Pedagogy and Child Development - CTET February 2016 Exam Paper - Precious Question Paper

1. Which one of the following philosophical perspectives needs to be followed to deal with children with special needs?

(1) They do not need any education at all.

(2) They have a right to inclusive education and study in regular schools.

(3) They should be segregated and put in separate educational institutions.

(4) They should be given only vocational training

2. Learner-centred approach means

(1) methods where learners own initiative and efforts are involved in learning

(2) use of methods in which teacher is the main actor

(3) that teachers draw conclusions for the learners

(4) traditional expository methods

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3. Which one of the following is central to learning?

(1) Meaning making

(2) Imitation

(3) Conditioning

(4) Rote memorization

4. In a constructivist classroom as envisioned by Piaget and Vygotsky, learning

(1) is constructed by the students themselves who play an active role

(2) is offering of reinforcement by the teacher

(3) is dictated by the teacher and the students are passive recipients of the same

(4) happens by pairing of a stimulus and a response

5. Which one of the following is a good example of ‘scaffolding’ (learning of a problem solving task till the student is able to do it by herself?

(1) Telling her that she can do it by trying again and again

(2) offering a reward for solving the problem quickly

(3) Providing a half solved example

(4) Telling her she cannot go home till she solves the problem

6. Your class has learners with different learning styles. To assess them, you would give them

(1) the same set of tasks and tests

(2) a uniform set of instructions and subsequently label children according to their marks in the test

(3) a variety of tasks and tests

(4) the same time to perform on the tests

7. Nowadays, there is a tendency to refer to wrong concepts of children as alternative conceptions. This could be attributed to

(1) recognition that children are capable of thinking and their thinking is different from that of adults

(2) children’s understanding being nuanced and their being passive in their own learning

(3) using fancy terms to describe children’s errors

(4) children being thought of as adult-like in their thinking

8. Which one of the following best describes a teacher’s role in a middle school classroom?

(1) PowerPoint presentations to give lectures

(2) Discouraging multiple perspectives and focusing on unidimensional perspective

(3) Providing opportunities for discussions

(4) Promoting students to compete amongst themselves for the first position

9. Which one of the following statements about motivation and learning is correct?

(1) Learning is effective only when the students are motivated using external rewards.

(2) Motivation does not have any role to play in learning.

(3) Learning is effective only when the students have intrinsic motivational desire to learn from inside

(4) Learning is effective only when the students are extrinsically motivated -motivated by external factors

10. Which one of the following statements about learning is correct?

(1) Learning does not depend on learner’s previous knowledge.

(2) Learning is a passive receptive process.

(3) Learning is equivalent to acquisition of skills

(4) Learning is facilitated by social

11. Which one of the following is an important activity to enable children to learn?

(1) Dialogue

(2) Reward

(3) Lecture

(4) Instruction

12. Which one of the following statements about development is correct?

(1) Developmental changes go forward in a straight line.

(2) Development proceeds from birth to adolescence in a forward manner and then it goes backwards.

(3) Development occurs at a different rate among different individuals.

(4) Development occurs at a very fast pace from birth till adolescence and then it stops.

13. Middle childhood is the period from

(1) birth to 2 years.

(2) 10 years onwards

(3) 2 years to 6 years

(4) 6 years to 11 years

14. “Environmental factors do not play any in shaping an individual, since growth of each individual is determined by his genetic makeup.” This statement

(1) correct, since genetic makeup of an individual is very strong

(2) incorrect, since there have been several researches to prove that environment can have a major influence on development

(3) correct, since there have been several researches to prove that genetic material alone predicts an individual’s development

(4) incorrect, since environmental factors contribute little in an and individual’s growth development is a process through which a

15. _______ is a process through which a human infant begins to acquire the necessary skills to perform as a functioning member of the society.

(1) Socialization

(2) Development

(3) Learning

(4) Maturation

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