UGC NET

General Paper On Teaching &

Research Aptitude
SAMPLE

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1. Programmed instruction is based on the following principle of learning

(A) Primary reinforcement (B) Secondary reinforcement
(C) Continuous reinforcement (D) Instruction based on programs

2. The essential characteristic of cooperative learning is :

(A) Effective learning (B) Positive interdependence
(C) Cooperation (D) Division of labour

3. Which Programme allow students to demonstrate academic competence through a combination

of assessment and documentation of experience to gain academic credit :
(A) The Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)
(B) The Choice Based Core System
(C) Student Assessment Programme
(D) The Ascertain Based Credit System

4. Which of the following(s) is/are level(s) of Teaching ?

(A) Understanding (B) Reflective
(C) Memory (D) All of the Above

5. Blended Learning Means

(A) Offline Learning Method
(B) Face to Face class room learning and online education methods.
(C) Distance learning through Study material
(D) None of the above

6. Government of India constituted a high level advisory body known as :

(A) University Grand Commission (B) Central Advisory Committee
(C) National Knowledge Commission (D) Central Counseling Board

7. Autocratic Teaching Means :

(A) Regarded as a 'way of life' interrelated with the perceptions and assumptions, common
experiences of individuals and it is about living together
(B) Problems related to planning activities for distributing tasks are the responsibility of the
Student and not of the Teacher
(C) Teaching requires a choice of varied teaching methods adapted to the audience, to learning
objectives and to content
(D) Teaching style means that the teacher makes all the decisions about the organization of
the group and the activities performed in the group.

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8. Successful Communication in classroom teaching is :

(A) Circular (B) Reciprocal
(C) Directional (D) Influential

9. Conception of learning means :

(A) Ending of Learning (B) Beginning of Learning
(C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of the above

10. Cognitive Learning characteristics include :

(A) More education and/or learning related such as learning goals (of an individual or a group),
prior knowledge, educational type, and educational level
(B) Demographic information such as age, gender, maturation, language, social economic
status, cultural background, and specific needs of a learner group such as particular skills
and disabilities for and/or impairments to learning.
(C) Social/emotional characteristics are grouped structure, place of the individual within a
group, sociability, self-image (also feelings of self-efficacy and agency), mood, etc.
(D) Relate to such things as attention span, memory, mental procedures, and intellectual
skills which determine how the learner perceives, remembers, thinks, solves problems,
organizes and represents information in her/his brain.

11. Negotiates some of the conflict and differences between positivism and interpretivism
(A) Anti-positivism (B) Post-positivist
(C) Positivism (D) None of the above

12. Ethics is related with :

(A) Beliefs of the person (B) Nature of Law
(C) Civic Principle (D) All of the above

13. The process of writing research paper is

(A) Scientific (B) Unscientific
(C) Original (D) None of these

14. Axiology incorporates

(A) Economic, social norms and values
(B) Methodology, social norms and values
(C) Aesthetics, social norms and values
(D) Aesthetics, social norms and Physical Norms

15. Type of thesis

(A) Qualitative or creative thesis (B) Quantitative thesis
(C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of these

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SOLUTIONS

1. (B) Secondary reinforcement acquire their power via a history of association with primary
reinforcement or other secondary reinforcement. Programmed instruction is based on the
Secondary reinforcement principle of learning.
2. (B) Positive interdependence is an element of cooperative and collaborative learning where
members of a group who share common goals perceive that working together is individually
and collectively beneficial, and success depends on the participation of all the members.
3. (A) University Grants Commission has come up with the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)
programme in which the students have a choice to choose from the prescribed courses,
which are referred as core, elective or minor or soft skill courses and they can learn at
their own pace and the entire assessment is graded based on a credit system.
4. (D)  Memory (Thoughtless teaching)
 Understanding (Thoughtful teaching)
 Reflective (Upper thoughtful level)
5. (B) Blended learning is a combination of both face-to-face class room learning and online
education methods. This approach is adopted to combine the direct supervision in face-
to-face learning and academic freedom with the self -paced learning using the online
courses. Moreover course completion is not optional but compulsory. This model is named
as "Blended Learning - MOOC Model of IIT Bombay (BLMM)"
6. (C) Government of India constituted a high level advisory body known as National Knowledge
Commission (NKC) to advise the PM about the state of education in India and measures
needed to reform this sector.
7. (D) The authoritative Teaching style means that the teacher makes all the decisions about the
organization of the group and the activities performed in the group. Teacher does not
share with the students the overall plan of activities, nor the criteria for assessing individual
or group performances. Teacher evolution supposes keeping outside the group's concrete
activities and exercising a strict control.
8. (B) Reciprocal Communication : Communication is a two-way, reciprocal process. We
communicate with others to make our needs and desires known, and others communicate
back to us to acknowledge and respond to our needs. It is successful communication in
classroom teaching.
9. (B) Conception of learning means beginning of learning. Conception of learning is an umbrella
term that refers to one's values, attitude, beliefs and intention towards learning.
Conception of learning and conception of teaching are interrelated beliefs and values
which is generally known as 'conception of learning'. There is also keen interest in
understanding how the students' conception of learning affects their studying and ultimately
their quality of students' learning.
10. (D) Relate to such things as attention span, memory, mental procedures, and intellectual
skills which determine how the learner perceives, remembers, thinks, solves problems,
organizes and represents information in her/his brain.
11. (B) Post-positivism negotiates some of the conflict and differences between positivism and
interpretivism. It offers a variety of methodological choices for nurses who do not wish to
align themselves strictly with facts, cause-effect and proving hypotheses or with only
participant perspectives and experiences.

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12. (D) Research ethics comprises the principles and standards that guide behavior in the conduct
of research. Researcher involves human and social subjects which raises unique and
complex ethical, legal, social and political issue. Research ethics provide guidance and
code of conduct which follow scholar to create new idea and knowledge for society and
human being.
13. (A) Research journal paper is presented interpretation, evaluation and argument. It is a process
of communication in scientific way about research work.
14. (C) Ethics or the Axiology is also one of the assumptions. Axiology incorporates in itself the
aesthetics, social norms and values. From the positivist view, one may not infer any
existing social or moral values, but they have their own ethics of rationality and objectivity.
15. (C) Qualitative or Creative Thesis : This type of thesis is descriptive, exploratory, analytical
or creative way. Arts and humanities graduate students are working this type of thesis.
Quantitative Thesis : Probably science graduate students are working this type of thesis
which provide contain data, piece of information, made by scientific devices and recorded
numerically on some type of scale.

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