Child Development and Pedagogy

CTET - Child Development and Pedagogy

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Child Development and Pedagogy

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Question 1

Directions: Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate option.

1. Which one of the following is not related to other options?

A	Taking feedback from students on a topic
B	Conducting quiz
C	Modeling the skills of selfassessment
D	Organizing question-answer sessions

Question 2

2. Which one of the following questions is correctly matched with its specified domain ?

A	What was the turning point in the cricket matc telecasted last night ? :Creating
B	Write down a new recipe to cook chicken by using herbs :Application
C	Determine which of the given measures would most likely lead to achieve best results ? :Analyzing
D	Could you group your students on the basis of their achievement in Mathematics ? :Evaluating

Question 3

3. Which of the following is the most effective way to convey students from disadvantaged sections that you expect them to participate and succeed ?

A	Develop your own interest in the topics to be taught
B	Compare them with other children as frequently as possible to make them realize their goal
C	Emphasize the point that you have high expectation of them
D	Articulate your confidence in their ability to succeed

Question 4

4. Following are the examples of developmental disorder, except—

A	cerebral palsy
B	post-traumatic stress
C	attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
D	autism

Question 4 Explanation:

Posttraumatic stress disorder may develop after a person is exposed to one or more traumatic events, such assexual assault, serious injury, or the threat of death. The diagnosis may be given when a group of symptoms, such as disturbing recurring flashbacks, avoidanceor numbing of memories of the event and hyperarousal (high levels of anxiety) continue for more than a month after the traumatic event.

Question 5

5. Multiple pedagogical techniques. assorted learning material, multiple assessment techniques and varying the complexity and nature of the content are associated with which of the following ?

A	Remedial teaching
B	Differentiated instruction
C	Reciprocal teaching
D	Universal design for learning

Question 5 Explanation:

Differentiated instruction is the process of ‘ensuring that what a student learns, how he or she learns it and how the student demonstrates what he or she has learned is a match for that student’s readiness level, interests and preferred mode of learning.”

Question 6

6. Which of the following is true about gifted learners ?

A	They always lead others and assume extra responsibility in the classroom
B	They may achieve lower grades due to their heightened sensitivity
C	Their importance is primarily due to their brainpower
D	They make everyone else smarter and are essential for collaborative learning

Question 7

7. Inclusion in schools primarily focuses on—

A	fulfilling the needs of children with disabilities only
B	meeting the need of the disabled child at the expense of entire class
C	including the educational needs of illiterate parents in schools
D	making subtle provisions for special category children

Question 8

8. The cause of learned helplessness in children is their—

A	callous attitude towards classroom activities
B	non-compliance with expectations of their parents
C	moral decision for not taking up studies seriously
D	acquired behaviour that they will not succeed

Question 9

9. If a student is consistently getting lower grades in school, her parents can be advised to help her by—

A	with-holding mobile phones, movies, comics and extra time for play
B	narrating her the hardships of life for those who do not possess proper education
C	forcing her to work harder at home
D	working in close association with teachers

Question 10

10. Which of the following does not deter problem solving ?

A	Mental sets
B	Entrenchment
C	Fixation
D	Insight

Question 10 Explanation:

Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect in a specific context.

Question 11

11. A teacher is connecting a text to the previously learnt text and showing children how to summarize it. She is—

A	insinuating that there is no need to go through the entire text
B	reinforcing the importance of text from the assessment point of view
C	encouraging children to mug it up as effectively as possible
D	helping children to develop their own strategy to comprehend it

Question 12

12. What kind of errors is common between a learner who is learning his mother tongue and the learner who learns the same language as a second language ?

A	Simplification
B	Developmental
C	Hypercorrection
D	Overgeneralization

Question 13

13. The stress affects performances in examinations. This fact reflects which of the following relationships ?

A	Stress-Omission
B	Performance-Anxiety
C	Cognition-Competition
D	Cognition-Emotion

Question 13 Explanation:

Cognition and Emotion is devoted to the study of emotion, especially to those aspects of emotion related to cognitive processes.

Question 14

14. A teacher is trying to counsel a child who is not performing well after an accident. Which one of the following is most appropriate about counseling in schools ?

A	It builds self-confidence of people by letting them explore their own thoughts
B	It is about giving the best possible advice to students about their future career options
C	It can be done only by the professional experts
D	It is about the palliative measures for making people comfortable

Question 15

15. Which of the following would encourage the least a student who wants to become a highly creative theatre artist ?

A	Develop empathetic, amicable and supportive relationships with your peer theatre artists
B	Devote your time to those theatrical skills that you find most enjoyable
C	Read about the performances of the world’s best theatre artists and try to learn
D	Try to win the State level competition that will ensure you scholarship

Question 16

16. Which of the following theorists would be of the opinion that students study hard for their personal growth and development ?

A	Maslow
B	Skinner
C	Piaget
D	Bandura

Question 17

17. Which of the following factors supports learning in a classroom ?

A	Supporting the autonomy of children by the teachers
B	Sticking to one particular method of instruction to maintain uniformity
C	Increasing the time interval of periods from 40 minutes to 50 minutes
D	Increasing the number of tests to motivate children to learn

Question 18

18. Mature students—

A	resolve easily all their conflicts with their intellect
B	sometimes need emotional support in their studies
C	do not get upset by studies in difficult situations
D	believe that emotion has no place in their studies

Question 19

19. A child coming to pre-school for the first time cries profusely. After two years when the same child goes to the primary school for the first time, he does not express his tension by crying rather his shoulder and neck muscles become tense. This change in his behaviour can be explained on the basis of which of the following principles ?

A	Development is gradual
B	Development is different in different people
C	Development is characterized by differentiation and integration
D	Development proceeds in a sequential manner

Question 20

20. Which of the following statements is true ?

A	Adoptive children possess same IQs as their adoptive siblings
B	Experience does not influence brain development
C	Intelligence remains unaffected by the schooling
D	Genetic makeup impacts responsiveness of an individual to qualities of the environment

Question 21

21. In the progressive model of education as implemented by CBSE, socialization of children is done in such a way so as to expect them to—

A	be an active participant in the group work and learn social skills
B	prepare themselves to conform to the rules and regulations of society without questioning
C	accept what they are offered by the school irrespective of their social background
D	give up time-consuming social habits and learn how to score good grades

Question 22

22. Which of the following is based on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory ?

A	Reciprocal teaching
B	Culture-neutral cognitive development
C	Insight learning
D	Operant conditioning

Question 22 Explanation:

Reciprocal teaching is an instructional activity that takes the form of a dialogue between teachers and students regarding segments of text for the purpose of constructing the meaning of text. Reciprocal teaching is a reading technique which is thought to promote the teaching process.

Question 23

23. A teacher says to her class, “As individual assignments are designed to help individual students learn more effectively, all students should complete assignments prescribed without any assistance.” She is referring to which of the following stages of Kohlberg’s moral development ?

A	Post-conventional stage 5
B	Pre-conventional stage 1
C	Pre-conventional stage 2
D	Conventional stage 4 —law and order

Question 24

24. Fourteen-year-old Devika is attempting to develop a sense of herself as a separate, selfgoverning individual. She is developing—

A	autonomy
B	teenage arrogance
C	maturity
D	hatred for rules

Question 25

25. In context of progressive education, which of the following statements is true according to John Dewey ?

A	Students should be able to solve social problems themselves
B	Curiosity does not belong to the inherent nature of students rather it is to be cultivated
C	Students should be observed and not heard in he classroom
D	There should not be a place for democracy in a classroom

Question 25 Explanation:

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

Question 26

26. A disorder related to language comprehension is—

A	dyslexia
B	aspeechxia
C	aphasia
D	apraxia

Question 26 Explanation:

Aphasia is a disturbance of the comprehension and formulation of language caused by dysfunction in specific brain regions. This class of language disorder ranges from having difficulty remembering words to losing the ability to speak, read or write. This also affects visual language such as sign language. Aphasia is usually linked to brain damage, most commonly caused by stroke.

Question 27

27. Following are the critical views about the ‘Theory of Multiple Intelligence’s’, except—

A	different intelligences demand different methods for different students
B	gifted students usually excel in a single domain
C	it lacks of empirical support
D	it is not research-based

Question 27 Explanation:

The theory of multiple intelligences is a theory of intelligence that differentiates it into specific (primarily sensory) “modalities”, rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general ability. This model was proposed by Howard Gardner in his 1983 book Frames of Mind : The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Gardner articulated seven criteria for a behaviour to be considered an intelligence. These were that the intelligences showed : potential for brain isolation by brain damage, place in evolutionary history, presence of core operations, susceptibility to encoding (symbolic expression), a distinct developmental progression, the existence of savants, prodigies and other exceptional people, and support from experimental psychology and psychometric findings.

Question 28

28. ‘Theory of Multiple Intelligences’ cannot be legitimized as it—

A	does not place equal importance on all seven intelligences
B	is based only on sound empirical studies done by Abraham Maslow throughout his life
C	is not compatible with general intelligence ‘g’, which is most important
D	is not possible to measure different intelligences as there are no specific tests

Question 28 Explanation:

The theory of multiple intelligences is a theory of intelligence that differentiates it into specific ‘modalities’, rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general ability.

Question 29

29. The individual differences of students in a classroom are—

A	detrimental as they lead to student-student conflicts
B	inexpedient as they reduce the speed of the curriculum transaction to the level of the slowest student
C	Advantageous as they lead teacher to explore a wider pool of cognitive structures
D	disadvantageous as teachers need to control a diverse classroom

Question 30

30. School-based assessment was introduced to—

A	ensure the holistic development of all the students
B	motivate teachers to punctiliously record all the activities of students for better interpretation of their progress
C	encourage schools to excel by competing with the other schools in their area
D	decentralize the power of Boards of school education in the country

Question 30 Explanation:

School-based Assessment (SBA) was first proposed in the Reform Proposals for the Education System in Hong Kong, published in September 2000. According to the proposal, the modes, content and the assessment methods of public examinations should be reviewd.

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