Child Development and Pedagogy


1. In the modern context, teaching is considered as........ ?
A) A science
B) An unplanned activity
C) An art
D) A spontaneous activity.
Answer :      C

2. If the majority of the students in your class are weak you should?
A) not care about the intelligent students
B) keep your teaching slow
C) keep your speed of teaching fast so that students comprehension level may increase
D) keep your teaching slow along with some extra guidance to bright pupils.
Answer :      D

3. Arrange the following teaching process in order?
i) relating the present knowledge with the previous knowledge
ii) evaluation
iii) re-teaching
iv) formulating objectives
v) Presentation of materials
A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
B) (v), (iv), (iii), (ii), (i)
C) (iv), (i), (v), (ii), (iii)
D) ((iii), (ii), (i),(v), (iv)
Answer :      C

4. Education is a process in which knowledge and skills are transferred?
A) from few persons the next generation
B) from few persons to a large number of people
C) from few persons to few persons
D) from a generation to the next generation.
Answer :      A

5. What is the meaning of child development?
A) Development of the mental and intellectual ability
B) Development in length, breadth and fatness of the child
C) Overall development of the child
D) Development of the child
Answer :      C

6. An assessment that is generally carried out at the end of a course to assign students a course grade is called?
A) Diagnostic assessment
B) Formative assessment
C) Contemporary assessment
D) Summative assessment
Answer :      D

7. In this contemporary environment, one is the successful teacher who?
A) comes with mobile or i-pad in the classroom
B) wears modern dresses and comes in the class room
C) Have skills to make an effective contact with students
D) Creates the situation to learn something
Answer :      C

8. A child writes with his/her left hand and is comfortable doing things with it, he/she should be?
A) Discouraged
B) Allow his/her preference
C) Made to write with the left hand
D) Send to seek medical help
Answer :      B

9. Which of the following is not a sign of ‘being gifted’?
A) Poor relationship with peer group
B) Interest in extra reading
C) Curiosity
D) Creativity
Answer :      A

10. A teacher who is not able to draw the attention of his students should........ ?
A) evaluate his teaching method and improve it
B) find fault in his pupils
C) resign from the post
D) start dictating
Answer :      A

11. What do you think about the students during teaching them?
A) They may be a reformer and founder
B) They might become a learned and might be famous in their work region
C) To be politician and do work for the progress of the country
D) Their merit/intelligence might be developed so that they can get best success.
Answer :      D

12. The field of education is permeated by conflicts and misconception because?
A) Problems in education call for subjectivity of interpretation.
B) Problems encountered in teaching are not amenable to rigorous scientific investigation.
C) There are not good teaching methods and procedures.
D) Teachers are not worthy of doing rigorous scientific investigation
Answer :      B

13. Which of the following is not an informal assessment?
A) Interview
B) Observation
C) Project
D) Quizzes
Answer :      B

14. To enhance the listing capacity in children teacher should?
A) Make recitation (reading in harmony) by the student
B) Point out mistakes during reading
C) make questions for students
D) explain the importance of listening
Answer :      A

15. The memory traces formed in the mind are called?
A) Encephalogram
B) Engram
C) Mamogram
D) Cardiogram
Answer :      B

16. One of the following is an effective motivation for learning
A) Learning for rewards
B) Learning for avoiding punishment
C) Learning for rank
D) learning for self satisfaction
Answer :      D

17. Leisure is the right........?
A) of every child
B) when there are no exams
C) of bright children
D) of educationally backward children
Answer :      A

18. Usually, the assessment of learning is done during the phase of teaching
A) Pre-active phase
B) Post-active phase
C) Any phase
D) Motive phase
Answer :      B

19. A strategy utilized to protect the ego from anxiety and frustration is called?
A) Adaptation
B) Defence mechanism
C) Mental Health
D) Rationalisation
Answer :      B

20. According to john Locke, a scholar of 18th century the main objective of education is?
A) Health, sense, skills and virtue
B) Virtue, thought, welfare and knowledge
C) personality, virtue, knowledge and health
D) Development, thought, virtue and skills
Answer :      B

21. Questioning in the class-room means?
A) clarifies the subject-matter
B) in a wastage of time
C) Develops inactivity
D) creates indiscipline
Answer :      A

22. Psychology is a social science because?
A) It helps in moulding behaviour of the child
B) Its laws and principles are applicable to humans
C) it helps in moulding behaviour of the child
D) All the above
Answer :      D

23. The word pedagogy means?
A) to understand the child
B) to lead the child
C) to guide the child
D) to educate the child
Answer :      B

24. A scoring guide use to evaluate the quality of student is called?
A) rubrics
B) checklists
C) rating scales
D)inventories
Answer :      A

25. The philosopher who worked in Mathematical and Scientific didactic was?
A) Jean Piaget
B) Jhon Dewey
C) Martin Wagenschein
D) Lev Vygotsky
Answer :      C

26. All are the characteristics of learning except?
A) Learning is a progress of the organism
B) Learning is a process related to educating environment
C) Learning is the result practice
D) Learning reinforces further learning
Answer :      B

27. Social development means?
A) to share joy and sorrow with others
B) to work as a member of the group in adjustable manner
C) social maturity
D) all the above
Answer :      D

28. According to John Dewey, educational process has two sides?
A) economical and sociological
B) psychological and sociological
C) economical and philosophical
D) sociological and philosophical
Answer :      B

29. Teacher can use Gestalt theory in which of the following situations?
A) Students of higher classes who are able to perceive abstract material
B) Organising the subject matter systematically according to its structure
C) clarifying the purpose before the start of teaching in the class
D) All the above
Answer :      D

30. In education ......... is used to make inference about the learning and development of students.
A) assessment
B) evaluation
C) measurement
D) diagnosis
Answer :      A

31. An assessment that is carried out through the course is called?
A) initial assessment
B) diagnostic assessment
C) formative assessment
D) summative assessment
Answer :      C

32. The study of physical, social and mental aspects of aging is called?
A) Esthetics
B) Genetics
C) Gerontology
D) Clinical psychology
Answer :      C

33. Guidance is a process by which an individual is helped to?
A) Choose the best alternative in accordance with his potentialities and interest
B) Solve his educational, vocational and personal problems
C) adapt to the antagonistic environment and enjoy it
D) all the above
Answer :      D

34. According to the philosophy of idealism in education, the subject matter of curriculum should be?
A) Mathematics
B) Science
C) Physical world
D) Mind
Answer :      D

35. For an effective teaching, the teacher must be a subject matter expert that includes?
(i) command over the subject
(ii) the ability to convey knowledge
iii) the ability to apply ideas from one discipline to another
A) (i) only
B) (ii) only
C) (i) and (ii) only
D) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Answer :      D

36. The use of physical punishment for class management is called?
A) Extinction technique
B) Satiation technique
C) Time out technique
D) Corporal Punishment
Answer :      D

37. The law of effect can be effectively used in?
A) Accelerate learning
B) Curriculum development
C) Classroom management
D) Teaching methods
Answer :      C

38. The philosopher who for the first time taught logic as formal discipline was?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Edward Thorndike
Answer :      A

39. Anything that causes a reaction is called?
A) Learning
B) Stimulus
C) Connectionism
D) Physical objects
Answer :      B

40. A person is not satisfied with his job. He requires the following guidance?
A) Vocational
B) family
C) Educational
D) personnel
Answer :      D