LET Professional Education Practice Test

Question 1 Principles of Teaching

Which teaching activity is founded on Bandura’s social learning theory?

A Questioning B Inductive reasoning C Modeling D Interactive teaching

Question 2 Assessment of Student Learning

Here is a test item: “From the data presented in the table, form generalizations that are supported by the data.” Under what type of question does this item fall?

A Convergent B Evaluative C Application D Divergent

Question 3 Child and Adolescent Development

Research says that mastery experiences increase confidence and willingness to try similar or more challenging tasks such as reading. What does this imply for children's performance?

A Children who have not mastered the basic skills are more likely to be motivated to read in order to gain mastery over basic skills. B Children who have mastered basic skills are more likely to be less motivated to read because they ge C children who have a high sense of self-conference are not necessarily those who can read. D Children who have gained mastery over basic skills are more motivate to read.

Question 4 Facilitating Learning

Which is a classroom application of Vygotsky's idea of scaffolding?

A Give the learner the necessary assistance until she can be on her own. B From the start, leave the learner to herself because she has the power for self-learning. C Don't spoil the learner by doing what she ought to do. D Give the learner a task that challenges her ability.

Question 5 Assessment of Student Learning

The facility index of a test item is .50. This means that the test item is _____.

A valid B moderate in difficulty C very easy D reliable

Question 6 Child and Adolescent Development

Which of the following is the correct order of psychosexual stages proposed by Sigmund Freud?

A Oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage B Anal stage, oral stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage C Oral stage, anal stage, genital stage, latency stage, phallic stage D Anal stage oral stage, genital stage, latency stage, phallic stage

Question 7 Assessment of Student Learning

Janice in Grade Vi has a percentile rank of 90 in achievement test in language. This mean that ________

A The scores Janice’s obtained was as high as the scores made by 90% of the pupils to whom the test was give. B Eighty-nine pupils obtained scores lower than what Janice obtained. C 90 percent of the sixth graders obtained scores higher than Janice. D In the class of 100 sixth graders Janice is 90th from the top.

Question 8 Teaching Profession

Teacher F is newly converted to a religion. Deeply convinced of his new-found religion, he starts Monday classes by attacking one religion and convinces his pupils to attend their religious services on Sundays. Is this in accordance with the Code of Ethics of Professional Teachers?

A Yes. What he does is values education. B No. A teacher should not use his position to proselytize others. C Yes. In the name of academic freedom, a teacher can decide what to teach. D Yes. What he does strengthens values education.

Question 9 Principles of Teaching

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

Question 10 Child and Adolescent Development

In Piaget's stages of cognitive development, which is the tendency of the child to only see his point of view and to assume that everyone has the same point of view?

A Reversibility B Egocentrism C Symbolic function D Centration

Professional Education Practice Test