CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY
1. To enable students to make conceptual changes in their thinking. A teacher should
(1) offer rewards for children who change their thinking
(2) discourage children from thinking on their own and ask them to just listen to her and
follow that
(3) offer an explanation in a lecture mode
(4) make clear and convincing explanations and have discussions with the students
2. In the context of a primary school classroom. What does active engagement mean?
(1) Memorizing, recall and reciting
(2) Imitating and copying the teacher
(3) Enquiry, Questioning and Debate
(4) Copying answers given by the teacher
3. Children are most creative when they participate in an activity
(1) to escape their teacher’s scolding
(2) under stress to do well in front of others
(3) out of interest
(4) for rewards
4. Most classrooms in India are multilingual and this needs to be seen as ______ by the
teacher.
(1) a bother
(2) a problem
(3) a resource
(4) an obstacle
5. mistake and errors made by students
(1) are a wonderful opportunity to label children as ‘weak’ or ‘outstanding’
(2) are indicative of the failure of the teacher and the students
(3) should be seen as opportunities to understand their thinking
(4) should be severely dealt with
6. ______ views children as active builders of knowledge and little scientist who construct
their own theories of the worlds.
(1) Skinner
(2) Pavlov
(3) Jung
(4) Piaget
7. Child–centred pedagogy means
(1) giving moral education to the children
(2) asking the children to follow and imitate the teacher
(3) giving primacy to children’s voices and their active participation
(4) letting the children be totally free
8. A teacher can help the children to process a complex situation by
(1) encouraging competition and offering a high reward to the child who completes the
task first
(2) not offering any help at all so that children learn to help on their own
(3) giving a lecture on it
(4) breaking the task into smaller parts and writing down instructions
9. Expecting students to reproduce Knowledge in the same way as it is received
(1) is good since it is easy for the teacher to assess
(2) is an effective assessment strategy
(3) is problematic, because individuals interpret experience and do not reproduce
knowledge as it is received
(4) is good, since we record everything as it is in our brains
10. When students are given an opportunity to discuss a problem in group their learning
curve
(1) becomes better
(2) remains stable
(3) declines
(4) remains the same
11. The pace of development varies from one individual to another, but it follows ______
pattern.
(1) a to –to-head
(2) a haphazard
(3) an unpredictable
(4) a sequential and orderly
12. Which one of the following is correct about development?
(1) Development begins and ends at birth.
(2) ‘Sociocultural context’ plays an important role in development.
(3) Development is unidimensional.
(4) Development is discrete.
13. Why do individuals differ from one another?
(1) Because of the impact of the environment
(2) Due to the inborn characteristics
(3) Due to the interplay between heredity and environment
(4) Because each individual has received a different gene set from his/her parents
14. Family plays _____ role in socialization of the child.
(1) a not-so-important
(2) an exciting
(3) a primary
(4) a secondary
15. Which one of the following is a correctly matched pair?
(1) Concreate operational child – is able to conserve and classify
(2) Formal operational child – Imitation begins, imaginary play
(3) Infancy - Applies logic and is able to infer
(4) Pre – operational child – Deductive thought
16. A child says, “Clothes dry faster in the sun.” She is showing an understanding of
(1) symbolic thought
(2) egocentric thinking
(3) cause and effect
(4) reversible thinking
17. According to Piaget, children’s thinking defers in ____ from adults than in ____.
(1) amounts; kind
(2) size; correctness
(3) kind; amount
(4) size; type
18. Which one of the following is an example of scaffolding?
(1) Giving prompts and cues, and asking question at critical junctures
(2) Giving motivational lectures to students
(3) Offering expiations without encouraging questioning
(4) Offering both material and non – material rewards
19. According to Vygotsky, children learn
(1) when reinforcement is offered
(2) by maturation
(3) by imitation
(4) by interacting with adults and peers
20. Kohlberg has given
(1) the stages of cognitive development
(2) the stages of physical development
(3) the stages of emotional development
(4) the stages of moral development
21. Which one of the following situations is illustrative of a child – centred classroom?
(1) A class in which the teacher dictates and the students are asked to memorize the
notes
(2) A class in which the textbook is the resource the teacher refers to
(3) A class in which the students are sitting in groups and the teacher takes turns to go
to each group
(4) A clsss in which the behaviour of students is governed by the rewards and
punishments the teacher would give them
22. Intelligence is
(1) a set of capabilities
(2) a singular and generic concept
(3) the ability to imitate others
(4) a specific ability
23. Early childhood is ______ period for language development.
(1) a not – so – significant
(2) an unimportant
(3) a sensitive
(4) a neutral
24. A teacher remarks in a co – education class to boys, “Be boys and don’t behave like
girls.” This remark
(1) reflects caste discrimination
(2) is a good example of dealing with boys and girls
(3) reflects stereotypical behaviour of discrimination between boys and girls
(4) highlight the biological superiority of boys over girls
25. Assessment
(1) is a good strategy to label and categorize children
(2) should actively promote competitive spirited among children
(3) should generate tension and stress to ensure learning
(4) is a way to improve learning
26. Which one of the following statemtents best describes ‘Inclusion’?
(1) It is the belief that children need to be segregated according to their abilities.
(2) It is the belief that some children cannot learn at all.
(3) It is the philosophy that all children have a right to get equal educational in a regular
school system.
(4) It is the philosophy that special children are ‘a special gift of God.
27. To cater to the children from ‘disadvantaged’ background, a teacher should
(1) give them a lot of written work
(2) try to find out more about them and involve them in class discussions
(3) make them sit separately in the class
(4) ignore them as they cannot interact with other students
28. Which one of the following behaviours is an identifier of a child with learning
disability?
(1) Frequent mood swings
(2) Abusive behaviour
(3) Writing ‘b’ ans ‘d’, ‘was’ as ‘saw’, ‘21’ as ‘12’
(4) Low attention span and high physical activity
29. A child who can see partially
(1) Should be put in a ‘regular’ school with no special provisions
(2) should not be given education, since it is not of any use to him
(3) needs to be put in a separate institution
(4) should be put in a ‘regular’ school while making special provisions
30. Learning
(1) is not affected by a learner’s emotions
(2) has very little connection with emotions
(3) is independent of a learner’s emotions
(4) is influenced by a learner’s emotions
