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PART - I / भाग - I

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Direction : Answer the following questions (Q. Nos 1 to 30) by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
निर्देश : निम्नलिखित प्रश्नों (प्रश्न संख्या 1 से 30) के उत्तर सही/सबसे उपयुक्त विकल्पों का चयन करके दीजिए।

1. Children have the potential to create knowledge and make meaning. From this perspective the role of a teacher is that of a

A. Communicator and Lecturer
B. Facilitator
C. Director
D. Negotiator

 

2. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of gifted children?

A. High self efficacy
B. Below average mental processes
C. Solving problems insightfully 
D. Higher order mental processes

 

3. According to the pre-conventional level of Kohlberg's theory, to which of the following would an individual turn when making a moral decision?

A. Personal needs and desires
B. Individual values 
C. Family expectations
D. Potential punishment involved

 

 

 

4. Regarding learners' individual differences, the teacher should:

A. Solve the problems based on deductive method
B. Most of the time use algorithms
C. Provide facts to students to memorize them
D. Provide a variety of learning situations

 

5. Which one of the following is not the principle of child development? 

A. All areas of development are important
B. All development results from an interaction of maturation and experience 
C. All development and learning proceed at an equal rate
D. All development follows a sequence

 

6. Which one of the following would be the most effective way of conducting assessment? 

A. Assessment is an inbuilt process in teaching learning
B. Assessment should be done twice in an academic session at the beginning and at the end
C. Assessment should be done by an external agency and not by the teacher
D. Assessment should be at the end of the session

 

7. Which one of the following is related to creativity?

A. Convergent thinking 
B. Emotional thinking
C. Egoistic thinking
D. Divergent thinking

 

8. Which one of the following statements about children would Vygotsky agree with?

A. Children learn when they are offered lucrative rewards 
B. Children's thinking can be understood by conducting laboratory experiments on animals
C. Children are born 'evil' and need to be controlled through punishment
D. Children learn through social interaction with peers and adults

 

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9. Children are:

A. Adult-like in their thinking and there is a quantitative increase in their thinking as they grow up
B. Like empty vessels in which knowledge given by the adults is filled
C. Passive beings who can produce exact copies of the information transmitted to them
D. Curious beings who use their own logic and abilities to explore the world around them

 

10. Which of the following statements about children's errors is correct?

A. Children's errors are part of the learning process
B. Children commit errors when the teacher is lenient and does not punish them for mistakes
C. Children's errors are insignificant for the teacher and she should just strike out of the mistakes and not pay any attention to them
D. Children commit errors because they are careless

11. A teacher needs to ensure that all learners in her class feel accepted and valued. To do this, the teacher should:

A. Look down upon children from 'disadvantaged' background so that they feel they have to work harder
B. Find out students who speak 'good' English and are from 'rich' backgrounds and present them as role models
C. Get to know the social and cultural background of her students and encourage diverse opinions in the class
D. Make strict rules and punish children who do not follow them

 

12. Suresh generally likes to study alone in a quiet room whereas Madan likes to study in a group with his friends. This is because of difference in their.

A. Aptitudes
B. Learning styles
C. Levels of reflectivity
D. Values

 

13. India has a lot of linguistic diversity, In this context, what is the most appropriate statement about multilingual classrooms at primary level especially class I and II

A. The schools should admit only those students. whose mother tongue is the same as the language of instruction
B. The teacher should respect all languages and encourage children to communicate in all of them
C. The teacher should ignore children who use their mother tongue in the class 
D. Students should be penalized for using their mother tongue or local language

 

14. What is meant by 'nature' in 'nature-nurture" controversy?

A. Biological givens or the hereditary information
B. Temperament of an individual
C. Complex forces of the physical and social world 
D. The environment around us

 

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15. Mass Media is becoming a very important agency of socialization. Which one of the following is the most appropriate statement? 

A. Socialization is done by the parents and the family only 
B. Access to mass media is growing and mass media influences attitudes, values and beliefs
C. Children cannot directly interact with media
D. Media is a very good way to advertise and sell products 

 

16. How children learn? Which one of the following is not

A. Children learn when they are cognitively ready
B. Children learn in a number of ways
C. Children learn as they are naturally motivated
D. Children learn in class only.

 

17. Which one of the following strategies should a primary school teacher adopt to motivate her students?

A. Use incentives, rewards and punishment as motivating factors for each activity
B. Help children set goals as per their interests and support them in working towards the same
C. Set standard goals for the entire class and have rigid parameters to assess achievement of those goals
D. Encourage competition for marks amongst individual student

 

18. Which one of the following is the primary agent of socialization?

A. Computer 
B. Heredity 
C. Political parties
D. Family

 

19. Giving children group work is an effective pedagogic strategy since: 

A. It allows some children to dominate the others in small groups 
B. Children learn from each other and support each other in the learning process
C. Children will be able to do their work quickly 
D. It helps to reduce the teacher's work

 

20. A child with normal intelligence shows difficulty in reading and comprehending language. It indicates that the child is showing symptoms of:

A. Dysgraphia 
B. Dyscalculia
C. Dyspraxia 
D. Dyslexia

 

 

21. The period of infancy is from: 

A. Birth to 2 years
B. Birth to 1 year
C. 2 to 3 years
D. Birth to 3 years

 

22 . According to Piaget, a child between 2 to 7 years is in the ............ stage of cognitive development.

A. Formal operational 
B. Concrete operational
C. Sensorimotor
D. Preoperational

 

23 . Development proceeds from ............. to ...............

A. Complex  → hard
B. Specific  → general
C. Simple  → easy
D. General  → specific

24. When adults adjust to the assistance they provide to facilitate progression of the child from current level of performance to potential level of performance, it is called

A. Scaffolding
B. Participatory learning
C. Collaborative learning 
D. Proximal development

 

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25. The process of changing the existing schemas to include new information is called

 

A. Assimilation
B. Accommodation
C. Egocentrism
D. Adaptation

 

26. In middle childhood, speech is more ............. rather than ...........

A. Socialized, egocentric
B. Animistic, socialized
C. Mature, immature
D. Egocentric, socialized

 

27. The child centered education involves: 

A. Children sitting in a corner
B. Learning in restricted environment
C. Activities that do not include play
D. Hands on activities for kids Ruther

 

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28. The class teacher observed Raghav in her class playing melodious self-composed music on his keyboard. The class teacher thought that Raghav seemed to be high in ......... intelligence.

A. Bodily-kinesthetic
B. Musical
C. Linguistic
D. Spatial

 

29. When a teacher considers boys as naturally better at mathematics than girls, it shows that the teacher is:

A. Gender biased
B. Moralistic
C. Right-minded
D. Ethical

 

30. Inclusive education assumes that we should change the to fit the

A. System/child
B. Environment/family
C. Child/environment
D. Child/system

 

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