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ONLINE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION

SY 2021-2022
MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION

NAME: DEGREE/MAJOR

DAY : 1 (March 25, SCORE:

2022)
SUBJECT: CLUSTER 1 – CORE SUBJECTS
TIME: 8:00 am-5:00pm

Instruction: Please be guided by the breakdown of the scores as shown below. Good luck!

TOTAL SCORE 100 points

OBLIGATORY QUESTION: You are required to answer the item

60 points
equivalent to 60 points.

QUESTION:

1. If you are asked to advise a group of students to study the culture of an

Augustinian School in NCR, what design will you suggest: mixed method
sequential explanatory; mixed method sequential exploratory; or mixed method
convergent? Explain your choice and how will you proceed helping them do their
review of related literature, individuate and choose variables, create their
framework, and generate their data?

ANSWER:

II. OPTIONAL QUESTIONS . Choose only 2 from the given questions 40 oints
below.

QUESTION 1: Compare random assignment and random selection. What are their
similarities and what are their differences? In what way does each help to improve the

validity of research conclusions?

ANSWER:

QUESTION 2: Rene Descartes’ methodical doubt argues that ideas should not be taken
at an instant as knowledge. What are the Cartesian premises that support this claim?
Will this theory not run counter with the Aristotelian thoughts that “nothing is in the mind
without first passing through the senses”? Explain.

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ANSWER:

QUESTION 3. Discuss the implications to the educational practices and the roles of the

teachers in the following philosophies of education:

a. Social Reconstructionism

b. Existentialism

c. Pragmatism

d. Essentialism

e. Perennialism

ANSWER:

QUESTION 4: Statistical significance has been discussed as a somewhat arbitrary criterion

and many researchers have begun to incorporate measures of effect size as a way to

counteract this critique. Describe why the concept of statistical significance can be
viewed as arbitrary and if you feel the field needs to expand its criteria to include more
elements of substantive impact.

ANSWER:

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