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BACHELOR OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

The Teacher and The School Curriculum
1st Semester SY 2022-2023
Midterm Examination
Name: ________________________________________________ Score: ________________________
Year & Section: ________________________________________ Date: _________________________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1) Teacher A is a progressivist teacher. He makes sure that outcomes are focused on humanistic education.
What curriculum development phase is being described?
A. Planning
B. Designing
C. Implementing
D. Evaluating

2) When teacher B made an assessment to check if the curriculum was effective for that school year, what
curriculum development phase is being described?
A. Planning
B. Designing
C. Implementing
D. Evaluating

3) Teacher C is deciding whether to include photosynthesis and respiration for Science 3. What curriculum
development phase is being described?
A. Planning
B. Designing
C. Implementing
D. Evaluating

4) Teacher D considered the vision and mission of their school to create learning objectives. What curriculum
development phase is being described?
A. Planning
B. Designing
C. Implementing
D. Evaluating

5) Teacher E is thinking of including projector and computer to teach the solar system. What curriculum
development phase is being described?
A. Planning
B. Designing
C. Implementing
D. Evaluating

6) The first lessons that were taught to us in the elementary level were the ones that we cannot forget such as
shapes, letter and numbers. According to Thorndike, what law of learning was described?
A. Law of Readiness
B. Law of Exercise
C. Law of Primacy
D. Law of Effect
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7) This philosophy focuses on the information that endured the passing of time.
A. Perennialism
B. Essentialism
C. Progressivism
D. Social Reconstructionism

8) He started the curriculum development movement

A. Werret Charters
B. William Kilpatrick
C. Franklin Bobbit
D. Harold Rugg

9) Stakeholders should participate in designing the curriculum. What axiom for curriculum designers is being
described?
A. Curriculum change is inevitable, necessary, and desirable.
B. Curriculum change depends on people to implement the change
C. Curriculum development is a cooperative group activity
D. Curriculum development starts from where the curriculum is.

10) He advanced the Self-Actualization Theory.

A. John Dewey
B. Abraham Maslow
C. Carl Rogers
D. Emile Durkheim

11) Teacher Juan believes that textbooks are very important, so every school year, he always see to it that they
finish all textbooks from cover to cover. What curriculum approach is being described?
A. Child-Centered Approach
B. Subject-Centered Approach
C. Problem-Centered Approach
D. Society-Centered Approach

12) Teacher Juan thinks that we should focus on the needs and interests of the learners instead of just focusing
on the subject matter. What curriculum approach is being described?
A. Child-Centered Approach
B. Subject-Centered Approach
C. Problem-Centered Approach
D. Society-Centered Approach

13) “Every learner has the right to education”, as a teacher we should teach them overall development. What
curriculum approach is being described?
A. Child-Centered Approach
B. Subject-Centered Approach
C. Problem-Centered Approach
D. Society-Centered Approach

14) Teachers are the dispenser of knowledge in a classroom while learners passively listen. What
curriculum approach is being described?
A. Child-Centered Approach
B. Subject-Centered Approach
C. Problem-Centered Approach
D. Society-Centered Approach
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15) All learners must be trained to solve real-life problems especially those that concern our society. What
curriculum approach is being described?
A. Child-Centered Approach
B. Subject-Centered Approach
C. Problem-Centered Approach
D. Society-Centered Approach

16) Poverty is one the problems that our society is facing. As teachers, we should guide all learners in coming
up with a solution to this problem. What curriculum approach is being described?
A. Child-Centered Approach
B. Subject-Centered Approach
C. Problem-Centered Approach
D. Society-Centered Approach

17) Continuous monitoring, examination, evaluation, and improvement of curricula are to be considered in the
design. What axiom for curriculum designers is being described?
A. Curriculum change is inevitable, necessary, and desirable.
B. Curriculum development is more effective when it follows a systematic process.
C. Curriculum development is a cooperative group activity
D. Curriculum development is an ongoing process.

18) The focus of this philosophy is the use of great books such as the Bible and Koran.
A. Perennialism
B. Essentialism
C. Progressivism
D. Social Reconstructionism

19) Teacher A tried teaching basketball to his grade 1 pupils, but no matter how hard he tried, he was not able to
succeed because they were not matured enough to learn this particular skill. According to Thorndike, what
law of learning was described?
A. Law of Readiness
B. Law of Exercise
C. Law of Primacy
D. Law of Effect

20) Teachers should respond to changes that occur in schools and in their context. What axiom for curriculum
designers is being described?
A. Curriculum change is inevitable, necessary, and desirable.
B. Curriculum change depends on people to implement the change
C. Curriculum development is a cooperative group activity
D. Curriculum development starts from where the curriculum is.

II. IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Identify the word/term/phrase/people the statement is describing.
1) According to him, curriculum should develop the whole child.
2) She was the proponent of the “grassroots approach”.
3) He was the proponent of the “cognitive development theory”
4) The father of multiple intelligences theory.
5) He said that curriculum is a science and an extension school’s philosophy.
6) The father of classical conditioning.
7) The father of operant conditioning.
8) He championed the connectionism theory.
9) He described curriculum change as a cooperative endeavor.
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10) According to him, curriculum is organized around social functions of themes, organized knowledge and
learner’s interest.
11) The main focus of education during the Spanish period.
12) Teachers during the Spanish period.
13) The other name for Ralph Tyler Model: Four Basic Principles
14) He wrote the book “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”.
15) The system in which you use 2 language media in delivering your lessons.
III. YES OR NO
Directions: Write Yes if the statement is correct and No if not.
1) Curriculum change is inevitable.
2) Curriculum change does not consider the existing one.
3) Curriculum should be designed by only one person.
4) Change in the curriculum include an evaluation process.
5) Curriculum change means total overhaul.
6) Learning outcomes must be considered first before contents.
7) Lecture method is no longer useful.
8) Contents must be updated and relevant.
9) Curriculum follows the change in our society.
10) A teacher must know one curriculum approach only.

IV. MATCHING TYPE

Direction: Match column A with the corresponding item in column B.

1) Direct Instruction
Column A Column B
1) Introduce short review of previous or A. State learning objectives/outcomes
prerequisite learning. B. Review
2) Provide for spaced review and testing. C. Present new materials
3) Give clear and detailed instructions and D. Explain
explanations. E. Practice
4) Begin lesson with a short statement of F. Guide
objective or desired lesson learning outcomes. G. Check for understanding
5) Provide active practice for all students. H. Provide feedback
6) Provide systematic feedback and corrections. I. Assess performance
7) Guide students during initial practice. J. Review and test
8) Present materials in small, sequenced manner.
9) Obtain student success rate of 80 percent or
more during practice session.
10) Ask several questions, assess students
comprehension.

2) Mastery Learning
Column A Column B
1) At least 75% of the students should achieve A. Clarify
mastery by the summative test. B. Inform
2) Teach the lesson, relying on the whole group C. Pretest
instruction. D. Group
3) Give a formative quiz on a no fault-basis, E. Enrich and correct
students can check their own paper. F. Monitor
4) Explain to students what they are expected to G. Posttest
learn. H. Assess performance
5) Based on results, divide the class into I. Reteach
mastery and non-mastery groups (80% is
considered mastery)
6) Monitor student progress.
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7) Give a summary test for non-mastery group.
8) Repeat procedures; starting with corrective
instructions.
9) Give enrichment instruction to mastery
group. Give corrective (practice/drill) to non-
mastery group.

V. TRUE OR FALSE
Directions: Write T if the statement is True and F if it is false.
1) Historical foundations answer the question, “where is curriculum development coming from?”.
2) Behavioral objectives are desired learning outcomes that are to be accomplished in a particular learning
episode.
3) All objectives must be SMART (specific, manageable, attainable, result-oriented and time-bound).
4) Subject matter must not follow trends and changes in our society.
5) Subject matter must be the same for all grade levels.
6) Reference tells where the content or subject matter has been taken.
7) Cooperative learning activities allow pupils to work together.
8) Independent learning activities allow pupils to develop group responsibility.
9) Competitive activities are good as long as they are executed in a healthy manner.
10) Subject matter should be follow the principle of BASICS.

VI. ENUMERATION
Directions: Enumerate the following. Answers in any order is accepted.

(1-4) – Four criteria for a learning space/environment

(5-7) – The three curriculum development models
(8-10) – The three types of curriculum models
(11-13) – Three laws of learning (Edward Thorndike)
(14-16) – Three curriculum theorists

Prepared by: Approved by:

MARK JAYVEE P. ESTEBAN DR. LUZ L. RICARDO

Instructor Program Head, BEEd