1. The word “Pedagogy” means?
Answer: C
A. To guide the child
B. To lead the child
C. To educate the child
D. To understand the child
Answer: B
2. Pedagogy is the study of:
A. Education
B. Guiding Students
C. Learning Process
D. Teaching Methods
Answer: D
3. Which one of the followings
indicates child’s physical growth?
A. Negative
B. Quantitative
C. Qualitative
D. Positive
Answer: B
4. The best method to study
growth and development of the
child is:
A. Psychoanalytic Method
B. Comparative Method
C. Developmental Method
D. Statistical Method
5. The use of technology to
enhance learning process is called
__________ in education.
A. IT
B. ICT
C. Information technology
D. Communication technology
Answer: B
6. Term PSRN in development
implies:
A. Problem solving, reasoning and
numeracy
B. Problem solving relationship and
numeracy
C. Perceptual skill, reasoning and
numeracy
D. Perceptual skill, relationship and
numbers
Answer: C
7. “Individual learns from his own
mistakes” This statement is based
on which learning theory?
A. Instrumental conditioning
B. Insight
C. Trial & Error
D. Classical conditioning
Answer: C
8. What should be the role of
teacher in meeting the individual
differences?
A. Try to know the abilities, interest
and aptitude of individuals
B. Try to adjust the curriculum as per
the needs of individuals
C. Both (A) and (B)
D. None of these
11. Which of the following
statements is not true?
A. Growth is a biological process
B. Development is a quantitative
process
C. Education is a goal-oriented
process
D. Learning is a process of
behavioural changes

Answer: C Answer: B

9. Teachers should present 12. Which of the following is not

information to the students clearly the tool for Formative Assessment
and in interesting way, and relate in sholastic domain?
this new information to the things
students: A. Conversation Skill

A. don’t know B. Multiple Choice Questions

B. already know C. Projects

C. willing to know D. Oral Questions

D. not willing to know Answer: C

Answer: B 13. According to John Dewey,

school is a __________ institution, and
10. If a child has mental age of 5 education is a __________ process.
years and chronological age of 4
years than what will be the IQ of A. social, social
child?
B. social, philosophical
A. 125
C. philosophical, philosophical
B. 80
D. environmental, psychological
C. 120
Answer: A
D. 100
14. Special education is related to:
Answer: A
A. Educational for talented students
B. Educational programmes for
disabled
C. Training programmes for Teachers
D. Training programme for retarded
D. Diagnostic
Answer: D
18. As people grow older, the
__________ of learning declines.

Answer: B A. power

15. Which of the following B. speed

statement is not true in case of
multiple choice questions? C. quality

A. Even an inexperienced teacher can D. quantity

prepare the questions easily
B. All choices appear to be plausible
C. Error-free and quick evaluation is
possible by computer
D. Only one of the choices is the
correct answer
Answer: B
19. Both the chronological age and
the mental age of a pupil is 7
years. He may be classified into
which category?
A. Below normal intelligence

Answer: A B. Normal intelligence

16. According to John Dewey, C. Superior intelligence

schools must prepare students for
D. Genius
A. research
Answer: B
B. future life
20. Which from the following
C. present life should be used to increase correct
responses and appropriate
D. entrepreneurship behavior?

Answer: C A. Ignorance

17. What type of evaluation B. Strictness

identifies learning deficiencies
and difficulties of the learners? C. Reward

A. Placement D. Praise

B. Summative Answer: D

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21. Which is different from the
other three with respect to fine
motor Movement?
A. Dot Joining
B. Dictation
C. Handwriting
D. Separation of fruits and vegetables
Answer: D
22. At the pre-primary stage
reading aloud while writing is
given importance. This is based on
which theory of learning?
24. Which one of the following is
not taken into consideration while
preparing the blue-print for a test?
A. Topic
B. Instructional objectives
C. From of questions
D. Teaching time
Answer: D
25. The field of study concerned
with the construction of thought
processes, including
remembering, problem solving,
and decision-making is called:
A. Pedagogy
B. Education

A. Trial & Error C. Epistemology

B. Conditioning D. Cognitive Development

C. Insight Answer: D

D. Imitation 26. Psycology is a —————.

Answer: B A. Science of soul

23. According to Emile, the noblest B. Science of mind

work in education is to make a/an:
C. Science of consciousness
A. Thinker
D. Science of behaviour
B. Entrepreneur
Answer: D
C. Good citizen
27. The more often a particular
D. Reasoning man ability is used the __________ it
becomes.
Answer: C
A. Weaker
B. Stronger 31. According to Jean Piaget,
children develop abstract logic
C. Less important and reasoning skill during:

D. More important A. Sensorimotor stage

Answer: B B. Preoperational stage

28. Which is not a factor of C. Formal operational stage

motivation?
D. Concrete operational stage
A. Prize
Answer: C
B. Incentive
32. The teacher studies pupils
C. Praise group behaviour mainly by which
of the following methods?
D. Practice
A. Interview
Answer: D
B. Experimentation
29. The longer a particular ability
is unused the __________ it becomes. C. Case history

A. Weaker D. Observation

B. Stronger Answer: D

C. Less important 33. Children are usually egocentric

during __________ and __________
D. More important stages.

Answer: A A. Sensorimotor, Preoperational

30. What is the stage from 2 to 6 B. Formal operational, Sensorimotor

years called?
C. Preoperational, Concrete
A. Pre-childhood operational

B. Infancy D. Concrete operational, Formal

operational
C. Later childhood
Answer: A
D. Pre-adolescence
34. Which one does not indicate
Answer: A child’s emotion?

A. Pleasure
B. Sorrow Answer: D

C. Curiosity 38. Which class of learners are not

included under “Exceptional
D. Tolerance Category”?

Answer: D A. Slow

35. According to Jean Piaget, B. Retarded

children are no longer egocentric
when entering: C. Normal

A. Sensorimotor stage D. Gifted

B. Preoperational stage Answer: C

C. Formal operational stage 39. According to Piaget’s theory of

cognitive development, the Formal
D. Concrete operational stage operational stage starts at age:

Answer: D A. 5

36. Which one is not an element of B. 6

intellectual development?
C. 7
A. Creativity
D. 8
B. Tolerance
Answer: C
C. Thinking
40. Which one of the following is
D. Imagination not an element of mastery
learning?
Answer: B
A. Use of alternate text-book
37. According to Piaget’s theory of
cognitive development, the B. Alternate methods of teaching
Concrete operational stage starts
at age: C. Child-centred learning activity

A.1 D. Group teaching

B.3 Answer: D

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41. The more parts of your brain B. Burden
you use, the more likely you are to
__________ information. C. Society

A. Use D. Past memory

B. Miss Answer: C

C. Retain 45. Who advocated removing

children from their mothers’ care
D. Misuse and raising them as wards of the
state?
Answer: C
A. Plato
42. Which one of the following is
measured by continuous B. Socrates
comprehensive evaluation?
C. Aristotle
A. Holisitic development
D. John Locke
B. Development of creativity
Answer: A
C. Development of experience
46. The Waldorf education
D. Development of divergent thinking approach emphasizes a balanced
development of:
Answer: A
A. Head and heart
43. Which of the following is a
dimensional teaching aid? B. Heart and hands

A. Black Board C. Head and hands

B. Display Board D. Head, heart, and hands

C. Still Picture Answer: D

D. Model 47. Plato believed that talent and

intelligence are:
Answer: D
A. Distributed genetically
44. Rousseau advocated an
educational method which B. Distributed gender-wise
consisted of removing the child
from: C. Not distributed genetically

A. School D. Not distributed gender-wise

Answer: C B. Aristotle

48. A priori knowledge is C. Socrates

knowledge that is known
independently of: D. John Locke

A. Analysis Answer: B

B. Evidence 52. We calculate average marks of

a student in the way as we
C. Experience calculate:

D. Information A. variance

Answer: C B. arithmetic mean

49. A posteriori knowledge is C. geometric mean

knowledge that is known by:
D. standard deviation
A. Analysis
Answer: B
B. Evidence
53. The concept of pragmatism in
C. Experience educational philosophy says that
education should be about:
D. Information
A. virtue
Answer: C
B. obedience
50. According to John Locke, a
child’s mind does not contain any: C. life and growth

A. memory D. shaping good citizens

B. imagination Answer: C

C. observation 54. The idea of practical learning

means education should apply to
D. innate ideas the:

Answer: D A. society

51. The philosopher who for the B. practice

first time mentioned the
importance of play (or sports) in C. real world
education was:
D. abstract knowledge
A. Plato
Answer: C A. Child

55. An aspect of pragmatism is B. Teacher

experiential learning, which says,
education should come through: C. Society

A. practice D. Principal

B. experience Answer: A

C. knowledge 59. The idea of teaching the whole

child in the “philosophy of
D. observations pragmatism in education” means
teaching students to be good:
Answer: B
A. Citizens
56. The concept of perennialism in
education means school curricula B. Thinkers
should focus on what is:
C. Learners
A. in need
D. Scientists
B. in demand
Answer: A
C. important
60. The curriculum of educational
D. everlasting institutes should be based on:

Answer: D A. theory

57. According to John Dewey, B. practice

children should experience
__________in school to make them C. theory and practice
better citizens.
D. theory, practice and research
A. practical implementation
Answer: C
B. democracy

C. discipline

D. rules

Answer: B

58. Progressivism believes that

education comes from the
experience of the: