ULTIMATE “CURRICULUM DEVT & DEVELOPMENTAL READING” [Rationale]
[Link] among the following progressivists viewed curriculum as “all the experiences in the classroom which are
planned and enacted by the teacher, and also learned by the students”?
A. Marsh and Willis
B. Tyler
C. John Dewey
D. Taba
2. Traditionalists view the curriculum as “a body of subject or subject matter prepared by the teacher for the
student to learn.” This view is synonymous to:
A. Course outline
B. Subject matter
C. Activity
D. Assignment
3. “The teacher is the sole authority in his/her subject area or field of specialization.’ Which philosophical
foundation of curriculum is related to this statement?
A. Essentialism
B. Constructivism
C. Idealism
D. Progressivism
4. Which best relates to Reconstructionism?
A. Fairness in opportunities in education for everyone
B. Use of encyclopedia
C. Going back to the basics
D. Free choice
5. Bobbit and Charters view that curriculum is
A. Learner-centered
B. Subject-centered
C. Society-centered
D. All of the above
6. Which of the following refers to behaviorist psychology?
A. Learning should be organized so learners can experience success in the process of mastering the concept
B. Learning constitutes logical method
C. Learning is concerned with the process
D. All of the above
7. Which of the following best relates to social foundations of curriculum?
A. Society is dynamic
B. Society is constant
C. Society is not changing
D. Society is static
8. A recommended curriculum is defined as:
A. Proposed by scholars and professional organizations
B. This is what the teachers implement or deliver in the schools
C. Based on curriculum that appears in school
D. The unintended curriculum
9. Which of the following is a characteristic of a good curriculum?
I. The curriculum is complex
II. The curriculum is continuous
III. The curriculum provides logical order
IV. The curriculum complements with the programs of the community
A. I, II, III
B. I, II
C. I only
D. I, II, III, and IV
10. If the teacher provides contents that will contribute to basic ideas and principles to achieve the goal of the
curriculum, this is termed as:
A. Significance
B. Interest
C. Utility
D. Ethics
11. When politicians, administrators, and specialists participate in the making of curriculum, this is said to be under
which curriculum levels?
A. Experiential
B. Instructional
C. Institutional
D. Societal
12. The Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 (K-12) is an example of which type of curriculum?
A. Spiral
B. Fused
C. Single
D. Correlated
13. Which of the following accurately describes an experience-centered curriculum?
A. It involves mastery of the subject matter
B. It is learner-centered
C. The learning is provided in a step-by-step series
D. It does consider learners capacity for growth
14. This philosophy in education focuses on societal change required towards attaining good life today and
tomorrow.
A. Essentialism
B. Perennialism
C. Reconstructionism
D. Existentialism
15. What is the goal of curriculum during the pre-Spanish time?
A. To learn basic skills
B. To accept Catholicism
C. To train Filipinos the American culture
D. To promote prosperity
16. If a person says to another, “You are what you choose to be”, the person is more of a/an:
A, Idealist
B. Pragmatist
C. Realist
D. Existentialist
17. A principal tasked some teachers to write instructional materials in a subject. Later on, the teachers found out
that she had the materials published under her name. Which act of the principal is unethical?
A. She took the recognition due to her teachers
B. She was the only recipient of the royalty from the materials
C. She had the materials published when they are already publishable
D. She made the teachers work on an additional task
18. A student submitted a narrative report which was poorly written but very well packaged to make up for the
poor quality of writing. This is an illustration of?
A. Art over science
B. Substance over form
C. Form over substance
D. Art over academics
19. Who said that Tyranny is a bad form of government?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Socrates
D. Alexander the Great
20. Based on R.A. 9155, being an administrative manager is one of the two roles of a school head. What is the
other one?
A. Instructional leader
B. Motivator
C. Facilitator of learning
D. Manager
21. Existentialists say that every person is in the same predicament and has the same possibilities. What does this
mean?
A. Every person must have access to education
B. Every person must choose to go to a university
C. Every person must go through the same form of education
D. Every person must go to a university.
22. The Basic Education Curriculum encourages the principle of ‘back-to-back.” From which educational philosophy
does this spring?
A. Essentialism
B. Perennialism
C. Progressivism
D. Existentialism
23. In Grace Goodell’s Reading Skills Ladder, which is at the very bottom and needed to move up to the sequential
ladder of reading skills?
A. Vocabulary building
B. Phonetic analysis
C. Basic sight words
D. Structural analysis
24. In Grace Goodell’s Skill Ladder, which step should come last, and only when needed?
A. Using contextual clues
B. Using parts of a book
C. Using the dictionary
D. Using phonetic analysis
25. 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
26. In Grace Goodell’s Reading Skills Ladder, which of the following takes precedence?
A. Basic Sight Words
B. Reading from the Internet
C. Using phonetic analysis
D. Using contextual clues
[Link] of the following is not true about Language Acquisition among children?
A. Language acquisition device assumes that people are born with innate ability to acquire language
B. Chomsky explains in his model that children acquired language solely through exposure
C. LAD claims that certain linguistic structures must already be imprinted on the child’s mind at birth
D. Among those who worked on these are Crystal and Piaget.
28. This model shows reading as an active process that depends on reader characteristics, the text, and the reading
situation.
A. Bottom-Up
B. Top-down
C. Interactive
D. Down-top
29. Which of the following is a feature of top-down approach in reading? I. Readers can comprehend a selection
even though they do not recognize each word.
II. Readers should use meaning and grammatical cues to identify unrecognized words.
III. Reading for meaning is the primary objective of reading, rather than mastery of letters, letters/ sound
A. I only
B. I and 11 only
C. I and III only
D. I,II, and III
30. Who is the proponent of language acquisition device?
A. Chomsky
B. Hizo
C. Taba
D. Tyler