MCQ in Professional Education Practice Drills Part 11 | Licensure Exam for Teachers

(Last Updated On: August 3, 2023)

This is the ProfEd Practice Drills, Multiple Choice Questions in Professional Education part 11 as one coverage of Licensure Examinations for Teachers (LET). The exam is divided into two classifications. First is the elementary level exam which covers topics from General Education (GenEd) 40% and Professional Education (ProfEd) 60%. Secondly is the secondary level which covers GenEd 20%, ProfEd 40%, and area of specialization 40%. I assume you are looking for a reviewer that will help you achieve your goal to become a professional License teacher very soon. Yes, you are in the right place to make your dream come true. Make sure to familiarize each and every question to increase the chance of passing the Licensure Examinations for Teachers (LET).

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (Elementary and Secondary) Coverage

• Teaching Profession, Social Dimensions of Education
• Principles of Teaching, Educational Technology, Curriculum Development
• Facilitating Learning, Child and Adolescent Development
• Assessment of Student Learning, Developmental Reading
• Field Study, Practice Teaching

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Choose the letter of the best answer in each question.

501. After a lesson on the atom, the students were asked to work on a physical model of the atom to determine learning. For which group of students is building an atom model intended?

A. Interpersonality intelligent

B. Kinesthetically intelligent

C. Mathematically intelligent

D. Linguistically intelligent

502. If I want to develop creative thinking in my students, which one/s should I use?

I. Problem solving

II. Brainstorming

III. Dramatics

A. I and II

B. III only

C. II only

D. I, II and II

503. Which is/are effective method/s in teaching students critical reading skills?

A. Read and interpret three different movie reviews

B. Interpret editorials about a particular subject from three different newspaper

C. Distinguish fiction from non-fiction materials

D. Interpret editorials and read and interpret three different movie reviews

504. I want to present the characteristics features of a constructivist approach. What should I use?

A. Fishbone diagram

B. Venn diagram

C. Narrative frame

D. Attribute wheel

505. If all of your students in your class passed the pretest, what should you do?

A. Administer the posttest

B. Go through the unit as usual because it is part of the syllabus

C. Go through the lesson quickly in order not to skip any

D. Go on to the next unit

506. Teacher Vicky shows her students a picture of people in thick jackets. Then she asks them to tell her the kind of climate when the picture was taken. If she asks 5 questions of this kind and her students do not get them, it is safe to conclude that pupils are quite weak in the skill of _______.

A. Analyzing 

B. Inferring

C. Synthesizing

D. Generalizing

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

A. Scoring rubric

B. Consensus of evaluation results from teacher and student

C. External monitor

D. Public display of results of self-evaluation

508. Which group of scores is most varied? The group with ________.

A. 0.90 SD 

B. 0.50 SD

C. 0.10 SD

D. 0.75 SD

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

A. Measure gains in learning

B. Measure the value of the material taught

C. Keep adequate records

D. Accustom the students to frequent testing

510. Assessment is said to be authentic when the teacher ________.

A. Consider students’ suggestion in teaching

B. Gives valid and reliable paper-and-pencil test

C. Gives students real-life task to accomplish

D. Includes parents in the determination of assessment procedures

511. The following are computed means of a hundred-item test: Physical science, 38; Math, 52; English, 33. Based on the data, which is true?

A. The examinees seem to be very good in Physical Science

B. The Math test appears to be the easiest among the three

C. The examinees seem to excel in English

D. The English test appears to be the easiest among the three

512. An examinee whose score is within x + 1 SD belongs to which of the following groups?

A. Above average

B. Average

C. Below average

D. Needs improvement

513. Which is true of a bimodal distribution?

A. The scores are neither high nor low

B. The group has two different groups

C. The score are high

D. The score are low

514. When you reach the “plateau of learning”, what should you do?

A. Forget about learning

B. Reflect what caused it

C. Force yourself to learn

D. Rest

515. What can be said if student performance in a positively skewed scores distribution?

A. Most students performed well

B. Most students performed poorly

C. Almost all students had averaged performance

D. A few students performed excellently

516. A number of test items in a test are said to be non-discriminating? What conclusion/s can be drawn?

I. Teaching or learning was very good.

II. The item is so easy that anyone could get it right.

III. The item is so difficult that nobody could get it.

A. II only 

B. I and II

C. III only

D. II and III

517. A test item has a difficulty index of 0.51 and a discrimination index of 0.25. What should the teacher do?

A. Revise the item

B. Retain the item

C. Make it a bonus item

D. Reject the item

518. The difficulty index of a test item is 1. This means that _____________.

A. The test item is a quality item

B. The test is very difficult

C. The test is very easy

D. Nobody got the item correctly

519. If the compound range is low, this means that _____________.

A. The students performed very well in the test

B. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is low

C. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is high

D. The students performed very poorly in the test

520. What is the mastery level of a school division in a 100-item test with a mean of 55?

A. 42%

B. 55%

C. 45%

D. 50%

521. A negative discrimination index means that ____________.

A. The test item has low reliability

B. More from the lower group answered the test item correctly

C. The test item could not discriminate between the lower and upper groups

D. More from the upper group got the item correctly

522. In an entrance examination, student Anna’s Percentile is 25 (P25). Based on this Percentile rank, which is likely to happen?

A. Student Anna will be admitted

B. Student Anna will not be admitted

C. Student Anna has 50-50 percent chance to be admitted

D. Student Anna has 75 percent chance to be admitted

523. What does a percentile rank of 62 mean?

A. It is the student’s score in the test

B. The student answered sixty-two (62%) of the items correctly

C. The student’s score is higher than 62 percent of all students who took the test

D. Sixty-two percent (62%) of those who took the test scored higher than the individual

524. What does the computer have in common with the TV?

A. Key board 

B. File

C. Screen

D. Disk drive

525. Which depicts in graphic form the social relations present in a group?

A. Interest inventory

B. Sociogram

C. Anecdotal record

D. Johari’s window

526. Planned ignoring, signal interference, and proximity control are techniques used in _______.

A. Managing temper tantrums

B. Managing surface behavior

C. Operant conditioning

D. Life-space interviewing

527. What should you do to get the child’s attention when she/he is distracted by an object in the room?

I. Call him by his name and tell him to pay attention

II. Put away the distracting influence

III. Involve him in helping with an activity

A. I and II 

B. I and III

C. II and III

D. I, II and III

528. Which practice in our present educational system is in line with Plato’s thought that “nothing learned under compulsion stays with the mind”?

A. Clarification of school policies and classroom rules on Day 1

B. Presentation of standards of performance in the learner

C. Making the teaching-learning process interesting

D. Involving the learner in the determination of learning goals

529. In Values Education, faith, hope, and love are believed to be permanent values whether they be valued by people or not. Upon what philosophy is this anchored?

A. Realism

B. Idealism

C. Existentialism

D. Pragmatism

530. In the schools, we teach realities that cannot be verified by the senses like an Invisible God or Allah. Whose beliefs does this practice negate?

A. Stoicists’

B. Skeptics’

C. Rationalists’

D. Empiricists’

531. Which emphasized on non-violence as the path to true peace as discussed in peace education?

A. Taoism

B. Hinduism

C. Buddhism

D. Shintoism

532. I make full use of the question-and-answer as a model for discussion. From whom is this question-and-answer method?

A. Socrates 

B. Kant

C. Aristotle

D. Plato

533. A wife who loves her husband dearly becomes so jealous that in a moment of savage rage, kills him. Is the wife morally responsible and why?

A. Not necessarily. Antecedent passion may completely destroy freedom and consequently moral responsibility

B. Yes, she killed her husband simply because of jealousy

C. It depends on the case of the wife’s jealousy

D. It depends on the mental health of the wife

534. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Man may understand all about the rotation of the earth but he may still miss the radiance of the sunset.” Which type of education should be emphasized as implied by Martin Luther King Jr.?

A. Science and education

B. Vocational education

C. Liberal education

D. Technical education

535. Computer-assisted instruction is an offshoot of the theory of ________.

A. J. Piaget

B. B.F. Skinner

C. J. Brunner

D. J. Watson

536. The use of varied teaching and testing strategies on account of students’ multiple intelligences is in line with the thoughts of ________.

A. Daniel Goleman

B. Jean Piaget

C. Howard Gardner

D. Benjamin Bloom

537. Applying Confucius’s teachings, how would hiring personnel select the most fit in government positions?

A. By record evaluation done by an accrediting body

B. By government examinations

C. By accreditation

D. By merit system

538. “Moral example has a greater effect on pupils’ discipline than laws and codes of punishment” is an advice of teachers from _________.

A. Confucius 

B. Mohammed

C. Lao tzu

D. Mencius

539. “The principle of spontaneity against artificiality will make you accomplish something. Leave nature to itself and you will have harmony” is an active advice from the _______.

A. Hindu 

B. Taoist

C. Shintoist

D. Buddhist

540. The significance of liberal education in holistic development of students is supported by _____.

A. Perennialism

B. Pragmatism

C. Confucian teaching

D. Perennialism and Confucian philosophy

541. Is a sick teacher, the only one assigned in a remote school, excused from her teaching duty?

A. No, she is the only one assigned in that school

B. Yes, teaching is a demanding job

C. Yes, she is sick

D. No, she must abide by her contract

542. What is a demonstration of your authority as a professional teacher?

A. You make your pupils run errands for you

B. You decide on how to teach a particular lesson

C. You absent from class to enjoy your leave even without prior notice

D. You select to teach only those lessons which you have mastered

543. The right hemisphere of the brain is involved with the following functions except:

A. Visual functions

B. Nonverbal functions

C. Intuitive functions

D. Detail-oriented functions

544. To build a sense of pride among Filipino youth, which should be done?

A. Re-study our history from the perspective of our colonizer

B. Re-study our history and stress on our achievements as a people

C. Replace the study of folklores and myths with technical subjects

D. Set aside the study of local history

545. Which is in accordance with the “with-it-ness” principle of classroom management of Kounin?

A. Students agree to disagree in class discussions

B. Teacher is fully aware of what is happening in his classroom

C. Student is with his teacher in everything he teaches

D. Both parents and teachers are involved in the education of children

546. Below are questions that must be considered in developing appropriate learning activity experiences except one. Which is it?

A. Can experiences benefit the pupils?

B. Do the experiences save the pupils from learning difficulties?

C. Are the experiences in accordance with the patterns of pupils?

D. Do the experiences encourage pupils to inquire further?

547. Which is a characteristic of an imperfect type of matching test?

A. An item may have no answer at all

B. An answer may be repeated

C. There are two or more distracters

D. The items in the right and left columns are equal in number

548. Which is a proactive management practice?

A. Tell them that you enforce the rules on everyone, no exception

B. Set and clarify your rules and expectation on Day 1

C. Punish the misbehaving pupils in the presence of their classmates

D. Stress on penalty for every violation

549. I like to develop the synthesizing skills of my students. Which one should I do?

A. Ask my students to formulate a generalization from the data shown in the graphs

B. Direct my students to point out which part of the graph are right and which part is wrong

C. Ask my students to answer the questions beginning with “what if”

D. Tell my students to state data presented in the graph

550. To reach out to clientele who cannot be in the classroom for one reason or another, which of the following was established?

A. Informal

B. Special education (SPED)

C. Pre-school education

D. Alternative learning delivery system

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