EDUCATION- PAGE 10
EDUCATION- PAGE 10 MCQs
1. Pragmatism as a School of Philosophy assumes that
(A) Learning takes place through pure trial and error
(B) Predictions can be made only in terms of probabilities
(C) Laws governing the universe is the only universals
(D) Nature of the universe is best described by stability
Ans: B
2. Who among the following is an existentialist thinker?
(A) Sartre
(B) Kilpatrick
(C) Rousseau
(D) Froebel
Ans: A
3. Which of the following philosophies claimed that Vāsna and Trishna (irrational desires and appetites) lie at the root of human suffering?
(A) Jainism
(B) Vedanta
(C) Buddhism
(D) Samkhya
Ans: C
4. For equality of educational opportunities among women, the Constitution has provision under
(i) Article 45
(ii) Article 15(3)
(iii) Article 16(1) and (2)
(iv) All the above
Which of the above is correct?
(A) Only (i) is correct.
(B) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(C) (i) and (iii) are correct.
(D) (iv) is correct.
Ans: D
5. Special schools are required for equality of educational opportunities among
(A) Talented students
(B) Backward students
(C) Physically challenged students
(D) SC/ST students
Ans: C
6. Who said ‘Education follows social change’?
(A) Durkheim
(B) Johnson
(C) Ottaway
(D) John Dewey
Ans: C
7. Which of the following is not correct in the context of formal operational stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
(A) Children start using abstract symbols.
(B) Children start formulating hypotheses and testing them in their experience.
(C) They follow trial and error methods to solve problems.
(D) They develop the capacity to analyse, synthesize and generalize.
Ans: C
8. Which of the following is not a condition for creativity?
(A) Rationality
(B) Non-rationality
(C) Openness to experience
(D) Correctedness
Ans: A
9. The most common “model” a child selects is
(A) An older sibling
(B) His parent, a teacher or a person in authority
(C) A person whose conduct approaches perfection
(D) A person who approximates the child’s self-ideal
Ans: D
10. Chain learning is connected with
(A) Bruner
(B) Gagne
(C) Tolman
(D) Thorndike
Ans: B
11. In List – I name of the psychologists and in List – II the concepts developed by them are given. Match List – I with List – II in correct order.
List – I List – II
a. Thurston 1. Emotional Intelligence
b. Goleman 2. Social Intelligence
c. Guilford 3. Mutifactor Theory of Intelligence
d. Gardner 4. Structure of Intellect
5. Two factor Theory of Intelligence
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 3 2 1 5
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 2 1 5
Ans: C
12. Learning driving is based on
(A) Insight learning
(B) Operant conditioning
(C) Instrumental conditioning
(D) Trial and Error learning
Ans: D
13. Psychoanalysis is propounded by
(A) Carl Justav Jung
(B) Anna Freud
(C) Alfred Adler
(D) Sigmund Freud
Ans: D
14. Match the following in List – I with that of in List – II in the correct order:
List – I List – II
a. Alfred Adler 1. TAT
b. Henry Murray 2. Inferiority feelings
c. Sigmund Freud 3. Creative thinking
d. Wallach- Kogan 4. Defence mechanism
5. Critical thinking
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 2 4 3 5
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 2 3 1
Ans: C
15. Critically judge the following:
Assertion (A): Creativity can be nurtured in the classroom.
Reason (R): If the teacher is open to experience and tolerant of ambiguity
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(B) Only (A) is correct.
(C) Only (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are not correct.
Ans: A
16. Purpose of guidance is to
(A) Free the child of all serious conflicts.
(B) Prevent conflicts from overcoming the child.
(C) Prevent conflicts from arising in the life of the child.
(D) See that pupils conform to the school regulations.
Ans: B
17. In handling placement services, one should remember that
(A) The placement officer should not attempt to do counselling.
(B) Placement should include training as well as job placements.
(C) Follow-up of job placement is a function of counselling.
(D) Answer (B) and (C)
Ans: D
18. The key advantage of using group counselling over individual counselling is
(A) Confidentiality
(B) Social interaction
(C) Peer exploration of issues
(D) Less fear of speaking about emotions
Ans: C
19. Critically judge the following and answer:
Assertion (A): You can safely generalize the findings of your experiment.
Reason (R1): It is target population.
Reason (R2): It is experimentally accessible population.
(A) (A) matches with both (R1) and (R2)
(B) (A) matches with (R1) more than (R2)
(C) (A) matches with (R2)
(D) (A) matches neither with (R1) nor with (R2)
Ans: C
20. In experimental research an investigator normally prefers to formulate null hypotheses rather than research hypotheses because
(A) It is easy to formulate null hypotheses.
(B) It is wrong to formulate research hypotheses.
(C) Null hypotheses are statistically testable.
(D) None of these
Ans: C
21. In the context of testing of a null hypothesis, if it is significant at
(A) α = 0.05, it is also significant at α = 0.01
(B) α = 0.01, it is also significant at α = 0.05
(C) α = 0.05, it is not significant at α = 0.01
(D) α = 0.01, it is not significant at α = 0.05
Ans: B
22. Read the assertion and reasons given below and find the correct match.
Assertion (A): An experimenter used section – A students of a class as experimental group and section – B students of the same class as control group for a period of one year.
Reason-1 (R1): Both the groups are equivalent.
Reason-2 (R2): The experiment would disturb normal activities of the school.
(A) (A) matches with (R1)
(B) (A) matches with (R2)
(C) (A) matches with both (R1) and (R2)
(D) (A) matches neither with (R1) nor with (R2)
Ans: B
23. Which of the following factors does not affect internal validity of an experimental design?
(A) Statistical regression
(B) Maturation of subjects
(C) Pre-testing
(D) Noise during experiment
Ans: D
24. A researcher compared the mean IQ scores of randomly selected government and private school students and arrived at conclusion that private school curriculum has significant positive effect on intelligence of students as compared to that of the government school. This study can be categorized as
(A) Experimental
(B) Ex-post facto
(C) Historical
(D) Case study
Ans: B
25. Which of the following is the foremost factor in the determination of the effectiveness of the curriculum?
(A) The competence of the teacher
(B) The cooperation of the community
(C) The interest of the body
(D) The leadership of the administration
Ans: C
26. According to Guilford’s SI model, total number of factors that constitute to human intellect is
(A) 60
(B) 90
(C) 120
(D) 150
Ans: C
27. Training in advance of normal maturation is generally
(A) Highly beneficial with respect to performance of common skills.
(B) Harmful from an overall point of view.
(C) Harmless but essentially a waste of time.
(D) Beneficial to harmful depending on the method used in training.
Ans: D
28. Inclusive education is about
(A) making provision for all children
(B) welcoming and celebrating diversity
(C) both (A) and (B) are true
(D) none of the above
Ans: C
29. The teacher who has a student who stutters should
(A) help him by supplying the words he/she wants to say.
(B) have him take part in all the oral activities of the class.
(C) give him world drill on the words on which he stutters.
(D) provide special situations in which his/her sense of self worth is built up.
Ans: D
30. Generally the most effective approach to dealing with the child’s aggressive behaviour is
(A) to channel his/her aggression into legitimate areas of competition.
(B) to reward him/her for friendly behaviour and to ignore his/her aggressive behaviour.
(C) to give him due punishments, when he shows aggressive tendencies.
(D) to insist that he/she apologies for his undesirable behaviour.
Ans: A
31. Which of the following steps of learning process is out of place?
(A) Motivation
(B) Obstacle
(C) Response
(D) Goal
Ans: D
32. The greatest deterrent to creativity on the part of the child is
(A) adult insists on perfection and conformity to adult standards
(B) failure on the part of adults to provide the needed inspiration
(C) his/her unwillingness and put in the effort required for perfection
(D) his/her easy discouragement and his short span of attention
Ans: A
33. The most fundamental characteristic of good adjustment is
(A) a sincere interest in people
(B) a sound and wholesome system of motives and goals
(C) a high degree of acceptance of one’s environment.
(D) a keen insight into means of attaining one’s goals.
Ans: B
34. Which of the following describes the extent of the effect of heredity upon development?
(A) Heredity determines how far we will go.
(B) Heredity determines how far we can go.
(C) Heredity is the primary determinant of how far we will go.
(D) Heredity is the primary determinant of how far we can go.
Ans: D
35. Classroom discipline should be oriented towards the promotion of
(A) Social conformity
(B) Self direction
(C) Personal and social adjustment
(D) Acceptable classroom behaviour
Ans: B
36. Solomon’s Four Group design falls under
(A) Pre-experimental design
(B) True-experimental design
(C) Quasi-experimental design
(D) Factorial design
Ans: B
37. Which of the following is appropriate to test a non-directional hypothesis?
(A) One tailed test
(B) Two tailed test
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
38. Identify the Non-probability sampling techniques
(a) Stratified random sampling
(b) Systematic sampling
(c) Snow ball sampling
(d) Incidental sampling
(A) (a) and (b) are correct.
(B) (b) and (c) are correct.
(C) (c) and (d) are correct.
(D) (a) and (d) are correct.
Ans: C
39. What are the parametric tests in the following list?
(a) F test
(b) t test
(c) Sign test
(d) Median test
Codes:
(A) (a) and (b) are correct.
(B) (c) and (d) are correct.
(C) (a) and (d) are correct.
(D) (b) and (c) are correct.
Ans: A
40. A Ph. D scholar conducted a study with a view to address the language problems of tribal children at elementary level. This study can be categorised as
(A) Action Research
(B) Applied Research
(C) Basic Research
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
41. A study on the topic “perception of tribal people about formal education” comes under the type
(A) Ethnographic
(B) Historical
(C) Experimental
(D) Expost facto
Ans: A
42. Errors in the findings of an experimental study caused by deliberate selection of some bright students for experimental group is known as
(A) Random sampling error
(B) Systematic sampling error
(C) Random measurement error
(D) Systematic measurement error
Ans: B
43. The size of sample for a study mostly depends on
(A) Gravity of the population
(B) Geographical area of the study
(C) Homogeneity and heterogeneity of the population
(D) Type of population
Ans: C
44. Which of the following is the incorrect pair?
(A) Rank correlation – Spearman
(B) Product moment correlation – Pearson
(C) Split-half correlation – Kuder Richardson
(D) Contingency correlation – Cramer
Ans: D
45. Match the following:
List – I List – II
a. Rorschach 1. Creativity Test
b. Wallach-Kogan 2. Ink-blot Test
c. Raven 3. Value Test
d. Allport-Vernon 4. Intelligence Test
5. Aptitude Test
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 4 2 1 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 2 1 3 5
Ans: C
46. An intensive investigation of a slow learner undertaken in a research project by a teacher can be termed as
(A) Action Research
(B) Survey
(C) Case study
(D) Ethnography
Ans: C
47. The relationship showing increase in the value of one variable (height) and corresponding decrease in the other variable (weight) is termed as
(A) Positive correlation
(B) Negative correlation
(C) Zero correlation
(D) Partial correlation
Ans: B
48. Cumulative frequency graph is called
(A) Histogram
(B) Bar-diagram
(C) Pie-diagram
(D) Ogive
Ans: D
49. SPSS is
(A) Statistical Package for Scientific Studies
(B) Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(C) Scientific Package for Social Scientists
(D) Scientific Package for Statistical Study
Ans: B
50. The square root of Variance is
(A) Standard Error
(B) Error Variance
(C) Standard Deviation
(D) Deviation Quotient
Ans: C
(A) Learning takes place through pure trial and error
(B) Predictions can be made only in terms of probabilities
(C) Laws governing the universe is the only universals
(D) Nature of the universe is best described by stability
Ans: B
2. Who among the following is an existentialist thinker?
(A) Sartre
(B) Kilpatrick
(C) Rousseau
(D) Froebel
Ans: A
3. Which of the following philosophies claimed that Vāsna and Trishna (irrational desires and appetites) lie at the root of human suffering?
(A) Jainism
(B) Vedanta
(C) Buddhism
(D) Samkhya
Ans: C
4. For equality of educational opportunities among women, the Constitution has provision under
(i) Article 45
(ii) Article 15(3)
(iii) Article 16(1) and (2)
(iv) All the above
Which of the above is correct?
(A) Only (i) is correct.
(B) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(C) (i) and (iii) are correct.
(D) (iv) is correct.
Ans: D
5. Special schools are required for equality of educational opportunities among
(A) Talented students
(B) Backward students
(C) Physically challenged students
(D) SC/ST students
Ans: C
6. Who said ‘Education follows social change’?
(A) Durkheim
(B) Johnson
(C) Ottaway
(D) John Dewey
Ans: C
7. Which of the following is not correct in the context of formal operational stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
(A) Children start using abstract symbols.
(B) Children start formulating hypotheses and testing them in their experience.
(C) They follow trial and error methods to solve problems.
(D) They develop the capacity to analyse, synthesize and generalize.
Ans: C
8. Which of the following is not a condition for creativity?
(A) Rationality
(B) Non-rationality
(C) Openness to experience
(D) Correctedness
Ans: A
9. The most common “model” a child selects is
(A) An older sibling
(B) His parent, a teacher or a person in authority
(C) A person whose conduct approaches perfection
(D) A person who approximates the child’s self-ideal
Ans: D
10. Chain learning is connected with
(A) Bruner
(B) Gagne
(C) Tolman
(D) Thorndike
Ans: B
11. In List – I name of the psychologists and in List – II the concepts developed by them are given. Match List – I with List – II in correct order.
List – I List – II
a. Thurston 1. Emotional Intelligence
b. Goleman 2. Social Intelligence
c. Guilford 3. Mutifactor Theory of Intelligence
d. Gardner 4. Structure of Intellect
5. Two factor Theory of Intelligence
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 3 2 1 5
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 2 1 5
Ans: C
12. Learning driving is based on
(A) Insight learning
(B) Operant conditioning
(C) Instrumental conditioning
(D) Trial and Error learning
Ans: D
13. Psychoanalysis is propounded by
(A) Carl Justav Jung
(B) Anna Freud
(C) Alfred Adler
(D) Sigmund Freud
Ans: D
14. Match the following in List – I with that of in List – II in the correct order:
List – I List – II
a. Alfred Adler 1. TAT
b. Henry Murray 2. Inferiority feelings
c. Sigmund Freud 3. Creative thinking
d. Wallach- Kogan 4. Defence mechanism
5. Critical thinking
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 2 4 3 5
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 2 3 1
Ans: C
15. Critically judge the following:
Assertion (A): Creativity can be nurtured in the classroom.
Reason (R): If the teacher is open to experience and tolerant of ambiguity
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(B) Only (A) is correct.
(C) Only (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are not correct.
Ans: A
16. Purpose of guidance is to
(A) Free the child of all serious conflicts.
(B) Prevent conflicts from overcoming the child.
(C) Prevent conflicts from arising in the life of the child.
(D) See that pupils conform to the school regulations.
Ans: B
17. In handling placement services, one should remember that
(A) The placement officer should not attempt to do counselling.
(B) Placement should include training as well as job placements.
(C) Follow-up of job placement is a function of counselling.
(D) Answer (B) and (C)
Ans: D
18. The key advantage of using group counselling over individual counselling is
(A) Confidentiality
(B) Social interaction
(C) Peer exploration of issues
(D) Less fear of speaking about emotions
Ans: C
19. Critically judge the following and answer:
Assertion (A): You can safely generalize the findings of your experiment.
Reason (R1): It is target population.
Reason (R2): It is experimentally accessible population.
(A) (A) matches with both (R1) and (R2)
(B) (A) matches with (R1) more than (R2)
(C) (A) matches with (R2)
(D) (A) matches neither with (R1) nor with (R2)
Ans: C
20. In experimental research an investigator normally prefers to formulate null hypotheses rather than research hypotheses because
(A) It is easy to formulate null hypotheses.
(B) It is wrong to formulate research hypotheses.
(C) Null hypotheses are statistically testable.
(D) None of these
Ans: C
21. In the context of testing of a null hypothesis, if it is significant at
(A) α = 0.05, it is also significant at α = 0.01
(B) α = 0.01, it is also significant at α = 0.05
(C) α = 0.05, it is not significant at α = 0.01
(D) α = 0.01, it is not significant at α = 0.05
Ans: B
22. Read the assertion and reasons given below and find the correct match.
Assertion (A): An experimenter used section – A students of a class as experimental group and section – B students of the same class as control group for a period of one year.
Reason-1 (R1): Both the groups are equivalent.
Reason-2 (R2): The experiment would disturb normal activities of the school.
(A) (A) matches with (R1)
(B) (A) matches with (R2)
(C) (A) matches with both (R1) and (R2)
(D) (A) matches neither with (R1) nor with (R2)
Ans: B
23. Which of the following factors does not affect internal validity of an experimental design?
(A) Statistical regression
(B) Maturation of subjects
(C) Pre-testing
(D) Noise during experiment
Ans: D
24. A researcher compared the mean IQ scores of randomly selected government and private school students and arrived at conclusion that private school curriculum has significant positive effect on intelligence of students as compared to that of the government school. This study can be categorized as
(A) Experimental
(B) Ex-post facto
(C) Historical
(D) Case study
Ans: B
25. Which of the following is the foremost factor in the determination of the effectiveness of the curriculum?
(A) The competence of the teacher
(B) The cooperation of the community
(C) The interest of the body
(D) The leadership of the administration
Ans: C
26. According to Guilford’s SI model, total number of factors that constitute to human intellect is
(A) 60
(B) 90
(C) 120
(D) 150
Ans: C
27. Training in advance of normal maturation is generally
(A) Highly beneficial with respect to performance of common skills.
(B) Harmful from an overall point of view.
(C) Harmless but essentially a waste of time.
(D) Beneficial to harmful depending on the method used in training.
Ans: D
28. Inclusive education is about
(A) making provision for all children
(B) welcoming and celebrating diversity
(C) both (A) and (B) are true
(D) none of the above
Ans: C
29. The teacher who has a student who stutters should
(A) help him by supplying the words he/she wants to say.
(B) have him take part in all the oral activities of the class.
(C) give him world drill on the words on which he stutters.
(D) provide special situations in which his/her sense of self worth is built up.
Ans: D
30. Generally the most effective approach to dealing with the child’s aggressive behaviour is
(A) to channel his/her aggression into legitimate areas of competition.
(B) to reward him/her for friendly behaviour and to ignore his/her aggressive behaviour.
(C) to give him due punishments, when he shows aggressive tendencies.
(D) to insist that he/she apologies for his undesirable behaviour.
Ans: A
31. Which of the following steps of learning process is out of place?
(A) Motivation
(B) Obstacle
(C) Response
(D) Goal
Ans: D
32. The greatest deterrent to creativity on the part of the child is
(A) adult insists on perfection and conformity to adult standards
(B) failure on the part of adults to provide the needed inspiration
(C) his/her unwillingness and put in the effort required for perfection
(D) his/her easy discouragement and his short span of attention
Ans: A
33. The most fundamental characteristic of good adjustment is
(A) a sincere interest in people
(B) a sound and wholesome system of motives and goals
(C) a high degree of acceptance of one’s environment.
(D) a keen insight into means of attaining one’s goals.
Ans: B
34. Which of the following describes the extent of the effect of heredity upon development?
(A) Heredity determines how far we will go.
(B) Heredity determines how far we can go.
(C) Heredity is the primary determinant of how far we will go.
(D) Heredity is the primary determinant of how far we can go.
Ans: D
35. Classroom discipline should be oriented towards the promotion of
(A) Social conformity
(B) Self direction
(C) Personal and social adjustment
(D) Acceptable classroom behaviour
Ans: B
36. Solomon’s Four Group design falls under
(A) Pre-experimental design
(B) True-experimental design
(C) Quasi-experimental design
(D) Factorial design
Ans: B
37. Which of the following is appropriate to test a non-directional hypothesis?
(A) One tailed test
(B) Two tailed test
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
38. Identify the Non-probability sampling techniques
(a) Stratified random sampling
(b) Systematic sampling
(c) Snow ball sampling
(d) Incidental sampling
(A) (a) and (b) are correct.
(B) (b) and (c) are correct.
(C) (c) and (d) are correct.
(D) (a) and (d) are correct.
Ans: C
39. What are the parametric tests in the following list?
(a) F test
(b) t test
(c) Sign test
(d) Median test
Codes:
(A) (a) and (b) are correct.
(B) (c) and (d) are correct.
(C) (a) and (d) are correct.
(D) (b) and (c) are correct.
Ans: A
40. A Ph. D scholar conducted a study with a view to address the language problems of tribal children at elementary level. This study can be categorised as
(A) Action Research
(B) Applied Research
(C) Basic Research
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
41. A study on the topic “perception of tribal people about formal education” comes under the type
(A) Ethnographic
(B) Historical
(C) Experimental
(D) Expost facto
Ans: A
42. Errors in the findings of an experimental study caused by deliberate selection of some bright students for experimental group is known as
(A) Random sampling error
(B) Systematic sampling error
(C) Random measurement error
(D) Systematic measurement error
Ans: B
43. The size of sample for a study mostly depends on
(A) Gravity of the population
(B) Geographical area of the study
(C) Homogeneity and heterogeneity of the population
(D) Type of population
Ans: C
44. Which of the following is the incorrect pair?
(A) Rank correlation – Spearman
(B) Product moment correlation – Pearson
(C) Split-half correlation – Kuder Richardson
(D) Contingency correlation – Cramer
Ans: D
45. Match the following:
List – I List – II
a. Rorschach 1. Creativity Test
b. Wallach-Kogan 2. Ink-blot Test
c. Raven 3. Value Test
d. Allport-Vernon 4. Intelligence Test
5. Aptitude Test
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 4 2 1 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 2 1 3 5
Ans: C
46. An intensive investigation of a slow learner undertaken in a research project by a teacher can be termed as
(A) Action Research
(B) Survey
(C) Case study
(D) Ethnography
Ans: C
47. The relationship showing increase in the value of one variable (height) and corresponding decrease in the other variable (weight) is termed as
(A) Positive correlation
(B) Negative correlation
(C) Zero correlation
(D) Partial correlation
Ans: B
48. Cumulative frequency graph is called
(A) Histogram
(B) Bar-diagram
(C) Pie-diagram
(D) Ogive
Ans: D
49. SPSS is
(A) Statistical Package for Scientific Studies
(B) Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(C) Scientific Package for Social Scientists
(D) Scientific Package for Statistical Study
Ans: B
50. The square root of Variance is
(A) Standard Error
(B) Error Variance
(C) Standard Deviation
(D) Deviation Quotient
Ans: C
51. The school curriculum should be planned to agree with
(A) The goals, purposes and interests of the pupils
(B) Available text books in various subjects.
(C) College entrance requirements
(D) Training and interest of teachers
Ans: A
52. The main purpose of co-curricular activities is to
(A) Facilitate pupil development.
(B) Provide a progressive school.
(C) Keep pupils from dropping out.
(D) Meet the demands of the community.
Ans: A
53. The mid-day meal programme for Pr. Schools was initiated with a view to
(A) Increase enrolment
(B) Involve community
(C) Engage teachers
(D) Increase the employment
Ans: A
54. VEC under SSA stands for
(A) Village Education Committee
(B) Village Enabling Council
(C) Village Environment Committee
(D) None of the above
Ans: A
55. The strategy adopted in India for the universalization of elementary education is
(A) Universal enrolment
(B) Universal retention
(C) Universal provision for schooling
(D) All above
Ans: D
56. Supervision in school administration should be primarily
(A) Preventive and critical
(B) Preventive and corrective
(C) Constructive and creative
(D) Constructive and critical
Ans: D
57. The chief responsibility of the Principal is to
(A) Organize and administer the guidance programme
(B) Provide leadership in the institutional programme
(C) Listen to parental criticism
(D) Keep proper school records
Ans: B
58. Who has advocated Human Relation approach?
(A) Henry Fayol
(B) Elton Mayo
(C) Taylor
(D) Davis
Ans: B
59. Who replaced rule the thumb with science and advocated principles of scientific management?
(A) Carl Davis
(B) F. Taylor
(C) R. Bruner
(D) H. Fayol
Ans: B
60. Which of the following is not a kind of Leadership?
(A) Charismatic leadership
(B) Formal or situational leader
(C) Functional leadership
(D) Mass leadership
Ans: D
61. Who stated that “some are born great, some achieve greatness and others have greatness thrust upon them”?
(A) Katz & Kahn
(B) W. Shakespeare
(C) Rauch & Behing
(D) Hosking
Ans: B
62. Which of the following can be the most effective leadership style in your opinion for a country like India?
(A) Autocratic
(B) Democratic
(C) Laissez Faire
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
63. The responsibility of managing an Educational Institution lies with
(A) Principal
(B) The Administrator
(C) Every Teacher
(D) All the above
Ans: D
64. Which of the following type of test items would result in wide range of scores?
(A) Too easy
(B) Too difficult
(C) Average difficult
(D) Combination of (A) and (B)
Ans: D
65. Rearrange in proper order, the following activities related to test standardization:
(a) Preparation of test items
(b) Planning the test
(c) Assessment of reliability and validity
(d) Tryout of the test
(A) (b), (a), (d), (c)
(B) (c), (d), (a), (b)
(C) (d), (a), (b), (c)
(D) (a), (d), (c), (b)
Ans: A
66. Difficulty level of item is not a matter of concern in the case of
(A) Placement test
(B) Intelligence test
(C) Criterion referenced test
(D) Norm referenced test
Ans: C
67. Rearrange, in proper order, the following points of Likert type attitude scale:
(a) Strongly agree
(b) Strongly disagree
(c) Agree
(d) Disagree
(e) Undecided
(A) (a), (c), (d), (e), (b)
(B) (b), (d), (e), (c), (a)
(C) (a), (b), (e), (c), (d)
(D) (a), (c), (d), (b), (e)
Ans: B
68. Rorschach ink-blot test is related to measurement of
(A) Intelligence
(B) Attitude
(C) Aptitude
(D) Personality
Ans: D
69. Which of the following is an unstructured tool?
(A) Attitude scale
(B) Objective test
(C) Intelligence test
(D) Essay test
Ans: D
70. The type of grading that asserts fixed proportion of learners at different grade points is known as
(A) Direct grading
(B) Indirect grading
(C) Relative grading
(D) Absolute grading
Ans: C
71. Preparation of a test according to test specification/test blue-print mostly enhances
(A) Reliability
(B) Content validity
(C) Concurrent validity
(D) Construct validity
Ans: B
72. Assertion (A): Important contribution of educational technology is in qualitative and quantitative development of education.
Consequences (C): Goal of universalisation of education can be achieved by educational technology.
(A) (A) is true but (C) is false.
(B) Both (A) and (C) are true.
(C) (A) is false and (C) is true.
(D) Both (A) and (C) are wrong.
Ans: B
73. Mathletics Programmed Instruction is based on
(A) Connectionism
(B) Configuration theories
(C) Operant conditioning theory
(D) None of the above
Ans: A
(A) The goals, purposes and interests of the pupils
(B) Available text books in various subjects.
(C) College entrance requirements
(D) Training and interest of teachers
Ans: A
52. The main purpose of co-curricular activities is to
(A) Facilitate pupil development.
(B) Provide a progressive school.
(C) Keep pupils from dropping out.
(D) Meet the demands of the community.
Ans: A
53. The mid-day meal programme for Pr. Schools was initiated with a view to
(A) Increase enrolment
(B) Involve community
(C) Engage teachers
(D) Increase the employment
Ans: A
54. VEC under SSA stands for
(A) Village Education Committee
(B) Village Enabling Council
(C) Village Environment Committee
(D) None of the above
Ans: A
55. The strategy adopted in India for the universalization of elementary education is
(A) Universal enrolment
(B) Universal retention
(C) Universal provision for schooling
(D) All above
Ans: D
56. Supervision in school administration should be primarily
(A) Preventive and critical
(B) Preventive and corrective
(C) Constructive and creative
(D) Constructive and critical
Ans: D
57. The chief responsibility of the Principal is to
(A) Organize and administer the guidance programme
(B) Provide leadership in the institutional programme
(C) Listen to parental criticism
(D) Keep proper school records
Ans: B
58. Who has advocated Human Relation approach?
(A) Henry Fayol
(B) Elton Mayo
(C) Taylor
(D) Davis
Ans: B
59. Who replaced rule the thumb with science and advocated principles of scientific management?
(A) Carl Davis
(B) F. Taylor
(C) R. Bruner
(D) H. Fayol
Ans: B
60. Which of the following is not a kind of Leadership?
(A) Charismatic leadership
(B) Formal or situational leader
(C) Functional leadership
(D) Mass leadership
Ans: D
61. Who stated that “some are born great, some achieve greatness and others have greatness thrust upon them”?
(A) Katz & Kahn
(B) W. Shakespeare
(C) Rauch & Behing
(D) Hosking
Ans: B
62. Which of the following can be the most effective leadership style in your opinion for a country like India?
(A) Autocratic
(B) Democratic
(C) Laissez Faire
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
63. The responsibility of managing an Educational Institution lies with
(A) Principal
(B) The Administrator
(C) Every Teacher
(D) All the above
Ans: D
64. Which of the following type of test items would result in wide range of scores?
(A) Too easy
(B) Too difficult
(C) Average difficult
(D) Combination of (A) and (B)
Ans: D
65. Rearrange in proper order, the following activities related to test standardization:
(a) Preparation of test items
(b) Planning the test
(c) Assessment of reliability and validity
(d) Tryout of the test
(A) (b), (a), (d), (c)
(B) (c), (d), (a), (b)
(C) (d), (a), (b), (c)
(D) (a), (d), (c), (b)
Ans: A
66. Difficulty level of item is not a matter of concern in the case of
(A) Placement test
(B) Intelligence test
(C) Criterion referenced test
(D) Norm referenced test
Ans: C
67. Rearrange, in proper order, the following points of Likert type attitude scale:
(a) Strongly agree
(b) Strongly disagree
(c) Agree
(d) Disagree
(e) Undecided
(A) (a), (c), (d), (e), (b)
(B) (b), (d), (e), (c), (a)
(C) (a), (b), (e), (c), (d)
(D) (a), (c), (d), (b), (e)
Ans: B
68. Rorschach ink-blot test is related to measurement of
(A) Intelligence
(B) Attitude
(C) Aptitude
(D) Personality
Ans: D
69. Which of the following is an unstructured tool?
(A) Attitude scale
(B) Objective test
(C) Intelligence test
(D) Essay test
Ans: D
70. The type of grading that asserts fixed proportion of learners at different grade points is known as
(A) Direct grading
(B) Indirect grading
(C) Relative grading
(D) Absolute grading
Ans: C
71. Preparation of a test according to test specification/test blue-print mostly enhances
(A) Reliability
(B) Content validity
(C) Concurrent validity
(D) Construct validity
Ans: B
72. Assertion (A): Important contribution of educational technology is in qualitative and quantitative development of education.
Consequences (C): Goal of universalisation of education can be achieved by educational technology.
(A) (A) is true but (C) is false.
(B) Both (A) and (C) are true.
(C) (A) is false and (C) is true.
(D) Both (A) and (C) are wrong.
Ans: B
73. Mathletics Programmed Instruction is based on
(A) Connectionism
(B) Configuration theories
(C) Operant conditioning theory
(D) None of the above
Ans: A