1.

Which is true of the periodic merit exam for teacher

provided for in RA 7836?
I. Consist of oral exam
II. Consist of written exam
III. May serve as additional basis for merit promotion
in addition to performance rating
Taken with fee of P 1000 per examinee
A. I only
B. I and IV
C. II and III – I,II,III BEST ANSWER
D. II only
2. After the implementation of NCBTS, results of
LET still reveal low performance among
examinees. What can teacher education
institutions do to upgrade their graduates’ LET
performance?
A. Review curriculum vis-à-vis TOS
B. Intensify Field Study Courses
C. Hire expensive review trainers
D. Implement selective admission in TEIs
3. Which of the following is NOT John Dewey’s
contribution to the sociological foundation of
education?
A. Facilitating learning along social conditions of
the learner
B. As a social process, education begins at birth
C. True education is transmission of knowledge
D. The school is a continuation of home
4. Which program directly embodies both the pre-
service and in-service programs?
A. BESRA – Basic Education Sector Reform
Agenda
B. TEDPA – Technical Education Development
Program
C. K-12
D. BEC – Basic Education Curriculum
5. Among qualities which employers look for in
the 21st century workplace, which is the most
challenging and demanding?
A. Aptitude for teamwork
B. Skills and social behavior
C. Readiness to take risks
D. Specific competencies for work
6. Is membership to the accredited professional
organization for teachers mandatory for all LET
passers?
A. No
B. Yes, when the teacher is already teaching
C. Yes
D. Only for LET passers who are not repeaters
7. Teacher Kevin has not practiced his profession
for the past five years. Can he go back to teaching
immediately?
A. Yes, if nobody can take his place
B. No, unless she has enrolled in refresher course
of 12 units
C. No
D. Yes
8. How can the efforts of four agencies (DepEd,
CHED, PRC, CSC) be best achieved for the training
and development of teachers?
A. Synchronization
B. Cost-reduction
C. Streamlining
D. Sharing of resources
9. What is the core of the Teacher Education
Development Program?
A. High order thinking skills or HOTS
B. Student-centered learning
C. National Competency-Based Teaching
Standards
D. Technology integration in instruction
10. Of the following, which is most fundamental to
building up a strong school culture of excellence?
A. High standards of performance
B. Student-centered curriculum
C. Mission and core values
D. Student handbook of conduct
11. Can Manny Pacquiao be given a special permit to teach
boxing in a special school?
A. No, he is not a teacher education graduate
B. No, he has not passed the LET
C. Yes, he is a graduate of ALS
D. Yes, he has excelled and gained international recognition
11. Is it professional for a teacher to receive gifts from the
student and parents?
E. Not at all
F. No, especially if done in exchange for requested
concessions
G. Yes, if deserved
H. Yes, in-season and out-of-season gifts
12. An Education graduate without a license is
accepted to teach in a private school? Is this in
violation of RA 7836?
A. No provided he has taught for at least 3 years
B. Yes. No one may teach without a license
C. No
D. Yes
13. For a school, which of the following is most
significant in repairing shorelines with depleted
coral reefs?
A. outreach by depositing rubber tires as
artificial coral reefs
B. implement reporting system against dynamite
fishermen
C. legislative lobby to disallow tourism in
endangered shorelines
D. outreach by educating the villagers on
protection of coral reefs
14. For relevance to business and industry, what
did the First Biennial National Education on
Education (2008) impose for updating the
Licensure Examination for teachers?
A. Moral or ethical values
B. Technical and scientific competencies
C. Upgraded laboratory facilities
D. Vocational skills
15. What kind of grassroots model best advances
Education for All as served children of slum city
dwellers?
A. Mobile education on Kariton
B. Leaf flyers for out-of-school children
C. Radio education modules
D. Educational television
16. In educating the whole person as demanded
by the “Learning to be” pillar of the 21st century
education, where does the concept of meaning,
purpose and engagement belong?
A. Mind and body
B. Aesthetic sense
C. Spiritual values
D. Personal responsibility
17. In a tertiary school, the President organized a
Fun Run for students, faculty and personnel to
enjoy camaraderie, physical exertion under the
sun, sense of engagement and achievement. What
does the activity promote?
A. spiritual vigor
B. cultural consciousness
C. national integrity
D. moral integrity
18. Among reforms for enhancing teacher
professionalism, which has been implemented by
law in order to determine whether prospective
teachers have acquired professional competencies
prior to granting them a permit to teach?
A. accrediting a national organization for
teachers
B. setting up centered for excellence in teacher
education centers
C. licensure examination
D. creation of a professional board for teachers
19. From global competence as defined by
international educators, which is the most
appropriate characteristic of globally competent
individual?
A. familiarity with new culture
B. open-mindedness to new culture
C. adaptability to new work environment
D. foreign-language policy
20. In the Education Act of 1901 which established
a free public education in the Philippines, what
language was imposed under the one-language
policy?
A. Spanish
B. English
C. Tagalog
D. Filipino
21. Of the following, which is the most functional
intervention in order to achieve a basic right of
every Filipino Child under the Constitution and
Magna Carta for Disabled Persons?
A. Philosophy of education
B. home study program
C. policy for curricular reform
D. structural organization
22. In the formal education system during
Hispanic times in the Philippines, what was not
implement but which we enjoyed during the
American period?
A. vocational education
B. private education
C. religious education
D. public education
23. If your students appear to be more interested
in a topic outside your planned lesson for the day,
you set aside your lesson plan for that day and
grasp the opportunity to discuss the topic of
particular interest to your students. Strike the iron
while it is hot! Which philosophy governs for your
action?
A. Rationalism
B. Empiricism
C. Existentialism
D. Progressivism
24. In the learning to do pillar of new education,
what is the enabling factor that can make the
learner fully contribute to a peaceful and just
society?
A. Knowledge
B. Skills
C. Insights
D. Values
25. Before being able to fully learn to live and
work together under the pillar of the 21st century
education, what must the learner attain for
himself?
A. find peace within oneself
B. attain an altruistic mind
C. love his fellowmen
D. become self-actualized
26. There are various functions a fellow teacher or
peer coach can help new teachers. What role does
a peer coach play by being present/available to
share ideas, problems and success with a new
teacher?
A. a provider of technical feedback
B. a facilitator of strategies
C. an analyzer of teaching job
D. a close peer or companion
27. Teacher Princess sees to it that her classroom
is clean and orderly so her pupils will less likely
disarrange seats and litter on the floor. On which
thought is her action based?
A. Existentialism
B. Progressivism
C. Behaviorism
D. Reconstructionism
28. Facilities such as classrooms, fixtures, and
equipment can often damage the morale of new
teachers and become an obstacle for adapting
well to the school environment. What should be
the policy for assigning said physical facilities?
A. needs of student’s basis
B. position ranking basis
C. first-come, first-served basis
D. service seniority basis
29. After the embarrassing incident, Teacher Kevin
vowed to himself to flunk the student at the end
of the school term. What has Dante done that is
against the guidelines for using punishment?
A. Punishing immediately in an emotional state
B. Using double standards in punishing
C. Doing the impossible
D. Holding a grudge and not starting with a clean
slate
30. Teacher Nancy is directed to pass an undeserving
student with a death threat. Which advise will a
utilitarian give?
A. Don’t pass him. You surely will not like someone
to give you a death threat in order to pass
B. Pass the student. That will be off use to the
student, his parents and you.
C. Pass the student. Why suffer the threat?
D. Don’t pass him. Live by your principle of justice.
You will get reward, if not in this life, in the next!
31. Following the principles for punishing
students, which of the following is the LEAST
desirable strategy for classroom management?
A. Punishing while clarifying why punishment is
done
B. Punishing while angry
C. Punishing the erring student rather than the
entire class
D. Give punishment sparingly
32. Which of the following guidelines for
punishment may be done?
A. Don’t punish students outside of school rules
on punishment
B. Don’t threaten the impossible
C. Don’t use double standards for punishing
D. Don’t assign extra homework
33. According to the guidelines on punishment,
what does it mean that the teacher should give
the student the benefit of the doubt?
A. Make sure facts are right before punishing
B. Doubt the incident really happened
C. Don’t punish and doubt effectiveness of
punishment
D. Get the side of the students when punishing
34. To demonstrate here authority Teacher
Kokeyni made an appeal to undisciplined
students. What kind of appeal did she make by
saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, don’t engage in
that kind of behavior, you can do much better?”
A. Invoke peer reaction
B. Exert authority
C. Internalizing student’s image of themselves
D. Teacher-student relationship
35. Of subcategories of movement behavior, what
is happening when the teacher ends an activity
abruptly?
A. Thrust
B. Truncation
C. Stimulus-bounded
D. Flip-flop
36. Of subcategories of teacher movement
behavior, what is happening when the teacher
goes from topic or activity to other topic or
activities, lacking clear direction and sequence of
activities?
A. Truncation
B. Dangle
C. Thrust
D. Flip-flop
37. From classroom management strategies
applied on erring students, which of the following
should not be done?
A. Surprise quiz
B. Communicating problems to parents
C. Parent-principal conference
D. Shaming erring student before the class
38. What mistake is teacher Senemin Basic trying
to avoid by never ignoring any student or group of
students in her discussions and other activities?
A. Non-direction
B. Dangled activity
C. Divided attention
D. Abrupt end
39. Teaching English, teacher Krizzy is careful
about her lesson content. What quality of content
did he achieve when she made certain her
information came with the “information
explosion” which she got in the Internet, such as
how to effectively teach phonetics?
A. Learnability
B. Significance
C. Balance
D. Interest
40. Teacher Kevin made certain his lesson content
can be useful to his students, taking care of their
needs in a student-centered classroom. What is
this kind of quality content?
A. Utility
B. Balance
C. Self-sufficiency
D. Interest
41. Can technology take the place of the teacher
in the classroom? Select the most appropriate
answer:
A. No. It is only an instrument or a tool
B. Yes, when they hire less teachers and acquire
more computers
C. Yes. When teachers are not competent
D. Yes, such as in the case of Computer-assisted
instruction (not teacher-assisted instruction)
42. What kind of tool is technology as evidenced
by its use in word processing databases,
spreadsheets, graphics design and desktop
publishing?
A. Analyzing tool
B. Encoding tool
C. Productivity tool
D. Calculating tool
43. In avoiding implying sickness or suffering,
which of the following is the most preferable way
to refer to those with disabilities like polio?
A. “Is polio-stricken”
B. “Had polio”
C. “Polio victim”
D. “Suffers from polio
44. In determining the materials and media to use,
what consideration did Teacher Ina A. Mag adopt
when he chose materials that can arouse and
sustain in curiosity?
A. Satisfaction
B. Interest
C. Expectancy
D. Relevance
45. Among cognitive objectives, what is also
known as an understanding and is a step higher
than more knowledge of facts?
A. Comprehension
B. Analysis
C. Synthesis
D. Application
46. What is the quality of teacher Pining Garcia’s
lecture when she makes use of various pictures,
charts, graphs, videos to support her lectures?
A. Simplified vocabulary
B. Enrichment through visual aids
C. Causal and logical relationships
D. Continuing sequence
47. Teacher Maggie explains by spicing her
lectures with examples, descriptions and stories.
What is this quality in her lectures?
A. Planned sequence
B. Elaboration through elements
C. Use of audiovisuals
D. Simple vocabulary
48. Which of the following is true of a democratic
classroom?
A. Teacher acts as firm decision maker
B. Students decide what and how to learn
C. Consultation and dialogue
D. Suggestions are sent to higher officials for
decisions
49. In what setting is differentiated and multi-
lingual teaching most effective?
A. special children with classes
B. multi-grade classes
C. children with diverse cultural backgrounds
D. pre-school children
50. Teacher Aldub makes certain content
interesting to his students. Focusing on learners,
he also uses many simple examples, metaphors
and stories. What is this quality of lesson content?
A. Interest
B. Feasibility
C. Self-sufficiency
D. Balance
51. Of the following effects on learning, what is
the effect of simulations that make students feel
and sense experience in the classroom?
A. Reinforcing learning
B. Providing experiences that otherwise might
not be had
C. Motivating students
D. Changing attitudes and feelings
52. From a broad vantage view of human
development, who has the primary duty to
educate the youths or children?
A. Parents
B. Teachers
C. the state
D. the school
53. Of the three aspects of learning, which is not
mentioned as needed so that the individual
learner in the 21st century can learn how to
learn?
A. Ability to think
B. Mathematical skills
C. Memory skills
D. Concentration
54. A young mother observes her seven year old
girl glued to her computer games. What aspect of
the family life may suffer due to obsession of the
young with technology gadgets?
A. Family social life
B. Family economic life
C. Discipline and obedience
D. Parent-child relationship
55. Which of the following belongs to the more
sophisticated learning-to-learn skills for the
individual learner?
A. To ask and gather data
B. To listen and observe
C. To process and select information
D. To read with understanding
56. Which of the following is not an advanced
process of metacognition among learners?
A. Learning how to recognize thoughts
B. Acquisition of new knowledge
C. Assessing own thinking
D. Learning how to study
57. Research studies showed that children in
slums generally have lower reading achievement
then children in urban schools. What factor is
shown to affect reading achievement?
A. Mobility
B. Personality and emotional factors
C. Socio-economic status
D. Listening comprehension
58. What is the main organization and orientation
of science and social studies reading materials?
A. Expository
B. Descriptive
C. Narrative
D. Argumentative
59. Of comprehension or thinking strategies,
which is relating one or two items, such as nouns
and verbs?
A. Basic elaboration strategies
B. Complex rehearsal strategies
C. Complex elaboration strategies
D. Affective strategies
60. Of skills teacher should understand and
students need to acquire, which is the ability to
integrate complex information into categories
through its attributes (characteristics, principles or
functions)?
A. Scanning
B. Complex cognitive
C. Sharpening-leveling
D. Complexity-simplicity
61. When preacher Xian read the Genesis story on
creation, he explained that God is so powerful he
created the universe in only seven days. What
level of reading comprehension did preacher John
apply?
A. Evaluative reading on character, plot or style
B. Literal reading the lines
C. Applied reading beyond the lines
D. Interpretative reading between the lines
62. From Kohlberg’s theory of moral development,
what is the moral reasoning or perspective of
Mother Teresa who pledged her life to serve the
sick and very old?
A. Social contract
B. Universal principles
C. Obedience
D. Law and order
63. In his History class, teacher Naomi used a
current events IQ contest to determine champions
in identifying people, places, and events. What
learning objective outcome does she aim to
achieve?
A. Knowledge or recall
B. Perpetual abilities
C. Application
D. Responding
64. In what development stage is the pre-school
child?
A. Early childhood
B. Babyhood
C. Infancy
D. Late childhood
65. In Erikson’s stage theory of development
questionnaire, which affirmation does not belong
to the stage of initiative vs. guilt?
A. People can be trusted
B. In difficulty, I will not give up
C. I feel what happens to me is the result of what
I have done
D. I am prepared to take a risk
66. For cognitive learning, what are sets of facts,
concepts, and principles that describe underlying
mechanism that regulate human learning,
development and behavior?
A. Facts
B. Concepts
C. Theories
D. Hypothesis
67. Literature teacher Kim introduced figures of
speech in poetry to improve ability of her students
to interpret verses. What kind of thinking is she
developing in her students?
A. Critical thinking
B. Metaphoric thinking
C. Convergent thinking
D. Divergent thinking
68. Of clusters of meaningful learning activities,
which does not belong to spatial learning
activities?
A. Visualization
B. Concept-mapping
C. Peer tutoring
D. Art projects
69. Of the following which is normally expected of
Grade VI pupils?
A. Getting along with classmates
B. Being independent of parents
C. Showing class leadership
D. Displaying a male or feminine social role
70. From categories of exceptionalities in the
young child and adolescents what involves
difficulties in specific cognitive processes like
perception, language, and memory due to mental
retardation, emotional/behavioral disorder, or
sensory impairment?
A. Learning disabilities
B. Speech and communication disorders
C. Emotional/conduct disorders
D. Autism
71. From cluster of meaningful learning activities,
which does not belong to verbal-linguistic
intelligence learning?
A. Ecological field trip
B. Debates
C. Journal writing
D. Reading
72. Which of the following violates the principle
that “each child’s brain is unique and vastly
different from one another”?
A. Giving ample opportunity for a pupil to explore
rather than simply dish out information
B. Employing principles in multiple intelligence in
teaching
C. Making a left-handed pupil write with her right
hand as this is better
D. Allowing open dialogue among students of
various cultural backgrounds
73. Research says, “people tend to attribute
successes to internal causes and their failures to
external causes.” What does this imply as a most
potent key to success?
A. Reasoning
B. Imagination
C. Application
D. Motivation
74. Of the following, which is most true of
adolescents?
A. Hormonal changes
B. Last splurge of dependence
C. Unruly behavior
D. Defiance of peer group
75. Under the domains of learning, to what
domain do Reflex movements, perceptual abilities,
and non-discursive communication belong?
A. Psychomotor
B. Affective
C. Cognitive
D. Reflective
76. In the context of the 6 facets of understanding
cited by Wiggins and McTIghe, what is a proof of a
student understands a principle?
A. Stating given examples
B. Repeating it as given by the teacher
C. Applying it to solve his problem
D. Retaining it in memory for a long period of
time
77. Of the following, which exemplifies the best
example of cooperation and voluntarism in the
Parent-Teacher Associations?
A. Helping hands after a natural crisis, e.g.
devastating storm
B. Attending regular meetings
C. Fund raising for PT funds
D. Running the school canteen
78. Of the types of validity tests, what is
concerned with the relation of test scores to
performance at some future time, e.g. Freshmen
college test can show success in college?
A. Curriculum validity
B. Criterion validity
C. Content validity
D. Predictive validity
79. Which of the following may not be adequately
assessed by a paper and pencil test?
A. Sight reading in music
B. Multiplication skills
C. Subject-verb agreement
D. Vocabulary meaning
80. Among standardized tests, which reveals
strengths and weaknesses for purposes of
placement and formulating an appropriate
instructional program?
A. Personality tests
B. Achievement tests
C. Diagnostic tests
D. Competency tests
81. Among standardized tests, which can show
how students perform in comparison with each
other and to students in other schools?
A. Competency tests
B. Subject exit tests
C. Achievement tests
D. Diagnostic tests
82. Teacher Bea Bunana makes her tests easy for
students to understand, easy to administer and
score and suitable to test conditions, e.g. time.
What is she achieving for her tests?
A. Efficiency
B. Usability
C. Reliability
D. Validity
83. Of the following subjects, which does not
belong to performance-based subjects in which
direct instruction is effectively used?
A. Values education
B. Music
C. Science
D. Mathematics
84. Which of these approaches would reform
assessment outcomes?
A. Apply sanctions on low performing schools
B. Focus on testing without investing the
learner’s needs
C. Use understanding as means of giving
feedback on students learning
D. Compare results of performance of all schools
85. Using extrinsic motivational assessment, what
could be the noblest motive in students pursuing a
lifetime work and mission for the teaching
profession?
A. Promise of high rank and prestige
B. Social service to upcoming generations
C. Economic security and welfare
D. Respected position in society
86. To what process of evaluation does
determining the extent objectives are met
belong?
A. Authentic
B. Formative
C. Criterion-referenced
D. Norm-referenced
87. Which form of the foundation of all cognitive
objects without which the next level of higher
thinking skills cannot be attained?
A. Knowledge
B. Synthesis
C. Application
D. Analysis
88. What should be done with test item whose
difficulty index is .98?
A. Revise I
B. Retain it
C. Reject it
D. Reserve it for another group of students
89. One half of the class scored very low. Teacher
Janus gave another tests to determine where were
the students were weakest. What type of test is
this?
A. Aptitude test
B. Remedial test
C. Diagnostic test
D. Readiness test
90. What is known as the scoring guides for rating
open-ended questions?
A. Rubrics
B. Outcome
C. Scales
D. Outputs
91. What does it mean to say that the facility
index of a test item is .50?
A. It is reliable
B. It is valid
C. It is moderate in difficulty
D. It is very easy
92. What cognitive domain is involved in the
student’s clarifying information from conclusion?
A. Synthesis
B. Evaluation
C. Analysis
D. Application
93. With the mode of answering as a point of
reference, which of the following does not belong
to this test group?
A. Completion
B. Essay
C. Problem-solving
D. Matching
94. On what is normative marking based?
A. High marks of few students
B. Failure of some students
C. Normal curve of standard distribution
D. Student achievement relative to other
students
95. How does a student’s 80 percentile score
interpreted?
A. High in all the skills being tested
B. Higher than 80% of the members of the group
C. Better relative to the competencies targeted
D. 80% of the specified content
96. What is the deviation from a standard or
desired level of performance?
A. A problem
B. A deficit
C. A defect
D. A gap
97. Which of the following indicates a strong
negative correlation?
A. -75
B. -15
C. -10
D. -25
98. Of the types of validity for tests, what is
focused on the extent to which a particular tests
correlates with acceptable measure of
performance?
A. Curricular validity
B. Content validity
C. Criterion validity
D. Predictive validity
99. What does a negative discrimination index
mean?
A. The test item has low reliability
B. More from the lower group answered the test
item correctly
C. More from the upper answered the test
correctly
D. The test could not discriminate between the
upper and lower group
100. What primary response factor is considered
by Essay questions?
A. Factual information
B. Wide sampling of ideas
C. Originality
D. Less time for construction and scoring