1.

From a broad vantage view of human development, who has the primary duty to educate the
youths or children?
I. Parents
II. Teachers
III. the state
IV. the schools

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

2. Of the three aspects of learning, which is not mentioned as needed so that the individual learner
in the 21st century can learn how to learn?
a. Ability to think
b. Mathematical skills
c. Memory skills
d. Concentration
3. Which of the following belongs to the more sophisticated learning-to-learn skills for the
individual learner?
a. To ask and gather data
b. To listen and observe
c. To process and select information
d. To read with understanding
4. Of the following effects on learning, what is the effect of simulations that make students feel and
sense experience in the classroom?
a. Reinforcing learning
b. Providing experiences that otherwise might not be had
c. Motivating students
d. Changing attitudes and feelings
5. Of the following effects on learning, what is the effect of assigning various sections of the
newspaper, and allowing choice depending on the learner’s choice?
a. Encouraging participation
b. Reinforcing learning
c. Allowing different interests
d. Changing attitudes and feelings
6. A young mother observes her seven year old girl glued to her computer games. What aspect of the
family life may suffer due to obsession of the young with technology gadgets?
a. Family social life
b. Family economic life
c. Discipline and obedience
d. Parent-child relationship
7. Which of the following is not an advanced process of meta-cognition among learners?
a. Learning how to recognize thoughts
b. Acquisition of new knowledge
c. Assessing own thinking
d. Learning how to study
8. Of comprehension or thinking strategies, which is relating one or two items, such as nouns and
verbs?
a. Basic elaboration strategies
b. Complex rehearsal strategies
c. Complex elaboration strategies
d. Affective strategies
9. Of skills teacher should understand and students need to acquire, which is the ability to integrate
complex information into categories through its attributes (characteristics, principles or
functions)?
a. Scanning
b. Complex cognitive
c. Sharpening-leveling
d. Complexity-simplicity
10. Inculcating moral maturity among students, which of the following relates to belief and ideals?
a. Promoting human equality
b. Refraining from prejudiced action
c. Avoiding deception and dishonesty
d. Respecting freedom of conscience
11. Research studies showed that children in slums generally have lower reading achievement then
children in urban schools. What factor is shown to affect reading achievement?
a. Mobility
b. Personality and emotional factors
c. Socio-economic status
d. Listening comprehension
12. When preacher Xian read the Genesis story on creation, he explained that God is so powerful he
created the universe in only seven days. What level of reading comprehension did preacher John
apply?
a. Evaluative reading on character, plot or style
b. Literal reading the lines
c. Applied reading beyond the lines
d. Interpretative reading between the lines
13. What is the main organization and orientation of science and social studies reading materials?
a. Expository
b. Descriptive
c. Narrative
d. Argumentative
14. In his History class, teacher Naomi used a current events IQ contest to determine champions in
identifying people, places, and events. What learning objective outcome does she aim to achieve?
a. Knowledge or recall
b. Perpetual abilities
c. Application
d. Responding
15. In Erikson’s stage theory of development questionnaire, which affirmation does not belong to the
stage of initiative vs. guilt?
 a. People can be trusted
b. In difficulty, I will not give up
c. I feel what happens to me is the result of what I have done
d. I am prepared to take a risk
16. For cognitive learning, what are sets of facts, concepts, and principles that describe underlying
mechanism that regulate human learning, development and behavior?
a. Facts
b. Concepts
c. Theories
d. Hypothesis
17. Literature teacher Kim introduced figures of speech in poetry to improve ability of her students to
interpret verses. What kind of thinking is she developing in her students?
a. Critical thinking
b. Metaphoric thinking
c. Convergent thinking
d. Divergent thinking
18. Of clusters of meaningful learning activities, which does not belong to spatial learning activities?
a. Visualization
b. Concept-mapping
c. Peer tutoring
d. Art projects
19. From cluster of meaningful learning activities, which does not belong to verbal-linguistic
intelligence learning?
a. Ecological field trip
b. Debates
c. Journal writing
d. Reading
20. Which of the following violates the principle that “each child’s brain is unique and vastly
different from one another”?
a. Giving ample opportunity for a pupil to explore rather than simply dish out information
b. Employing principles in multiple intelligence in teaching
c. Making a left-handed pupil write with her right hand as this is better
d. Allowing open dialogue among students of various cultural backgrounds
21. Of the following which is normally expected of Grade VI pupils?
a. Getting along with classmates
b. Being independent of parents
c. Showing class leadership
d. Displaying a male or feminine social role
22. From categories of exceptionalities in the young child and adolescents what involves difficulties
in specific cognitive processes like perception, language, memory due to mental retardation,
emotional/behavioral disorder, or sensory impairment?
a. Learning disabilities
b. Speech and communication disorders
c. Emotional/conduct disorders
 d. Autism
23. Of the following, which is most true of adolescents?
a. Hormonal changes
b. Last splurge of dependence
c. Unruly behavior
d. Defiance of peer group
24. Research says, “people tend to attribute successes to internal causes and their failures to external
causes.” What does this imply as a most potent key to success?
a. Reasoning
b. Imagination
c. Application
d. Motivation
25. From Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, what is the moral reasoning or perspective of
Mother Teresa who pledged her life to serve the sick and very old?
a. Social contract
b. Universal principles
c. Obedience
d. Law and order
26. Blind cyclist and teacher Maria Bunyan won 8th place in the able-bodied Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Of the following, which is the central and fundamental quality she displayed by never thinking
that blindness is an impediment to becoming a great athlete?
a. Perseverance
b. Passion
c. Dedication
d. Self-belief
27. How can new information be made more meaningful to students?
a. Relating it to knowledge they already know
b. Valuing new knowledge
c. Demonstrating novelty of new knowledge
d. Increasing retention of new knowledge
28. Under the domains of learning, to what domain do Reflex movements, perceptual abilities, and
non-discursive communication belong?
a. Psychomotor
b. Affective
c. Cognitive
d. Reflective
29. In what development stage is the pre-school child?
a. Early childhood
b. Babyhood
c. Infancy
d. Late childhood
30. What is mainly addressed by early intervention program for children with disabilities, ages 0 to 3
years old?
a. Ensuring inclusion for special children
 b. Early growth development lag
c. Identifying strengths and weaknesses in special children
d. Preventing labeling of disabled children
31. What is the degree of moral certitude of Jade Althea who entered into marriage only out of
obedience to her parents, but uncertain whether she wanted marriage at all?
a. Certain
b. Lax
c. Probable
d. Doubtful
32. On categories of exceptionality in the young, what is difficulty in focusing and maintaining
attention, and/or recurrent hyperactive and impulsive behavior?
a. ADHD
b. Emotional/conduct disorders
c. Autism
d. Speech and communication disorders
33. What kinds of skills are commonly dominant in subjects like Computer, PE, Music, and the like?
a. Problem-solving skills
b. Manipulative skills
c. Affective skills
d. Thinking skills
34. How is the disorderly behavior of children classified when they tell lies?
a. Moral
b. Intellectual
c. Social
d. Psychological
35. Which of the following is not among the major targets of the child-friendly school system
(CFSS)?
a. All school children are friendly
b. All children complete their elementary education within six years
c. All children 6-12 years old are enrolled in elementary schools
d. All grade six students pass the division, regional, and national tests
36. Research studies that reading power affects college students who have insomnia, conflicts with
parents, poor rapport with other people. What factor(s) is shown to effect reading achievement?
a. Home conditions
b. Socio-economic status
c. Personality and emotional factors
d. Perception and comprehension
37. Among the following, which is the abstract form of learning, parents teach their children?
a. Tumulong ka sa paglinis ng bahay
b. Magbasa ka ng libro
c. Palagi kang magdasal
d. Mapakabuti ka
38. What characteristic differentiate spiritual intelligence or spiritual quotient as developed by
Harvard University, from sectarian religion (E.g. Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, etc.)?
 a. Authoritarian values
b. Universal values
c. Creedal values
d. Sectarian values
39. Among models of reading strategies, what did student Jk adopt when she reads back and forth,
attending to both what is in her mind and what’s on the page?
a. Bottoms-up
b. Interactive
c. Down-top
d. Top-down
40. Of the following, how can self-esteem be best developed among learners?
a. Doing fair share in community work
b. Fulfilling commitments
c. Through relationships with others
d. Displaying self-control
41. Of Piaget’s Cognitive Concepts, which refer to the process of fitting a new experience to a
previously created cognitive structure or schema?
a. Assimilation
b. Schema
c. Accommodation
d. Equilibrium
42. In Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, which is the tendency of the child to only see his
point of view and to assume that everyone has the same point of view?
a. Reversibility
b. Egocentrism
c. Symbolic function
d. Centration
43. Which is the most basic in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
a. Socialization
b. Actualization
c. Self-esteem
d. Altruism
44. Which aspect of multi-intelligence is enhanced by asking students to work on a physical model of
the atom after a teacher’s discussion on the subject of the atom?
a. Interpersonal
b. Linguistic
c. Kinesthetical
d. Mathematical
45. Among specialist in reading, who are mainly concerned about reading as a thinking process that
involves the recognition of printed or written symbols which serve as thought stimuli?
a. Semantics
b. Psychologists
c. Linguists
d. Sociologists
46. Sequence the following events on the historical development of reading:
I. Greek letters and the Roman alphabet were developed
II. Through the Semite’s ingenuity, sounds, and symbols gave rise to the Phoenician alphabet
III. People used pictures and characters to convey messages
IV.Researchers showed the processes of reading, comprehension, and interpretation
a. I, II, III, and IV
b. I, II, IV and III
c. III, II, I and IV
d. IV, II, I and III
47. How is the disorderly behavior of children classified when they don’t focus and lack attention?
a. Intellectual
b. Social
c. Moral
d. Psychomotor
48. How do you describe transfer of learning across subject matter, e.g value of thrift in Economic
and Social Science?
a. Horizontal
b. Spiral
c. Vertical
d. Cyclic
49. What broad learning is needed for a learner to desire to learn throughout life?
a. Four basic Rs
b. Basic education
c. General education
d. Pre-school system
50. What observation attests to the fact that the sudden student’s motivation vary according to socio-
cultural background?
a. Females mature earlier than boys
b. Children from low-income household meet more obstacle in learning
c. Genetic endowments may show gifted endowments among the young
d. Brains of boys are bigger and better than those of females