Description : Which of the following is the least important aspect of the teacher's role in the guidance of learning? Options: A) The development of insight into what constitutes an adequate performance B) The ... avoided C) The provision of continuous diagnostic and remedial help D) The fore-stalling of habits
Last Answer : B) The development of insight into what constitute the pitfalls and dangers to be avoided
Description : Which of the following statements appears most accurate in the light of our present knowledge of the neurophysiology underlying learning? Options: A) Learning involves neural fibres in a ... Psychologists have not been able to discover the neurophysilogical changes occurring as a person learns
Last Answer : D) To date, Psychologists have not been able to discover the neurophysilogical changes occurring as a person learns
Description : Psychologists would consider the real criterion of whether or not learning has taken place to be Options: A) Increased sensitivity to appropriate stimuli B) Increased understanding C) Improved behaviour D) Speed of reaction
Last Answer : C) Improved behaviour
Description : In order to give effective guidance to the learning of a skill, the instructor must necessarily be able Options: A) To execute the skill with a high degree of perfection B) To execute the skill ... be learned D) To foresee and forestall the development of bad habits, the occurrence of plateaus, etc
Last Answer : C) To develop in the student's insight into the nature of the skill to be learned
Description : In the following list of the aspects of the guidance of learning activities, which is the most fundamental and should occur first from the stand point of time? Options: A) ... Determination of methods of presentation C) Determination of objectives D) Selection of the learning activities
Last Answer : C) Determination of objectives
Description : Which of the following statements concerning learning is the least acceptable? Options: A) Learning involves the acquisition of habits, knowledge and attitudes B) Learning involves new ways of ... resistance to the passage of a neutral impulse D) Learning represents progressive change in behaviour
Last Answer : D) Learning represents progressive change in behaviour
Description : The term intra-individual differences refers to Options: A) Differences among the various in a given individual B) Differences in a given trait between two or more individuals C) Differences in a ... curricula D) Differences in a given trait in a given individual associated with errors of measures
Last Answer : A) Differences among the various in a given individual
Description : As teachers, we should think of our work in terms of Options: A) Systematic drill B) The mastery of subject-matter C) Hearing lessons recited D) Child growth and development
Last Answer : D) Child growth and development
Description : Which of the following is the most adequate definition of learning? Options: A) The acquisition and organization of knowledge B) The development of skills C) The solving of problems D) The modification of behaviour
Last Answer : D) The modification of behaviour
Description : The development of desirable person's characteristics is largely a matter of Options: A) Social pressures B) Habit-formation C) Motivation D) Opportunity for learning
Last Answer : C) Motivation
Description : Rama, a bright pupil, is openly impatient of the errors and slowness of other students in the class and wishes to answer much more than his share of questions. His teacher should Options: A) Ask ... D) Make him realize that he is not so smart by asking him difficult questions that he cannot answer
Last Answer : D) Make him realize that he is not so smart by asking him difficult questions that he cannot answer
Description : Forgetting can be considered to be Options: A) A passive process of fading B) The result of incorrect learning C) The result of insufficient learning D) A case of negative transfer
Last Answer : A passive process of fading
Description : Which of the following would least quality as an essential aspect of the process of learning? Options: A) Adequate readiness B) Response to stimulation C) Insight into means-end relationship D) The reinforcement of response
Last Answer : C) Insight into means-end relationship
Description : Which of the following duties is least likely to be required of all teachers? Options: A) Visiting the homes of the pupils B) Disciplining pupils in their care C) Keeping a record of text-books D) Preparing and grading examinations
Last Answer : A) Visiting the homes of the pupils
Description : It is generally agreed that Options: A) Each educational group should have its own independent organization B) Administrators and teachers should have separate professional organization C) Any professional organization should included several levels of leadership D) All of the above are correct
Last Answer : C) Any professional organization should included several levels of leadership
Description : The teacher's primary responsibility lies in Options: A) Planning educational experiences B) Implementing and administering policies C) Promoting human relations with parents D) Experimenting with teaching techniques
Last Answer : A) Planning educational experiences
Description : The first professional responsibility you must meet as a new teacher is to Options: A) Change the curriculum in the light of your training B) Seek to enrich the educational philosophy of ... Co-operate with your fellow teachers inspite of differences D) Change your mind as the conditions permit
Last Answer : C) Co-operate with your fellow teachers inspite of differences
Description : The main argument against teacher's strikes has been that Options: A) Teacher's strikes generally have been unsuccessful B) Salaries have risen faster than the cost of living C) Teachers contract should not be violated D) The public is sympathetic to the teacher
Last Answer : C) Teachers contract should not be violated
Description : Political responsibilities make demands upon many people. Teachers should Options: A) Take a film stand on political issue and support their side in any way, they can B) Refuse to take a ... civic responsibilities, but refuse to be drawn into fractional disputes D) Never mention politics in class
Last Answer : C) Accept civic responsibilities, but refuse to be drawn into fractional disputes
Description : The most valid criterion, on the basis of which of judge whether teaching is a profession, is the teacher's Options: A) Love for children B) Broad and thorough knowledge of subject matter C) Exemplification of dominant values of our culture D) Observance of professional ethics
Last Answer : D) Observance of professional ethics
Description : The extent of community restriction placed on the personal life of the teacher is Options: A) Virtually nil in all types of communities B) Greater in metropolitan areas C) Growing with each generation of teachers D) Greater in rural communities
Last Answer : D) Greater in rural communities
Description : The most basic cause of teacher's failure in maintaining discipline is the teacher's lack of Options: A) Competence in teaching methods B) Knowledge of his subject C) A constructive programme of meaningful things to be learnt and done D) Knowledge of educational psychology
Last Answer : C) A constructive programme of meaningful things to be learnt and done
Description : In present times, the prestige level of teachers is recognized by the general public as Options: A) Above that of professional worker B) On a par with the professional class of workers C) On a par with the wage earner or labour D) Somewhere between wage earner and professional worker
Last Answer : D) Somewhere between wage earner and professional worker
Description : After subsiding a disturbance in the class room, the teacher's main concern should be Options: A) To punish all offenders and there by fore shall the recurrence of unacceptable behaviour B) To know ... a means of reducing tension D) To enlist group censure as a means of curbing future misbehaviour
Last Answer : B) To know the cause of the misbehaviour
Description : According to State and National Codes, it would not be unethical for teachers to Options: A) Promulgate private religious views in the class-room B) Tutor members of their classes privately for pay C) Apply for a specific position that is not vacant D) Refuse to sign a contract which displease them
Last Answer : D) Refuse to sign a contract which displease them
Description : The ground rules for the class-room should be established by the Options: A) Principal B) Pupils C) Pupils and teachers D) Teacher
Last Answer : C) Pupils and teachers
Description : Secondary school teaching in the past held more prestige than elementary education because Options: A) The subject-matter was at a higher level of difficulty B) Secondary teachers usually had a higher ... C) Pay schedules generally were higher for secondary school teaching D) All of the above
Last Answer : D) All of the above
Description : Which of the following is not an aspect of learning? Options: A) The accumulation of knowledge B) Cue-reduction C) Modification of perceptions D) The sensitization of nerve fibres
Last Answer : D) The sensitization of nerve fibres
Description : Which of the following procedures would be best from the stand point of efficiency of acquisition for a given degree of long-term retention? Options: A) A high level of over-learning B) Reviews spaced progressively further apart C) Trial and Error D) Cramming
Last Answer : B) Reviews spaced progressively further apart
Description : Recitation in learning appears most profitable when introduced Options: A) At the beginning of the learning period B) Uniformity throughout the learning period C) Towards the end of the learning period D) Only as preparation for the testing period
Last Answer : C) Towards the end of the learning period
Description : For maximum efficiency in learning a given passage for one single production (for example a school play), it is best to have Options: A) Many relatively short practice periods ... before the performance is required D) Relatively long practice periods concentrated just before performance is required
Last Answer : D) Relatively long practice periods concentrated just before performance is required
Description : A series of progressive approximations to a successful performance best defines Options: A) Developmental Tasks B) Learning C) Maturation D) The Scientific Method
Last Answer : B) Learning
Description : It has been seen that the students lose much of their learning during summer vacation, which one of following shows the least depreciation over the summer months? Options: A) Arithmetic computation B) Arithmetic reasoning C) Historical dates and places D) Rules of punctuation and grammar
Last Answer : B) Arithmetic reasoning
Description : If a learner is 'ready’ when he begins a new task and the first teaching is good, his learning curve will probably rise Options: A) Rapidly with wide fluctuations B) Rapidly with slight fluctuations C) At a moderate but very uniform rate of speed D) Slowly but steadily
Last Answer : B) Rapidly with slight fluctuations
Description : Purposeful group-learning in the class-room generally begins with Options: A) Intelligent trial and error activity B) Motives and a clarification of objectives C) Hypothesis and generalisations D) Delegation of responsibility to the members
Last Answer : B) Motives and a clarification of objectives
Description : Probably the most important of the following determinants of the effectiveness of learning is Options: A) The method of presentation B) The need of meaningfulness and understanding C) The concentration of the learning periods D) The degree of over-learning
Last Answer : B) The need of meaningfulness and understanding
Description : Trial-Error Learning in men and animals differ chiefly in that man places greater dependence upon Options: A) Overt activity B) Rapid and energetic action C) Symbolic manipulation D) The uniqueness of each problem
Last Answer : C) Symbolic manipulation
Description : Which of the following is not a product of learning? Options: A) Attitudes B) Concepts C) Knowledge D) Maturation
Last Answer : D) Maturation
Description : Probably the most effective way of learning a complex and complicated skill is Options: A) To practice the whole skill over and over B) To practice each part of the skill separately C) To ... separate attention to parts where indicated D) To alternate between practice on the whole and on the parts
Last Answer : C) To practice the whole skill with separate attention to parts where indicated
Description : The best learning procedure in teaching children is to have them Options: A) Read about the way an activity can be performed B) Write about the way an activity can be performed C) See an activity as it is being performed D) Perform the activity themselves
Last Answer : D) Perform the activity themselves
Description : Learning implies something in the individual Options: A) Acquired by B) Occurring to C) Occurring within D) Absorbed by
Last Answer : C) Occurring within
Description : Verbal guidance is least effective in the learning of Options: A) Attitudes B) Concepts C) Facts D) Skills
Last Answer : D) Skills
Description : Which of the following is least acceptable Learning may Options: A) Be acquired without intent B) Occur independently of past-experience C) Be detrimental to the individual D) Take place without operation of movies and goals
Last Answer : D) Take place without operation of movies and goals
Description : In the guidance of learning a teacher has many important roles. Which one of the following is the least important aspect of the teachers' role in the guidance of learning? Options: A) The ... moral support. D) The development of insight into what constitute the pitfalls and danger to be avoided.
Last Answer : D) The development of insight into what constitute the pitfalls and danger to be avoided.
Description : In which of the following areas do deaf children tend to show the greatest relative inferiority to normal children? Options: A) Intellectual development B) Socio-emotional development C) Academic progress D) Language development
Last Answer : D) Language development
Description : Which of the following is not characteristic of the mentally retarded child? Options: A) He is generally above average in sensor motor and artistic aptitude B) He tends to display socially ... retarded in his physical development D) He is relatively lacking in ability to abstract and generalize
Last Answer : A) He is generally above average in sensor motor and artistic aptitude
Description : Language is best thought of as Options: A) A biological (instinctive) development B) A system of symbols for effective problem-solving C) A nomenclature for cataloguing experience D) A medium for self-enhancement
Last Answer : C) A nomenclature for cataloguing experience
Description : The most important task in teaching is Options: A) Making assignments and hearing recitations B) Directing pupils in development of experiences C) Scoring test papers and giving out-grades D) Making monthly reports and keeping records
Last Answer : B) Directing pupils in development of experiences
Description : In the final analysis, teaching must be thought of mainly as a process of Options: A) Directing the activities of people B) Asking questions and appraising answers C) Hearing the recitation of pupils D) Indoctrinating pupils with adult ideas
Last Answer : A) Directing the activities of people
Description : Which of the following best explains the phenomenon of forgetting? Options: A) The passage of time B) The phenomenon of reminiscence C) The phenomenon of interference D) Repression
Last Answer : C) The phenomenon of interference