Pedagogy Top 100 Most Important Mcqs - for NTS, PPSC, FPSC, OTS

Education Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) from Education, the basics of Education, Theory and

Philosophy of Education, Pedagogy, Teaching Techniques and Methodology, Classroom Management

and Discipline, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Planning and Management, Curriculum Planning &

Instructional Technology, Education Psychology and student's Learning and Research Techniques &

Report Writing

Prepared by Sultan Mehmood

1. An assessment is __________ if it consistently achieves the same results with the same

students.

A. Valid

B. Invalid

C. Reliable

D. Unreliable

2. A/An __________ assessment is one which measures what it is intended to measure.

A. Valid

B. Invalid

C. Reliable

D. Unreliable

3. The use of technology to enhance learning process is called __________ in education.

A. IT

B. ICT

C. Information technology

D. Communication technology

4. An assessment that measures a student's current knowledge for the purpose of assigning a

suitable course is called?

A. Diagnostic assessment

B. Formative assessment

C. Summative assessment

D. Contemporary assessment

5. An assessment that is generally carried out throughout a course is called?

A. Diagnostic assessment

B. Formative assessment

C. Summative assessment

D. Contemporary assessment

6. An assessment that is generally carried out at the end of a course to assign students a course

grade is called?

A. Diagnostic assessment

B. Formative assessment

C. Summative assessment

D. Contemporary assessment

7. Which from the following is NOT a formal assessment?

A. Assignment

B. Paper

C. Quiz

D. Discussion

8. Which from the following is NOT an informal assessment?

A. Assignment

B. Observation

C. Rating scales

D. Discussion

9. According to John Dewey, the teacher should guide students the way of the knowledge as a

__________ in learning process.

A. facilitator

B. guider

C. philosopher

D. partner

10. The philosopher who worked in mathematical and scientific didactics was?

A. Jean Piaget

B. John Dewey

C. Martin Wagenschein

D. Lev Vygotsk

11. Which philosopher gave the idea that education should be based on the principles of

human development?

A. Dewey

B. Watson

C. Rousseau

D. Thorndike

12. Who introduced the theory of empiricism?

A. D.J. O'Connor

B. John Dewey

C. William James

D. John Locke

13. Who gave the Totality Conscious Ideas?

A. Jean Piaget

B. Herbert Spencer

C. Hill Gard

D. Woodworth

14. Who wrote the book "Emile"?

A. William Stern

B. John Locke

C. Rousseau

D. Thorndike

15. Which philosopher compiled Kindergarten education system?

A. Friedrich Frobel

B. Herbert Spencer

C. John Locke

D. D.J. O'Connor

16. When was the book “Child Development for early childhood studies― published for

the first time?

A. 1893

B. 1895

C. 1897

D. 1899

17. Which educator gave the idea of Behaviorism in education system?

A. John Locke

B. Thorndike

C. Herbert Spencer

D. Watson

18. At the beginning of the nineteenth century whose focus was the study of the development

of the mind?

A. Jean Piaget

B. William James

C. Hill Gard

D. William Stern

19. Who had devised the term IQ (Intelligence Quotient)?

A. William James

B. William Stern

C. John Locke

D. John Dewey

20. Bert called the intelligence to .........

A. Nature

B. Jeans

C. Innate

D. Health

21. Which educator presents ''Law of Reediness, Law of Exercise and Law of Effect''?

A. Hill Gard

B. Thorndike

C. Spencer

D. Rousseau

22. Who said that "These situations are mental evolutions that are aspects of conflict and

anxiety."?

A. Hill Gard

B. Watson

C. Jean Piaget

D. Ralph Tyler

23. Formal education or school training represent .........

A. Learner programs of study

B. Planned programs of study

C. Collective programs of study

D. Basic programs of study

24. In childhood which conditions are favorable for improving of skills and knowledge begun

in ...........?

A. Home

B. Library

C. Mosque

D. Park

25. From the given below which is most suitable for the study of human behaviour?

A. Humanism

B. Naturalism

C. Psychology

D. Sociality

26. Education ......... explains the gaining experience from birth through old age.

A. Training

B. Philosophy

C. Programmer

D. Psychology

27. Who are usually responsible for conducting classroom and laboratory learning studies

which are carefully planned?

A. School’s Principal

B. District Education Officer

C. Psychologists of Education

D. School Teachers

28. Psychologists are agreed that education implies can be regarded as .......?

A. Process

B. Product

C. Both Process & Product

D. None of these

29. In19th century European psychologists devoted best attention to studies dealing with ......

Imagery.

A. Mental

B. Physical

C. Individual

D. Social

30. Which psychologists introduced the application of scientifically evolved principles and

theories of learning in education system?

A. Chinese

B. American

C. Germen

D. British

31. At the end of 19th century, which philosopher formulated laws of learning as a result of

his experiments with animals?

A. Hill Gard

B. Watson

C. Edward Thorndike

D. John Dewey

32. Successful educational practices evolve from the application of ........ Methods.

A. Analog

B. Scientific

C. Virtual

D. Technical

33. By Genetic method of studying human development can be utilized .........

A. Horizontal

B. Vertical

C. Both Horizontal and vertical

D. None of these

34. The ........ method is very useful in some areas of investigation.

A. Critical

B. Observation

C. Dialogue

D. Questionnaire

35. Skilled interviewer can discover many ....... about the person interviewed.

A. Feature

B. Values

C. Facts

D. Background

36. ........... includes data concerning family background and educational development.

A. Case study

B. General behavior

C. Genetic approach

D. Adequacy

37. Psychological experiment is used to test concerning human .......

A. Nature

B. Behavior

C. Education

D. Problems

38. Method of research is ........ method of conducted experimentation probably.

A. Exact

B. Refined

C. Both Exact and Refined

D. None of these

39. According to human factor, individuals may vary from ....... to day in their performance.

A. Day

B. Week

C. Year

D. Month

40. For study purposes, the members of a group of young people can be differ among

themselves in habits ........

A. Abilities

B. Interests

C. Both Abilities and Interests

D. None of these

41 Teacher are closely associated with the ...... process.

A. Study

B. Learning

C. Evaluation

D. Observing

 42 The teacher can provide the kind of stimulation to enable the child to become ...... learner.

A. Quality

B. Social

C. Interesting

D. Active

 43Children should be given an opportunity to ...... the democratic way of life in school.

A. Learn

B. Experience

C. Understand

D. Knowing

 44 The value of satisfaction in ...... is emphasizes by the psychologist now a days.

A. Learning

B. Education

C. Management

D. Environment

 45 For growth of children some parents and teachers were over concerned about providing

........ conditions.

A. Certain

B. Fundamentally

C. Powerful

D. Healthful

 46 A teacher should have an intelligence quotient of ......

A. 120

B. 125

C. 130

D. 135

 47 When a teacher is certified to teach it doesn’t mean his ....... is completed.

A. Learning

B. Education

C. Training

D. Planning

 48 Who said that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native

literature of India and Arabia"?

A. Sir John Shore

B. Sir Alured Clarke

C. Lord Macaulary

D. Sir George Barlow

 49 Which is the medium of instruction at primary level in Pakistan?

A. Provincial language / Urdu

B. Urdu

C. English

D. Provincial language / English

 50 Approximately 35 working weeks in a year at .......

A. Primary Level

B. Secondary Level

C. Both Primary and Secondary Levels

D. None of these

51 In 1974 University Grants Commission was established in __________

A. Peshawar

B. Karachi

C. Lahore

D. Islamabad

52 The University Grants Commission has started training programme for teachers of

__________

A. Degree Colleges

B. Universities

C. Both Degree Colleges and universities

D. Schools

 53 In the organization of the school the basic determining factor is the __________ of the

school.

A. Curriculum

B. Management

C. Social life

D. Trainers

 54 The curriculum should be __________ on cooperative basis.

A. Planned

B. Formulated

C. Managed

D. Contributed

 55 The staff should examine the programme continuously with the __________ of the

principal.

A. Administration

B. Supporting

C. Helping

D. Leadership

56 Pakistan Studies was made a __________ subject for Classes X, XII and XIV.

A. Optional

B. Elective

C. Basic

D. Compulsory

 57 The __________ Universities and Colleges were organized a number of programmes for

teacher training for the teaching of __________

A. Science

B. Education

C. Agriculture

D. Geology

58 The scientific development in various fields is brought forward for advising the government

by the National __________

A. Committees

B. Institutions

C. Organizations

D. Academies

59 Technical Education was __________ from the Universities and Boards of Intermediate and

Secondary Education were established.

A. Separated

B. Joined

C. Merge

D. None of these

 60 Education Bureaus were attached to the education departments in the __________

A. Cities

B. Town

C. Countries

D. Provinces

61 At the time of partition in 1947, there were __________ colleges in working.

A. 40

B. 45

C. 50

D. 55

62 At the time of partition in 1947, there were __________ universities in working.

A. 5

B. 4

C. 3

D. 2

63 President of Pakistan is the __________ in case of Federal Universities.

A. Administrator

B. Chancellor

C. Rector

D. Incharge

 64 Vice-Chancellor shall preside at the __________ of the university in the absence of the

Chancellor.

A. Result

B. Annual day

C. Meeting

D. Convocation

65 A quantitative description of experienced data is __________ a measurement.

A. Simply

B. Particularly

C. Individually

D. None of these

 66 Community health agencies should recognize the importance of the __________ aspect of

education.

A. Learning

B. Physical

C. Virtual

D. Healthy

67 In our schools and colleges, evaluation of individual readiness for further learning is

becoming a common __________

A. Problem

B. Procedure

C. Practice

D. Agenda

68 A nervous or shy child cannot obtain the benefit from his __________ experiences.

A. Personal

B. Learning

C. Social

D. None of these

 69 Learning to read is a complex __________

A. Procedure

B. Phenomenon

C. Activity

D. Behavior

 70The obtaining of thought from the written material can be possible through silent

__________

A. Reading

B. Planning

C. Practice

D. Learning

 71 A successful practice is the real test of __________ achievement.

A. Teacher

B. Principal

C. Learning

D. Evaluation

72 It is openly observed that __________ involves much more than measurement.

A. Government

B. Environment

C. Learning

D. Evaluation

73 Motivation is the __________ purpose of evaluation.

A. Basic

B. Primary

C. Optional

D. Individual

74 Primary purpose of evaluation is to provide a basis for curriculum __________

A. Revision

B. Improvement

C. Both Revision and Improvement

D. None of these

 75 Environments should be main focus in the case of __________

A. Learning

B. Institutes

C. Training

D. Teaching

 76 It is __________ exercise for complete evaluation of institutions.

A. Time consuming

B. Costly

C. Both costly and time consuming

D. None of these

77 Webster __________ evaluation as "examining and judging the worth quality, significance,

amount, degree or condition of something."

A. Defined

B. Described

C. Present

D. None of these

78 __________ defined evaluation as "a process of delineating, obtaining and providing useful

information for judging decision alternatives."

A. Webster

B. Cronbach

C. Stufflebeam

D. Kaufman

 79 In educational research, how many styles that are used?

A. 7

B. 6

C. 5

D. 4

80 The other main __________ is that education is a human activity.

A. Assumption

B. Concepts

C. Method

D. Philosophy

81 Which city of Pakistan is called "City of Colleges"?

A. Peshawar

B. Karachi

C. Lahore

D. Islamabad

82 Reciting of the national anthem made compulsory in high schools in __________

A. May,09, 1957

B. June,09, 1957

C. July,09, 1957

D. August,09, 1957

83 At the time of partition in 1947, there were __________ primary schools in working.

A. 8413

B. 9256

C. 7687

D. 6567

84 At the time of partition in 1947, there were __________ technical schools in working.

A. 30

B. 35

C. 40

D. 45

85 In 1997 how many male teachers were working in Pakistan?

A. 48676

B. 49080

C. 51090

D. 53427

86 Who became Vice-Chancellor of The Punjab University after partition?

A. Dr. Sultan Bukhari

B. Dr. Shameem Hanfi

C. Dr. Umer Hayat Malik

D. Dr. Abdullah Khan

87 Who was the first female Vice-Chancellor of Pakistan?

A. Dr. Naghmana Ali

B. Dr. Kaneez Yousaf

C. Dr. Memmona Bibi

D. Dr. Attia Rehman

 88 Who introduced the term mental tests?

A. Jean Piaget

B. Cattell

C. Rousseau

D. Thorndike

 89 The famous educational psychologist Alfred Binet was __________

A. French

B. German

C. Russian

D.American

 90 The famous educational psychologist Terman was __________

A. French

B. German

C. Russian

D. American

 91 An attitude of fair-minded appreciation of its value can be obtained through a consideration

of mental __________

A. Evaluation

B. Behavior

C. Measurement

D. Consideration

92 The first Binet-Simon test appeared with revisions in 1908 and __________

A. 1911

B. 1912

C. 1913

D. 1914

93 In America during World War I , the testing of the intelligence of individuals began in

__________

A. Experience

B. As a whole

C. Combinations

D. Groups

94 Which test represents the tests of abstract intelligence?

A. Language

B. Percentage

C. Leadership

D. Measurement

95 In 1854, which philosopher set up laboratory to measure human characteristics?

A. D.J. O'Connor

B. John Dewey

C. Galton

D. Woodworth

96 Whose statement was "Guidance is the direct relation with a person in whom he is taught to

adjust with society."?

A. Machdonial

B. John Locke

C. Rousseau

D. Thorndike

97 Mother is the __________ academy of a child.

A. Social

B. Natural

C. Optional

D. First

 98 Society, Family, Radio and Television are the main __________ of informal education.

A. Centre

B. Source

C. Material

D. None of these

 99 Realistic Education system supports the __________ progress.

A. Natural

B. Social

C. Scientific

D. Technical

 100 To read the lesson before teaching it is called __________

A. Measurement

B. Teaching practice

C. Preparation

D. Lesson plan