Professional Education Practice Quiz| Volume 2 Part 6
This is the Multiple Choice Questions in Professional Education part 1 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 questions 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
Practice Exam Test Questions
Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.
1. In a positively skewed distribution, the following statement are true except
A. Median is higher than the mode.
B. Mean is higher than the Media.
C. Mean is lower than the Mode
D. Mean is not lower than the Mode.
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Option C
2. Which of the following questions indicate a norm - referred interpretation?
A. How does the pupils test performance in our school compare with that of other schools?
B. How does a pupil's test performance in reading and mathematics compare?
C. What type of remedial work will be most helpful for a slow- learning pupil?
D. Which pupils have achieved master of computational skills?
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Option A
3. What is the performance of a student in the National Achievement Test (NAT) if he obtained/got a stanine score of 5?
A. Between average and above average
B. Between average and below average
C. Below average
D. Average
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Option D
4. Based on the figure, which is true about the distribution?
A. Mean=55, median=48, mode=34
B. Mean=46, median=40, mode=37
C. Mean=63, median=63, mode=63
D. The distribution is mesokrutic
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Option C
5. If quartile deviation is to median, what is to mean?
A. Standard deviation
B. Mode
C. Range
D. Variance
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Option A
6. In a normal distribution, which of the following is true?
A. median=mode=mean
B. median≠mode=mean
C. median≠mode≠mean
D. Mean=median=mode
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Option D
7. Which of the following situations may lower the validity of test?
A. Mrs. Josea increases the number of items measuring each specific skill from three to five.
B. Mr. Santosa simplifies the language in the directions for the test.
C. Miss. Lopeza removes the items in the achievement test that everyone would be able to answer correctly.
D. None of the above.
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Option D
8. In a negatively skewed distribution, which of the following statements is true?
A. Mode is lower than the mean.
B. Mean is lower than the mode.
C. Median is higher than the mode.
D. Mode is lower than the median.
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Option B
9. In a negatively skewed distribution, the following statements are true EXCEPT?
A. Mean is not higher than the median
B. Median is lower than the mode.
C. Mean is lower than the mode.
D. Mode is less than the median.
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Option D
10. Miss Cortez administered a test to her class and the result is positively skewed. What kind of test do you think Miss Cortez gave to her pupils?
A. Post test
B. Pretest
C. Mastery test
D. Criterion-referenced test
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Option B
11. The result of the test given by teacher A showed a negatively skewed distribution. What kind of test did Teacher A give?
A. The test is difficult
B. It is not too easy nor too difficult
C. It is moderately difficult
D. It is easy
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Option D
12. When the distribution is skewed to the right, what kind of test was administered?
A. Difficult
B. Easy
C. Average/moderately difficult
D. Partly easy- partly difficult
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Option A
13. In a negatively skewed distribution, what kind of students does Teacher B have?
A. Very good
B. Very poor
C. Average
D. Heterogeneous
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Option A
14. In a positively skewed distribution, the students are?
A. Very good
B. Very poor
C. Average
D. Normally distributed
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Option B
15. In a positively skewed distribution, which of the following statements is true?
A. Mode = 67 while Media = 54
B. Median = 53 while Mean = 41
C. Mean = 73 while Mode = 49
D. Median = 34 while Mode = 42
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Option C
16. Which statements represent criterion-referenced interpretation?
A. Lucresia did better in solving the linear equation than 80% of representative Algebra students.
B. Lucresia's score indicates that she is able to solve about two thirds of all one-variable linear equations of such complexity.
C. Students who have reached Lucresia's level on linear equations usually succeed in the subsequent unit on simultaneous equations with special help or extra time; i.e., Lucresia is ready to move ahead.
D. All of the above
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Option B
17. Bernard obtained a 97 percentile rank in an aptitude test. This means
A. He answered 97% of the items correctly.
B. He belongs to the 97% of the group who took the test.
C. 79% of the examinees did better than her on the test.
D. He surpassed 97% of those who took the test.
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Option D
18. Which set of scores has the least variability?
Set 1 0,5,10,15,20
Set 2 25,35,45,55
Set 3 0,2,8,15,20
Set 4 505,501,503
A. Set 1
B. Set 2
C. Set 3
D. Set 4
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Option D
19. Standard deviation is to variability as mode to?
A. Correlation
B. Discrimination
C. Central tendency
D. Level of difficulty
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Option C
20. Goring performed better than 65% of the total number of examinees in the district achievement test. What is his percentile rank?
A. P35
B. P65
C. P66
D. P75
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Option B
21. Which is a guidance function of a test?
A. Identifying pupils who need corrective teaching
B. Predicting success in future academic and vocational education
C. Assigning marks for courses taken
D. Grouping pupils for instruction within a class
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Option B
22. Mr. Reyes, an elementary school teacher in Science found out that many of his pupils got very high scores in the test. What measure of central tendency should he use to describe their average performance in the subject?
A. Mean
B. Median
C. Mode
D. Range
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Option B
23. Which of the following indicates how compressed or expanded the distribution of scores is?
A. Measures of position
B. Measures of central tendency
C. Measures of correlation
D. Measures of variability
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Option D
24. The proportion passing the upper and lower group is .80 and .95, respectively. What is the index of difficulty?
A. .38
B. .40
C. .58
D. 1.02
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Option C
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25. Mr. Gringo tried to correlate the scores of his pupils in the Social studies test with their grades in the same subject last 3rd quarter. What test validity is he trying to establish?
A. Content validity
B. Construct validity
C. Concurrent validity
D. Criterion related validity
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Option C
26. If a test item has a difficulty index of 0.06, how would you describe the test item?
A. It is very easy.
B. It is moderately difficulty.
C. It is very difficult
D. It is difficult
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Option C
27. Two sections have the same mean but the standard deviation of section 2 is higher than section 1. Which of the two sections is more homogeneous?
A. Section 1
B. Section 2
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
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Option A
28. Miss Corteza administered a test to her class and the result is positively skewed. What kind of test do you think Miss Corteza gave to her pupils?
A. Posttest
B. Pretest
C. Mastery test
D. Criterion-referenced test
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Option B
29. In his second item analysis, Mr. Gonzales found out that more from the lower group got the test item 15 correctly. What does this mean?
A. The item has become more valid
B. The item has become more reliable
C. The item has a positive discriminating power
D. The item has a negative discriminating power
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Option D
30. In a frequency distribution, what is the midpoint of the class interval whose lower and upper limits are 99.5 and 109.5?
A. 107.0
B. 105.0
C. 104.5
D. 102.5
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Option C
31. In a frequency distribution, what is the interval size of the class whose lower and upper limits are 9.5 and 19.5?
A. 11.0
B. 10.0
C. 9.0
D. 5.0
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Option B
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32. Given a mean of 55 and a standard deviation of 8, what two scores include one standard deviation below and above the mean?
A. 46 and 63
B. 47 and 64
C. 47 and 63
D. 46 and 64
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Option C
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33. Given the same mean of 55 and standard deviation of 8, what score corresponds to two standard deviation above the mean?
A. 70
B. 71
C. 72
D. 73
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Option B
34. What principle of test construction is violated when one places very difficult items at the beginning; thus creating frustration among students particularly those of average ability and below average?
A. All the items of particular type should be placed together in the test.
B. The items should be phrased so that the content rather than the form of the statements will determine the answer.
C. All items should be approximately 50 percent difficulty.
D. The items of any particular type should be arranged in an ascending order of difficulty.
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Option D
35. Mrs. Reyes would like to find out how well her students know each other. What assessment instrument would best suit her objective?
A. Self-report instrument
B. Sociometric technique
C. Guess-who technique
D. All of the above
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Option C
36. Mr. Reyes asked his pupils to indicate on the piece of paper the names of their classmates whom they would like to be with for some group activity, what assessment technique did Mr. Reyes use?
A. Self-report technique
B. Guess-who technique
C. Sociometric technique
D. Anecdotal technique
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Option C
37. Which of the following assessment procedures/tools is useful in assessing social relation skills?
A. Anecdotal record
B. Attitude scale
C. Peer appraisal
D. any of the above
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Option C
38. If the proportion passing for the upper and lower group is .90 and .30 respectively, what is the discrimination index?
A. .40
B. .50
C. .60
D. .70
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Option C
39. Which is an example of affective learning outcome?
A. Interpret stimuli from various modalities to provide data needed in making adjustments to the environment
B. Judge problem and issues in terms of situations involved than in terms of fixed dogmatic thinking
C. Appreciate the quality and worth of the story read
D. None of the above
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Option B
40. Mr. Mirasol who is a high school teacher in English conducted an item analysis of her test. She found out that four of the items of the test obtained the following difficulty and discrimination indices and as follows: Which of the above items should be discard in her item pool?
A. Item 1
B. Item 2
C. Item 3
D. Item 4
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Option D