REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS

Republic of the Philippines

PAMANTASANG NORMAL NG PILIPINAS
PHILIPPINE NORMAL UNIVERSITY
PAMBANSANG SENTRO SA EDUKASYONG PANGGURO
National Center for Teacher Education
Mindanao

FACULTY OF TEACHER DEVELOPMENT

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN PROF ED 1
The Teaching Profession

Prepared By:

DR. MAY Q. APAT

Course Professor

General Instruction

This test contains 75 items. You shall manage to answer all items in 1 hour and 30
minutes

TEST 1
To which philosophy does each statement belong?
Constructivism_1. A student is a constructor of knowledge.
Behaviorism__2. A person is a product of his environment.
Constructivism3. A learner is a maker of meaning.
Existentialism_4. There is no universal nature.
Idealism_5. You envision or see things in an ideal or perfect manner.
_Realism_6. A person has rational and moral powers.
Behaviorism 7. A person has no choice; he is determined by his environment.
Existentialism_8. A person can choose what he can become.
_Behaviorism_9. The reality is a complex combination of matter that responds to physical
stimuli.
Behaviorism 10. In this philosophy, a person has no free will.
Progressivism_11. A person is a social animal who learns well through an active interplay
with others.
Perennialism 12. One has the same essential nature with others.
Perennialism 13. A person is a rational animal.
Existentialism 14. A person first exist then defines him/herself.
Idealism 15. Our reality is shaped by our thoughts and ideas
Test II
Upon which philosophy is each educational practice anchored?
Progressivism_1. Use of simulation and problem-solving method
Essentialism_2. Back-to-the-Basics movement
Essentialism 3. Conduct of national Achievement Test to test acquisition of Elementary,
Secondary Learning competencies
Perennialism_4. Use of the Great Books
Behaviorism_5. Provide appropriate incentives to reinforce positive responses and weaken or
eliminate negative ones. (behaviorism)
Constructivism 6. Asking learners to draw meaning from what they are taught.
Essentialism 7. Knowledge is deposited by the teacher into the empty minds of the learners.
Constructivism_8. Making meaning of what is taught.
Existentialism 9. Learners learning at their own pace
Essentialism 10. Mastery of the 3 r’s- reading, writing, and ‘arithmetic (essentialism)
Essentialism_11. The traditional approach to education
Progressivism 12. Non-authoritarian approach to teaching
Progressivism_13. Student-centered teaching.
Perennialism 14. Authoritarian approach to teaching
Perennialism 15. Subject matter-centered teaching
Essentialism 16. Designed to prepare students for adult life.
Realism 17. Understanding the material world through Inquiry
Pragmatism 18. Real-world applications of lessons and experiencing actual processes and
procedures
Idealism 19. Adopt moral principles even if they have negative effect on our lives.
Realism 20. A study of Science and Scientific Method
Essentialism 21. To teach not radically reshape the society but rather to transmit the traditional
moral values and intellectual knowledge that students need to become model
citizens.
Essentialism 22. Teachers are seen as “fountain” of information and as “paragon of virtue”
Progressivism 23. Instead of occupying with teaching facts or bits of information that are true
today but become obsolete tomorrow, focus rather to teaching on the skills or
processes
Essentialism 24. The teacher used “hands-on-minds-on-hearts-on” teaching methodology
Existentialism 25. Its objective is to help students understand and appreciate themselves as
unique individuals who accept complete responsibility for their thoughts,
feelings and actions
Behaviorism 26. Teachers ought to make the stimuli clear and interesting to capture and hold
the learners’ attention
Communism 27. Government control of education and abolition of private property.
Existentialism28. The classroom is a place where the students are regularly involved in decision-
making processes
Idealism 29. Schooling is aimed to achieve high ideals-perfection, desirability and excellence
Progressivism 30. School should teach the cultural heritage from one generation to the next
generation
Test III
Analyze each Educational Philosophy according to the 3 branches of Philosophy

Philosophy Metaphysics Epistemology Axiology

(values and beauty)
1.Idealism It associates reality Knowledge is The values of human beings’
to ideas in the mind obtained when desire and enjoy are
rather than to ideas are brought fundamental rooted in existence.
material objects. into
consciousness
through self-
examination and
discourse.
2.Realism The objects that It obtain The development of values
populate the world knowledge about based on natural laws which is
exist independently mind- external and universal.
our thought and independent
have their nature reality.
independently.
3.Progressivism Reality is the realm Knowledge Values are not predetermined.
of everyday, comes through Man himself creates values
personal experience. experienced-
based activities What is beautiful is whatever
and ideas by square with the public tast
acting and
reacting with
environment.
4.Essentialism What ispertinentis Truth exist in the It is determined by rational order
what improve an classics and of things. Values exist in the best
individual live modern science. of culture.
healthy and what Students must
brings advantage to learn processand
humanity. content.
Knowledge is
gained through
the interaction of
experiences and
rational thought.
5.Existentialism The meaning of life The truth and It is changeless.Determine by the
is pursuit for knowledge are very nature of reality.
consisted of truth unchanging
found in the disclosed through
common wisdom of guided
western culture. impression and in
the classics of
western culture.
Test IV
Match column A with column B
A B.
1. John Dewey a. perennialism
2. Robert Hutchins b. idealism
3. John Watson c. Essentialism
4. William Bagley d. Existentialism
5. jean Paul Sartre e. communism
6. Plato f. progressivism
7.Aristotle g. realism
8. Friedrich Engels h. pragmatism
9. Thomas Jefferson i. behaviorism
10. Karl Marx j. democracy