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. Mrs. Gorospe wants to apply gestalt principles in the classroom. Which of the following learning activities did she avoid?
A. She relates a new topic with something the student already knows.
B. B.She teaches topics with commonalities next to each other.
C. She uses bolder fonts for important words in the paragraph.
D. She rewards desirable behaviors.
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Option B
2. What is an application of Vygotsky’s idea of scaffolding?
A. Give the learner a task that challenges his/her ability.
B. From the start leave the learner to himself/herself because she has the power for self-learning.
C. Don’t spoil the learner by doing what he/she ought to do.
D. Give the learner the necessary assistance until he/she can be on his/her own.
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Option D
3. A girl lost her toy and asked her father for help. The father asks her where she last saw the toy; the child says “I can’t remember.” He then asks a series of questions - “did you have it in your room? Outside? Next door?” To each question, the child answers, “no.” When he says “in the car?” she says “I think so” and goes to retrieve the toy. Which of the following statements can be deduced from the above situation?
A. Remembering and problem solving are co-constructed.
B. A child functions independently to solve the problem.
C. Modeling can aid learning and development.
D. Both A and B.
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Option A
4. When parents are overly protective, the child becomes overly trusting who cannot believe anyone would mean them harm. According to Erikson’s theory, this is called____________.
A. maladaptation
B. malignancy
C. fixation
D. virtue
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Option A
5. A group of values education teachers agree that they will focus on value internalization when teaching. Which level of morality should they help their students attain?
A. Post-conventional morality
B. Pre-conventional morality
C. Conventional morality
D. Between conventional and post-conventional morality.
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Option A
6. Your brother confessed to you that he killed his girlfriend six months ago due to an alleged third party. Although you were convinced that it was a “crime of passion”, you planned to report the crime and/or personally bring your brother to the police. According to Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, you are under what stage of moral development?
A. Instrumental relativist orientation
B. Law and order orientation
C. Interpersonal Concordance orientation
D. Universal ethical principles orientation
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Option B
7. Which educational issue can be clarified by understanding Maslow’s Needs Theory?
A. Sex education issues in school
B. Delinquency in the public schools
C. The effects of different classroom structures
D. The effect of poverty on academic achievement
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Option D
8. Which of the following demonstrates cephalocaudal trend of development?
A. An infant first produces an endogenous smile, then an exogenous smile, then a laugh.
B. An infant coos, then babbles, then speaks single words, then uses language.
C. An infant obtains visual skills, then olfactory skills, then auditory skills.
D. An infant first raises his or her head, then sits up, then stands up.
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Option D
9. What is mainly addressed by early intervention program for children with disabilities, ages 0 to 3 years old?
A. Preventing labeling of disabled children
B. Identifying strengths and weaknesses in special children
C. Ensuring inclusion for special children
D. Early growth development lag
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Option D
10. It is a language-based disability in which a child has trouble understanding words, sentences, or paragraphs.
A. Dyslexia
B. Dyscalculia
C. Dysgraphia
D. Auditory and Visual Processing Disabilities
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Option A
11. Who is best equipped to lead in the formulation of an individual Educational Plan for Special Children?
A. Child therapists
B. Special education teachers
C. Parents of special children
D. Child psychologists
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Option B
12. Millet has difficulty working independently. When asked to sit in her seat for long periods of time, she frequently gets up to sharpen her pencil, look out the window, or flips through books on the bookshelf. She rarely completes her homework. Millet most likely has which of the following conditions?
A. Mental retardation
B. Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
C. Down's syndrome
D. Dyslexia
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Option B
13. Ms. Lumasac is concerned about one of her students. The student, Conrad, has serious and persistent problems concerning his relationships with other students; he displays aggression and is often out of control. Conrad is most likely to be suffering from:
A. Depression
B. Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
C. Emotional and behavioural disorders
D. Sensory disorders
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Option C
14. Which of the following is authentic assessment?
A. Make students recite the multiplication table to check for mastery.
B. Make students dance cha cha to determine if they learned how to dance cha cha.
C. Make students draft a flow chart to demonstrate a process.
D. Make students check their own answers after a Math quiz.
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Option B
15. How are the results of a summative assessment utilized?
A. To check attainment of lesson objectives
B. To diagnose learning difficulties
C. To check on student understanding from time to time.
D. To report learning outcomes to parents and administrators.
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Option A
16. Teacher Jenny wants to monitor student’s performance on the topic they are discussing. Which type of test should she use?
A. Placement Test
B. Formative Test
C. Diagnostic Test
D. Summative Test
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Option B
17. Interpreting assessment results considers consistency. Which is described when the results are consistent?
A. Validity
B. Reliability
C. Subjectivity
D. Objectivity
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Option B
18. What type of validity is used to determine if the assessment measure can predict future performance?
A. Content
B. Criterion
C. Construct
D. Consequential
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Option B
19. Which method should be done to make sure that the test items within the test measure the same thing?
A. Inter-rater Method
B. Test-retest Method
C. Equivalent-forms Method
D. Internal Consistency Method
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Option D
20. Thea was careless in marking her answer in the test paper. Which error did she commit?
A. Content Sampling Error
B. Time Sampling Error
C. Systematic Error
D. Random Error
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Option D
21. The best way to assess learning is to use real-life situations, objects and materials existing in the environment. Hence, teachers are encouraged to use ___________.
A. rating scale
B. pencil- and-paper test
C. observation technique
D. authentic assessment
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Option D
22. Which of the following are alternative assessments?
A. Portfolio, exhibits, journals
B. Paper-and-pencil test, demonstration, reports
C. Student self-assessment, authentic assessment, surveys
D. Multiple-choice, structured observations, sentence completion
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Option A
23. Mr. Diaz asked his students to explain the difference between norm-referenced and criterion referenced tests. In which level is the student’s task?
A. Analyzing
B. Evaluating
C. Synthesizing
D. Remembering
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Option D
24. Which of the following does not belong to the group?
A. True-False Item
B. Interpretive Exercise
C. Multiple-choice Type
D. Extended-response Item
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Option D
25. Teacher Neri’s lesson objective is “to perform operations on integers”. Which is a valid test for this particular objective?
A. Solve the following using PEMDAS.
B. What are the four basic operations?
C. How do you add numbers with different signs?
D. What is the product when a negative number is multiplied to another negative number
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Option A
26. What is defective in this test item?
Which type of assessment is concerned with the entry performance of students?
A.Checklist C. Questionnaires
B. Interview D. Placement Test
A. The stem of the item is poor.
B. The distracters are not plausible.
C. The item provides clue to the answer.
D. The alternatives are not equal in length.
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Option A
27. To determine if his students have attained the intended learning outcomes, Teacher Jay is planning to give a year-end exam that will cover all the topics they have discussed. Which type of test should he use?
A. Essay Test
B. Objective Test
C. Formative Test
D. Problem Solving Test
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Option B
28. One advantage of essay type over multiple-choice type is that they:
A. measure from simple to complex learning outcomes.
B. allow students to express their own ideas.
C. require less time in preparing the test.
D. make learning more meaningful.
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Option B
29. Which statement is/are TRUE of the given rubric below?
A. It is holistic
B. It is analytical.
C. It is developmental.
D. It is both holistic and developmental.
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Option A
3. The discrimination index of a test item is –0.35. What does this mean?
A. More from the upper group got the item correctly.
B. More from the lower group got the item correctly.
C. The test is quite reliable.
D. The test item is valid.
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Option B
31. A test item has a difficulty index of 0.89 and a discrimination index of 0.44. What should the teacher do?
A. Reject the item.
B. Retain the item.
C. Revise the item.
D. Make it a bonus item.
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Option A
32. If no student got the item correctly, what should the teacher do with the item?
A. Ask the students why the item is still difficult for them.
B. Determine if the item is a miskeyed item or ambiguous.
C. Administer a diagnostic test to determine student’s difficulty.
D. Determine why the strengths and weaknesses of the students.
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Option A
33. Which was the MOST effective distracter?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
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Option B
34. Which was the LEAST effective distracter?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
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Option A
35. Students’ scores were as follows: 82, 82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 84, 83, 85. The score 84 is the _______________.
A. Mode
B. Mean
C. Median
D. Average
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Option C
36. What is the range of this score distribution?
A. 34
B. 85
C. 93
D. 97
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Option D
37. Which measure of central tendency is most reliable for this score distribution?
A. Mode
B. Mean
C. Median
D. None
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Option C
38. Lilia’s score in a test has a t-score of 70. To which of the following groups does she belong?
A. Average
B. Below average
C. Above Average
D. Needs Improvement
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Option C
39. Which is true about z-score?
A. It is a positive numerical value.
B. It is affected by the variations in scores.
C. It shows the difference between the test scores.
D. It is used to determine if more student got low marks.
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Option B
40. Which of the following divides a score distribution in half?
A. Range
B. Median
C. Deciles
D. Percentiles
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Option B
41. Which of the following indicates a relationship between two sets of data?
A. Z-score
B. Kurtosis
C. Variance
D. Correlation
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Option D
42. How will you interpret a student’s 80% percentile score? The student scored _______________.
A. Higher than 80% of the members of the group
B. Better, relative to the competencies targeted
C. High in all the skills being tested
D. 80% of the specified content
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Option A
43. What can be said of student performance in a positively skewed score distribution?
A. Almost all students had average performance.
B. A few students performed excellently
C. Most students performed poorly
D. Most students performed wel
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Option C
44. Which is one measure of attitude that consists of a value statement where you are asked to express your degree of agreement or disagreement of a statement?
A. Checklist
B. Likert scale
C. Interview schedule
D. Semantic differential
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Option B
55. Which test will the Guidance Office of school give if it wants to help students in predicting their probable success in specific educational and vocational fields?
A. Diagnostic test
B. Achievement test
C. Aptitude Test
D. IQ Test
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Option C
46. With assessment of affective learning in mind, which does NOT belong to the group?
A. Diary entry
B. Cloze Test
C. Moral dilemma
D. Reflective writing
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Option B
47. Which of these can measure awareness of values?
A. Sociogram
B. Rating scales
C. Moral dilemma
D. Projective Techniques
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Option C
48. Obtaining the ranking of students is of major concern when using _________________.
A. Percentile Test
B. Summative Test
C. Achievement Test
D. Norm-referenced Test
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Option D
49. Which of the following grading schemes provide the least information to parents about the performance of their child in class?
A. Letter grade
B. Pass-fail grade
C. Numerical grade
D. Supplemental system
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Option B
50. Which error do teachers commit when they consider the character of the students?
A. Halo effect
B. Severity error
C. Personal biases
D. Reliability decay
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Option A