1. The trial and error method of learning according to Thorndike could be classified as under
(a) The principle of multiple responses
(b) The law of exercise
(c) The principle of partial activity
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(d) The principle of Associative learning
2. Liberalism in education, when it was claimed by universities of the world since the 19th century, meant
(a) Freedom to be given to education from the clutches of religion
(b)Favoring liberal education as opposed to special education
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(c)Academic freedom for teachers in instruction
(d) Administrative freedom to universities to run the institution
3. The term ‘Evaluation’ and ‘Assessment’ could be discriminated as follows :
(a)Assessment is limited to coverage achievement whereas evaluation is qualitative in character
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(b) Evaluation is concerned with the effective aspects of achievement whereas assessment judges the cognitive aspects
(c) Evaluation involves the measurement as well as diagnosis of students’ attainments, whereas assessment is concerned with only scholastic attainments.
(d)Assessment is an attempt to measure the pupil as whole whereas evaluation is concerned with his achievement only
4. Naturalism in education means
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(a) Introduction of physical sciences in education
(b)Giving more importance to mind than to matter
(c) Making discrimination between mind and consciousness
(d) Supporting both mind and consciousness equally
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5. The industrial revolution that started in the West to begin with had the following effect on education
(a) Shifting the emphasis from the lower class culture to the middle class culture
(b) Shifting the centre of gravity from the middle to the lower class culture
(c) Introduction of mass educational programmes
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(d)Introduction of vocationalisation of education
6. Any deterrents are negative in character
(a)When they prevent children from doing wrong
(b)When they prevent doing wrong but do not reform children
(c) When they are administered owing to some misunderstanding
(d)When they are administered with a negative motive
7. Industries near the towns cause
(a) Pollution
(b) Finished material
(c) Security
(d) Employment
8. It is absurd to say that there can be
(a) A pollution due to noise
(b) Education causes pollution
(c) Transport vehicles cause pollution
(d) All of the above
9. Which of the following will not hamper effective communication in the class?
(a) An ambiguous statement
(b)A lengthy statement
(c)A precise statement
(d)A statement which allows the listener to draw his own conclusions
10. If a student is constantly rubbing his eyes and is inattentive during blackboard work he is having
(a) Adjustment problem
(b) Hearing problem
(c) Visual problem
(d) All of the above
11. Play therapy is adopted in the study of children in order to
(a) Make the educational process joyful
(b) To understand the inner motives and complexes of children
(c) Make education more activity centred
(d) Highlight the importance of play activities in education
12. The most powerful barrier of communication in the classroom is
(a) Noise in the classroom
(b) Confusion on the part of the teacher
(c) Lack of teaching aids
(d) More outside disturbance in the class room
13. It is said that there is an urgent need of anticulation among schools and colleges, this problem of articulation is concerned with
(a)Provision of better administrative facilities
(b) Appointment of talented teachers
(c)Communication and closer relationship among teachers
(d)Better facilities for in-service training of teachers
14. The most important challenge before a teacher is
(a) To maintain discipline in the classroom
(b) To make students do their home work
(c) To prepare question paper
(d) To make teaching-learning process enjoyable
15. The idea that Basic Education is education through crafts
(a)True as far as the rural areas are concerned
(b)The whole truth of the schemes
(c) The complete truth even for urban areas
(d) True to some extent only because the concept is deeper
16. The term prejudice in a person is coloured by
(a) A hasty judgement about a situation with an unfavourable
(b) Judgement and assessment of a situation without any favoritism
(c) Partial observation and acquaintance of a situation without any motives
(d) Pre-judgement of a situation with a view to settle a conflict in haste
17. Suppose you are teaching in a minority college where casteism and narrow mindedness victimize you, for better adjustment there you should
(a) Uplift the humanistic values beyond these narrow walls and develop scientific temper in your students
(b) Rebel against such attitudes as it is against the norms of the Indian society
(c) Be submissive there and save your job at all costs
(d) None of the above
18. Suppose you want to teach your students to develop factual knowledge of a subject. Which of the following methods would be suitable in your opinion?
(a) The demonstration method
(b) The lecturer method
(c) The heuristic method
(d) The source method
19. Of the doctrine of immanence it can be said truthfully that it
(a) Pictures the world as an unfriendly place
(b) Implies that knowledge of the good is in the world about us
(c) distrusts the senses and unaided reason
(d) Supports Plato’s theory of reality
20. The sociologist feels that, if men expect to put an end to prejudice and race conflict, they will have to give major attention to
(a) Legislating human rights for minorities
(b) Putting into effect the “melting pot theory”
(c) Re-establishing ethnocentrism
(d) Remedying social abuses and reducing conflict
21. Boarding schools are considered to be better than the day schools because
(a) They help children in their social development
(b) They are helpful in freeing parents from their responsibilities
(c) They save the trouble for children to walk to school from homes
(d) They are meant for homeless and parentless children
22. Which one of the following is an ODD statement?
(a) Majority of teachers use lectures method
(b) Knowledge is static
(c) Most of the classrooms are poorly equipped
(d) One way interaction prevails in the classrooms
23. Which has the greatest potential for education through audio-visual means?
(a) SITE programmes
(b) Teaching machine
(c) The language laboratory
(d) The Computer
24. Teaching in higher education implies
(a) Asking questions in the class and conducting examinations
(b) Presenting the information given in the text book
(c) Helping students to prepare for and pass the examination
(d) Helping students how to learn
25. Any deterrents are negative in character
(a) When they prevent children from doing wrong
(b) When they prevent doing wrong but do not reform children
(c) When they are administered owing to some misunderstanding
(d) When they are administered with a negative motive
26. The approach to the concept of learning was different for Dewey and White Head in the following sense:
(a) Dewey’s approach was logical whereas White Head’s approach was philosophical
(b)Dewey thought of learning in pragmatic terms whereas White Head thought in terms of cultural aspects
(c) Dewey thought of learning as an end in it where as White Head thought about it as a means
(d) Dewey thought of learning in experimental terms while white Head thought of it in more esthetic terms.
27. Effective teaching, by and large is a function of
(a) Teacher’s honesty
(b)Teacher’s scholarship
(c) Teacher’s making students learn and understand
(d)Teacher likes for the job of teaching
28. Cultural pluralism is based on the concept that
(a) America is the “Melting Pot” for various foreign stocks
(b)The American culture for all
(c) It is incompatible with democracy
(d) Our culture is variegated and dynamic, each group of immigrants contributing towards its enrichment
29. To say that the adolescents are rebellions in nature, will be regarded by experts as
(a) A misconception
(b) A necessary character at that stage
(c) And objective description of facts
(d) An effect of the environment
30. The competency of a teacher can be judged on the basis
(a) Length of service
(b) Publication of books
(c) Meeting needs of students
(d) Personality of teacher
31. A teacher who believes in the realistic philosophy of education would
(a) Support strict control and supervision to make children understand human race and culture
(b) Not allow control and pressure on students to learn what they want to learn
(c) Oppose supervision and interference of the teacher with the interests of students.
(d) Allow full freedom to students in learning, following a non-interference policy.
32. Liberalism in education, when it was claimed by universities of the world since the 19th century, meant
(a) Freedom to be given to education from the clutches of religion
(b) Favoring liberal education as opposed to special education
(c) Academic freedom for teachers in instruction
(d) Administrative freedom to universities to run the institution
33. My reaction to the statement: A good teacher is essentially a good researcher” is that this is
(a) My firm belief
(b) Something find difficult to agree to
(c) Something which I accept only as an opinion
(d) Only a hypothesis
34. The development of feelings of appreciation and interests come under the category of:
(a) Cognitive development of personality
(b) Cognitive developmental aspects
(c) Psycho-motor development of emotions
(d) Affective aspects of development
35. The state of the psyche designated as super ego by the Psycho-analysts, if found:
(a) In higher animal also
(b) Among human beings alone
(c)Among men practising yogic exercises
(d) Among men and animals as well
36. As an idealist, which of the following maxim would you think to correct about the problem of discipline?
(a) The child should be trained to practice restraint with only limited freedom
(b) Discipline should be imposed from outsiders and teachers with full control
(c) The child should be allowed full-freedom without any restraint
(d) The child is subjected to fear and control to train him to desist from doing wrong
37. Fundamental duties of citizens were provided
(a) Education department
(b) By the school principle
(c)H.R.D. Ministry
(d) In the Constitution of India
38. Afferent nerve fibres carry impulses from
(a) Effectors organs to CNS
(b) CNS to receptor
(c)Receptors to CNS
(d) CNS to muscles
39. Education cultivates faculties which are
(a) Moral
(b) Aesthetic
(c) Intellectual
(d) All of these
40. Object of education according to Durkhime is
(a) Cultivate physical activities
(b) Awaken the child to learn
(c)Games and competition
(d) All of the above
41. Which of the following statement is in correct?
(a) In U.S.A., in the year 1937, the Federal Government felt the necessity of population education in order to check the decline of population and to increase the same. But gradually that country felt the need of such education in order to check the high growth of population. Thus the term population education is applied either to increase or to decrease the rate of growth of population as per the need of situation of a nation of the world.
(b) ‘Population Education’, which is one of the recent topics that we have introduced in our syllabus, was first used in Sweden in 1935, when the population education commission of the country to generate public awareness about the increase of the rate of growth
(c) The purpose of population education is to develop awareness and understanding of the relations between population growth and national development both in short and long run and to develop and understanding of the consequences of individual decisions in the important area of reproductive behaviour. A population awareness programme, therefore, should be provided the facts of population dynamic, of family life, of human reproduction that children will need.
(d) None of these
42. Nerve transmission is
(a) Mechanical process
(b) Chemical process
(c) Biological process
(d) Physical process
43. A ganglion connected with spinal reflex is present in
(a)White matter around grey matter of spinal cord
(b) Dorsal root of a spinal nerve
(c) Ventral horn of grey matter
(d) Ventral root of a spinal nerve
44. The student centred plan is most favourable in the matter of
(a) Articulation
(b) Balance
(c) Continuity
(d) All of the above
45. The term “Co-curricular activities” is a popular one for all educational institutions. Which of the following would you regard as a co- curricular activity?
(a) Debating competitions
(b) Collection of funds for school building
(c) Foot-ball matches
(d) Tournaments
46. If a curriculum maker follows the subjective theory of values in education, he will’
(a) Not insist on the inclusive of any subject in the curriculum if pupils or parents are not interested in it
(b) Disregard the interests of children the parents for the inclusive of any subject in the curriculum
(c) Implement the study of subject forits inherent values to fulfill the needs of students
(d) Care more for the content aspects than for the methodological
47. Twelve pairs of ribs and twelve pairs of nerves occurs in
(a) Fish
(b) Snake
(b) Frog
(d) Man
48. The interaction between teachers and students or between buyers and sellers is classified by the sociologists as a social inter action of
(a) The secondary type
(b) The multiple types
(c) The primary type
(d) The responsive type One undertakes research
49. One undertakes research
(a) To verify what has already been established
(b) To describe and explain a new phenomenon
(c) To refute what has already been accepted as a fact
(d) To do one or the other of the above
50. Who realised the urgent need for the reform of rigid, lifeless, meaningless curriculum
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawahar Lai Nehru
(c) Subhash Chandra Bose
(d) Lai Bahadur Shastri
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1.(a) |
2. (c) |
3. (c) |
4. (a) |
5. (b) |
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6. (b) |
7. (a) |
8. (b) |
9. (c) |
10. (c) |
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11(b) |
12. (b) |
13. (c) |
14. (d) |
15. (d) |
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16. (a) |
17. (a) |
18. (b) |
19. (b) |
20.(a) |
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21(a) |
22. (a) |
23. (a) |
24. (d) |
25. (b) |
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26. (d) |
27.(d) |
28. (d) |
29. (a) |
30. (c) |
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31(a) |
32.(c) |
33. (a) |
34.(d) |
35.(b) |
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36. (a) |
37.(d) |
38. (a) |
39. (d) |
40. (d) |
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41(d) |
42. (d) |
43. (b) |
44.(a) |
45. (a) |
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46. (c) |
47. (a) |
48. (a) |
49. (a) |
50. (a) |