Sample Questions and Answers to guide you on NTC GTLE (Licensure exams)

By | July 14, 2023

Likely NTC Licensure examination questions and answers have been compiled here for trials. The questions are to guide what you have to learn since your are preparing towards your Licensure exams to come off soon.

The questions and answers below have been limited to Essential Skills (now it is under General Paper after the reform).

Earlier, NTC Licensure examination has Literary, Numeracy, and Essential Skills as alone standing papers. The new reform integrated the three (3) papers to form what NTC named General Paper.

Read through carefully. Questions and Answers on the other papers will be published soon.

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Some NTC materials for download

NTC Literacy questions

NTC Literacy 1 questions

NTC Literacy 2 questions

NTC Numeracy questions

NTC Numeracy 2

NTC Numeracy 3…ans 1 -3

NTC Essential Skills questions

Past Questions and Answers on Essential Skills

  1. It is popularly said that any two students are not alike. This implies that they differ in their

(a) Physical and mental set up

(b) Aptitude

(c) Social status

(d) Attitude

Answer: Physical and mental set up

  1. Which is an application of a cognitive approach to motivation?

(a) Explain the reasons for studying the topic

(b) Create a supportive classroom climate fon
students

(c) Provide clear and prompt feedback on assignments

(d) Begin lessons with challenging questions
and conflicting events

Answer: Explain the reasons for studying the topic

  1. Mr. Yeboah Jameson, a physical education teacher, demonstrates the new skill to be learned so that his students can watch hinm and later reproduce the skill.

What learning theory is
associated with the situation?

(a) Dual-Coding Learning Theory

(b) Information Processing Theory

(c) Schema Learning Theory

(d) Social Learning

Answer: Social Learning

  1. The lowest level of Taxonomy of Educational Objectives of Cognitive Domain given by Bloom is

(a) Knowledge

(b) Comprehension

(c) Application

(d) Analysis

Answer: Knowledge

  1. Instructional Objectives are useful to

(a) Teachers

(b) Students

(c) Question paper setters

(d) All the given alternatives

Answer: All the given alternatives

  1. Rita easily remember dates and events in history. What component of long term memory (LTM) does Rita have?

(a) Creative thinking

(b) Critical thinking

(c) Reflective thinking

(d) Logical thinking

Answer: Reflective thinking

  1. The most important function of a teacher is to

(a) Facilitate learning
(b) manage instructional resources
(c) coordinate curricular activities
(d) provide information

Answer: Facilitate learning

  1. Which of the following best describes what
    meaningful learning is?

(a) When what is to be learned is new and
easy for the students
(b) Materials presented are difficult and
challenging to the students
(c) When the materials to be learned is related
to wh

at students already know
(d) Students find the lessons easy and
relevant to what was assigned to them

Answer: When the materials to be learned is
related to what students already know.

  1. Objectives of a Curriculum are to be
    in terms of

(a) Students entering behaviour
(b) Students terminal behaviour
(c) Teachers behaviour
(d) Learning process
Answer: Students terminal behaviour

  1. Miss Rita is an excellent Physical
    Education teacher. She started teaching
    volleyball to her Grade 2 class. Despite all her
    efforts, her class does not seem to learn how
    to play the game.

What law of learning was
disregarded?

(a) Law of Disuse
(b) Law of Effect
(c) Law of Exercise
(d) Law of Readiness

Answer: Law of Readiness

  1. Which of the following best describes
    what meaningful learning is?

(a) When what is to be learned is new and
easy for the students
(b) Materials presented are difficult and
challenging to the students
(c) When the materials to be learned is related
to what students already know
(d) Students find the lessons easy and
relevant to what was assigned to them

Answer: When the materials to be learned is
related to what students already know.

  1. Ms. Erika in her Biology class
    accompanies her discussion with interesting visual aids. She strongly believes that students learn better when lessons are
    presented with images, real or imagined aside
    from mere lecture methods.

Which learning
theory does she uphold?

(a) Dual-Coding Theory
(b) lnformation Processing Theory
(c)Meaningful Reception Learning Theory
(d)Social Cognitive Theory

Answer: Dual-Coding Theory

  1. Which of the following is not a type of
    learned motives?

(a) Reflexes
(b) Habits
(c) Attitude
(d) Interest

Answer: Reflexes

  1. Patricia is always fearful of freely roaming
    dogs but does not mind dogs in a pen or on a
    leash. What feature of classical conditioning
    is exhibited?

(a) Discrimination
(b) Extinction
(c) Generalization
(d) Practice

Answer: Discrimination

  1. An Earth Science teacher has just
    completed a unit on the sun. As she recognizes her next unit on other stars, she uses the sun as a frame of reference.

What view of learning was used?

(a) Discovery learning
(b) Infornmative learning
(c) Meaningful learning
(d) Transfer learning

Answer: Meaningful learning

  1. Which is an application of cognitive
    approach to motivation?

(a) Explain the reasons for studying the topic
(b) Create a supportive classroom climate for
students
(c) Provide clear and prompt feedback on
assignments
(d) Begin lessons with challenging questions
and conflicting events

Answer: Explain the reasons for studying the
topic

  1. Of the following learning theories, the one
    the embodies the idea that the learning takes place through insight is known as

(a) Gestalt
(b) Stimulus-Response
(c) Connectionist
(d) Pragmatic

Answer: Gestalt

  1. The lowest level of Taxonomy of Educational Objectives of Cognitive Domain given by Bloom is

(a) Knowledge
(b) Comprehension
(c) Application
(d) Analysis

Answer: Knowledge

  1. In which lesson does a general rule is
    e ned first and then examples are?

(a) Deductive lesson
(b) Inductive lesson
(c) Cognitive lesson
(d) Skill lesson

Answer: Deductive lesson

  1. The objectives of a Curriculum are to be
    stated in terms of

(a) Students entering behaviour
(b) Students terminal behaviour
(c) Teachers behaviour
d) Learning process

Answer: Students terminal behaviour

  1. Mr. Fiifi wants to use alternative methods
    of assessment. Which of the following will he
    not likely use?

(a) Multiple Choice Test
(b) Reflective Journal Writing
(c) Oral Presentation
(d) Developing Portfolios

Answer: Multiple Choice Test

  1. The minimum number of years for a newly trained teacher to possess a provisional qualified teacher to possess a provisional
    teacher’s license is
    (a) 1 year
    (b) 2 years
    (c) 3 years
    (d) 4 years

Answer:3 years

  1. The choice of the appropriate format to
    use in constructing a test is influenced by the

(a) skills in writing different types of items
(b) intelligence level of the students
(c) content that has been taught
(d) availability of specification table

Answer: skills in writing different types of
items

  1. Asamoah is fascinated by his daughter’s excitement and determination to learn new things. Thus, he is concerned with her
    development in which domain?

(a) Physical
(b) Socioemotional
(c) Cognitive
(d) Sociocultural

Answer: Socio-emotional

  1. For classroom teachers, core points are
    mainly written ina lesson plan to ensured that

(a) Pupils can get notes to write at the end of
the lesson
(b) The main ideas of the lesson are brought out
(c) The pupils pay attention during
instructions
(d) All the given alternatives

Answer: The main ideas of the lesson are
brought out

  1. All the following are the reasons for the
    introduction of the Teacher Licensing Policy in Ghana except.

(a) To eliminate non-performing teachers
(b) To reduce teacher in-take
(c)Professionalize teaching
(d) To enforce discipline

Answer: To reduce teacher in-take

  1. Psychologists study the development of
    individuals across several domains. Which of
    the following is not one of the domains studied?

(a) Physical
(b) Socioemotional
(c) Cognitive
(d) Psychodynamic

Answer: Psychodynamic

  1. Which of the following operates on the
    “stimulus-response principle”, which means all behaviours are caused by external stimuli?

(a) Contextual theory
(b) Behaviourist theory
(c) Cognitive theory
(d) Constructivist theory

Answer: Behaviourist theory

  1. Under what criterion is the question, “is this the best way to test for the desired knowledge and skill?” considered when evaluating a test?

(a) Practicality
(b) Clarity
(c) Fairness
(d) Efficiency

Answer: Efficiency

  1. Which of the following bodies or
    institutions is responsible for licensing
    teachers in Ghana?

(a) Teacher Education Division
(b) Ghana Education Service
(c) National Teaching Council
(d) National Teachers Council

Answer: National Teaching Council

  1. Which of the following are the major
    components of guidance program in schools?

(a) Educational, vocational, personal, social
(b) Educational, vocational, counseling
(c) Educational, vocational, psychological
(d) Vocational, social, relationship

Answer: Educational, vocational, personal,
social

  1. The evaluation approach that measures
    students actual performance and compares it with the objectives of instruction is called.

(a) Criterion-referenced evaluation
(b) Democratic evaluation
(c) Norm-referenced evaluation
(d) Bureaucratic evaluation

Answer: Criterion-referenced evaluation

  1. In designing instruction for your class, you must assume that instruction is aimed at
    the….

(a) Individual and not the group

(b) Group and not the individual

(c) Academically weak students

(d) Academically intelligent students

Answer: Individual and not the group

  1. Information may be able to obtain
    permanence in the memory of pupils when
    there is a strong activity of the…

(a) Long term memory
(b) Sensory memory
(c) Concrete memory
(d) Working memory

Answer: Long term memory

  1. Which of the following has no relation to the behaviorist approach to learning?

(a) Common law applies to humans and
animals
(b) The process of learning is call conditioning
(c) Humans and animals have similar
neurophysiological features
(d) Learning requires an active mental process

Answer: Learning requires an active mental process

  1. Which of the following serve as agents to the curriculum implementation process

(a) Learners
(b) Doctors
(c) Ministry of Education
(d) Teachers

Answer: Teachers

  1. In planning your lesson, it is always
    important that you start with..

(a) Anticipatory set
(b) Modelling
(c) Objective and purpose
(d) Guided practice

Answer: Objective and purpose

  1. For the school environment to have a
    good/healthy climate, the teacher must….

(a) Be strict and unapproachable
(b) Have concern for the general wel-being of
ea strong sense of commitment and morality
(d) Be firm and fair in managing his/her class

Answer: Be firm and fair in managing his/her
class

  1. Which of the following is NOT a major
    focus of educational principles of prominent
    educational theories

(a) Learning must be gradual, cumulative, and
progressive
(b) Instruction must be presented according to
the stages of readiness of pupil
(c) Pupils must be coerced and forced to learn
(d) Instruction and learning must follow
the order of nature

Answer: Pupils must be coerced and forced to
learn

  1. A 3-year old pupil in your class who calls a
    cat a lion and a hen, a vulture may be identified as..

(a) Preoperational child with the ability to classify
(b) Preoperational child with transductive reasoning
(c) Preoperational child with concrete
reasoning
(d) Formal operational child

Answer: Preoperational child with transductive reasoning

  1. Which of the following is the most
    appropriate research to conduct as a teacher
    to improve on your professional practice in the classroom?

(a) Basic research
(b) Historic research
(c) Action research
(d) Exploratory research

Answer: Action research

  1. Which of the following influenced the
    training requirements among students the secondary and tertiary levels?

(a) Chinese
(b) Greeks
(c) Presbyterians
(d) Romans

Answer: Romans

  1. Students are more likely to remain focused
    on goals and persist despite setbacks when
    they develop a perception that..

(a) Skills continue to emerge as the individual
grows
(b) Ability can be developed and success is related to an effort
(c) learning is a series of small achievements
(d) assessment is ongoing and peers are
achieving at similar levels

Answer: Ability can be developed and success
is related to effort.

  1. The Department of Education gives
    greater emphasis on the development of basic skills. What is the philosophical basis for this?

(a) Essentialism
(b) Existentialism
(c) Perennialism
(d) Pragmatism

Answer: Essentialism

  1. When administering standardized tests for
    JHS students, the teacher may assist students in which of the following ways?

(a) Reading several sample items for clarity
(b) Repeating the scripted directions exactly
(c) Restating the scripted directions using
simple language
(d) reviewing content using the sample item
as a model

Answer: Repeating the scripted directions
exactly

  1. Teacher G, a Christian Living teacher, puts
    his significance on values development and discipline. What could be her educational philosophy?

(a) ldealism
(b) Progressivism
(c) Pragmatism
(d) Realism

Answer: ldealism

  1. Which of the following factors in an
    elementary classroom is likely to contribute
    most to a loss of instructional time?

(a) Limited use of assigned seating
(b) Ineffective transition routines
(c) Unappealing or worn materials
(d) Inadequate technological resources

Answer: Ineffective transition routines

  1. A teacher views his students as unique,
    free choosing, and responsible individuals. All classroom activities revolve around the said premise.

What theory underlies this?

(a) Essentialism
(b) Existentialism
(c) (c) Progressivism
(d) Realism

Answer: Existentialism

  1. A teacher demonstrated the technique on
    how to group students according to their
    needs and interests and how to use self-paced
    instructional materials.

Which philosophy is
manifested in this activity?

(a) Essentialism
(b) Progressivism
(c) Realism
(d) Social
(e) Reconstructionism

Answer: Progressivism

  1. Progressivists emphasized the quality of the child. What is the concern of the reconstructionists?

(a) Experiential learning
(b) Socialization
(c) Social problem
(d) Personal problems

Answer: Social problem

  1. Every first day of the school year, Miss Abrefa prepared activities that will make her primary 2 children, sing, plan, learn and introduce themselves to the class.

What process did she emphasize?

(a) Acculturation
(b) Enculturation
(c) Indoctrination
(d) Socialization

Answer: Socialization

  1. According to reconstructionism, the goal of education is to bring about a new social
    order.
    Which practice best manifests this
    view?

(a) The class conducts scientific experiments to verity concepts
(b) The class discusses role models and their
impact on society
(c) The class allowed to engage in divergent
thinking
(d) The class undertakes well-planned projects in the community

Answer: The class undertakes well-planned
projects in the community

  1. Mr. Oti, a physical education teacher,
    demonstrates the new skill to be learned so
    that his students can watch him and later
    reproduce the skill.

What learning theory is
associated with the situation?

(a) Dual-Coding Learning Theory
(b) Information Processing Theory
(c) Schema Learning Theory
(d) Social Learning

Answer: Social Learning

  1. Patricia is always fearful of freely roaming
    dogs but does not mind dogs in a pen or on a
    leash. What feature of classical conditioning
    is exhibited?

(a) Discrimination
(b) Extinction
(c) Generalization
(d) Practice

Answer: Discrimination

  1. Miss Rita is an excellent Physical
    Education teacher. She started teaching
    volleyball to her Grade 2 class. Despite all her
    efforts, her class does not seem to learn how
    to play the game.

What law of learning was
disregarded?

(a) Law of Disuse
(b) Law of Effect
(c) Law of Exercise
(d) Law of Readiness

Answer: Law of Readiness

  1. Which is an application of cognitive approach to motivation?

(a) Explain the reasons for studying the topic
(b) Create a supportive classroom climate for
students
(c) Provide clear and prompt feedback on
assignments
(d) Begin lessons with challenging questions
and conflicting events

Answer: Explain the reasons for studying the
topic

  1. Which of the theories of learning presents
    or states that learning skills are hierarchically
    arranged?

(a) Cumulative Learning
(b) Meaningful Learning
(c) Social Cognitive Learning
(d) Theory of Instruction

Answer: Cumulative Learning

  1. Which philosophy approves a teacher who
    lectures most of the time and requires his
    students to memorize the rules of grammar?

(a) Existentialism
(b) ldealism
(c) Pragmatism
(d) Realism

Answer: Idealism

  1. Why should a teacher take the obligation
    upon himself to study and understand the
    custom and traditions of the community
    where he works?

(a) To change the culture of the community
(b) To have a sympathetic attitude for the people of the community
(c) To identify the weaknesses of the culture of the community
(d) To please the people of the community

Answer: To have a sympathetic attitude for
the people of the community

  1. What philosophy is related to the practice of school acting as laboratory for teaching reforms and experimentation?

(a) Essentialism
(b) Existentialism
(c) Progressivism
(d) Social reconstructionism
Essential Skills past questions

  1. It is popularly said that any two students
    are not alike. This implies that they differ in their

(a) Physical and mental set up

(b) Aptitude

(c) Social status

(d) Attitude

Answer: Physical and mental set up

  1. Which is an application of a cognitive approach to motivation?

(a) Explain the reasons for studying the topic

(b) Create a supportive classroom climate fon
students

(c) Provide clear and prompt feedback on assignments

(d) Begin lessons with challenging questions
and conflicting events

Answer: Explain the reasons for studying the
topic

  1. Mr. Yeboah Jameson, a physical education teacher, demonstrates the new skill to be learned so that his students can watch him and later reproduce the skill.

What learning theory is
associated with the situation?

(a) Dual-Coding Learning Theory

(b) Information Processing Theory

(c) Schema Learning Theory

(d) Social Learning

Answer: Social Learning

  1. The lowest level of Taxonomy of Educational Objectives of Cognitive Domain given by Bloom is

(a) Knowledge

(b) Comprehension

(c) Application

(d) Analysis

Answer: Knowledge

  1. Instructional Objectives are useful to

(a) Teachers

(b) Students

(c) Question paper
setters

(d) All the given alternatives

Answer: All the given alternatives

  1. Rita easily remember dates and events in history. What component of long term memory
    (LTM) does Rita have?

(a) Creative thinking

(b) Critical thinking

(c) Reflective thinking

(d) Logical thinking

Answer: Reflective thinking

  1. The most important function of a teacher is to

(a) Facilitate learning

(b) manage instructional resources

(c) coordinate curricular activities

(d) provide information

Answer: Facilitate learning

  1. Which of the following best describes what
    meaningful learning is?

(a) When what is to be learned is new and
easy for the students

(b) Materials presented are difficult and
challenging to the students

(c) When the materials to be learned is related
to what students already know

(d) Students find the lessons easy and
relevant to what was assigned to them

Answer: When the materials to be learned is
related to what students already know.

Objectives of a Curriculum are to be
in terms of

(a) Students entering behaviour

(b) Students terminal behaviour

(c) Teachers behaviour
(d) Learning process

Answer: Students terminal behaviour

  1. Miss Rita is an excellent Physical
    Education teacher. She started teaching
    volleyball to her Grade 2 class. Despite all her
    efforts, her class does not seem to learn how
    to play the game.

What law of learning was
disregarded?

(a) Law of Disuse

(b) Law of Effect

(c) Law of Exercise

(d) Law of Readiness

Answer: Law of Readiness

  1. Which of the following best describes
    what meaningful learning is?

(a) When what is to be learned is new and
easy for the students

(b) Materials presented are difficult and
challenging to the students

(c) When the materials to be learned is related
to what students already know

(d) Students find the lessons easy and
relevant to what was assigned to them

Answer: When the materials to be learned is
related to what students already know.

  1. Ms. Erika in her Biology class
    accompanies her discussion with interesting
    visual aids. She strongly believes that
    students learn better when lessons are
    presented with images, real or imagined aside
    from mere lecture methods.

Which learning
theory does she uphold?

(a) Dual-Coding Theory

(b) lnformation Processing Theory

(c)Meaningful Reception Learning Theory

(d)Social Cognitive Theory

Answer: Dual-Coding Theory

  1. Which of the following is not a type of
    learned motives?

(a) Reflexes

(b) Habits

(c) Attitude

(d) Interest

Answer: Reflexes

  1. Patricia is always fearful of freely roaming
    dogs but does not mind dogs in a pen or on a
    leash. What feature of classical conditioning
    is exhibited?

(a) Discrimination

(b) Extinction

(c) Generalization

(d) Practice

Answer: Discrimination

  1. An Earth Science teacher has just
    completed a unit on the sun. As she recognizes her next unit on other stars, she uses the sun as a frame of reference.

What view of learning was used?

(a) Discovery learning

(b) Informative learning

(c) Meaningful learning

(d) Transfer learning

Answer: Meaningful learning

  1. Which is an application of cognitive
    approach to motivation?

(a) Explain the reasons for studying the topic

(b) Create a supportive classroom climate for
students

(c) Provide clear and prompt feedback on
assignments

(d) Begin lessons with challenging questions
and conflicting events

Answer: Explain the reasons for studying the
topic

  1. Of the following learning theories, the one
    the embodies the idea that the learning takes place through insight is known as

(a) Gestalt
(b) Stimulus-Response
(c) Connectionist
(d) Pragmatic

Answer: Gestalt

  1. The lowest level of Taxonomy of
    Educational Objectives of Cognitive Domain
    given by Bloom is

(a) Knowledge

(b) Comprehension

(c) Application

(d) Analysis

Answer: Knowledge

  1. In which lesson does a general rule is
    e ned first and then examples are?

(a) Deductive lesson

(b) Inductive lesson

(c) Cognitive lesson

(d) Skill lesson

Answer: Deductive lesson

  1. The objectives of a Curriculum are to be
    stated in terms of

(a) Students entering behaviour

(b) Students terminal behaviour

(c) Teachers behaviour

d) Learning process

Answer: Students terminal behaviour

  1. Mr. Fiifi wants to use alternative methods
    of assessment. Which of the following will he
    not likely use?

(a) Multiple Choice Test

(b) Reflective Journal Writing

(c) Oral Presentation

(d) Developing Portfolios

Answer: Multiple Choice Test

  1. The minimum number of years for a newly trained teacher to possess a provisional qualified teacher to possess a provisional
    teacher’s license is
    (a) 1 year

(b) 2 years

(c) 3 years

(d) 4 years

Answer: 3 years

  1. The choice of the appropriate format to
    use in constructing a test is influenced by the

(a) skills in writing different types of items
(b) intelligence level of the students
(c) content that has been taught
(d) availability of specification table

Answer: skills in writing different types of
items

  1. Asamoah is fascinated by his daughter’s
    excitement and determination to learn new things. Thus, he is concerned with her
    development in which domain?

(a) Physical

(b) Socio-emotional

(c) Cognitive

(d) Sociocultural

Answer: Socio-emotional

  1. For classroom teachers, core points are
    mainly written in a lesson plan to ensured that

(a) pupils can get notes to write at the end of
the lesson

(b) The main ideas of the lesson are brought out

(c) The pupils pay attention during
instructions

(d) All the given alternatives

Answer: The main ideas of the lesson are
brought out

  1. All the following are the reasons for the
    introduction of the Teacher Licensing Policy in Ghana except.

(a) To eliminate non-performing teachers

(b) To reduce teacher in-take

(c)Professionalize teaching

(d) To enforce discipline

Answer: To reduce teacher in-take

  1. Psychologists study the development of
    individuals across several domains. Which of
    the following is not one of the domains
    studied?

(a) Physical

(b) Socio-emotional

(c) Cognitive
(d) Psychodynamic

Answer: Psychodynamic

  1. Which of the following operates on the
    “stimulus-response principle”, which means all behaviours are caused by external stimuli?

(a) Contextual theory

(b) Behaviourist theory

(c) Cognitive theory

(d) Constructivist theory

Answer: Behaviourist theory

29 Under what criterion is the question, “is
best way to test for the desired knowledge and skill?” considered when evaluating a test?

(a) Practicality

(b) Clarity

(c) Fairness

(d) Efficiency

Answer: Efficiency

  1. Which of the following bodies or
    institutions is responsible for licensing
    teachers in Ghana?

(a) Teacher Education Division

(b) Ghana Education Service

(c) National Teaching Council

(d) National Teachers Council

Answer: National Teaching Council

  1. Which of the following are the major
    components of guidance program in schools?

(a) Educational, vocational, personal, social

(b) Educational, vocational, counseling

(c) Educational, vocational, psychological

(d) Vocational, social, relationship

Answer: Educational, vocational, personal,
social

  1. The evaluation approach that measures
    students actual performance and compares it with the objectives of instruction is called.

(a) Criterion-referenced evaluation

(b) Democratic evaluation

(c) Norm-referenced evaluation

(d) Bureaucratic evaluation

Answer: Criterion-referenced evaluation

  1. In designing instruction for your class, you must assume that instruction is aimed at
    the….

(a) Individual and not the group
p and not the individual
ademically weak students

(c) Academically weak students

(d) Academically intelligent students

Answer: Individual and not the group

  1. Information may be able to obtain
    permanence in the memory of pupils when
    there is a strong activity of the…

(a) Long term memory

(b) Sensory memory

(c) Concrete memory

(d) Working memory

Answer: Long term memory

  1. Which of the following has no relation to the behaviorist approach to learning?

(a) Common law applies to humans and
animals

(b) The process of learning is call conditioning

(c) Humans and animals have similar
neurophysiological features

(d) Learning requires an active mental process

Answer: Learning requires an active mental process

  1. Which of the following serve as agents to the curriculum implementation process

(a) Learners

(b) Doctors

(c) Ministry of Education

(d) Teachers

Answer: Teachers

  1. In planning your lesson, it is always
    important that you start with..

(a) Anticipatory set

(b) Modelling

(c) Objective and purpose

(d) Guided practice

Answer: Objective and purpose

  1. For the school environment to have a
    good/healthy climate, the teacher must….

(a) Be strict and unapproachable

(b) Have concern for the general well-being of
pupils

(c) Have a strong sense of commitment and morality

(d) Be firm and fair in managing his/her class

Answer: Be firm and fair in managing his/her
class

  1. Which of the following is NOT a major
    focus of educational principles of prominent
    educational theories

(a) Learning must be gradual, cumulative, and
progressive

(b) Instruction must be presented according to
the stages of readiness of pupil

(c) Pupils must be coerced and forced to learn

(d) Instruction and learning must follow
the order of nature

Answer: Pupils must be coerced and forced to
learn

  1. A 3-year old pupil in your class who calls a
    cat a lion and a hen, a vulture may be identified as..

(a) Preoperational child with the ability to classify

(b) Pre-operational child with transductive
reasoning

(c) Pre-operational child with concrete
reasoning
(d) Formal operational child

Answer: Pre-operational child with transductive reasoning

  1. Which of the following is the most
    appropriate research to conduct as a teacher
    to improve on your professional practice in the classroom?

(a) Basic research

(b) Historic research

(c) Action research

(d) Exploratory research

Answer: Action research

  1. Which of the following influenced the
    training requirements among students the secondary and tertiary levels?

(a) Chinese

(b) Greeks

(c) Presbyterians

(d) Romans

Answer: Romans

  1. Students are more likely to remain focused
    on goals and persist despite setbacks when
    they develop a perception that..

(a) Skills continue to emerge as the individual
grows

(b) Ability can be developed and success is related to an effort

(c) learning is a series of small achievements

(d) assessment is ongoing and peers are
achieving at similar levels

Answer: Ability can be developed and success
is related to effort.

  1. The Department of Education gives
    greater emphasis on the development of basic skills. What is the philosophical basis for this?

(a) Essentialism

(b) Existentialism

(c) Perennialism

(d) Pragmatism

Answer: Essentialism

  1. When administering standardized tests for
    JHS students, the teacher may assist students in which of the following ways?

(a) Reading several sample items for clarity
(b) Repeating the scripted directions exactly

(c) Restating the scripted directions using simple language

(d) reviewing content using the sample item
as a model

Answer: Repeating the scripted directions
exactly

  1. Teacher G, a Christian Living teacher, puts
    his significance on values development and discipline. What could be her educational philosophy?

(a) ldealism

(b) Progressivism

(c) Pragmatism

(d) Realism

Answer: ldealism

  1. Which of the following factors in an
    elementary classroom is likely to contribute
    most to a loss of instructional time?

(a) Limited use of assigned seating

(b) Ineffective transition routines

(c) Unappealing or worn materials

(d) Inadequate technological resources

Answer: Ineffective transition routines

  1. A teacher views his students as unique,
    free choosing, and responsible individuals. All classroom activities revolve around the said premise.

What theory underlies this?

(a) Essentialism

(b) Existentialism

(c) Progressivism

(d) Realism

Answer: Existentialism

  1. A teacher demonstrated the technique on
    how to group students according to their
    needs and interests and how to use self-paced
    instructional materials.

Which philosophy is
manifested in this activity?

(a) Essentialism

(b) Progressivism

(c) Realism

(d) Social reconstructionism

Answer: Progressivism

  1. Progressivists emphasized the quality of the child. What is the concern of the reconstructionists?

(a) Experiential learning

(b) Socialization

(c) Social problem

(d) Personal problems

Answer: Social problem

  1. Every first day of the school year, Miss Abrefa prepared activities that will make her primary 2 children, sing, plan, learn and introduce themselves to the class.

What process did she emphasize?

(a) Acculturation

(b) Enculturation

(c) Indoctrination

(d) Socialization

Answer: Socialization

  1. According to reconstructionism, the goal of education is to bring about a new social
    order.
    Which practice best manifests this
    view?

(a) The class conducts scientific experiments to verity concepts

(b) The class discusses role models and their
impact on society

(c) The class allowed to engage in divergent
thinking

(d) The class undertakes well-planned projects in the community

Answer: The class undertakes well-planned
projects in the community

  1. Mr. Oti, a physical education teacher,
    demonstrates the new skill to be learned so
    that his students can watch him and later
    reproduce the skill.

What learning theory is
associated with the situation?

(a) Dual-Coding Learning Theory

(b) Information
Processing Theory

(c) Schema Learning Theory

(d) Social Learning

Answer: Social Learning

  1. Patricia is always fearful of freely roaming
    dogs but does not mind dogs in a pen or on a
    leash. What feature of classical conditioning
    is exhibited?

(a) Discrimination

(b) Extinction

(c) Generalization

(d) Practice

Answer: Discrimination

  1. Miss Rita is an excellent Physical
    Education teacher. She started teaching
    volleyball to her Grade 2 class. Despite all her
    efforts, her class does not seem to learn how
    to play the game.

What law of learning was
disregarded?

(a) Law of Disuse

(b) Law of Effect

(c) Law of Exercise

(d) Law of Readiness

Answer: Law of Readiness

  1. Which is an application of cognitive approach to motivation?

(a) Explain the reasons for studying the topic

(b) Create a supportive classroom climate for
students

(c) Provide clear and prompt feedback on
assignments

(d) Begin lessons with challenging questions
and conflicting events

Answer: Explain the reasons for studying the
topic

  1. Which of the theories of learning presents
    or states that learning skills are hierarchically
    arranged?

(a) Cumulative Learning

(b) Meaningful Learning
(c) Social Cognitive
Learning

(d) Theory of Instruction

Answer: Cumulative Learning

  1. Which philosophy approves a teacher who
    lectures most of the time and requires his
    students to memorize the rules of grammar?

(a) Existentialism

(b) ldealism

(c) Pragmatism

(d) Realism

Answer: Idealism

  1. Why should a teacher take the obligation
    upon himself to study and understand the
    custom and traditions of the community
    where he works?

(a) To change the culture of the community

(b) To have a sympathetic attitude for the people of the community

(c) To identify the weaknesses of the
culture of the community

(d) To please the people of the community

Answer: To have a sympathetic attitude for
the people of the community

What philosophy is related to the practice of school acting as laboratory for teaching reforms and experimentation?

(a) Essentialism

(b) Existentialism

(c) Progressivism

(d) Social reconstructionism

Answer: Progressivism

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