CTET CDP QUIZ 20

Question 1:

Which of the following assessment strategies would you NOT use in a progressive classroom ?

Use of reflective journals by teachers

Self assessment and peer assessment

Reliance on norm-referenced assessment only

Creation of student portfolios

Question 2:

Children construct new knowledge on the basis of:

what is already understood and believed by them.

what is ambiguous and irrelevant for them.

what is completely alien and foreign to them.

what is extremely beyond their current cognitive level.

Question 3:

“The failure of children is often the failure of schools” which of the following supports this statement?

School exists so that they can appropriately discriminate among student’s ability.

Children fail because schools do not take into consideration different pace of learning of students.

Children fail because they do not comply with school requirements.

Children fail because of the lack of ability and less IQ.

Question 4:

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five - tier model of human needs. These needs are :

Air, water, food, clothing and shelter.

Physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs and self-actualization needs.

Love, affection, care belongingness and status.

Physiological, Cognitive, Social, Environmental and Developmental.

Question 5:

Which of the following is primary agent of socialisation for children?

Books and magazines

Immediate family

Parent's work place

Staff at hospital

Question 6:

Lev Vygotsky's ideas Language and thought suggest that -

Language guides cognitive development.

Cognitive development guides language.

There is no relation between language and cognition.

Cognition is independent of language.

Question 7:

Developmental changes –

occur at a universal pace in children across cultures.

occur at a very fast pace till middle childhood and then stop.

always occur in a linear manner and are unidimensional.

are an interplay of hereditary factors and environmental influences.

Question 8:

______is responsible for primary socialization of children.

School

Religious institutions

Mass media

Family

Question 9:

Which of the following is a constructive approach for dealing with the 'misconceptions' carried by students?

Assign lot of content to memorize and remember.

Create circumstances where misconceptions are not allowed to be expressed.

Give opportunities for experimentation and observation to counter misconceptions.

Ignore prior beliefs and alternative conceptions of students.

Question 10:

To be relevant and meaningful a concept needs to be-

Taught using a proper definition.

Aligned with the social context of the child’s life.

Reproduced correctly from the textbook in the child’s notebook.

Memorized well so that a student can take part in competition.