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LET COLLAB 2020

PROF. ED LET QUESTIONS (BASED ON THE TABLE OF SPECIFICATION)

Direction: Read each item carefully then choose the letter of the best answer.

PART I. TEACHING PROFESSION, SOCIAL DIMENTION OF EDUCATION, FIELD

STUDY, PRACTICE TEACHING – 20%

1. For quality professional development, teachers must consider the NCBTS, which are the
established for good teaching in the Philippines. What is meant by the acronym NCBTS?
A. National Competency-Based Teacher Standards
B. National Competency-Based Teaching Standards
C. National Competency Basic Teacher Standards
D. National Competency Basic Teaching Standards

2. You are very much interested in quality professional development program for teachers.
What characteristic should you look for?
A. Depends on the availability of funds
B. Prescribed by top identified teachers’ needs
C. Responsive to identified teachers’ needs
D. Required for renewal of professional license

3. How do you know a program for teachers’ professional development that meets high
standards from one that does not? Quality professional development helps teachers to
____________.
A. get promoted
B. get intrinsically motivated to grow continuously
C. earn MA units for ranking purposes
D. put themselves for above their students

4. A pupil whose mother is an OFW has been absent for the past three days. Considering the
teacher’s roles and responsibilities, what action will you take?
A. Record the absences
B. Conduct home visitation
C. Report to the guidance counselor
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D. Conduct action research

5. Global students will short burst of energy. To maintain concentration, they require
_________.
A. frequent reminder that they need to concentrate
B. frequent and intermittent breaks
C. short and easy reading materials
D. music while studying

6. In the context of constructivist learning transaction, the teacher as facilitator of learning

engages in an instruction that is __________.
A. flexible and creative
B. understanding and independent
C. formative and summative
D. democratic and independent

7. The wide acceptance of “bottom up” management style has influenced schools to practice
which management practice?
A. Prescription of what ought to be done from the central office
B. Exclusion of politicians from the pool of guest speakers during graduation exercises
C. Involvement of students, parents, teachers and community in school planning
D. Allowing schools to do what they think is best.

8. Widespread abuse of Mother Earth prompted schools to teach sustainable development.

Which one does this prove about schools?
A. Environment factors influence the school as an agent of change.
B. Schools can easily integrate sustainable development in their curriculum.
C. The curricula of schools are centered on Mother Earth.
D. Sustainable development cannot be effectively taught in the classrooms.

9. With an increasing variety of family situations, a teacher needs to ________.

A. be careful not to inadvertently offend some students
B. encourage students to improve their family situations
C. assume that all students want to know a variety of family situations
D. broaden students’ realization of different learning styles
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10. When enrollment is small in the rural elementary schools two or three grade levels are
combined _________ class taught by one teacher.
A. special
B. multicultural
C. multigrade
D. indigenous

11. Which is the most essential characteristic of a Total Quality School model?
A. Clientele-focused
B. Empowerment
C. Involvement of stakeholders
D. Continuous improvement

12. Which of these school practices helps create a positive learning climate?
A. Giving recognition or appreciation for teachers/staff accomplishments
B. Giving clear expectations to the academic community
C. Encouraging everyone to participate in accomplishing school goals and objectives
D. Encouraging only high performing teachers to apply for promotion

13. Which of the following provisions guarantees accessible education for all?
A. Establish and maintain a system of free public education in the elementary and high
school levels.
B. Encourage non-formal, informal and indigenous learning system, as well as self-
learning, independent and out-of-school study programs.
C. Provide and maintain a system of scholarship grants, student loan programs, subsidies,
and other incentives.
D. Establish, maintain and support a complete, adequate and integrated system of
education relevant to the needs of the people and society.

14. The vision of basic education in BESRA is to “make every Filipino functional literate.”
Which of the following operationally defines functional literacy?
A. Able to read, write and compute
B. Able to read, write letters, and solve problems
C. Able to read, write, compute and apply these skills in their daily lives
D. Able to read with understanding, write one’s thoughts and compute word problems
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15. As provided for in the Education Act of 1982, how are the institutions of learning
encouraged to set higher standards of quality over the minimum required for state
recognition?
A. Academic freedom
B. Continuing Professional Education
C. Granting of Special Permit
D. Voluntary accreditation

16. According to Plato, “the best life is one contemplation of eternal truths.” What is an
application of this thought in the classroom?
A. Make students and teachers reflect on their learning.
B. Take reflective students as anti-social and unmotivated.
C. Emphasize on the use of the five senses.
D. Begin classes with prayer.

17. If your students appear to be more interested in a topic outside your planned lesson for
the day, you set your lesson for that day and take the opportunity to discuss the topic
particular interest to your students. Strike the iron while it is hot! What philosophy
governs your actions?
A. Existentialism
B. Rationalism
C. Empiricism
D. Progressivism

Read the following and answer questions #18-#20

SITUATION:
In a faculty meeting, the principal told his teachers: We need to improve our school
performance in the National Achievement test. What should we do? The teachers gave varied
answers as follows:
1. Let’s give incentives and reward to students who get a rating of 85%.
2. Let’s teach them to accept complete responsibility for their performance.
3. Let’s make the school environment conducive for learning.
4. Let’s make use of the experiential method of teaching.

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

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A. Existentialism
B. Progressivism
C. Behaviorism
D. Essentialism

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

A. #2 and #4
B. #1 and #3
C. #1 and #2
D. #3 and #4

20. If you lean toward a progressivist philosophy, with which response do you agree?
A. #4
B. #2
C. #1
D. #3

21. Who would most likely agree with the statement “To be truly ethical, a person must have
the experience of sustained responsibility for the welfare of others”?
A. Fowler
B. Schaie
C. Piaget
D. Kohlberg

22. Material development at the expense of human development points to the need to do
more ___________ in school.
A. learning to be
B. learning to do
C. learning to know
D. learning to live together

23. The specialization required of every professional teacher for him/her to be competent is
in line which pillar of learning?
A. Learning to do
B. Learning to know
C. Learning to be
D. Learning to live together
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24. Developing an understanding of life, the world around us and other people is the concern
which pillar of learning?
A. Learning to know
B. Learning to do
C. Learning to be
D. Learning to live together

25. Which is/are a violation of the principle of respect?

I. Teacher Ana tells her students that what Teacher Ben taught is wrong.
II. To retaliate, Teacher Ben advises students not to attend Teacher Ana’s class
III. teacher Jose secretly gives way to a special favor to add 2 points to the grade of
Student A who is vying for honors.

A. I and II
B. II and III
C. I, II, and III
D. I and III

26. What does the ethical principle of content competence include?

I. Creative delivery of subject matter
II. Updated in content
III. Subject matter competence
IV. Competence in other related areas

A. II, III and IV

B. I, II and III
C. I, II, III and IV
D. I, III and IV

27. Teacher Dina is directed to pass an undeserving student with a death threat. Which advice
will a utilitarian give?
A. Pass the student. That will be of use to the student, his parents and you.
B. Pass the student. Why suffer the threat.
C. Don’t pass him. Live by your principle of justice. You will get reward, if not in this
life, in the next!
D. Don’t pass him. You surely will not like someone to give you a death threat in order to
pass.
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28. Teacher Naty teaches in a remote barrio. In order not to incur salary deduction, she does
not file her leave of absence every time she gets absent. Anyway, she uses that amount
which is supposed to be deducted from her salary on account of her absence to buy
pencils and paper for the poor pupils in her class. Is Teacher Naty right?
A. Yes, the poor students are benefited
B. No, the end does not justify the means
C. Yes, the amount is little compared to the millions of pesos stolen by corrupt
government officials.
D. Yes, she is not the only benefited by her action.

29. A student often bullies his classmates and misbehaves but he passes his periodic test and
participates in class activities. What is the responsibility of the teacher in this case?
A. Report the student’s behavior to the principal
B. Deduct points for behavior from the scholastic ratings
C. Refer the misbehavior to the Values Education/CERC teacher
D. Write an anecdotal record to the guidance counselor

30. The Code of Ethics for Professional Teacher stipulates that the educational institutions
shall offer quality education for all Filipino citizens. How is quality education defined in
R.A. 9155?
A. Relevance and excellence of education are emphasized to meet the needs and
aspirations of an individual and society.
B. All school aged children should be provided free and compulsory education.
C. Children with special needs should be mainstreamed with regular classes in the public
schools.
D. Public and private basic education schools should provide relevant education.

PART II. PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING, EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY,

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, DEVELOPMENTAL READING, FIELD STUDY,
PRACTICE TEACHING – 35%

31. To teach the democratic process to the pupils, Roxas Elementary School decided that the
election of class officers shall be patterned after local elections. There were qualifications
set of candidates, limited period for campaign and rules for posting campaign materials,
etc. Which of the following did the school use?
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A. Role playing
B. Simulation
C. Symposium
D. Philips 66

32. You want to have a small group discussion in your class. Which topics will be best group
discussion? Those topics _________.
A. where a high degree of consensus among students does not yet exist
B. where a high degree of consensus among students already exist
C. that are formally structured by text
D. that are factual

33. You combined several subject areas in order to focus on a single concept for
interdisciplinary teaching. Which strategy did you use?
A. Problem-centered learning
B. Reading-writing activity
C. Thematic instruction
D. Unit method

34. Teacher Beda is the teacher of English as a Second Language. She uses vocabulary cards,
fill-in-the-blank sentences, dialogues, dictations and writing exercises in teaching a
lesson about grocery shopping. Based on this information, which of the following is a
valid conclusion?
A. The teacher is teaching in a variety of ways because not all students learn in the same
manner.
B. The teacher wants make her teaching easier by having less talk.
C. The teacher is emphasizing reading and writing skills.
D. The teacher is applying Bloom’s hierarchy of cognitive learning.

35. Which is/are effective method/s in teaching students’ critical reading skills?
A. Interpret editorial and read and interpret three different movie reviews
B. Read and interpret their different movie reviews
C. Interpret editorials about a particular subject from three different newspapers.
D. Evaluate the consistency of ideas expressed in an editorial

36. Teacher Henry gave his first-grade class a page with a story in which pictures take the
place of some words. Which method did he use?
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A. The rebus method

B. The whole language approach
C. The Spaulding method
D. The language experience approach

37. The collaborative approach includes the major behaviors of listening, clarifying,
presenting, problem-solving, and _____________.
A. negotiating
B. evaluating
C. feedbacking
D. assessing

38. Which is an important factor in differentiated instructional process?

A. Error analysis
B. Entry level indicators
C. Student-led conferences
D. Record keeping performance assessments

39. Which is the BEST way to determine if a student has a mastery of the subject matter in
the beginning of the school year?
I. Administer a diagnostic test
II. Examine his portfolio assessment
III. Interview the former teacher
IV. Examine his grades

A. I and IV
B. II and III
C. III and IV
D. I and II

40. Which seating arrangement has been proven to be effective for learning?
A. Flexible to suit varied activities
B. Fixed arrangement to maximize instructional time
C. A combination of fixed and flexible arrangement
D. Any seat arrangement to suit varied learning style
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41. Teacher Kiana asked this question: “What conclusion can you draw based on your
observation?” Nobody raised a hand so she asked another question: “Based on what you
observe, what can you now say about the reaction of plants to light?” Which did Teacher
Kiana do?
A. Rephrasing
B. Redirecting
C. Repeating
D. Probing

42. Teacher Cai asked the class: “Is the class answer correct? Student A said “No”. Teacher
Cai asked the same student “Why ‘no?” Which did Teacher Cai do?
A. Directing
B. Probing
C. Repeating
D. Rephrasing

43. If you want to hone students’ metacognitive ability, which is most fit?
A. Drill for mastery
B. Journal writing
C. Debate
D. Brainstorming

44. Which should you used more if you want to counteract the spirit of destructive
competition among your students?
A. Community involvement projects
B. Listening activities
C. Self-evaluation activities
D. Concept miming

45. You want present the characteristic features of a constructivist approach. Which should
you use?
A. Attribute wheel
B. Fishbone diagram
C. Venn diagram
D. Narrative frame

46. Which one appropriately describes your lesson if you use the cognitive approach?
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A. Promotes “find out for yourself” approach

B. lecture-dominated
C. Rote learning dominated
D. Highly directed teaching

47. If your approach to your lesson is behaviorist, what features will dominate your lesson?
I. Drill
II. Reasoning
III. Lecturing
IV. Cooperative Learning

A. I, III, IV
B. I, II, III, IV
C. II only
D. I only

48. If you decide to develop a lesson the constructivist’s way, what kind of learning
environment must you create for you to succeed?
A. Open and flexible
B. Structured
C. Authoritarian
D. Laissez Faire

49. If you are a constructivist, what assumptions about learning and learner govern your
thinking?
A. For learner to learn, knowledge should be transmitted directly from teachers to
learners.
B. Learners capable of formulating meaning of what is taught to them.
C. Learners empty receptacles waiting to be filled.
D. Teachers are the only source of knowledge

50. You want your students to develop the ability to look at a problem from various
perspective, which approach will be done?
A. Affective approach
B. Behaviorist approach
C. Modular approach
D. Integrative approach
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51. Your approach to teaching is influenced by Howard Gardner’s MI Theory. What are you
challenged to do?
I. To come up with 9 different ways of approaching a lesson to cater to the 9 multiple
intelligences at one time.
II. To develop all students’ skills in all nine intelligences in one lesson
III. To provide varied activities that acknowledge multiple intelligence of children.

A. I only
B. III only
C. II only
D. I and II only

52. The list of LET competencies upon which your licensure examination is based is a
product of five consultative workshops with the academe in the entire country. What
approach to LET competency development was used?
A. Interactive
B. Objectivist
C. Rational
D. Collaborative

53. School curricula reflect worldwide economic issues, political integration and
industrialization. What do these point to in curriculum development?
A. The trends toward globalization and localization
B. The trend toward participatory curriculum development
C. The shift in the paradigm of curriculum development from a process-oriented to a
product-oriented one.
D. To trend towards the classical approach to curriculum development

54. In lesson planning, is it advisable to have a mental picture on how you are going to
evaluate your students’ learning as you write your lesson objectives?
A. Yes, because this will ensure valid evaluation tools since the lesson objectives are the
basis for evaluation.
B. Yes, because objectives and evaluation are the first and last parts of a lesson plan.
C. No, because evaluation is quite different from objectives.
D. No, because lesson objective formulation gets derailed.
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55. Which is a classroom application of this principle: “Students learn more effectively when
they elaborate on new information.” Ask your students to _________.
A. write the principle five times
B. commit the principle to memory
C. identify an application of the principle
D. print the principle in big letters then put in a place where you can read it time and
again

56. Which is classroom application of the theory on operant conditioning?

A. Make students learn by operating manipulatives
B. Create a classroom atmosphere that elicits relaxation
C. Help students see the connectedness of facts, concepts and principles
D. Reinforce a good behavior to increase the likelihood that the learner will repeat to the
response.

57. Technology integration is using “learning technologies to introduce, reinforce,

supplement and extend skills.” Which practice violates this statement?
A. Education TV is substitute for the teacher.
B. The globe is used to teach Planet Earth
C. The drill cards in table of multiplication are used for lesson mastery.
D. Teacher writes notes on the chalkboard.

58. Alfred North Whitehead said: “In the Garden of Eden, Adam saw the animals before he
named them. In the traditional system, children name the animals before they see them!”
Whitehead refers to the practice of teaching _____________.
A. in the abstract before the concrete
B. the concrete before the abstract
C. the concrete and the abstract simultaneously
D. up to the concrete level only

59. “There is nothing in the mind which was not first some way in the senses.” If you accept
this dictum, as a teacher what will you do?
I. Make use of multisensory aid to learning
II. Go straight to symbolic teaching
III. Deliver a well prepared lecture without notes.

A. I and III
B. I only
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C. II only
D. I and II

60. You want to teach democracy in school government by patterning procedures of the local
and national elections. Which technique will you use?
A. Simulation
B. Apprenticeship
C. Immersion
D. Practicum

61. There is a scarcity of materials in remote barrios. As a creative and innovative teacher,
what must you do?
A. Just use the lecture method
B. Prepare improvised materials
C. Buy commercially-made materials
D. Borrow materials from your co-teacher

62. Which are the most important concerns about the use of ICT in instructions?
I. Developing appropriate curriculum materials that allow students to construct meaning
and develop knowledge through the use of ICT.
II. Devising strategies to meaningfully integrate technology into the curriculum.
III. Using pedagogical skills related to technology.
IV. Providing teachers with skills for using software applications.

A. I and III
B. II and III
C. III and IV
D. I, II, III and IV

63. Which of the following statements BEST describes metacognition as a strategy for
curriculum augmentation?
A. It is learning how to learn and thinking how about how one thinks.
B. It is learning strategies for success.
C. It is learning through interactions with the environment.
D. It is learning through computer-aided instructions.
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64. Mrs. Vicharee wants to determine immediately the learning difficulties of her students.
Which of the following do you expect her to undertake?
A. Require her students to prepare portfolio.
B. Administer an achievement test.
C. Administer a diagnostic test.
D. Interview her students

65. Which statement(s) is/are NOT true about teaching, learning and assessment?
I. Curriculum and assessment are a little but related.
II. Assessment is separate from curriculum and instruction.
III. Assessment is a basis for planning instruction.
IV. The process of learning is as important as the content of the curriculum.

A. I only
B. II only
C. I and II
D. II and III

66. Instead of assigning our students to discuss how to write a good editorial, ask them to
write one for the school organ. Which principle underlies this practice?
A. Promote meaningful connections between classroom subject matter and real-world
contexts.
B. Use assignments for instructional and diagnostic purposes.
C. When giving assignment take into account students’ development levels.
D. Make assignments challenging.

67. Which technique in cooperative learning is used when new information is divided equally
among all group members and each student teaches his/her portion to the other group
members?
A. Round table
B. Think-Pair-Share
C. Round robin
D. Jigsaw

68. When you teach skills that are critical to the learning of the next topics, which should you
employ?
A. Direct instruction and mastery learning
B. Exposition and class discussions
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C. Mastery learning and discovery learning

D. Socratic method and peer tutoring

69. If you want your students to develop firsthand knowledge pf physical or social
phenomena, which should you use?
A. Mastery learning
B. Expository instruction
C. Discovery learning
D. Inquiry method

70. Schools are communities of learners committed to pre-determined measurable quality

criteria for student learning. Which statement BEST describes schools that will ensure
attainment of such criteria?
A. Everyone in the school is accountable for student outcomes.
B. Families are encouraged to support and participate in student learning experiences.
C. Regular evaluation of student achievement is done by teachers and administration.
D. Teachers continually update themselves by attending training programs.

71. With the passage of RA 9155, the school head is given more power and authority over
his/her school. That power is for the school head to ___________.
A. transform his school into a high-performing one
B. make his stubborn faculty feel his authority over them
C. set aside standard hiring procedures in order to get those whom he believes are most
capable
D. introduce changes as fast as he can

72. Ausubel recommends the use of visual designed to bridge the gap between what the
learners already know and what they need to know. What visual is referred to?
A. Pictures
B. Concept maps
C. Comparison patterns
D. Overviews

73. The framework for creative thinking includes the production of a great number of ideas
or alternative solutions to a problem. Secondly, the ideas produced must show a variety
of possibilities and different points of views. Together they are considered effective in
developing creativity among students. What does the framework include?
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A. Problem solving and enhancing

B. Variety and strategy
C. Different approaches and strategies
D. Fluency and flexibility

74. Which activity does NOT help children develop phonemic awareness?
A. Encouraging them to use invented spelling
B. Reading a story to them until they are able to understand and retell the story
C. Exposing them to literature that plays with sounds of the language
D. Involving them in songs and games that draw attention to the sounds of the language

75. If a reader is vocalizing his thoughts to be able to understand the text, what metacognitive
strategy is he using?
A. Reciprocal teaching
B. Think-Aloud strategy
C. Request procedure
D. Directed reading – Thinking activity

76. Which method illustrates this statement? “That which can be thought of can be spoken,
what can be spoken can be written and then read.”
A. Alphabet
B. Language Experience Approach
C. K-W-L
D. Oral-Graphic Symbolic Language

77. What is the purpose of Directed Reading – Thinking activity or DRTA?

A. To encourage students to model their own thinking
B. To bridge the learning of oral language and written language
C. To increase comprehension and comprehension monitoring by predicting, generating
questions, clarifying, and summarizing
D. To encourage students to think about their reading by having them make their
predictions, confirm or reject them and revise their prediction as the story unfolds.

78. A student is made to replace words omitted in a message or a paragraph. This technique
used for developing reading comprehension is known as ____________.
A. structured method
B. negative mode
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C. cloze procedure
D. developmental lesson

79. If you use Pygmallion effect to explain why children coming from depressed areas cannot
read, to which do you attribute the poor reading performance of this particular group of
children?
A. Poor expectations from depressed areas
B. Lack of motivation
C. Ineffective teaching methods
D. Lack of reading materials

80. With which of the following is poor reading performance associated?

I. Use of rote memorization as reading strategy
II. Relatively low-self-esteem
III. Deprived home environment

A. I, II and III
B. II and III
C. I and II
D. II

81. How can you make students intrinsically motivated to work?

A. Give tasks that are too easy.
B. Help them in everything that they do.
C. Give varied, novel, and complex tasks.
D. Tell them that their task is too difficult therefore they should do their best

82. When does praise become INEFFECTIVE? When it ___________.

A. is given after the process is completed
B. specifies the particulars of the accomplishment
C. attributes the student’s success to ability alone, or to factors such as luck or easy task
D. makes the student appreciate how own task-related behavior and think about problem
solving
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PART III. FACILITATING LEARNING, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT

DEVELOPMENT – 20%

Read the following then answer question 83 to 87.

SITUATION: Ask to do a learning task, Joe hesitates and says “Mahirap, Ayaw ko. ‘Di ko
kaya!”

83. Which statement about Joe is CORRECT?

A. Has a low sense of self-efficacy
B. Has a high sense of self-efficacy
C. Has no sense of self-efficacy
D. Wants to be sure of his self-efficacy

84. Which drive can motivate him to perform the learning task? The drive to _________.
A. achieve
B. have power
C. affiliate
D. to be free

85. To which factor can you attribute his perceived inability to perform the task? To a factor
___________.
I. within him
II. outside him
III. which is stable
IV. within his control

A. I and IV
B. II and III
C. I only
D. IV only

86. Is it possible to motivate this type of student?

A. Yes, he can do something with his ability.
B. Ye, he can change the nature of the job.
C. No, it is impossible to motivate a student who himself is not motivated.
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D. No, motivation is totally dependent on the student. No person outside him can
influence him.

87. To which problem does the case of the student allude?

I. Unmotivated students
II. Uncaring teachers
III. Extremely difficult learning task
IV. Incompetent teachers

A. I and III
B. I and II
C. II and III
D. I, II and III

88. Professor Barron once said: “We talk of developing critical thinking among our students,
but when they disagree with us, we get offended.” To which Filipino trait does this point?
A. Inquisitiveness of the Filipino Youth
B. The lack of seriousness among Filipinos
C. Extreme authoritarianism
D. Lack of subjectivity

89. Teacher Hope begins a lesson on tumbling by demonstrating front and back somersaults
in slow motion and physically guiding his students through the correct movements. As
his students become more skillful, he stands back from the mat and gives verbal feedback
about how to improve. With Vygotsky’s theory in mind, what did Teacher Hope do?
A. Guided participation
B. Peer interaction
C. Apprenticeship
D. Scaffolding

90. Teacher Xian asked his students to describe how their families celebrate holidays.
Students can discover that people celebrate holidays differently. Which principle in
cognitive development governs Teacher Xian’s teaching activity?
A. Social interaction is essential for cognitive development.
B. Children often thin in different ways at different ages.
C. Cognitive development involves relating new information to prior knowledge.
D. Children actively construct their knowledge.
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91. The role of play in the pre-school and early childhood years is that it ___________.
A. develops competitive spirit
B. separates reality from fantasy
C. develops the upper and lower limbs
D. increases imagination due to expanding knowledge and emotional range

92. Who of the following authors would most help Teacher Nina to understand the
underlying effects of poverty on academic achievement?
A. Maslow
B. Dewey
C. Piaget
D. Kohlberg

93. In a well-known experiment, psychologist frustrate young children by placing a wire

fence between the children and a pile of toys. When finally allowed to play with the toys,
the children smashed and destroyed them. Which reaction was demonstrated?
A. Rational aggression
B. Displaced aggression
C. Dormant aggression
D. Sustained aggression

94. In a social studies class, Teacher Pitchee presents a morally ambiguous situation and asks
students what they would do. On whose theory is Teacher Pitchee’s technique based?
A. Bruner
B. Piaget
C. Kohlberg
D. Bandura

95. You are convinced that whenever a student performs a desired behavior, provide
reinforcement and so on the student learns to perform the behavior on her own. On which
principle is your conviction based?
A. Cognitivism
B. Behaviorism
C. Constructivism
D. Environmentalism
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96. William Glasser’s Control Theory states that behavior is inspired by what satisfies a
person’s want at any given time. What then must a teacher do to motivate students to
learn?
A. Make schoolwork relevant to student’s basic human needs.
B. Avoid giving assignments.
C. Make teaching-learning interactive.
D. Organize a curriculum in a spiral manner.

97. Which psychological theory states that the mind insist on finding patterns in things that
contribute to the development of insight?
A. Piaget’s psychology
B. Kohlberg’s psychology
C. Gestalt psychology
D. Bruner’s theory

98. When small children call all animals “dogs”, what process is illustrated based on Piaget’s
cognitive development theory?
A. Conservation
B. Assimilation
C. Accommodation
D. Reversion

99. A person who had painful experiences at the dentist’s office may become fearful at the
mere sight of the dentist’s office. Which theory can explain this?
A. Generalization
B. Classical conditioning
C. Operant conditioning
D. Attribution theory

100. If you have to develop in the students a correct sense of right and wrong, with
which should you be concerned according to Freud?
A. Super-ego
B. Ego
C. Id
D. Super-ego and Ego
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101. If a student is encouraged to develop himself to the fullest and must satisfy his
hierarchy of needs, the highest need to satisfy according to Maslow is _________.
A. Belongingness
B. Safety needs
C. Psychological need
D. Self-actualization

102. Visual imagery helps people store information in their memory more effectively.
Which is one teaching implication of this principle?
A. You will not object when your students daydream in class.
B. Instruct students to take notes while you lecture.
C. Encourage your students to imagine the character and situations when reading a story.
D. Tell them to read more illustrated comics.

103. Which appropriate teaching practice flows from this research finding on the brain:
The brain’s emotional center is tied into its ability to learn.
A. Create a learning environment that encourages students to explore their feelings and
ideas freely.
B. Come up with highly competitive games where winners will feel happy.
C. Tell students to participate in class activities or else won’t receive plus points in class
recitation.
D. To establish discipline be judgmental in attitude.

104. Which VIOLATES this brain-based principle of teaching-learning: “Each child’s

brain is unique and vastly different from one another.”
A. Giving ample opportunity for a pupil to explore even if the class creates “noise”.
B. Making a left-handed pupil write with his right hand as this is better
C. Allowing open dialogue among students
D. Employing MI teaching approaches

105. Piagetian tasks state that thinking becomes more logical and abstract as children
reach the formal operations stage. What is an educational implication of this finding?
A. Expect hypothetical reasoning from learners between 12-15 years of age.
B. Engage children in analogical reasoning as early as preschool to train them for HOTS.
C. Learners who are not capable of logical reasoning from ages 8-11 lag behind in their
cognitive development.
D. Let children be children
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106. High levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, inhibits learning. What is an
implication of this in the teaching-learning process?
A. Teacher should be non-threatening in her ways
B. Avoid quizzes and tests
C. Never raise your voice
D. Don’t give assignments

107. 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 your
students for them to be genuinely motivated to succeed?
A. Make them realize that failure is a part of life.
B. Tell them that the research finding we applied will make them genuinely motivated.
C. Convince them that genuine motivation is the only factor that matters for a person to
succeed.
D. Make them realize that both success and failure are more function of internal causes.

108. Vygotsky claimed interaction is important for learning. What does this imply?
A. Since they are not capable of interaction, children in the crib has no learning yet.
B. Children learn well by passive presentation of information
C. Children learn from adults and other children.
D. Children are independent problem solvers.

109. Which characteristic behavior of a Grade IV pupil makes you conclude he is

behind in his development in comparison with the average Grade IV pupil?
A. Has no achieved emotional independence from parents
B. Has not learned to get along with agemates
C. Has no achieved a feminine and masculine social role
D. Has not achieved socially responsible behavior

110. Borich identified three types of classroom climate that the teacher can use in
different situations, cooperative and individualistic. Which classroom climate is/are
LEAST threatening?
I. Competitive
II. Cooperative
III. Individualistic
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A. I and II
B. II
C. I and III
D. III

111. In which type of classroom climate can students participate in the kind of
“learning to live together”?
A. In competitive classrooms
B. In individualistic classrooms
C. In democratic classrooms
D. In autocratic classrooms

112. Key factors in developing effective learning environments are classroom

disciplinary climate and teachers’ self-efficacy. Which conclusion can be derived from
this statement?
A. The teacher is the key to an effective learning environment.
B. Students who are subjected to disciplinary measures contribute to an effective learning
environment.
C. A disciplinarian teacher creates a favorable learning environment.
D. The discipline from an authoritarian teacher yields a conducive learning atmosphere.

PART IV. ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING, FIELD STUDY, PRACTICE TEACHING –

25%

113. Teacher Geneva does NOT wait for the end of the term to find out how much the
students learn. With which does teacher G agree?
A. Formative evaluation
B. Authentic evaluation
C. Summative evaluation
D. Norm-reference evaluation

114. Other than finding out how well the course objectives were met, Teacher Kiano
also wants to know his students’ performance when compared with other students in the
class. What is Teacher Kiano interested to do?
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A. Authentic evaluation
B. Formative evaluation
C. Criterion-referenced evaluation
D. Norm-referenced evaluation

115. Which must go with self-assessment for it to be effective?

A. External monitor
B. Consensus of evaluation results from teacher and student
C. Scoring rubric
D. Public display of results of self-evaluation

116. After a lesson on the atom, the students were asked to work on a physical model
of the atom to determine learning. What MI is being enhanced?
A. Linguistic
B. Interpersonal
C. Mathematical
D. Kinesthetical

117. Which will be the most authentic assessment tool for an instructional objective on
working with and relating to people?
A. Conducting mock election
B. Home visitation
C. Organizing a community project
D. Writing articles on working and relating to people

118. Read this True-False test item and answer the that follows: “Andre Bonifacio
founded the Katipunan.” Which principle in test construction is violated?
A. Test something significant
B. Make use of simple words
C. Avoid qualitative terms
D. There should be sufficient reason to make the statement false.

119. Here is Teacher Danaya’s lesson objective: “To trace the causes of Alzheimer’s
disease.” Which is a valid test for this particular objective?
A. Do young people also get attacked by Alzheimer disease? Support your answer.
B. What is an Alzheimer’s disease?
C. Can an Alzheimer’s disease be traced to old age? Explain your answer.
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D. To what factors can Alzheimer’s disease be traced? Explain.

120. Here is Teacher Ena’s instructional objective: “To distinguish between proper and
improper fraction.” Which is a valid test item for such objective?
A. Define proper and improper fractions?
B. Put a check (/) on the proper fractions and an (x) over the improper: ½, 4/3, 3/4, 5/6,
7/8, 9/7, 2/10, 6/12.
C. Is an improper fraction really a fraction. Explain your answer.
D. Can you add proper and improper fractions together? Explain.

121. Which is restricted essay test?

A. What should the Department of Education do to solve the perennial problem of poor
quality education of basic education? Give and justify your proposals.
B. If you were President of the Philippines, what would you do to spur the nation’s
economic growth?
C. What conclusions must be present for photosynthesis to take place? Explain each
factor in not more than 3 sentences.
D. Why are more and more people sick of Alzheimer’s disease?

122. Choose an appropriate curriculum especially that child’s mind does not contain
any innate ideas was an advice from __________.
A. Plato
B. John Locke
C. Rousseau
D. B.F. Skinner

123. According to Wiggins and McTighe, one facet of understanding, an evidence of

learning is empathy. Which test questions assesses capacity to emphasize?
A. State the Pythagorean theorem.
B. Test on Romeo and Juliet. Imagine you are Juliet. Write your thoughts and feelings
why you have to take this desperate action?
C. Diagnose and fix the broken lamp.
D. Translate all the words in Spanish and give the meaning of the sentence.

124. The main purpose in administering a pretest and a posttest to students is to

_____________.
A. accustom the students in frequent testing
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B. keep adequate records

C. measure the value of the material used
D. measure gains in learning

125. Understanding of a concept is revealed as __________, the ability to accomplish

tasks successfully under pressure.
A. performance in teamwork
B. performance know-how
C. performance in arts
D. performance at works

126. The more information teachers obtain about how students perform, the more
capacity they have to rethink their pedagogy, and the more opportunities they create for
student success. Which statement BEST explains the text above?
A. Teachers should keep track of learning outcomes.
B. Teachers should keep records of family background.
C. Teachers should file information.
D. Teachers should teach to test.

127. During the sensorimotor period, a child does not see things in abstract form.
Which of the following should teachers remember in teaching and assessing young
children’s performance?
A. Use pictures may not be necessary.
B. Use of concrete objects is not necessary.
C. Printed words are easier to understand than pictures.
D. Colored pictures are more effective than printed sentences.

128. You were tasked to test this hypothesis. “The more a teacher knows about a
specific subject matter, the better she can teach it.” Which variable could be used as the
dependent variable?
A. Teacher’s yearly performance evaluation rating
B. Personality traits of the teacher
C. Incentives offered to teachers
D. Motivation from the

129. The discrimination index of a test item is -.35. What does this mean?
A. More from the upper group got the item correctly.
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B. More from the lower group got the item correctly.

C. The test is quite reliable.
D. The test item is valid.

130. If the difficulty index of your test item is .98, what should you do with this item?
A. Revise it
B. Retain it
C. Reject it
D. Reserve it for another group of pupils

131. A negative discrimination index of a test item tells that particular test item lacks
_________.
A. objectivity
B. reliability
C. content validity
D. construct validity

Read the following then answer question 132-134

SITUATION: In a multiple choice test item with options A-B-C-D AND OUT OF 50 examinees:
A. the correct answer, was chosen by 5;
B. was chosen by 30;
C. was chosen by 13 and;
D. was chosen by 2

132. Which must served as a plausible option/s?

A. Option B
B. Option D
C. Option C
D. Option B and C

133. Which statement can be TRUE of the test item?

A. The difficulty index must be low
B. The difficulty index must be determined
C. It cannot be determined
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D. The test item must be reliable

134. How do you consider option D?

A. Most effective distracter
B. Effective distracter
C. Ineffective distracter
D. Attractive option

135. Here are raw scores in a quiz: 97, 95, 85, 83, 77, 75, 50, 10, 5, 2, 1. To get a
picture of the group’s performance, which measure of central tendency is most reliable?
A. Mode
B. Mean
C. Median
D. None. It is best to look at the individual scores

136. Here is score distribution: 98, 93, 93, 93, 90, 88, 87, 85, 85, 85, 70, 51, 34, 34, 34,
20, 18, 15, 9, 6, 3, 1. Which is a characteristic of the score distribution?
A. Non discernible pattern
B. Tri-modal
C. Bi-modal
D. Skewed to the right

137. Which is TRUE when standard deviation is big?

A. The bell curve shape is steep.
B. Scores are spread apart.
C. Scores are concentrated.
D. Scores are not extremes.

138. You have computed the mean and you want to get more information about the
distribution of scores. Which measure of variability is most appropriate?
A. Standard deviation
B. Mode
C. Semi-quartile range
D. Range
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139. Keeping track of assessment results from one periodic rating to the next useful in
contributing to the development of a ___________.
A. Regional Plan
B. Annual Implementation Plan
C. School improvement Plan
D. Division Plan

*Below is the Continuance of Assessment Methods presented by Wiggins and Mc Tighe,

Understanding by Design. *

[Informal Checks for understanding] > [Observation Dialogue] > [Quiz test] > [Academic
Prompt] > [Performance Task/Project]

Based on the diagram above answer question 141-143

140. The assessment methods are considered to collect __________ of understanding

overtime.
A. information
B. evidence
C. tasks
D. facts

141. When assessment is anchored on academic prompts the ongoing inquiry is

________ and ranges from simple to complex.
A. specific
B. generic
C. informal
D. open-ended

142. Assessment anchored on performance task on projects enables the students to use
their knowledge in ___________.
A. relationship
B. context
C. essentials
D. prioritization
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143. Key questions are considered in instructional planning and in identifying desired
results and assessments. Which questions are relevant?
I. What activities will equip students with the needed knowledge and skills?
II. What method of assessment should be used?
III. What materials and resources are best suited to accomplish the learning objective?
IV. Which type of test should be given?

A. I and III
B. II and IV
C. II and III
D. IV only

144. Which one measure of attitude that consist of a value statement where you are
asked to express your degree of agreement of disagreement of a statement?
A. Likert scale
B. Interview schedule
C. Semantic differential
D. Checklist

145. Teacher Fatima narrates: “I went through a test were I was asked how the blots
appeared to me.” What test did Teacher Fatima probably undergo?
A. IQ test
B. Rorschach test
C. Aptitude test
D. EQ test

146. Which test will Guidance Office of School give if it wants to help students in
predicting their probable success in specific educational and vocational fields?
A. Diagnostic test
B. Achievement test
C. IQ test
D. Aptitude test

147. Which tool should a teacher use if she wants to locate areas which are adversely
affecting the performance of a significant number of students?
A. Problem checklist
B. Self-report technique
C. Autobiography
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D. Cumulative record

148. Which is the basic principle underpinning the performance-based grading system?
A. It is a tool for improving teaching and learning.
B. It is a tool to determine prerequisite knowledge.
C. It is a diagnostic, formative and summative.
D. It is evaluative and judgmental.

149. Teacher’s should avoid ___________ in assigning student performance-based

ratings.
A. arbitrariness and bias
B. unnecessary deductions
C. partiality and calculation
D. unnecessary evaluation

150. The Report Card is given every grading period to the pupil/student and the parents
are informed of the learner’s performance. This is a/an _______ of the teacher stipulated
in the Education Act of 1982.
A. role
B. obligation
C. accountability
D. responsibility

ANSWER KEY:
 1-10 = (ACBBB ACAAC)
 11-20 = (DCACD ADCBA)
 21-30 = (DABAC AACCA)
 31-40 = (BACAD ACBDA)
 41-50 = (ACBAA ADABD)
 51-60 = (BDAAC DAABA)
 61-70 = (BDACC ADACA)
 71-80 = (ABDBB BDCAA)
 81-90 = (CCAAA AACDA)
 91-100 = (DABCB ACBBA)
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 101-110 = (DCABA ADCBB)

 111-120 = (CAADC DCDDB)
 121-130 = (CBBDB ADABC)
 131-140 = (BDACC BBACB)
 141-150 = (DBAAB DAAAB)