60 Most Important Pedagogy Questions

1. The word “Pedagogy” means? 10. If a child has mental age of 5 years and chronological
A. To guide the child age of 4 years than what will be the IQ of child?
B. To lead the child A. 125
C. To educate the child B. 80
D. To understand the child C. 120
2. Pedagogy is the study of: D. 100
A. Education 11. Which of the following statements is not true?
B. Guiding Students A. Growth is a biological process
C. Learning Process B. Development is a quantitative process
D. Teaching Methods C. Education is a goal-oriented process
3. Which one of the followings indicates child’s physical D. Learning is a process of behavioural changes
growth? 12. Which of the following is not the tool for Formative
A. Negative Assessment in sholastic domain?
B. Quantitative A. Conversation Skill
C. Qualitative B. Multiple Choice Questions
D. Positive C. Projects
4. The best method to study growth and development of D. Oral Questions
the child is: 13. According to John Dewey, school is a ____ institution,
A. Psychoanalytic Method and education is a ____ process.
B. Comparative Method A. social, social
C. Developmental Method B. social, philosophical
D. Statistical Method C. philosophical, philosophical
5. The use of technology to enhance learning process is D. environmental, psychological
called ____ in education. 14. Special education is related to:
A. IT A. Educational for talented students
B. ICT B. Educational programmes for disabled
C. Information technology C. Training programmes for Teachers
D. Communication technology D. Training programme for retarded
6. Term PSRN in development implies: 15. Which of the following statement is not true in case of
A. Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy multiple choice questions?
B. Problem solving relationship and numeracy A. Even an inexperienced teacher can prepare the
C. Perceptual skill, reasoning and numeracy questions easily
D. Perceptual skill, relationship and numbers B. All choices appear to be plausible
7. “Individual learns from his own mistakes” This C. Error-free and quick evaluation is possible by computer
statement is based on which learning theory? D. Only one of the choices is the correct answer
A. Instrumental conditioning 16. According to John Dewey, schools must prepare
B. Insight students for
C. Trial & Error A. research
D. Classical conditioning B. future life
8. What should be the role of teacher in meeting the C. present life
individual differences? D. entrepreneurship
A. Try to know the abilities, interest and aptitude of 17. What type of evaluation identifies learning deficiencies
individuals and difficulties of the learners?
B. Try to adjust the curriculum as per the needs of A. Placement
individuals B. Summative
C. Both (A) and (B) C. Continuous
D. None of these D. Diagnostic
9. Teachers should present information to the students 18. As people grow older, the ____ of learning declines.
clearly and in interesting way, and relate this new A. power
information to the things students: B. speed
A. don’t know C. quality
B. already know D. quantity
C. willing to know
D. not willing to know
19. Both the chronological age and the mental age of a 28. Which is not a factor of motivation?
pupil is 7 years. He may be classified into which category? A. Prize
A. Below normal intelligence B. Incentive
B. Normal intelligence C. Praise
C. Superior intelligence D. Practice
D. Genius 29. The longer a particular ability is unused the ____ it
20. Which from the following should be used to increase becomes.
correct responses and appropriate behavior? A. Weaker
A. Ignorance B. Stronger
B. Strictness C. Less important
C. Reward D. More important
D. Praise 30. What is the stage from 2 to 6 years called?
21. Which is different from the other three with respect to A. Pre-childhood
fine motor Movement? B. Infancy
A. Dot Joining C. Later childhood
B. Dictation D. Pre-adolescence
C. Handwriting 31. According to Jean Piaget, children develop abstract
D. Separation of fruits and vegetables logic and reasoning skill during:
22. At the pre-primary stage reading aloud while writing is A. Sensorimotor stage
given importance. This is based on which theory of B. Preoperational stage
learning? C. Formal operational stage
A. Trial & Error D. Concrete operational stage
B. Conditioning 32. The teacher studies pupils group behaviour mainly by
C. Insight which of the following methods?
D. Imitation A. Interview
23. According to Emile, the noblest work in education is to B. Experimentation
make a/an: C. Case history
A. Thinker D. Observation
B. Entrepreneur 33. Children are usually egocentric during ____ and ____
C. Good citizen stages.
D. Reasoning man A. Sensorimotor, Preoperational
24. Which one of the following is not taken into B. Formal operational, Sensorimotor
consideration while preparing the blue-print for a test? C. Preoperational, Concrete operational
A. Topic D. Concrete operational, Formal operational
B. Instructional objectives 34. Which one does not indicate child’s emotion?
C. From of questions A. Pleasure
D. Teaching time B. Sorrow
25. The field of study concerned with the construction of C. Curiosity
thought processes, including remembering, problem D. Tolerance
solving, and decision-making is called: 35. According to Jean Piaget, children are no longer
A. Pedagogy egocentric when entering:
B. Education A. Sensorimotor stage
C. Epistemology B. Preoperational stage
D. Cognitive Development C. Formal operational stage
26. Psycology is a —————. D. Concrete operational stage
A. Science of soul 36. Which one is not an element of intellectual
B. Science of mind development?
C. Science of consciousness A. Creativity
D. Science of behaviour B. Tolerance
27. The more often a particular ability is used the ____ it C. Thinking
becomes. D. Imagination
A. Weaker
B. Stronger
C. Less important
D. More important
37. According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, A. Head and heart
the Concrete operational stage starts at age: B. Heart and hands
A.1 C. Head and hands
B.3 D. Head, heart, and hands
C.5 47. Plato believed that talent and intelligence are:
D.7 A. Distributed genetically
38. Which class of learners are not included under B. Distributed gender-wise
“Exceptional Category”? C. Not distributed genetically
A. Slow D. Not distributed gender-wise
B. Retarded 48. A priori knowledge is knowledge that is known
C. Normal independently of:
D. Gifted A. Analysis
39. According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, B. Evidence
the Formal operational stage starts at age: C. Experience
A. 5 D. Information
B. 6 49. A posteriori knowledge is knowledge that is known by:
C. 7 A. Analysis
D. 8 B. Evidence
40. Which one of the following is not an element of C. Experience
mastery learning? D. Information
A. Use of alternate text-book 50. According to John Locke, a child’s mind does not
B. Alternate methods of teaching contain any:
C. Child-centred learning activity A. memory
D. Group teaching B. imagination
41. The more parts of your brain you use, the more likely C. observation
you are to ____ information. D. innate ideas
A. Use 51. The philosopher who for the first time mentioned the
B. Miss importance of play (or sports) in education was:
C. Retain A. Plato
D. Misuse B. Aristotle
42. Which one of the following is measured by continuous C. Socrates
comprehensive evaluation? D. John Locke
A. Holisitic development 52. We calculate average marks of a student in the way as
B. Development of creativity we calculate:
C. Development of experience A. variance
D. Development of divergent thinking B. arithmetic mean
43. Which of the following is a dimensional teaching aid? C. geometric mean
A. Black Board D. standard deviation
B. Display Board 53. The concept of pragmatism in educational philosophy
C. Still Picture says that education should be about:
D. Model A. virtue
44. Rousseau advocated an educational method which B. obedience
consisted of removing the child from: C. life and growth
A. School D. shaping good citizens
B. Burden 54. The idea of practical learning means education should
C. Society apply to the:
D. Past memory A. society
45. Who advocated removing children from their mothers’ B. practice
care and raising them as wards of the state? C. real world
A. Plato D. abstract knowledge
B. Socrates
C. Aristotle
D. John Locke
46. The Waldorf education approach emphasizes a
balanced development of:
55. An aspect of pragmatism is experiential learning,
which says, education should come through:
A. practice
B. experience
C. knowledge
D. observations
56. The concept of perennialism in education means
school curricula should focus on what is:
A. in need
B. in demand
C. important
D. everlasting
57. According to John Dewey, children should experience
____in school to make them better citizens.
A. practical implementation
B. democracy
C. discipline
D. rules
58. Progressivism believes that education comes from the
experience of the:
A. Child
B. Teacher
C. Society
D. Principal
59. The idea of teaching the whole child in the “philosophy
of pragmatism in education” means teaching students to
be good:
A. Citizens
B. Thinkers
C. Learners
D. Scientists
60. The curriculum of educational institutes should be
based on:
A. theory
B. practice
C. theory and practice
D. theory, practice and research