What is the most important function of a successful teacher?
Correct answer B. To develop thinking abilities among children
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Pedagogy MCQs
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In the satiation technique of classroom management, what might the teacher do to a negative behaviour instead of punishing it?
Correct answer C. Encourage it
In which area can the Law of Effect be used most effectively?
Correct answer B. Classroom management
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According to John Dewey, what should children experience at school to become better citizens?
Correct answer D. Democracy
In spending money, which virtue lies between wastefulness and stinginess?
Correct answer C. Generosity
Who proposed taking children away from their mothers and bringing them up as wards of the state?
Correct answer A. Plato
Which measure shows how spread out data points are from the mean?
Correct answer D. Standard deviation
A student’s average marks are calculated in the same way as which statistical measure?
Correct answer C. Arithmetic mean
What is the relationship of the standard deviation to the variance?
Correct answer A. square root
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What did Plato believe about the distribution of talent and intelligence?
Correct answer D. Not distributed genetically
Rousseau advocated an educational method that involved removing the child from what?
Correct answer D. Society
The validity of an assessment relates to which of its qualities?
Correct answer B. relevance
What is breaking information into parts and examining it called?
Correct answer B. Analysing
How many learning domains make up Bloom’s taxonomy?
Correct answer C. Three
The dialectic method is a discourse between opposing sides that seeks to establish the truth by what means?
Correct answer C. reasoned arguments
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What is an assessment called that is usually given at the end of a course to award students a final grade?
Correct answer D. Summative assessment
What happens to the brain as people grow older?
Correct answer D. It shrinks
According to Thorndike’s law of effect, what happens to an S-R bond when a response leads to a negative outcome?
Correct answer B. weakened
Which instructional approach presents objectives to learners starting with unknown concepts and moving towards known ones?
Correct answer A. Unknown-to-known
Which pair activity gives students a short period, typically 30 seconds, to record everything they know in a graphic organiser?
Correct answer B. Quick write