Teacher Soliman is new to the teaching profession.

He is an English teacher who emphasizes on the basic

English skills. What philosophical basis does Teacher Soliman base his teaching methods on?

Answer Provided: Essentialism

Correct Answer: Essentialism

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The principal emphasized to his high school teachers the importance of treating each high school
student as a free-thinking and responsible individual. She told her teachers to think of each one as
unique and one should not make generalizations when interacting or providing instructions to them.
According to the above instructions, which philosophical foundation of educations does the principal
lean on?

Answer Provided: Existentialism

Correct Answer: Existentialism

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College students have the option to join the ROTC and the secondary level students have the option to
take part in the CAT. The military training requirement in school is influenced by what ancient culture?

Answer Provided: Romans

Correct Answer: Romans

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Mr. Somogod makes his social science class reflect on what social issue they are most concerned with.
He then instructs them to write an essay about what they can do on their part to create a positive
change in society regarding that social issue. This activity is consistent with what philosophical
foundation of education?

Answer Provided: Existentialism

Correct Answer: Social Reconstructiovism

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The Boy Scout Program and the Citizens Army Training aims to build character of the students. The long
term goal of these programs is to improve the quality of citizens in the society. What educational
philosophy supports this goal?

Answer Provided: Social Reconstructionism

Correct Answer: Social Reconstructionism

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In South Korea, male students are required to go through military training at a certain age. This leads to
the creation of a new social order. Eventually, this practice will lead to a generation of citizens with
character and discipline and this practice will eventually lead to an improved society. What philosophy
supports this practice?

Answer Provided: Existentialism

Correct Answer: Social Reconstructionism

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Miss Tolentino, the adviser of Grade 7 Kalayaan, puts a lot of significance in values development and self-
discipline. What educational philosophical foundation does she abide with?

Answer Provided: Social Reconstructionism

Correct Answer: Idealism

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A teacher from the city is assigned to a school in the rural areas. He took it upon himself to learn the
culture and the unique social sctucture of the community. Why is it necessary for teachers to do this in
each new community?

Answer Provided: To develop sympathy towards the unique situations of each student

Correct Answer: To develop sympathy towards the unique situations of each student

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A pair of grade two classmates had a fight. Miss Almendros, the class adviser, instructed the two
students to stay after class. What is the best approach for Miss Almendros to resolve the issue and to
develop the social cognitive growth of the children?

Answer Provided: Probe the students for the reason behind the disagreement and guide them on how
work out the situation on their own

Correct Answer: Probe the students for the reason behind the disagreement and guide them on how
work out the situation on their own

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Mrs. Vargas is charged with refining the skills of three year-olds in her day care. Which of the following
tasks should she avoid?

Answer Provided: Activities that require fine and dexterous motor skills like origami and cutting paper
chains

Correct Answer: Activities that require fine and dexterous motor skills like origami and cutting paper
chains

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In a baby’s physical development in the womb of the mother, at what stage does the spinal cord of the
developing baby begin to develop?

Answer Provided: Fetal Stage

Correct Answer: Fetal Stage

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A fertilized egg is also known as a/an...

Answer Provided: zygote

Correct Answer: zygote

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How many months does it take to create a baby from conception to birth for a normal baby?

Answer Provided: 9

Correct Answer: 9

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Which one is not a characteristic of Philippine education during the American Period?

Answer Provided: Use of Filipino as the language of instruction

Correct Answer: Use of Filipino as the language of instruction

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Which one is not a characteristic of Philippine education during the Spanish times?

Answer Provided: Introduction of a democratic way of life

Correct Answer: Introduction of a democratic way of life

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Among the proponents of behavioral theories in education, who proposed that the mind of an infant is
blank slate? He also theorized that responses serve as building blocks for development.

Answer Provided: Lev Vygotsky

Correct Answer: John Watson

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Who is the proponent of the cognitive development theory that states the child gains input through
senses, processes them through his or her cognitive abilities and creates outputs using language and
creative thinking?

Answer Provided: James Logan

Correct Answer: Jerome Bruner

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In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, at what stage do children learn to solve abstract
problems in a logical fashion?

Answer Provided: Formal Operations Stage

Correct Answer: Formal Operations Stage

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In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, at what stage does the child exhibit lack of object
permanence?

Answer Provided: Formal Operations Stage

Correct Answer: Sensorimotor stage

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Sigmund Freud divided a child’s development into five stages; Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency and Genital.
What is the name of his theory that became the basis of many psychological theories of development?

Answer Provided: Psychoanalytic Theory

Correct Answer: Psychoanalytic Theory

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Which of the following is false about the growth and development of a child?
Answer Provided: Maturity and development happen at exactly the same rate for each child

Correct Answer: Maturity and development happen at exactly the same rate for each child

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Which of the following is false about the growth and development of a child?

Answer Provided: A child can skip the basics when learning advanced skills

Correct Answer: A child can skip the basics when learning advanced skills

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Which of the following is false about the growth and development of a child?

Answer Provided: Emotional intelligence is not as significant as cognitive development

Correct Answer: Emotional intelligence is not as significant as cognitive development

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Which of these show the basic social units of a child’s environment:

Answer Provided: School, Family, Church, Neighborhood

Correct Answer: School, Family, Peer Group, Neighborhood

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Michael and Alonzo are brothers. Alonzo is six years older than Michael. At age 18, Alonzo is already
planning a 5-year plan. He spends his free time planning where he wants to be in five years. Michael on
the other hand, spends most of his free time playing computer games and browsing social media. Based
on this example, what process has Alonzo went through that Michael has yet to undergo?

Answer Provided: Social skills development

Correct Answer: Maturity

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Clarence and Dorothy both have black hair. Jody, their daughter also has black hair. This example exhibits
what process?

Answer Provided: Heredity

Correct Answer: Heredity

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The brain develops first before the feet do. This shows that growth is…

Answer Provided: Cephalocaudal

Correct Answer:

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When an individual is growing, he or she gradually shows simple to complex characteristics associated
with the stage of life that he or she is in. What is this process called?

Answer Provided: Adulthood

Correct Answer: Development

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When Eli started Grade 1, he would try to hurt other children when they would not give them what he
wants. He would also punch and kick adults when they try to subdue him. When he was in Grade 2, Eli
now learned that kicking and punching is wrong. He learned that he would not have a lot of friends if he
keeps doing it. What type of development did Eli undergo?

Answer Provided: Sociopathic Development

Correct Answer: Moral Development

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In elementary and secondary schools, which subject has the goal similar to that of Rome's utilitarian
form of education?

Answer Provided: TLE

Correct Answer: TLE

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A group of students were asked to make an essay of what their plans are when they grow up. Half of the
students in the class wrote that they plan to marry a foreigner and become a citizen of another country.
Which responsibility regarding the state and school does the teacher need to work on?

Answer Provided: Importance of love in the family

Correct Answer: Promotion of national pride

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Which of the following choices does not fall under the anthropological view of education?
Answer Provided: Education is a tool for learning new topics

Correct Answer:

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At what stage does the learner begin to becomes confused and starts to experience identity crisis?

Answer Provided: Adolescent

Correct Answer: Adolescent

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Which of the following will trigger additional development if a child is exposed to more challenges and
stimuli in his surroundings?

Answer Provided: Intelligence

Correct Answer: Intelligence

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Social adjustment means the ability to behave in accordance with?

Answer Provided: Stereotyped behavior

Correct Answer: Social expectations

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Psychologically, there is unity in all learning. However, there are distinct types of learning that are
recognized. One is Affective learning that involves:

Answer Provided: Acquisition of attitudes, ideals, judgment and values

Correct Answer: Acquisition of attitudes, ideals, judgment and values

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Children’s interests are generally largely dependent on their experiences. Which of the following is an
implication of this statement?

Answer Provided: The curriculum should provide vital experiences if the school must use its
opportunities to develop interest.
Correct Answer: The curriculum should provide vital experiences if the school must use its opportunities
to develop interest.

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The child’s concept of right and wrong is based on external criteria laid down by adults during the stage
of pre-conventional morality. This is based on the ideas of?

Answer Provided: Kohlberg

Correct Answer: Kohlberg

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Bruno’s mother noticed that her son always wants to get her attention and is jealous of his father. Bruno
then can be classified under what psychoanalytic stage of development?

Answer Provided: Phallic

Correct Answer: Phallic

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Classical conditioning theory is always attributed to him for his experiment involving the dog’s salivation
as a reaction to the sound of the buzzer.

Answer Provided: Pavlov

Correct Answer: Pavlov

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A popular mass education for the Filipinos under the American regime came into being upon the passage
of ________.

Answer Provided: Act No. 74 in 1901

Correct Answer: Act No. 74 in 1901

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The singing of the National Anthem is an offshoot of the philosophical ideals of ________.

Answer Provided: Nationalism

Correct Answer: Nationalism

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Who expounded on the need to study the child carefully for individualized instruction?

Answer Provided: De Feltre

Correct Answer: Erasmus

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Which of these philosophies is reflective of that Dewey’s which stresses the development of an
individual capable of reflective thinking specially that of being able to solve the problem he faces
individually or collectively?

Answer Provided: Experimentation

Correct Answer: Developmentalism

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Which of the following is a mandate of the 1987 Constitution that the state shall maintain to fight
illiteracy?

Answer Provided: Education at all levels should be free and compulsory.

Correct Answer: Free education in both elementary and high school and compulsory in elementary
education for all children of school age

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“The control and the administration of all educational institutions shall be vested in the citizens of the
Philippines” is stipulated in ________.

Answer Provided: 1987 Constitution

Correct Answer: 1987 Constitution

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Which of these statements regarding professional teachers is the major difference in the
professionalization of teachers and teaching as promulgated in Presidential Decree 1006 and Republic
Act 7836?

Answer Provided: Assigned at the tertiary level in both private and state colleges and universities.

Correct Answer: Holder of valid professional licensure and certificate of recognition.

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Which of these “combination of classes” is organized in places where the required number of pupils of
the same grade levels has not met the required number to make up a separate class thus the teacher
apportions class time for instruction to every grade level within the class?

Answer Provided: Multi-grade class

Correct Answer: Multi-grade class

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Manual-aesthetic activities involving attitudes and feelings are primarily expressive of emotions and
values not thoughts. An example of this motor skill is ________.

Answer Provided: Dancing and playing musical instruments.

Correct Answer: Dancing and playing musical instruments.

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Consider these motivational theories:

I. Humanism

II. Cognitivism

III. Behaviorism.

Which of these theories views the consequences of behavior as regulator and controller of an
individual’s action?

Answer Provided: III only

Correct Answer: III only

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