. Decide on the length of the test

Ans: a

5. The computed r for scores in Math and Science is 0.92. What does this mean?

a. Math score is positive related to Science score

b. The higher the Math score, the lower the Science score

c.   Math score is not in any way related to Science score

d. Science score is slightly related to Math score

Ans: a

6. Which types of test is most appropriate if Teacher Yanny wants to measure student’s ability to organize thoughts and ideas?

a. Short answer type of test

b. Extended response essay

c.   Modified alternative response

d. Limited response essay

Ans: b

7. If I want to hone my student’s meta-cognitive ability, which is most fit? 

a. Drill c. Brainstorming 

b. Debate d. Journaling 

Ans: d

8. I want to test student’s synthesizing skills. Which has the highest diagnostic value?

a. Multiple choice test  

b. Performance test

c.   Essay test 

d. Completion test

9. Here is a test item:

Why is this test item poor?

I. The test item does not pose a problem to the examinee

II. There are variety of possible correct answer to this item

III. The language used in the question is not precise

IV. The blank is near the beginning of a sentence

a. I and III c. I and IV

b. II and IV d. I and II

Ans: b

10. Joanne’s score is within x±1 SD. To which of the following groups does she belong?

a. Below average

b. Average

c.   Needs Improvement

d. Above average

Ans: b

11. Here is a test item:

What makes the multiple choice type of test poor?

a. The options are not grammatically connected to the stem

b. The stem fails to present a problem

c.   There are grammatical clues

d. The options are not parallel

Ans: b

12. If Teacher Betty wants to measure her students’ ability to discriminate, which of these is an appropriate type of test item as implied by the direction?

a. “Outline the Chapter on The Cell.”

b. “Summarize the lesson yesterday.”

c. “Group the following items according to shape.”

d. “State a set of principle that can explain the following events.”

Ans: c

13. A test item has a difficult index of 0.89 and a discrimination index of 0.44. What should the teacher do?

a. Reject the item

b. Revise the item

c.   Make it a bonus item

d. Make it a bonus item and reject it

Ans: b

14. Which form of assessment is consistent with the saying “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”

a. Contrived c. Traditional

b. Authentic d. Indirect

Ans: b

15. Here is a test item:

What is WRONG with this item?

a. Item is overly specific

b. Content is trivial

c.   Test item is option-based

d. There is a cue to the right answer

Ans: b

16. A student’s score were as follows: 82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 84, 83, 85. The score 84 is the:

a. Mode c. Median

b. Average d. Mean

Ans: c

17. Which text form would you choose if you want to have a valid and reliable test based on the table below?

Test Form Validity Index Reliability Index

A .47 .68

B .87 .57

C .20 .86

D .40 .41

E .63 .07

a. A only c. A and D

b. B only d. B and E

Ans: b

18. A mathematician’s test was given to all Grade V pupils to determine the contestants for the Math Quiz Bee. Which statistical measure should be used to identify the top 15?

a. Mean percentage score

b. Quartile Deviation

c. Percentile Rank

d. Percentage Score

Ans: d

19. Use the inbox below to answer the question that follows:

Percentage Grades for Final Examination

      40     70     80      90     100

Which of the following statement is true about the plot of grades above?

a. The median is a score of 80 and the range is 60

b. The median is a score of 70 and the range is 60

c. The median is a score of 80 and the range is 20

d. The median is a score of 70 and the range is 20

Ans: c

20. Which can be said of Nina who obtained a score of 75 out of 100 items in a Grammar objective test?

a. She performed better than 25% of her classmates

b. She answered 75 items in the test correctly

c.   Her rating is 75

d. She answered 75% of the test items correctly

Ans: b

21. The criterion of success in Teacher Butch’s objective is that “the pupils must be able to spell 90% of the words correctly”. Student Dave and 24 others in the class spelled only 40 out of 50 words correctly while the rest scored 45 and above. This means that Teacher Butch _____________.

a. attained his lesson objective

b. failed to attain his lesson objective as far as the 25 pupils are concerned

c.   did not attain his lesson objective because of the pupils’ lack of attention

d. attained his lesson objective because of his effective spelling drill

Ans: b

22. Which of these can measure awareness of values?

a. Sociogram

b. Moral dilemmas

c.   Projective techniques

d. Rating scales

Ans: b

23. Marking on a normative basis means that:

a. the normal distribution curve should be followed

b. some should fall

c.   some get high marks

d. the grading is based on a present criteria 

Ans: a

24. Which process enhances the comparability of grades?

a. Using a table specifications

b. Determining the level of difficulty of the tests

c.   Giving more HOTS (higher order thinking skills)

d. Constructing departmentalized exams for each subject area.

Ans: d

25. If the scores of your test follow a negatively skewed score distribution, what should you do? Find out __________?

a. why your items were easy

b. why most of the scores are high

c.   why most of the scores are low

d. why some pupils scored high 

Ans: b

26. Principal Gemma is talking about “grading on the curve” in a faculty meeting. What does this expression refers to?

a. A student’s mark compares his achievement to his effort

b. A student’s grade or mark depends on how his achievement compares with the achievement of other students in a class

c.   A student’s grade determines whether or not a student attains a defined standard of achievement

d. A student’s mark tells how closely he is achieving to his potential

Ans: b

27. Which tests determine whether students accept responsibility for their own behavior or pass on responsibility for their own behavior to other people?

a. Locus-of-control tests

b. Thematic tests

c.   Stylistic test

d. Sentence-completion tests

Ans: a

28. Which of the following is a weakness of self-supporting personality checklists?

a. Many personality measures have built-in lie scales

b. They lack stability

c. They may not get true information because individuals can hide or disguise feelings

d. They have poor internal consistency

Ans: c

29. Which response/s come/s from a behaviorist?

a. #2 and #4 c. #3 and #4

b. #1 and #2 d. #1 and #3

Ans: d

30. On which educational philosophy is response #1 anchored?

a. Existentialism c. Progressivism

b. Essentialism d. Bahaviorism

Ans: d

31. If you leaned toward a progressivist philosophy, with which response would you agree?

a. #2         b. #3          c. #4        d. #1

Ans: c

32. Teacher Wilson wants his students to master the concept of social justice. Which series of activities will be most effective?

a. Pretest-teaching-posttest

b. Pretest-teaching-posttest-re-teaching for unlearned concepts-posttest

c.   Review-pretest-teaching-posttest

d. Teaching-posttest 

Ans: b

33. Teacher Raymund likes to show how the launching of spaceships takes place. Which of the following materials available is most fit?

a. Model   b. Mock-up  c. Replica   d. Realia

Ans: b

34. Teacher June likes to concretize the abstract concepts of an atom. He came up with a concrete presentation of the atom by using wire and plastic balls. How would you classify Teacher June’s visual aids?

a. Chart    b. Replica c. Model   d. Realia

Ans: c

35. The class was asked to share their insights about the poem. The ability to come up with an insight stems from the ability to:

a. analyze the parts of a whole

b. evaluate the worthiness of a thing

c.   relate and organize things and ideas

d. comprehend the subject that is being studied

Ans: d

36. To ask the class any insight derived from the poem is based on the theory of:

a. Realism c. Conditioning

b. Behaviorism d. Constructivism

Ans: d

37. On which assumption about the learner is Mr. Sales’s act of asking the class to share their insight based?

a. Learners are like empty receptacles waiting to be filled up

b. Learners are meant to interact with one another

c.   Learners have multiple intelligence and varied learning styles

d. Learners are producers of knowledge not only passive recipients of information

Ans: d

38. On which assumption/s is the principal’s action anchored?

I. Students learn by personally constructing meaning of what is taught

II. Students construct and reconstruct meaning based on experiences

III. Students derive meaning from the meaning that the teacher gives

a. II only c. I, II and III

b. I and II d. I only

Ans: b

39. Which materials will her teachers least prefers?

a. Controversial issues

b. Open-ended topics

c. Unquestionable laws

d. Problem or cases

Ans: c

40. Which concept/s of the learner will Principal Evelyn not accept?

I. “Empty vesse!”

II. “Tabula rasa”

III. Candle to be lighted

a. III only c. II only

b. I only d. I and II

41. How can you make the items homogeneous?

a. Increase the number of items in Column B

b. All items should be on polygons

c.   Remove the word triangle in items #1 and #2 in column A

d. The word “gon” must be included in column B

Ans: b

42. What is the main defect of this matching test?

a. The matching type is an imperfect type

b. The items are NOT homogeneous

c.   The items quite easy

d. An obvious pattern is followed in the answering

Ans: b

43. Which should be done to improve the matching type of test?

a. Capitalize the items in Column A

b. Items in Column A and B should be exchanged

c.   Drop #6 item in Column A

d. The item in Column A should be increased

Ans: c

44. Which of this/these is/are essential in constructing a scoring rubric?

I. Description of criteria to serve as standard

II. Clear descriptions of performance at each level

III. Levels of achievement (mastery)

IV. Rating scheme

a. I, II and III c. I, II, III and IV

b. I and II d. I only

Ans: c

45. Which statement is true of the rubric?

a. It is developmental

b. It is analytical

c. It is both holistic and developmental

d. It is holistic

Ans: c

46. Which is true of the scoring rubric?

I. It describes criteria of levels of achievement

II. It has a rating scheme

III. It limit itself to 4 levels of achievement

a. I and II c. II and III

b. I and III d. I, II and III

Ans: a

47. Which guidelines should you follow for behavior modification to be effective? 

a. Subject yourself to group pressure 

b. Work on several behaviors at the time for a significant change

c.   Never use negative reinforcement 

d. Work on one behavior at a time 

Ans: d

48. In which phases/s of change, according to Kurt Lewin, do you feel the pain? 

a. Transition     c. Refreezing 

b. Unfreezing     d. Transition and freezing 

Ans: a

49. In the writing of performance objectives for mastery learning, what is an acceptable standard of performance called? 

a. Behavior c. SMART 

b. Condition d. Criterion measure 

Ans: d

50. Why learning activities should be carefully planned? 

a. The ability of the teacher to plan is tested 

b. This is expected by pupils 

c. The accomplishment of objectives is dependent on the plan 

d. This is required of a teacher

Ans: c

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