MCQ in Professional Education Practice Drills Part 20 | Licensure Exam for Teachers

(Last Updated On: August 8, 2023)

This is the ProfEd Practice Drills, Multiple Choice Questions in Professional Education part 20 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.

951. A political boss builds a school in a distant barrio in order to get the votes for an unworthy and corrupt candidate. Is the action of the political boss moral?

A. No, the candidate is undeserving

B. No, his move was not meant for good effect

C. Yes, the votes were exchanged for the school built

D. Yes, it was his duty to strategies for his candidate to win

952. The teacher’s first task in the selection of media in teaching is to determine the:

A. Choice of the teacher

B. Availability of the media

C. Technique to be used

D. Choice of the students

953. Which is the true foundation of the social order?

A. Strong political leadership

B. The reciprocation of rights and duties

C. Equitable distribution of wealth

D. Obedient citizen

954. All the examinees obtained scores below the mean. A graphic representation of the score distribution will be:

A. Perfect normal curve

B. Negatively skewed

C. Positively skewed

D. Leptokurtic

955. In a normal distribution curve, a T-score of 70 is:

A. Two SDs above the mean

B. Two SDs below the mean

C. One SD below the mean

D. One SD above the mean

956. Which one stifles student’s initiative?

A. “Bahala na”

B. “Utang na loob”

C. Rationalism

D. Extreme authoritarianism

957. The following are trends in marking and reporting system, except:

A. Supplementing subject grades with checklist on traits

B. Conducting parent-teacher conferences as often as needed

C. Raising the passing grade from 70 to 80

D. Indicating strong points as well as those needing improvement

958. Which is a type of graph in which lines represent each score or set of scores?

A. Histogram

B. Scatter gram

C. Scatter plot

D. Frequency polygon

959. Which is an example of a perfect duty?

A. Paying the worker the wages agreed upon

B. Donating an amount for a noble project

C. Giving alms to the needy

D. Supporting a poor but deserving student to school

960. In what way can instructional aides enhance learning?

A. Entertain student

B. Hold students in the classroom

C. Reinforce learning

D. Take the place of the teacher

961. The study on types of reading exercises gives practice in:

A. All sorts of study methods

B. Reading skills needed in other project

C. Recognizing the precise meaning of words

D. Picking out the man ideas

962. How students learn may be more important than what they learn. From this principle, which of the following is particularly important?

A. Knowing how to solve a problem

B. Solving a problem within time allotted

C. Getting the right answer to a word problem

D. Determining the given

963. Which illustrates vicarious punishment?

A. We feel so bad to a classmate who is punished for being tardy so we convince him go to school on time

B. Out of comparison, we volunteer to get punished in place of a friend

C. We charge to experience our being punished

D. See someone get punished for habitual tardiness. In effect, we are less likely to be tardy

964. Teacher Marissa wants to review and check on the lesson of the previous day? Which one will be most reliable?

A. Having students correct each other’s work

B. Having students identify difficult homework problems

C. Explicitly reviewing the task relevant information for the day’s lesson

D. Sampling the understanding of a few students

965. To promote effective practice, which guideline should you bear in mind? Practice should be ______.

A. Difficult for students to learn a lesson

B. Arranged to allow students to receive feedback

C. Done in an evaluative atmosphere

D. Take place over a long period of time

966. Which is one role of play in the pre-school and early childhood years?

A. Separates reality from fantasy

B. Develops the upper and lower limbs

C. Develop competitive spirit

D. Increase imagination due to expanding knowledge and emotional range

967. For which may you use the direct instruction method?

A. Use a microscope properly

B. Distinguish war from aggression

C. Appreciate Milton’s Paradise Lost

D. Become aware of the pollutants around us

968. By what name is indirect instruction or Socratic methods also known?

A. Questioning method

B. Morrison method

C. Indirect method

D. Mastery learning

969. Which does not belong to the group of alternative learning systems?

A. Multi-age grouping

B. Multi-grade grouping

C. Non-graded grouping

D. Graded education

970. Student Ben was asked to report to the Guidance Office. Student Ben and his classmates at once remarked. “What’s wrong?” What does this imply?

A. Reporting to a Guidance Office is often associated with misbehavior

B. Student Ben is a “problem” student

C. Guidance counselors are perceived to be “almighty and omniscient”

D. The parents of Students Ben must be of the delinquent type

971. A teacher combined several subject areas in order to focus on a single concept for interdisciplinary teaching. Which strategy/method did he use?

A. Unit method

B. Thematic instruction

C. Problem entered learning

D. Reading-writing method

972. Which is a major advantage of curriculum-based assessment?

A. It tends to focus on anecdotal information on student’s progress

B. It is based on a norm referenced measurement model

C. It is informal in nature

D. It connects testing with teaching

973. A school Division Superintendent was enthusiastically lecturing on the Accreditation Program for Public Elementary Schools (APPES), its benefits and demands. Thinking of its many demands, most of the school heads were not very happy about it and the older one were whispering “we have very reason to retire soon.”

What does this tell about the change process?

A. People resist change for no reason

B. People tend to resist change

C. Resistance to change is insurmountable

D. Leadership can affect the desired change in persons despite opposition from the persons themselves.

974. I want to engage my students in small group discussion. Which topic lends itself to a lively discussion?

A. The meaning of the law of supply and demand

B. Rules on subject-verb agreement

C. The law of inertia

D. The exclusion of Pluto as a planet

975. In which of the following would programmed learning to be most likely to be found?

A. In a class divided into small groups

B. Independent study

C. In dyadic groups

D. In a class where teacher tries to individualized instruction

976. A master teacher, the resource speaker in an in-service training, presented the situated learning theory and encouraged her colleagues to apply the same in class. Which did she not encourage her colleagues to do?

A. Apprenticeship

B. Learning as it normally occurs

C. Authentic problem solving

D. Decontextualized teaching

977. Which is the ultimate aim of classroom management?

A. To set up condition that brings about effective teaching and learning

B. To secure conformity to rules with ease

C. To make children realize that they cannot do everything they want

D. To remove the physical condition in the room

978. Under which teaching strategy does a School’s division practice of assigning a Girl Scout to serve as Superintendent of the Day or Mayor of the Day for leadership training fall?

A. Panel discussion

B. Symposium

C. Simulation

D. Dramatization

979. The grades make valid indicators of students’ achievements. Which process should be observed?

A. Explaining the meaning of marks and grades

B. Defining the course objective as intended learning outcomes

C. Adopting letter grades such as A, B, C and D

D. Giving objective type of tests

980. Who are not covered by the Code of Ethics of Professional Teachers?

A. All full time or part time public and private school teacher and administrator

B. Teachers of academic, vocational, special, technical or non-formal institution

C. Teacher in the tertiary level

D. Teacher in all educational institutions at all levels

981. Which of the UNESCO’s four pillars of education is most related to peace education?

A. Learning to do

B. Learning to know

C. Learning to live

D. Learning to be

982. The failure of independent study with most Filipino students may be attributed to students’ ______.

A. high degree of independence

B. ambiance

C. unpreparedness for schooling

D. high degree of dependence on authority

983. Where do you make the correction of your notes while using the overhead projector?

A. On the slide

B. On the overhead projector

C. On the projector wall

D. On the screen

984. Authority comes from God and is meant to:

A. Help those given the authority to do their task

B. Distinguish those with authority from those without

C. Be lorded over others

D. Make the subjects of authority recognize their superiors

985. A person, who has had painful experiences at the dentist’s office, may become fearful at the mere sight of the dentist’s office building. Which theory can explain this?

A. Classical conditioning

B. Generalization

C. Operant conditioning

D. Attribution theory

986. One strength of an autobiography as a technique for personality appraisal is that ________.

A. It may be read by unauthorized people

B. It can replace data obtained from other data-gathering technique

C. It makes possible the presentation of intimate experiences

D. It gives complete data about the author

987. All of the following describe the development of children aged eleven to thirteen, except:

A. Sex differences in IQ become more evident

B. They exhibit increased objectivity in thinking

C. They shift from impulsivity to adaptive ability

D. They show abstract thinking and judgment

988. The environment in order to facilitate learning must be interactive. Which of the following best typifies this kind of environment?

A. The child listens to a lecture on fossils given by the teacher

B. The child goes out and discovers for himself some rock or fossil

C. The child summarize the section on fossils in his science textbook

D. The child copies a list of facts concerning fossils on the blackboard

989. Social development means the acquisition of the ability to behave in accordance with:

A. Stereotyped behavior

B. Social expectation

C. Social insight

D. Universal norms

990. When an adolescent combines ability to use deductive and inductive reasoning in constructing realistic rules that he can respect and live by, how does he perceive his environment?

A. He views the world from his own perspective

B. He sees the world and himself through the eyes of other people

C. He interprets events form a limited views

D. He sees events apart from himself and other people

991. The authoritarian setting in the Filipino home is reinforced by a classroom teacher who:

A. Is open to suggestions

B. Encourage pupils to ask questions

C. Prescribes what pupils should do

D. Ask open ended questions

992. The Constitutional provision on language has the following aim, except:

A. To make Filipino the sole medium of instruction

B. To make the regional dialect as auxiliary media of instructions in regional school

C. To maintain English as a second language

D. To make Filipino the national Language and medium of instruction and communication

993. The tendency to emphasize so much on school beautification to the detriment of pupils’ performance illustrates the:

A. Filipino’s lack of seriousness

B. Filipino’s love for “porma”

C. Filipino’s lack of reflection

D. Filipino’s sense of humor

994. In order to avoid disgrace, a pregnant, unmarried woman takes drugs to induce abortion. Is she morally justified to do that?

A. Yes, it can save her and child from disgrace when he grows up

B. No, the act of inducing abortion is bad in itself

C. No, the unborn child cannot be made to suffer the consequences of the sins of his parents

D. No, it is better to prevent the child from coming into the world who will suffer very much due to the absence of a father

995. In which way does heredity affect the development of the learner?

A. By placing limits beyond which the learner cannot develop

B. By providing equal potential to all

C. By compensating for what environment fails to develop

D. By blocking the influence of environment

996. A child refuse to obey orders or displays negativism as a development trait. How may you best handle him?

A. Detain him after office hours for him do to what he has been ordered to do

B. Take every opportunity to praise him for every positive attitude display

C. Insist on compliance to the same degree required of pupils

D. Avoid giving him orders if you do and he objects take back the order

997. If a resilient child with superior intelligence is reared in a poor environment the probable outcome would be:

A. No change in IQ because environment deprivation has nothing to do with intelligence

B. Mental retardation since he is culturally deprived

C. Slight change in IQ although he can overcome frustration and obstacle

D. Great change in IQ because he is culturally deprived

998. Section 5, Article XIV, of the Constitution states that academic freedom shall be enjoyed in:

A. Public assemblies

B. All institution of higher learning

C. State colleges and universities

D. All levels of learning

999. A teacher who subscribes to the pragmatic philosophy of education believes that experience should follow learning in her teaching, she therefore exerts effort in:

A. Encouraging learners to memorize factual knowledge

B. Providing learners opportunities to apply theories and principles

C. Equipping learners with the basic abilities and skills

D. Requiring learners full mastery of the lesson

1000. As a parent and at the same time a teacher, which of the following will you do to show your cooperation to a PTA project in your school to be financed with the proceeds of the sales of the school canteen where food prices are little bit higher?

A. Bring food for you and your children, but always make it a point to buy in the school canteen

B. Buy all your food in the school canteen but request for a discount

C. Bring food enough for you and your children but do not eat in the canteen

D. Buy all your food from the school canteen even if you cannot afford to do every day

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