The Teacher and The School Curriculum

NAME: _______________________________ Date: ______________________

Course/Section: ________________________ Instructor: ____________________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read and analyze the following questions. Choose the letter of the
BEST ANSWER. Write you answer on the space provided before the number.
______1. In the subject centered curriculum, the important element is
a. Division of knowledge
b. Mixing of activities
c. Influence of social values
d. Psychomotor development
______2. The following is an element of curriculum, EXCEPT.
a. Curriculum Intent
b. Teaching Experiences
c. Evaluation
d. Content
______3. What is curriculum?
a. Overall activities of an institution
b. Objectivity
c. Classroom
d. Affective
______4. Curriculum development refers to the total process of curriculum.
a. Designing
b. Implementing
c. Evaluating
d. All of the above
______5. A curriculum is the total of a school efforts to influence a child __________?
a. Course
b. Design
c. Behavior
d. Logical sequence

______6. Philosophical foundation of curriculum is concerned with:

a. Ideas
b. History
c. Economy
d. Contents
______7. This type of integrated curriculum design is used in preschool where subjects are combined
using curriculum themes.
a. Core
b. Multidisciplinary
c. Interdisciplinary
d. Disciplinary
______8. The design that focusses on the needs, nature, and interests of the learners in the
curriculum.
a. Subject- Centered
b. Learner-Centered
c. Problem-Centered
d. Core Learning
______9. Psychological foundations of curriculum help developers to understand the nature of
a. Teacher
b. Content
c. Learner
d. Ideas
______10. In his Science class, Teacher Mark lets his students conduct an experiment involving the
observation of the movement or particles of milk and liquid detergent. What approach is Teacher
Mark using?
a. Learning by doing
b. Cooperative learning
c. Values integration
d. Personalized instruction
______11. In English class, Teacher Hannah lets the students reflect on the moral lesson of the story
they have read and asks them how these lessons relate to their lives. By doing these, Teacher Hannah
is __________.
a. Integrating values to the subject matter
b. Making sure that the learners understand the subject matter
c. Developing the learners’ comprehension skills
d. Ensuring the objectives are achieved
______12. Which of the following is NOT a component of the curriculum?
a. Subject matter
b. Interest
c. Experiences
d. Evaluation

______13. Which is not part of grassroots approach of Hilda Taba?

a. Selection of technology
b. Selection of learning content
c. Selection of learning experiences
d. Selection of learning environment
______14. Rationalization is used by a student who _________.
a. Always give explanation or reason for their failures rather than own their faults.
b. Like to take blame for their faults
c. Bribe their elders with promises
d. Substitute words for deeds
______15. A stakeholder in curriculum development, Mr. Santos, district supervisor and a member
of the school board has one of the following primary roles. Which one is this?
a. Support and participate in parent-school organization activities
b. Authorize school expenditures for curriculum development, implementation and evaluation.
c. Enact legislations to effect curriculum development
d. Recommend changes in curriculum.
______16. To ensure the success in curriculum development, which of the following specific actions
should curriculum leader avoid?
a. Work with people not over them
b. Keep channels communication open
c. Use your status frequently to establish discipline
d. Show that you too desire to improve
______17. Schools divide the school hours to different subjects such as reading, grammar, literature,
math, science, history, and geography. What curriculum design is referred here?
a. Problem-centered
b. Learner-centered
c. Subject-centered
d. Culture-based
______18. How does a goal-oriented curriculum culminate in?
a. Planning of activities
b. The formulation of objectives
c. Questioning for creative thinking
d. Evaluation
______19. As a teacher, how would you know if you have succeeded in your teaching?
a. If you have covered the lesson to be taught.
b. If the learners are happy after class.
c. If you followed the suggestions of your master teacher
d. If the learners have changed behavior.
______20. In designing curriculum, the different components like desired learning outcomes,
subject matter, teaching-learning strategies, and evaluation should ________.
a. Always have a drills and review at the beginning.
b. Be constructively aligned
c. Have imported learning resources
d. All of the above.
______21. Teachers are being involved in curriculum development in various ways, which is not a
teacher’s task?
a. Determining the general goals of education
b. Organizing instructional program
c. Writing and editing learning materials
d. Experimenting and trying out teaching strategies
______22. Which is not a concern of curriculum development?
 a. In-service training of teachers
b. Examination of objectives
c. Development of methods and materials which are most likely to achieve the objective
d. Assessment of the extent to which the objective has been achieved
______23. What is the best rationale for curriculum development?
a. The child, himself, is changing
b. Philosophy of education is ever changing
c. Leadership is constantly changing
d. The child is living in a fast-changing world
______24. Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Curriculum development is an individualized teacher task
b. Curriculum development is daily carried out at the school level
c. Curriculum development is largely determined by the interests and abilities of the teachers.
d. Curriculum development is a dynamic rather than static process
______25. Preparation for instructional material falls under what phase/s of curriculum
development?
a. Planning and implementation
b. Implementation and evaluation
c. Planning
d. Evaluation
______26. Which is not a component of curriculum design?
a. Objective
b. Learning content
c. Learning experiences
d. Diagnosis of needs
______27. Which statement about the subject-centered curriculum is not true?
a. There is a high level of cooperative interaction
b. It covers much content in a short period of time
c. The teacher has full control of the classroom activities
d. The main task is mastery of learning
______28. Ms. Sevilla, a history teacher considers the element of time in arranging content of her
lessons in World history. What way of establishing sequence is given emphasis by Ms. Mateo?
a. Simple to complex
b. Part to whole
c. Concrete to abstract
d. Chronological
______29. Teacher Kimberly puts emphasis on the immediate felt interests and needs of his students
and not on the anticipated needs and interests. What type of curriculum does teacher Kimberly
adheres?
a. Subject-centered
b. Learner-centered
c. Experience-centered
d. Culture-based
______30. This concept includes the sub-processes of curriculum planning, organization,
implementation, and evaluation. Which concept is this?
a. Curriculum development
b. Curriculum assessment
c. Curriculum management
d. Curriculum and instruction
______31. Which of the following is not a factor considered in the curriculum development process?
a. Learner need and interest
b. National educational policies
c. Resource availability
d. Teacher preferences
______32. Which curriculum model emphasizes the integration of different subjects into a unified,
thematic approach?
a. Spiral curriculum
b. Core curriculum
c. Interdisciplinary curriculum
d. Hidden curriculum
______33. Teacher Jean would like to take part in developing a subject-centered curriculum because
she believes that all subjects in this type of curriculum are geared towards the holistic development of
the learner. Is her belief about the subject-centered curriculum true?
 a. Yes, because the subject-centered curriculum focuses on the learners needs, interest and
abilities.
b. No, because it is the experience-centered curriculum the emphasizes the teaching of acts and
knowledge for future use.
c. Yes, because the subject-centered curriculum involves cooperative control.
d. No, because it is the experience centered and not the subject-centered curriculum that
emphasizes integration of habits and skills in learning knowledge component of subject areas.
______34. In the elementary level, English literature and Social studies relate well. While history is
being studied, different literary pieces during the historical period is shown here?
a. Separate subject design
b. Correlation design
c. Discipline design
d. Broad-field design
______35. One example of this design of subject-centered curriculum is that which shows social
studies being combined with geography, civics, culture and history to comprises subject area. Which
design is this?
a. Correlated
b. Broad-fields
c. Separate Subject
d. Core
______36. Ms. Marenila, as a Science teacher tries to enrich the content of her lesson by identifying
related concepts in Math. What pattern of organizing subjects did the teacher consider?
a. Broad-fields
b. Correlated
c. Core
d. Separate Subject
______37. Which design is easy to deliver because complementary books and materials are
commercially available?
a. Experience centered design
b. Problem design
c. Process design
d. Subject centered design
______38. Which is another name for top-down approach?
a. Teacher-centered
b. Learner-centered
c. Discipline design
d. Broad-field design
______39. Who among the following viewed the curriculum should be logical and systematic?
a. Tyler
b. Hilda Taba
c. Allan Glatthorn
d. Wiggins
______40. To produce positive changes, development should be purposeful, planned, and
progressive. This is how curriculum evolves.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe
d. No answer

______41. The concept of development in curriculum development connotes _________ which are
systematic.
a. Stability
b. Changes
c. Damage
d. Instruction
______42. Hilda Taba was famous for her __________.
a. Nine conditions of learning
b. Model of curriculum development
c. Theory on cognitive development
d. Lesson planning guidelines
______43. In her English class, Teacher Jane let the students to reflect on the moral of the story they
have read and asks them how these lessons relate to their lives. By doing these, Teacher jane is
_______.
a. Integrating values to the subject matter
 b. Making sure that the learners understand the subject matter
c. Developing the learners’ comprehension skills
d. Ensuring the objectives are achieved.
______44. Tyler’s “four basic priciples” of curriculum development is also known as ______.
a. Tyler’s Rationale
b. Tyler’s Law
c. Tyler’s Effect
d. Tyler’s Principles
______45. Which of the following statements about the curriculum is NOT acceptable?
a. It refers to all the experiences that both the teacher and school provide the students with.
b. It is the set of acquired knowledge, habits, and skills.
c. It involves everything that goes within the school.
d. It is simply a planned action for instruction.
______46. Teacher Luspe told students that they must at the end of the lesson, identify the topic
sentence and supporting sentences in the paragraph. He drilled the class on subject – verb agreement
to ensure writing of a good paragraph and then a ten-sentence paragraph for determining subject –
verb agreement. Did Teacher Felix use the lesson objective/learning outcomes as a guide in the
development of the lesson?
a. Yes, intended outcome conforms to the drills
b. A little because subject-verb agreements is a must in paragraph writing
c. No, intended outcome was different from drills
d. Very much because the ten-sentences drill is effective for paragraph writing
______47. What curriculum component includes a multitude of teaching methods and educational
activities that will enhance learning?
a. Learning experiences
b. Subject matter
c. Objectives
d. Evaluation
______48. Which pattern of experience-centered curriculum centers around the normal activities of
children is based on each child’s need, interests and potential.
a. Child-centered
b. Activity
c. Social function
d. Specific competencies
______49. Which type of curriculum design serves as a response to society’s demand for integration
of knowledge and enables the learners to see relationship among various aspect?
a. Broadfield
b. Correlated
c. Core
d. Separate subject
______50. Who controls the subject-centered curriculum?
a. Learner
b. Teacher
c. Parent
d. Teacher and parent