TEACHING APTITUDE Question and Answer
TEACHING APTITUDE Question and Answer
1. The mean score on any class test is the result of:
- dividing the sum of all scores by the number of scores
- determining the middle score when all the scores have been listed from the highest to the lowest
- determining the most frequent score
- Adding all the scores and dividing by the most frequent score
2. The least justifiable use of the results of a standardized reading test is to:
- identify areas of pupil deficiency
- evaluate the reading instruction programme
- Serve as a basis for report card marks
- Serve as the basis for a parent conference
3. Fifteen –year old Arvind has taken to wearing the same style sweaters that her teacher wears. This form of behaviour is known as:
- compensation
- transference
- indentification
- regression
4. At least one third of the learning that will determine later levels of school achievement has already taken place by age six. This is a statement most closely associated with the writings of:
- Benjamin Bloom
- Margaret Mead
- Martin Mayer
- Fritiz Redl
5. Of the following, the most unreliable predictor of educational achievement is:
- inherited biological potential for learning
- ethnic origin of parents
- family background and training
- classroom experiences
6. All the following are acceptable goals for dealing with behaviour problems in the classroom, except:
- helping the child to improve his/her self-control
- being impersonal and objective
- understanding the offense
- utilizing appeals to children that have personal implications
7. In preparing a fifth grade class to take a standardized reading test the teacher is best advised to:
- tell the children the test is very important and they should do the best they can
- ditto key questions from a previous test and allow the pupils to answer them
- do nothing
- coach the below grade level readers, as the rest of the class will do well anyway.
8. Of the following, the one situation that will cause the greatest difficulty for a child in the initial stages of reading instruction is :
- confusion of left and right directionality
- possessing an IQ of 90
- having older siblings who are successful readers
- never having attended kindergarten
9. Of the following essentials of learning the one that takes procedure over the other is:
- average intelligence
- ability to read
- an intact home
- desire to learn
10. A child from a disorganized home will experience the greatest difficulty with:
- well structured lessons
- independent study
- programmed instruction
- workbooks