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BOARD LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS REVIEW

Diagnostic Examination

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

1. Under the 21st Century Life and Career Skills, which enables a person to respond to the change of
modernity?

a. Flexibility and Adaptability

b. Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
c. Leadership and Responsibility
d. Productivity and Accountability

2. Which pillar of learning describes the phrase “Unity in Diversity”?

a. Learning to live together

b. Learning to be
c. Learning to know
d. Learning to do

3. The teacher would like to focus on “WELLNESS” which needs to be developed among individual
learners and so she gives focus on ______________.

a. Vital values
b. Pleasure values
c. Spiritual Values
d. Holy values

4. The teacher who spends more than what is earned, thus becoming vulnerable to loan sharks lacks
________.

a. Financial literacy
b. Cyberliteracy
c. Eco-literacy
d. Media literacy

5. Owing to issues in friendship, family ties, gender rights, etc. ________ is a value-rich subject that
provides a wide opportunity for value formation of learners.

a. Filipino
b. Social Science
c. English
d. Islamic Subject

6. A student passes a book report poorly written but ornately presented in a folder to make up for
the poor quality of book report content. Which Filipino trtaits does this practice prove?
 a. “Porma” over substance
b. Subtance over “porma”
c. Arts over academics
d. Art over Science

7. When you wanted to genuinely clarify and point relative to an issue under a discussion in a
meeting, what will you do as a teacher?

a. Politely request for recognition to clarify your point.

b. Just keep quiet to avoid opposition
c. Discuss with seatmates to gain support
d. Oppose the other position

8. Teacher Ana noticed that in group work, students just leave the work to the leader and so vowed
never to give group work again. Against which principle of learning is Teacher Prince’s decision?

a. Learning is the discovery of the personal meaning of ideas.

b. Learning is an active process.
c. Learning is a cooperative and a collaborative process.
d. Effective learning begins with setting clear expectations and learning outcomes.

9. In his desire to finish the content of the course syllabus, Sir Mark just lectures while students
listen. Which principle of learning does Sir Mark violate?

a. Learning is a cooperative and a collaborative process.

b. Learning is the discovery of the personal meaning of ideas.
c. Learning is an active process.
d. Effective learning begins with setting clear expectations and learning outcomes.

10. Teacher Clarence wanted her students to rate their own work using the scoring rubric which she
explained to the class before the students began with their task. Based on revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy, in which level of cognitive processing are the students?

a. Applying
b. Analyzing
c. Synthesizing
d. Evaluating

11. If Teacher Marie develops lesson on OBTL way, what should she do?

a. Make students understand what they are expected to know and able to do after the lesson.
b. Make students arrive at the answers.
c. Correct the seatwork.
d. Make seatwork as homework.

12. In classroom curriculum implementation, which is referred to as “Green Flag”?

a. Rigid Movement
b. Student Interest
c. Content delivery blast
d. Too much chalkboard talk
13. In introducing new lesson, what is important to consider by way of lesson continuity?

a. Relate past lesson to new lesson

b. Prepare the instructional materials
c. Introduce new lesson
d. Prepare new audio visual

14. Which of the following best implements research – based learning?

a. Powerpoint
b. Whole class discussion
c. Information data gathering
d. Intensive seat work

15. The subject matter is the ASEAN Qualifications Framework (AQRF). The Asian History teacher
teams up with the Economics teacher, the Professional Education teacher for a thorough
discussion of AQRF from the perspective of other disciplines. Which describes the Asian History
teacher’s pedagogical approach?

a. Reflective
b. Integrated
c. Inquiry-Based
d. Constructivist

16. Teacher Aika avoids out-of-context drills. Instead she used real world problems for her students
to solve. Doing so makes Teacher Aika _________ in approach.

a. Reflective
b. Constructivist
c. Inquiry-based
d. Developmentally appropriate

17. How will you describe activities which involve questions and answers leading to discovery of an
answer or solution?

a. Interdisciplinary
b. Innovative
c. Integrative
d. Interactive

18. Teacher John talked all period. He taught the class the steps to undertake in the conduct of an
action research. He also showed a poorly done action research. He explained why it is poorly
done and finally showed a model action research. Which teaching approach describes Teacher
John’s lesson development? Was Teacher John’s learner-centered?

a. No, he was more subject matter-centered and teacher-centered.

b. No, because his subject matter was highly technical.
c. Yes, he taught for all learners.
d. Yes, he made things easy for the learners
19. For meaningful teaching and learning, it is best to connect the lesson to the life of students by
integrating a relevant value in the lesson. Which principle is applied?

a. Write SMART lesson objectives/intended learning outcomes.

 b. Begin with the end in mind.
c. Share lesson objectives/intended learning outcomes with students.
d. Lesson objectives/intended learning outcomes must integrate 2 or 3 domains – cognitive,
skill and affective or cognitive and affective or skill and affective.

20. Teacher Althea’s lesson was on “what a man can do to arrest climate change”. She made the
students do the talking, arguing and synthesizing. The lecture was made after the students’ lively
discussion. To what approach did Teacher Althea use?

a. Subject-centered approach
b. Teacher-centered approach
c. Student-centered approach
d. School-centered approach

21. During problem solving method, the teacher’s primary role is ________.

a. Director
b. Lecturer
c. Clarifier
d. Judge

22. The school conducted a general student election for the Supreme Student Council. The election is
patterned after the COMELEC system. The school is using what kind of technique.

a. Symposium
b. Simulation
c. Panel Discussion
d. Dramatization

23. Which of the following would be the best choice if a teacher would like to focus in attitudinal
change?

a. Dramatization
b. Field Study
c. Role Play
d. Simulation

24. Teacher Maureen was assigned by her peer teacher to make a power point presentation to a large
combined class for the research paper of the drug use menace in school. The setting patterned
that was adopted effectively was ___________.

a. Horseshoe pattern
b. Rectangular pattern
c. Circular pattern
d. Traditional pattern

25. This is my questioning behavior: I ask the question; I pause for a while then call on a student.
Which is this questioning practice?
a. Involving as many as possible
b. Asking non-directed question
c. Asking for non-volunteers
d. Directing a question
26. Outside the acceptable and effective ways with dealing of the disciplines is/are

a. Verbal reinforces
b. Dialogue
c. Additional homework
d. Award merit

27. Eye wink, waving of hands and nodding of head are examples of ________.

a. Gestures
b. Verbal Communication
c. Body Language
d. Facial Expression

28. It is a type of play in which children watch alongside but not play with each other.

a. Solitary Play
b. Onlooker Play
c. Parallel Play
d. Associative Play

29. “Every individual is a unique individual”, adheres to what principle:

a. We are born different

b. Individual Differences
c. Every person is unique
d. Each of us has uniqueness

30. Which statement about student diversity is CORRECT?

a. Student diversity is solely due to students varied culture.

b. Teachers should value and accept diversity of students.
c. Teachers should not accept diversity of students.
d. The less diversity the better for the teacher and students.

31. A student was raised by authoritative parents. What will be his attitude in school?

a. Quarrelsome
b. Distant
c. Inferior
d. Independent

32. Along Erickson’s psychosocial theory, which statement is one of autonomy in early childhood?

a. As I do things I fell I made a mistake.

b. I do things without worrying about them.
c. I worry that my parents will find about them.
d. I am apologetic about what I’ve done.

33. How does a novice learner acquire information?

a. Meaningful information
b. Selected information
 c. Important information
d. All of the information

34. Which level of knowledge is manifested when a learner is able to answer the question, “What
was most confusing to me about the material explored in class today?”

a. Factual knowledge
b. Conceptual knowledge
c. Procedural knowledge
d. Metacognitive knowledge

35. Who coined the term “scaffolding”?

a. Bruner
b. Piaget
c. Vygotsky
d. Pavlov

36. One cognitive advancement in adolescence is metacognition. What does METACOGNITION

mean?

a. Ability to identify one’s own thinking process and strategies.

b. Ability to recall and explain.
c. Ability to analyze and synthesize
d. Ability to problem solving

37. What kind of learning does this Cyril Houle’s quotation, “If you teach a person what to learn,
you are preparing that person for the past, if you teach the person how to learn, you are
preparing them for the future” mean?

a. Metacognitive learning
b. Learning with audio-visual
c. Technology with learning
d. Learning with graphs

38. Assessment of learning is an _______ part of the teaching-learning process.

a. Enrichment
b. Auxiliary
c. Add on
d. Integral

39. As an investigative tool, assessment can help discover various aspects of students learning but
these does not include _________.

a. What students already know

b. What students can do
c. What students expect to learn
d. What learning gaps students have

40. Identify the characteristics that can make assessment difficult to apply, and therefore should be
avoided by teachers.
 a. Applying assessment contextually
b. Provide interactive feedback on student performance
c. Setting definite variables as in rubrics
d. Discussing abstract concepts

41. Compared with evaluation which is subjective, testing students is more objective because it is
based on?

a. Homework
b. Quantifiable Data
c. Human judgment
d. Class Work

42. For real world application the teacher can apply ________.

a. Demonstration
b. Performance
c. Simulation
d. Drills

43. These are the criteria to reduce error in judging test content, sampling and procedures for tests
except

a. Reliability
b. Predictability
c. Validity
d. Usability

44. Teacher wants to evaluate the child writing performance at the beginning, middle and after
school year. Which type of portfolio should the teacher use?

a. Evaluation portfolio
b. Development portfolio
c. Showcase portfolio
d. Assessment portfolio

45. Teacher Rushelle wants her pupils to display their work where each one has worked. What type
of portfolio should the teacher use?

a. Assessment
b. Development
c. Showcase
d. Evaluation

46. Which rubric CANNOT provide specific feedback for improvement?

a. Analytic Rubric
b. General Analytic
c. Holistic
d. Development rubric

47. How is content validity best assessed in the assignment to illustrate the law of demand and
supply?
 a. Illustration of demand and supply flow
b. Diagram of demand and supply trend
c. Correct definitions of demand and supply
d. Instances showing demand supplying demand

48. Using the standardized test, a school can determine _____ in order to give final grades or
certification.

a. End-of-school year achievement

b. Degree of mastery
c. Remedial measures for improvement
d. Long serious problem

49. Which type of test measures students’ thinking organizing and written communication skills?

a. Short answer
b. Completion type
c. Essay
d. Extemporaneous speech

50. The more senses that are involved, the better the learning. What does this imply?

a. Use visual aids

b. Use audio aids
c. Use audio-visual aids
d. Use multi-sensory aids

51. Teacher B wants to make use of simulated life condition suitable for animals and plants living on
land. Which does she use?

a. Terrarium
b. Model
c. Aquarium
d. Poster

52. What material is best to use if intended material is not available?

a. Supplementary material
b. Audio-visual material
c. Improvised material
d. Digital material

53. Which social service is available in the computer?

a. Google
b. Facebook
c. I-pad
d. Wikipedia

54. Teacher Jasmin, a Social Studies teacher, wants her Grade 7 students to express their opinions,
sentiments, and ideas regarding a certain government issue in the national level. Which of the
following can she BEST use to facilitate such?
 a. Forum
b. Blog
c. E-mail
d. Group messaging

55. Miss Clarisse is preparing slides for her lesson demonstration; she remembers to supply the rule
of six. Most likely she will _____________________.

a. Identify six important points to discuss and use about six minutes to explain each point.
b. Include six paragraphs presented in six slides.
c. Limit her presentation to six with six sentences on each slide.
d. Have six lines on each slide with each line having not more than six words.

56. Which of the following is true of the teaching profession?

a. Noblest profession
b. Highest paid profession
c. Most lucrative profession
d. Highest level of public service

57. Who among these graduates is not qualified to take the Licensure Examination for Teacher
(LET)?

a. Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

b. Bachelor of Elementary Education
c. Associate in Arts
d. Bachelor of Agricultural Education

58. Which ASEAN country provides greater pay for teachers?

a. Philippines
b. Malaysia
c. Singapore
d. Vietnam

59. According to the global teacher status index, from what country could have the teachers the
greatest respect from students?

a. China
b. Finland
c. Greece
d. New Zealand

60. What is the highest career stage of a teacher in the PPST?

a. Distinguished
b. Proficient
c. Highly Proficient
d. Most Proficient

61. Which statement on diversity of students is CORRECT?

a. The lesser number of diverse students in a class, the better for the teacher and students.
 b. Teacher must do his/her best to reduce the number of diverse students.
c. Teacher must accept the diversity of students in the class.
d. Diversity of students are purely dependent on culture.

62. Under the 1987 Philippine Constitution, which has been provided as official language for
purposes of communication and instruction?

a. Filipino only
b. Filipino, English and Spanish
c. English only
d. Filipino and English

63. In which grade is mother tongue used as a medium of instruction according to the K-12 Law?

a. K to 1
b. K to Grade 2
c. K only
d. K to Grade 3

64. What agency formulated the standards of the various learning areas in the Senior High School?

a. PRC
b. CHED
c. TESDA
d. DepEd

65. Who perceive learners not as passive recipients of information, but as constructors of knowledge
as they interact with the new environment and as they reorganize their mental structures?

a. Metacognitivists
b. Constructivists
c. Behaviorists
d. Cognitivists

66. According to Piaget’s cognitive concept, what is the learning experience structure during infancy
and early years?

a. Accommodation
b. Assimilation
c. Schema
d. Equilibrium

67. Teacher Alice begins a lesson on basic dance position by demonstrating the arms and feet
position in slow motion and physically guiding her students through correct movements. As her
students become more skillful, she just gives verbal instruction. With Vygotsky’s theory in mind,
what does Teacher Alice do?

a. Guided participation
b. Peer Interaction
c. Apprenticeship
d. Scaffolding

68. In providing valid learning experiences, the primary factor to consider is/are ________.
 a. Objectives and aims of the lesson
b. Nature of the learner
c. Competence of the teachers
d. Material resources

69. You are required to formulate your own philosophy of education in the course the teaching
profession. In Bloom’s revised taxonomy, which cognitive processing are you in?

a. Applying
b. Evaluating
c. Creating
d. Analyzing

70. In the 4a’s approach to facilitating learning, the students learn best to relate ideas to real life
through ___________.

a. Activity
b. Abstraction
c. Analysis
d. Application

71. I wasn’t satisfied with Student B’s yes as an answer and so I asked her to explain why? Which did
I do?

a. Prompting
b. Asking non-directed question
c. Probing
d. Rephrasing

72. Teacher Karen delegates some of her responsibilities to the whole class after class assigns
separate students to monitor for attendance, classroom cleaning and distribution of learning
materials. In what aspect is she good?

a. Instructional Material
b. Values Development
c. Classroom Management
d. Classroom Teaching

73. Among mistaken goals in the Acceptance Approach to discipline, what happens when students
seek to hurt others to make up for being hurt or rejected?

a. Revenge seeking
b. Power seeking
c. Withdrawal
d. Attention getting

74. Continuously scanning the classroom even when Teacher is working with small groups
illustrates Kounin’s ___________.

a. With-it-ness
b. Diligence
c. Aggressiveness
 d. Sensitiveness

75. Among models of reading strategies, what did student Mark adopt when he reads back and
forth, attending to both what is in his mind and what’s on the page?

a. Bottoms-up
b. Interactive
c. Down-top
d. Top-down

76. Edna is reading a book and he needs to know the meaning of the word “obliterate”. However,
the passage does not give enough cues for her to figure out what the word means. She decided to
use his pocket dictionary, so she would know what the word means. Which of the following
strategies should she use so that she would know the meaning of the unfamiliar word?

a. Scanning
b. Skimming
c. Close reading
d. Careful slow reading

77. The International Commission of Education for the 21 st Century advocates Four Pillars. Which of
the 4 Pillars should be given emphasis in teaching if there are peace and cultural diversity issues?

a. Learning to know
b. Learning to be
c. Learning to live together
d. Learning to do

78. For a positive learning environment, it is good to make clear that an individual’s beliefs and
activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture. Which
concept is explained?

a. Ethical relativism
b. Cultural relativism
c. Individual differences
d. Cultural sensitivity

79. Which of the following is an example of diagnostic?

a. Journal writing and discussion

b. Student achievement test
c. 10-item test to contract difficulty of student
d. Quiz after unit lesson

80. I would like to see if my students have achieved the objectives of my lesson. What portfolio
would I like to see?

a. Showcase portfolio
b. Assessment portfolio
c. Development portfolio
d. Objective portfolio
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