(240+) Knowledge And Curriculum MCQ's Quiz (Questions With Answers)

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Q1. What is Knowledge?

1. Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, skills, or objects.
2. Perception of a situational or facts.
3. Acknowledgment of the existences, validity, or legality of something.
4. The state of being aware of and responsive to one’s own self and surrounding in which he/she lives.

Answer - 1

Q2. Knowledge is attained of experience?

1. Empirical Knowledge
2. Authoritative Knowledge
3. Posteriori Knowledge
4. Prior Knowledge

Answer - 3

Q3. Which knowledge is gained through observation and experimentation?

1. Scientific Knowledge
2. Prior Knowledge
3. Empirical Knowledge
4. Authoritative Knowledge

Answer- 1

Q4. Which Knowledge is drawn through senses observation?

1. Scientific Knowledge
2. Posterior Knowledge
3. Empirical Knowledge
4. Prior Knowledge

Answer - 3

Q5. What is Authoritative knowledge?

1. Knowledge emanates from the authority and given by some authority
2. knowledge based on sense observation
3. knowledge proved by the technology and political authorities.
4. knowledge which is useful and is of utility

Answer - 1

Q6. Knowledge drawn from reasoning is called?

1. Instructive Knowledge
2. Rational Knowledge
3. Pragmatic Knowledge
4. Revealed Knowledge

Answer - 2

Q7. Which knowledge can not be attained through the power of reason and inquiry?

1. Rational Knowledge
2. Revealed Knowledge
3. Instructive Knowledge
4. Pragmatic Knowledge

Answer - 2

Q8. Which type of knowledge is contained in religious books?

1. Rational Knowledge
2. Pragmatic Knowledge
3. Instructive Knowledge
4. Revealed Knowledge

Answer - 4

Q9. The knowledge that is subjective and spontaneous in nature-

1. Intuitive Knowledge
2. Pragmatic Knowledge
3. Scientific Knowledge
4. Authoritative Knowledge

Answer - 1

Q10. Which type of knowledge is neither related to senses nor to reasons?

1. Scientific Knowledge
2. Pragmatic Knowledge
3. Intuitive Knowledge
4. Revealed Knowledge

Answer - 3

Q11. Which of the following is based on reasoning and Logical thinking?

1. Spiritual Knowledge
2. Sensory Knowledge
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Rational Knowledge

Answer - 4

Q12. Which of the theory is based on assumptions ideas or thoughts interrelated and Consistent

1. Coherence Theory
2. Pragmatic Theory
3. Empirical Theory
4. Pragmatic Theory

Answer - 1

Q13. Which of the following is/are the sources of knowledge?

1. Intuition
2. Senses
3. Reason
4. All of these

Answer – 4

Q14. “Smelling with the nose”, “Touching with hands”.This will be categorized under –

1. Knowledge through senses
2. Knowledge through Intuition
3. Knowledge through Practice
4. Knowledge through Observation

Answer – 1

Q15. Which of the methods starts with particular examples or is specific to general?

1. Experiences Methods
2. Inductive Methods
3. Traditional Methods
4. Deductive Methods

Answer – 1

Q16. The word ‘Information’ is derived from –

1. Latin word ‘Information’
2. Greek word ‘Informere’
3. Greek world ‘Information’
4. Latin word ‘Informere’

Answer - 4

Q17. Which of the following statement is incorrect?

1. Information required some cognitive and analytical ability
2. Information deals with the way data is related
3. Information is something told from the data
4. All of the above

Answer – 1

Q18. Truth is –

1. Universal Statement
2. Personal statement
3. Deductive theory
4. Belief

Answer – 1

Q19. Which of the following is subjective and personal?

1. Reality
2. Truth
3. Fact
4. Belief

Answer – 4

Q20. ________ is systematic examination and evaluation of data or information, by breaking it into components

1. Description
2. Reasoning
3. Analysis
4. None of these

Answer – 3

Q21. Which of the following are/is a way of knowing?

1. Reason
2. Sense Perception
3. Language
4. All of these

Answer – 4

Q22. What includes a system of signs with agreed or conventional meanings combined according to a set of rules?

1. Instruction
2. Memory
3. Emotional
4. Language

Answer – 4

Q23. What is knowing?

1. Acknowledgment of the existences, validity, or legality of something.
2. The state of being aware of and responsive to one’s own self and surrounding in which he/she lives.
3. Knowing is the ability to think and act flexibly with what one knows
4. Knowing is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, skills, or objects.

Answer - 3

Q24. Which of the following statement is correct about knowledge?

1. The values of knowledge may change over time
2. It is developed through the learning process
3. Knowledge is contextual it can be reused
4. All of these

Answer – 4

Q25. Knowledge can be _______ or _______ understanding of subject.

1. Limited or restricted
2. Countable or Limited
3. Theoretical or practical
4. None of these

Answer – 3

Q26. Which of the following is not a type of knowledge?

1. Religious Knowledge
2. Empirical Knowledge
3. Disciplinary Knowledge
4. Non – disciplinary Knowledge

Answer – 4

Q27. Disciplinary Knowledge:-

1. Refers to the facts, concepts, theories and principles that are taught and learned in specific academic courses.
2. The knowledge we learn from the scientific process, which involves experimenting and collecting data.
3. Which has a grip on much of the discourse on curriculum policy and instructions practices.
4. None of these

Answer - 3

Q28. Which of the following are sources of scientific knowledge?

1. Perception
2. Consciousness
3. Memory
4. Reason

1. (i), (ii) and (iii)
2. (i), (ii) and (iv)
3. None of these
4. All of these

Answer – 4

Q29. Empirical Knowledge is also known as?

1. Intellectual Experience
2. Tacit Experience
3. Sense Experience
4. Past Experiences

Answer - 3

Q30. In which of the following type of knowledge do we learn through senses?

1. Empirical Knowledge
2. Theoretical Knowledge
3. Course Context Knowledge
4. Revealed Knowledge

Answer – 1

Q.31 Effectiveness of curriculum is determined by:

1. Objective
2. Method
3. Design
4. Evaluation

ANSWER - 4

Q32. What is revealed Knowledge?

1. The knowledge that cannot be attained through philosophical or the merely human, power through God’s revelation
2. Its system offers answers to fundamental questions about the meaning and purpose of human life.
3. The knowledge we learn from the scientific process, which involves experimenting and collecting data.
4. None of these

Answer – 1

Q33. The knowledge that is recorded and Communicated through mediums is known as?

1. Explicit Knowledge
2. Posteriori Knowledge
3. Tacit Knowledge
4. Prior Knowledge

Answer - 1

Q34. Knowledge which is very difficult to communicate and transfer from one individual to another is called?

1. Explicitly Knowledge
2. Tacit Knowledge
3. Posteriori Knowledge
4. Prior Knowledge

Answer - 2

Q35. Which of the following are sources of knowledge?

1. School
2. Society
3. Home
4. All of them

Answer – 4

Q36. The knowledge that we gain through school, home, the community is:-

1. Knowledge through senses
2. Knowledge through Authority
3. Knowledge through Tenacity
4. Knowledge through Reasons

Answer – 2

Q37. Knowledge of something immediately based on one’s feeling rather than fact is –

1. Knowledge through Empiricism
2. Knowledge through Intuition
3. Knowledge through Senses
4. Knowledge through Intuition Tenacity

Answer - 2

Q38. Which way of acquiring knowledge surprises an individual opinion about something or someone?

1. Revelation Knowledge
2. Authoritative Knowledge
3. Empirical Knowledge
4. Experimenting Knowledge

Answer – 1

Q39. ‘Vedas’ or world scriptures is a –

1. Empirical Knowledge
2. Authoritative Knowledge
3. Revealed Knowledge
4. None of these

Answer – 3

Q40. The knowledge that is acquired through observation and experiences is:-

1. Knowledge through Institution
2. Knowledge through Empiricism
3. Knowledge through Revelation
4. None of these

Answer – 2

Q41. The knowledge that is psychologically forced on the people to accept it is called _______?

1. Knowledge through Senses
2. Knowledge through Intuition
3. Knowledge through Empiricism
4. Knowledge through Tenacity

Answer - 4

Q42. Knowledge which cannot be believed –

1. Knowledge through Senses
2. Knowledge through Tenacity
3. Knowledge through Reasons
4. All of these

Answer – 2

Q43. Steps of Knowledge are –

1. Selections – Problem – Analysis – Hypothesis
2. Hypothesis - Problem Selection - Conclusion
3. Selections – Problem – Hypothesis – Analysis – Centralisation and Conclusion
4. None of these

Answer – 3

Q44. The organized data about someone or something is obtained from various sources such as newspapers, the internet or Television, etc. are?

1. Information
2. Knowledge
3. Both 1 and 2
4. None of these

Answer –  2

Q45. _________ is wider in scope and _________ is narrower in Scope.

1. Knowledge, Information
2. Reasoning, Knowledge
3. Knowledge, Text
4. Information, Knowledge

Answer - 1

Q46. Which of the following is Dynamic In Nature?

1. Knowledge
2. Information
3. None of these
4. Both 1 and 2

Answer –  1

Q47. Which of the following is static in nature?

1. Knowing
2. Information
3. Knowledge
4. None of these

Answer –  2

Q48. Information is combination of _________ and _________

1. Scientific and Knowledge and Observation
2. Inductive and Experience
3. Practice and Limited
4. Data and Context

Answer –  4

Q49. Feeling that something is good or bad, right or wrong moral or immoral and so an is termed as-

1. Belief
2. Knowing
3. Truth
4. Knowledge

Answer -  1

Q50. “God gives hope during difficult times” .It is a-

1. Tradition
2. Truth
3. Belief
4. Culture

Answer –  3

Q51. Belief is _______ and truth is ________ .

1. Information, Analysis
2. Systematic, Non – Systematic
3. Inductive, Deductive
4. Personal, Universal

Answer –  4

Q52. Which of the following is based on values and faith?

1. Truth
2. Belief
3. Facts
4. Science

Answer – 2

Q53. What does not require any proof?

1. Truth
2. Facts
3. Belief
4. None of these

Answer – 3

Q54. Which of the following is a type of Analysis?

1. Descriptive Reasoning
2. Predictive Reasoning
3. Prescriptive Reasoning
4. All of these

Answer – 4

Q55. Which of the following is not based on sense?

1. Sense Perception
2. Tasting
3. Imagination
4. None of these

Answer – 3

Q56. _______ is a way to make sense of ideas experiences and behaviors.

1. Imaginations
2. Emotions
3. Perceptions
4. Intuition

Answer – 2

Q57. Practical contact with the observation of facts or events is.

1. Memory
2. Experience
3. Intuition
4. All of these

Answer - 2

Q58. Who bridges the gap between knowledge And information among students?

1. Parents
2. Teacher
3. Society
4. School

Answer – 2

Q59. A teacher should __________?

1. Help the students And guide them popular time to time when needed
2. Try to gather information on how much a student knows
3. Play the role of a facilitator and guide for helping the students in constructivism
4. All of these

Answer – 4

Q60. In a situation of less participation of students belonging to a deprived group in the teaching-learning process, a teacher should -

1. Ask the children to withdraw from school
2. Accept this situation as it is
3. Lower her expectations from such students
4. Reflect on her own teaching and find ways to improve student’s involvement

Answer - 4

Q61. Which of the following statement about intelligence is correct?

1. Intelligence is a fixed ability determined at the of birth only
2. Intelligence can be accurately measured and determined by using standardized test
3. Intelligence is a unitary factor and a single trait
4. Intelligence is multidimensional and a set of complex abilities

Answer – 4

Q62. Ruhi always thinks of multiple solutions to a problem many of which are original solutions. Ruhi is displaying characteristics of a/an

1. Creative thinker
2. Convergent thinker
3. Rigid thinker
4. Egocentric thinker

Answer – 1

Q63. Cognitive development is supported by

1. Conducting relevant and well–designed tests as frequently as possible
2. Presenting activities that reinforce traditional methods
3. Providing a rich and varied environment
4. Focusing more on individual activates in comparison to collaboration

Answer – 3

Q64. The process in which an experienced person shares or distribute his/her knowledge, skill And ideas to others is called –

1. Knowledge Transfer
2. Assimilation
3. Dissemination
4. None of these

Answer – 1

Q65. Knowledge what reaches and is known to massive audience worldwide is –

1. Universal Knowledge
2. Local Knowledge
3. Community Knowledge
4. Modern Knowledge

Answer – 1

Q66. What is concept knowledge?

1. Knowledge about things actually exist now or existed earlier and are factually found to be correct
2. Things that derive meaning, not through our sensory experiences but from thinking And reasoning
3. Both 1 And 2
4. None of these

Answer – 1

Q67. Concrete knowledge is the knowledge-based on __________?

1. Actual facts
2. Abstraction
3. Inexact facts
4. Temperament

Answer – 1

Q68. We all differ in terms of our intelligence, motivation, interest, etc. This principle refers to

1. Individual difference
2. Theories of Intelligence
3. Heredity
4. Environment

Answer – 1

Q69. _________ Knowledge is acquired by day to day hands-on experiences.

1. Practical Knowledge
2. Theoretical Knowledge
3. Absolute Knowledge
4. None of these

Answer - 1

Q70. Which knowledge is gained by doing things?

1. Practical Knowledge
2. Theoretical Knowledge
3. Absolute Knowledge
4. None of these

Answer - 1

Q71. Practical Knowledge –

1. Makes work interesting
2. Develops better Understanding
3. Deals with the real-life situation
4. All of these

Answer – 1

Q72. A child’s notebook shows errors in writing like reverse images, mirror imaging, etc. Such a child is showing signs of –

1. Learning disadvantage
2. Learning disability
3. Learning difficulty
4. Learning problem

Answer – 2

Q73. The knowledge through definitions, theories And concepts means

1. Theoretical Knowledge
2. Practical Knowledge
3. Posteriori Knowledge
4. Explicit Knowledge

Answer – 1

Q74. The knowledge that we get after reading a text is -

1. Contextual Knowledge
2. Textual Knowledge
3. Theoretical Knowledge
4. Tacit Knowledge

Answer - 2

Q75. ________ is a link between the home And the society.

1. Relatives
2. School
3. Family
4. Community

Answer – 2

Q76. School Plays an important role in –

1. Building the behavior personality
2. Growth of the child
3. Both 1 And 2
4. None of these

Answer – 3

Q77. Which of the following is primarily out of the school knowledge agency?

1. Society
2. Institution
3. Government
4. None of these

Answer – 1

Q78. Education that occurs outside of a structured curriculum is called?

1. Prior Education
2. Posteriori Education
3. Informal Education
4. Formal Education

Answer - 3

Q79. What are the three components of school education?

1. Education, teachers And books
2. Education, teachers And students
3. Teaching, learning And practice
4. Direction, instruction And skill

Answer – 2

Q80. The ideas, customs And social behavior of a particular society of people –

1. Society
2. Culture
3. Socialization
4. Epistemology

Answer – 2

Q81. Which of the following is not an emerging problem related to knowledge.

1. The Problem of fund
2. The problem of a growing population
3. The problem of teaching And learning
4. The Problem of poverty

Answer – 3

Q82. Pragmatism emphasizes on –

1. Spiritual Truth
2. Physical Truth
3. Changeable Truth
4. University Truth

Answer – 3

Q.83. Who gave the concept of “cultural lag”?

1. George Pyne
2. Ogburn and Nimkoff
3. Karl Marx
4. Max Weber

ANSWER - 2

Q84. Whose educational thoughts are most influenced by Vedanta?

1. Vivekananda
2. Gandhi
3. Tagore
4. Aurbindo

Answer - 1

Q85. “Literacy itself is not education, literacy is only means of education” Who among the following thinkers said the above statement?

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Sri Aurbiraman
3. Shantriraman layer
4. Vivekananda

Answer - 1

Q86. What does philosophy mean –

1. Love of wisdom
2. Way of life
3. Both 1 And 2
4. Love for life And peace

Answer – 3

Q87. An idealistic person is –

1. Spiritual
2. Scientific
3. Realistic
4. None of these

Answer – 1

Q88. Religious education is strongly advocated by–

1. Pragmatists
2. Idealists
3. Realist
4. Existentialists

Answer - 2

Q89. Which philosophy believes that the universe is nature and also believes that only the physical world is truth And denies the existence of any spiritual world?

1. Idealism
2. Naturalism
3. Existentialism
4. None of these

Answer – 2

Q90. Who criticized the existing society And advised people to live a natural life?

1. Rousseau
2. Skinner
3. Karl Jaspers
4. Albert Comes

Answer – 1

Q91. Which philosophy believes that this universe is the result of different elements and actions And believes that is the physical world is only truth And there is no spiritual world?

1. Pragmatism
2. Naturalism
3. Existentialism
4. None of these

Answer – 1

Q92. The term “Existentialism” is coined by whom?

1. Gabriel Marcel
2. Rousseau
3. Albert Patric
4. John Patric

Answer – 1

Q93. Which of the following philosopher adopted the existentialism philosophy?

1. Jean-Paul Sartell
2. Albert Comers
3. Martin Heidegger
4. Karl Jaspers

Answer - 1

Q94. Socialization is a process of:

1. Learning to be a member of society
2. Being and becoming
3. Changing asocial to social
4. Social Change

Answer - 1

Q95. The last book written by Rousseau in his life is:

1. Emil
2. The Social Contract
3. The New Heloise
4. Confessions

Answer – 4

Q96. Which agency regulates the conduct of teacher–training programs in the country?

1. I.O.S
2. C.E.R.T
3. C.T.E
4. A.I.C.T.E

Answer – 3

Q97. According to which philosophy of education, childhood is something desirable for its own sake and children should be children?

1. Idealism
2. Pragmatism
3. Naturalism
4. Realism

Answer – 3

Q98. What does the individual aim of education imply?

1. Education must secure for everyone the conditions under which individuality is most completely developed
2. It must contribute to the peace and happiness of the whole society
3. It should have more and more institutions every year
4. It should be by and large the concern of the private sector.

Answer – 1

Q99. Who was the nineteenth-century founder of Existentialism?

1. Hegel
2. Soren Kierkegaard
3. Rousseau
4. J. O’Connor.

Answer - 2

Q100. The first idealistic philosopher was:

1. Socrates
2. Plato
3. Aristotle
4. Kant

Answer – 1

Q101. Who was a twentieth-century Existentialist?

1. Soren Kierkegaard
2. J. O’Connor
3. Jean-Paul Sartre
4. Hegel

Answer – 3

Q102. Which school of philosophy of education stresses the direct study of men and things through tours and travels?

1. Social realism
2. Idealism
3. Existentialism
4. Marxism.

Answer – 1

Q103.The term “progressive education” related to

1. Realism.
2. Pragmatism.
3. Idealism.
4. Existentialism.

Answer – 2

Q104. In whose methodology of teaching “Experimentation” is the key-note?

1. Idealism
2. Existentialism
3. Realism
4. Pragmatism

Answer - 4

Q105. Which statement about truth is not correct according to the philosophy of Pragmatism?

1. It is made by man
2. It is ever-changing
3. It is eternal
4. It is what emerges to be true in actual practice.

Answer - 3

Q106.The most important thing to keep in mind for a teacher according to Realism in education is

1. The method of teaching.
2. The value and significance of what is taught.
3. The nature of the child.
4. Organization of the content to be taught.

Answer - 2

Q107. Which of the following characteristics is common to Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Existentialism?

1. Emphasis on spiritual aims of education
2. Emphasis on the individual
3. Emphasis on physical environment
4. Emphasis on value education.

Answer - 2

Q108. Whose is the ultimate concern-“What is existence”?

1. Idealists only
2. Realists only
3. Existentialists only
4. Existentialists and Idealists both

Answer – 4

Q109. Which of the following philosophies held that ‘Men in the world feel lonely and anxious, being unsure of their meaning and fearful of their annihilation’?

1. Existentialism
2. Idealism
3. Marxism
4. Pragmatism

Answer – 1

Q110. Who emphasized that education should be a social process?

1. Vivekananda
2. Rousseau
3. Dewey
4. Pestalozzi

Answer – 3

Q111. Which philosophy believes and gives importance to experience, change And experiment.

1. Existentialism
2. Naturalism
3. Idealism
4. None of these

Answer - 1

Q112. Which philosophy is concerned with finding self And the meaning of life through free will, choice And personal responsibility?

1. Idealism
2. Existentialism
3. Naturalism
4. None of these

Answer – 2

Q113. Who is the first European philosopher who bears the existentialist label?

1. Jean-paul Sartre
2. Soren Kierkegaard
3. Karl Jaspers
4. Albert Comus

Answer – 2

Q114.Who is the father of modern existentialism?

1. Jean paul Sartre
2. Soren Kierkegaard
3. Karl Jaspers
4. Albert Comus

Answer – 2

Q115. Teaching and Learning combine to make:

1. Curriculum
2. Instruction
3. Classroom
4. Syllabus

Answer - 1

Q116. Right to Education Act came into effect in India from:

1. 1 April 2008
2. 1 April 2009
3. 1 April 2010
4. 1 April 2011

Answer – 3

Q117. The meaning of universalization of primary education is to provide:

1. Education to all
2. Education to all girls
3. Free and compulsory education to all children
4. Free and compulsory education to all children of 6- 14 years age

Answer – 4

Q118. Pragmatism emphasizes on:

1. Universal truth
2. Changeable truth
3. Physical truth
4. Spiritual truth

Answer – 2

Q119. “Curriculum” is a word of:

1. Greek
2. Latin
3. Persian
4. English

Answer - 2

Q120. Where is the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education located?

1. Chennai
2. Puducherry
3. Kolkata
4. Delhi

Answer - 2

Q121.The branch of philosophy which emphasizes more on the teacher?

1. Realism
2. Naturalism
3. Idealism
4. Existentialism

Answer – 3

Q122. In Indian education, the curriculum is mostly influenced by:

1. Child psychology
2. Teacher’s personality
3. Family structure
4. Constitutional provision

Answer – 4

Q123. A balanced curriculum is also known as:

1. Integrated curriculum
2. Experienced curriculum
3. Activity centered curriculum
4. Core curriculum

Answer - 4

Q124. The main characteristic of education is:

1. Character development
2. Intellectual development
3. Physical development
4. All of the above

Answer – 4

Q.125. Place of teacher in traditional methods is of?

1. Main
2. Helper
3. Guide
4. Nothing

ANSWER - 1

Q126. Which of the following is an obstacle/hurdle in National integration?

1. Casteism
2. Multilingualism
3. Regionalism
4. All of the above

Answer – 4

Q127. Which of the following is the active agency of education?

1. Family
2. Newspaper
3. Radio
4. TV

Answer - 2

Q128. Life long education is:

1. Formal education
2. Informal education
3. Nonformal education
4. Distance education

Answer – 2

Q129. The first idealistic philosopher was:

1. Socrates
2. Plato
3. Aristotle
4. Kant

Answer – 1

Q130. Who recommended the delinking of service with a degree?

1. Kothari Commission (1964-66)
2. The national policy of education (1986)
3. Acharya Rama Murthi committee (1992)
4. Yashpal Committee (1992)

Answer – 2

Q131. It is not an effective factor in the “socialization” of a child.

1. Family
2. Neighborhood
3. Peer group
4. Newspaper

Answer - 4

Q132. Which of the following problems is cultural diversity?

1. Regionalism
2. Religious tension
3. Urbanism
4. All of these

Answer – 1

Q133. Which system of education was propounded by Mahatma Gandhi?

1. Man–making education
2. Sarvodaya education
3. Basic education
4. Integrated education

Answer – 3

Q134. Who is the father of “Sociology”?

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Comte
4. George Payne

Answer – 3

Q135. Component of Curriculum is:

1. Objective
2. Evaluation
3. Teaching strategies
4. All of the above

Answer - 4

Q136. Who introduces Negative Education?

1. Plato
2. John Dewey
3. Rousseau
4. Aristotle

Answer – 3

Q137. What type of records are described in school records?

1. Cumulative record
2. Financial record
3. Management record
4. All of the above

Answer – 1

Q138. A social institution is:

1. Concrete
2. Abstract
3. A group of people
4. An organization

Answer - 4

Q139. Who said, “Cultural change is social change”-

1. John Dewey
2. Kingsley Davis
3. Brown
4. Dowson and Ghatis

Answer - 4

Q140. Who emphasized the realization of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness as the aims of education?

1. Idealists
2. Pragmatists
3. Realists
4. Naturalist

Answer – 1

Q141. What is not associated with Pragmatism?

1. Purposive education
2. Experience-based education
3. Freedom-based education
4. Education for self-realization

Answer – 4

Q142. Learning by Project Method is technically known as

1. Incidental learning.
2. Efficient learning.
3. Systematic learning.
4. Adequate learning.

Answer – 1

Q143. Philosophy word is derived from –

1. The Greek word ‘Phileo’
2. Latin word ‘Phileo’
3. American word ‘Phileo’
4. None of these

Answer - 1

Q144. Philosophy varies from –

1. Individual to individual
2. Place to place
3. Time to time
4. All of these

Answer – 4

Q145. Who is said to be the author of Samkhya philosophy?

1. Samkhya Chandra
2. Chandra Samkhya
3. Sage Kapil
4. Manohar Verma

Answer – 3

Q146. Which philosophy is known as “Gyanmarg”?

1. Samkhya Philosophy
2. Vedanta Philosophy
3. Veda Philosophy
4. Shastra Philosophy

Answer – 1

Q147. An example of non-formal education is:

1. Family
2. School
3. Universities
4. None of these

Answer - 1

Q148. Who promoted life-centered education among the following?

1. Vivekananda
2. John Dewey
3. Aurobindo
4. Tagore

Answer – 2

Q149. Rama Krishna Mission was founded by

1. Swami Dayananda
2. Swami Vivekananda
3. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
4. Aurobindo Ghosh

Answer – 2

Q150. The Greek word ‘Pragma' means?

1. Truth
2. Act or Deed
3. Utility
4. Beauty

Answer – 2

Q151. The science of values is known as?

1. Axiology
2. Cosmology
3. Sociology
4. None of these

Answer - 1

Q152. John Dewey was an exponent of which idea?

1. Realism
2. Pragmatism
3. Idealism
4. Naturalism

Answer – 3

Q153. Who said, 'Education is the creation of a sound mind in a sound body?

1. Aristotle
2. Rousseau
3. Dewey
4. Plato

Answer – 1

Q154. Who introduced the Project method?

1. John Dewey
2. Montessori
3. Plato
4. Froebel

Answer – 1

Q.155. For proper functioning, the school should develop a harmony/ adjustment with which of the following?

1. Parents
2. Social workers
3. Political persons
4. Society

ANSWER - 1

Q156. Who first conceptualized the term 'cultural diffusion?

1. Kroeber
2. Ogburn
3. Rousseau
4. Montessori

ANSWER – 1

Q.157. Which of these represents the primary group?

1. Society
2. Family
3. Community
4. School

ANSWER - 2

Q158. Epistemology deals with:

1. Knowledge
2. Education
3. Learning
4. Philosophy of education

ANSWER – 1

Q159. Education is not pre-planned in?

1. informal education
2. Non-formal education
3. formal education
4. None of these

ANSWER – 1

Q160. The word 'secularism' is derived from which word?

1. Sacrum
2. Secular
3. Sacculum
4. Saecus

ANSWER – 3

Q161. An example of non-formal education is:

1. Family
2. School
3. Universities
4. None of these

ANSWER - 1

Q162. Preparing the child for a real-life is the main aim of:

1. Naturalism
2. Realism
3. Pragmatism
4. Humanism

ANSWER - 2

Q163. What is the origin of the word 'Education'?

1. Educate
2. Educere
3. Evolve
4. None of these

ANSWER – 2

Q164. Education according to Dewey is?

1. Preparation for life
2. Getting knowledge
3. Learning by doing
4. Schooling

ANSWER – 3

Q165. The pragmatists are against

1. The external examinations
2. The specialist teachers
3. Breakdown of knowledge into separate subjects.
4. Eternal spiritual values.

ANSWER – 3

Q166. Pragmatism has a greater sense of responsibility than Naturalism with regard to moral training because

1. They emphasize the teaching of values
2. They consider education, basically, a social process.
3. The free activity that the pragmatic- system of education entails does not mean a license to do anything; rather it means a guided activity.
4. They do not want the teacher to abdicate from the scene.

ANSWER – 3

Q167. Play way method of teaching has been emphasized in the scheme of the education of

1. Naturalists.
2. Realists,
3. Pragmatists.
4. Existentialists.

ANSWER – 1

Q168. Which is the most widely accepted method of education, according to the pragmatists?

1. Lecturing by the teacher.
2. Leaving the child free to learn.
3. Learning by doing.
4. Heuristic method.

ANSWER - 3

Q169. Which school of philosophy of education advocated the Project method of teaching?

1. Realism
2. Pragmatism
3. Idealism
4. Naturalism

ANSWER – 2

Q.170. Which teaching method was evolved by naturalism?

1. Heuristic method
2. Playway method
3. Scientific method
4. Project method

ANSWER- 2

Q171. Which philosophy of education considers psychology as an incomplete study and an inadequate basis of educational theory?

1. Realism
2. Pragmatism
3. Idealism
4. Naturalism

ANSWER - 3

Q172. Naturalist’s conception of man is?

1. Man’s very essence of being is his spiritual nature.
2. It is spirit rather than animality that is most truly man.
3. There exists in the nature of things a perfect pattern of each individual.
4. Nature would have them children before they are men

ANSWER – 4

Q173. The Realist’s aim of education is

1. Self-realization
2. Spiritual and moral development
3. Happy and moral development
4. Total development of personality

ANSWER – 3

Q174. The aim of education according to the Existentialists is

1. Humanitarian and humanist self- realization.
2. Adaptation to practical life.
3. Objective knowledge.
4. A good understanding of the world outside.

ANSWER - 1

Q.175. Curriculum is:

1. Course
2. Syllabus
3. Co-curricular activities
4. Overall activities of an institution

ANSWER - 4

Q.176. The arrangement of the elements of the curriculum is called:

1. A Curriculum Design
2. Curriculum Foundation
3. Curriculum Construction
4. Curriculum Development

ANSWER - 1

Q.177. The mirror of society is:

1. Playground
2. Community
3. Hospital
4. School

ANSWER - 4

Q178. Which school maintained self-expression with the accompanying cries of “no interference”, “no restraints”?

1. An extreme form of Naturalism
2. Most widely accepted form of Naturalism
3. Truest form of Naturalism
4. A most valid form of Naturalism.

ANSWER – 1

Q179. Which school held the view, “God makes all things good; man meddles with and they become evil?”

1. Marxism
2. Existentialism
3. Naturalism
4. Pragmatism

ANSWER - 3

Q180. Who raised the slogan “Back to Nature”?

1. Realism
2. Pragmatism
3. Naturalism
4. Existentialism

ANSWER – 3

Q181. Who said, “Reverse the usual practice and you will almost always do right?”

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Rousseau
3. Dewey
4. Plato

ANSWER - 1

Q182. Which statement about truth is not correct according to the philosophy of Pragmatism?

1. It is made by man
2. It is ever-changing
3. It is eternal
4. It is what emerges to be true in actual practice.

ANSWER - 2

Q.183. Which school believes that all knowledge comes through the senses?

1. Idealism
2. Sense Realism
3. Pragmatism
4. Existentialism.

ANSWER – 2

Q.184. The method used to evaluate the curriculum is:

1. Summative Evaluation
2. Diagnostic Evaluation
3. Formative Evaluation
4. All of the above

ANSWER - 4

Q185. Who said, “No fixed aims of education and no values in advance”?

1. Progressive educators
2. Idealists
3. Realists
4. Marxists.

ANSWER - 1

Q.186. Education, according to the Pragmatist is

1. Wholly pupil-oriented.
2. Wholly society-oriented.
3. Wholly purposive.
4. Wholly interdisciplinary.

ANSWER - 3

Q187. The outline of the Contents is________?

1. Syllabus
2. Programme
3. Course
4. All of the above

ANSWER - 1

Q188. Curriculum is______?

1. Course
2. Syllabus
3. Co-curricular activities
4. Overall activities of an institution

ANSWER – 4

Q189. Which one is not the component of the Curriculum?

1. Contents
2. Design
3. Objectives
4. Evaluation

ANSWER - 2

Q190. Curriculum development refers to the total process of curriculum:

1. Implementing
2. Evaluating
3. Designing
4. All of the above

ANSWER – 4

Q191. A curriculum is the sum total of a school’s effort to influence a child’s_____?

1. Action
2. Attitude
3. Personality
4. Behaviors

ANSWER – 4

Q192. A curriculum is blue print or pip of the school that includes experiences for the:

1. Experts
2. Teacher
3. Learner
4. Curriculum planner

ANSWER – 3

Q193. The factor effecting curriculum development is:

1. Sociological factor
2. Economical factor
3. Scientific factor
4. All of the above

ANSWER - 4

Q194. Curriculum emphasized for primary classes is:

1. Teacher centred curriculum
2. Integrated curriculum
3. Subject based curriculum
4. None of these

ANSWER - 2

Q195. Curriculum based on thinking of John Dewey is

1. learner centred curriculum
2. activity centred curriculum
3. subject centred curriculum
4. None of these

ANSWER - 2

Q196. Knowledge is compartmentalized in:

1. Learner centred curriculum
2. Activity centred curriculum
3. Subject centred curriculum
4. None of these

>ANSWER – 3

Q197. The method used to evaluate the curriculum is:

1. Summative Evaluation
2. Diagnostic Evaluation
3. Formative Evaluation
4. All of the above

ANSWER - 4

Q198. Curriculum development process systematically organizes?

1. What will be taught
2. Who will be taught
3. How will be taught
4. All of these

ANSWER – 4

Q199. The learning centered learning is focused on the students

1. Needs
2. Abilities
3. Interests
4. All of these

ANSWER – 4

Q200. POA stands for ______?

1. Policies of Action, 1992
2. Programme of Action, 1992
3. Policies of Annexure, 1992
4. Privatization of Action, 1992

ANSWER – 2

Q201- Curriculum helps in –

1. Attaining goals of education
2. Providing good marks
3. Providing Scholarships
4. None of these

ANSWER - 1

Q202. In Kerr’s Model, Objectives are divided into how many categories?

1. 2
2. 3
3. 4
4. 5

ANSWER – 3

Q203. Whose model of curriculum development in a cyclical model?

1. Wheeler’s Model
2. Kerr’s Model
3. Tyler’s Model
4. The process Model

ANSWER – 1

Q204. Whose curriculum development model is linear in nature?

1. Wheeler’s Model
2. Kerr’s Model
3. Tyler’s Model
4. The process Model

ANSWER – 3

Q205. The curriculum includes-

1. Aims
2. Goals
3. Objectives
4. All of these

ANSWER – 4

Q206. Technical-scientific, non- technical, nonscientific category of approaches for curriculum development was done by-

1. Ornstein and Hankins
2. Hankins and Tyler
3. Tyler and Ornstein
4. Kerr and Tyler

ANSWER - 1

Q207. NCF 2005, Yeshpal committee was comprises of ________?

1. 35 Members
2. 25 Members
3. 15 Members
4. 45 Members

ANSWER – 1

Q208. Which of the following is/are principle of curriculum construction?

1. Principle of correlation
2. Principle of Practical work
3. Principle of Flexibility
4. All of these

ANSWER – 4

Q209. Curriculum word is derived from-

1. Latin word currier
2. Greek word currier
3. American word currier
4. None of these

ANSWER – 1

Q210. The word curriculum means

1. Course to force
2. Course to run
3. Syllabus of school
4. Yearly syllabus

ANSWER- 2

Q211. Theory that have observation and scientific study about how people earn?

1. Scientific Study
2. Constructivism
3. Group Study
4. Human study

ANSWER – 2

Q212. A concept or set of ideas that explains a large number of observations in terms of non-observables?

1. Theory
2. Theoretical hypothesis
3. Constructivism
4. Traditional learning

ANSWER – 1

Q213. A naturalist will –

1. Believes strongly in God
2. Believe senses are the gateway of learning
3. Believe that nothing is final in this world
4. Believes in spiritual life

ANSWER - 2

Q214. Which philosophy is the youngest philosophy?

1. Idealism
2. Marxism
3. Existentialism
4. Realism

ANSWER – 3

Q215. Who was the chief exponent of Existentialism?

1. Jan Thomas Peter
2. John Locke
3. Jan Paul Sartre
4. Tyler Shraff

ANSWER – 3

Q216. Jean Paul Sartre was a/an

1. French writer
2. American Philosopher
3. German Idealist
4. None of the above

ANSWER – 1

Q217. Indian Philosophy of Knowledge is based on

1. Truth
2. Karma
3. Spirituality
4. All of the above

ANSWER - 4

Q218. Culmination of human experience and realisation in life is?

1. Knowingly
2. Wisdom
3. Society
4. Realization

ANSWER - 2

Q219. Learning through reading is

1. Idealism
2. Naturalism
3. Pragmatism
4. All of the above

ANSWER – 1

Q220. A course of study offered by a school is?

1. Syllabus
2. Curriculum
3. Philosophy
4. Performa

ANSWER – 2

Q221. Curriculum includes:

1. Planning
2. Designing
3. Implementation
4. All of the above

ANSWER – 4

Q222. Which of the following factors will not influence curriculum development?

1. Philosophical factors
2. Psychological Factors
3. Environmental factors
4. None of the above.

ANSWER – 4

Q223. Philosophy and Education are:

1. Inter-dependent
2. Interrelated
3. Both 1 and 2
4. None of the above

ANSWER – 3

Q224. Process through which we can get the exact idea of what students have actually learnt in the teaching?

1. Feedback
2. Evaluation
3. Questions-Answer
4. None of the above

ANSWER - 2

Q225. Explanation is:

1. Practical knowledge
2. Theoretical knowledge
3. Self Knowledge
4. Philosophical Knowledge

ANSWER - 2

Q226. Which of the following is not a branch of Philosophy?

1. Metaphysics
2. Epistemology
3. Axiology
4. Amiology

ANSWER – 4

Q227. Idealism word is derived from?

1. Idea
2. Ideal
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Idealere

ANSWER – 3

Q228. Which form of Naturalism regard man as a machine?

1. Mechanical Naturalism
2. Biological Naturalism
3. Physical Naturalism
4. All of the above

ANSWER – 4

Q229. Which form on naturalism is based on the notion of evolution?

1. Mechanical Naturalism
2. Physical Naturalism
3. Biological Naturalism
4. Humanistic Naturalism

ANSWER - 3

Q230. Which form of Naturalism studies the external nature?

1. Physical Naturalism
2. Mechanical Naturalism
3. Environmental Naturalism
4. Biological Naturalism

ANSWER – 1

Q231. Which form of Pragmatism is concerned with human needs, aspirations and their satisfaction?

1. Biological Pragmatism
2. Environmental Pragmatism
3. Experimental Pragmatism
4. None of the above

ANSWER - 4

Q232. All the experiences which are utilized by the school to attain the aims of Education is known as?

1. Curriculum
2. Syllabus
3. Co curricular activities
4. None of these

ANSWER – 1

Q233. School is a?

1. Miniature society
2. Formal system
3. Both 1 and 2
4. None of the above

ANSWER - 3

Q234. What does "facet" means?

1. Big face
2. Little face
3. Synthesis
4. Application

ANSWER – 2

Q235. The quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise is?

1. Knowledge
2. Information
3. Wisdom
4. All the above

ANSWER – 3

Q236. Who said - " Curriculum includes all the experiences that a child receives inside and outside the school, in a programme which is chalked out to help in developing his intellectual, physical, emotional, social, spiritual and moral aspects"?

1. Crow n Crow
2. James MacDonald
3. Hurlock
4. Tyler

ANSWER - 1

Q237. Which of the following statement is true?

1. The curriculum is based on the social aspirations of society
2. The curriculum outlines the goals and aims of the program
3. The curriculum is expressed as the goals and aims of the program.
4. All of the above

ANSWER – 4

Q238. Which of the following is not among the 3 pillars of the participatory approach?

1. Starting with the participant's experience
2. Critically analyzing and Reflecting
3. Analysis and synthesization on a large group
4. Developing strategies for action

ANSWER – 3

Q239. ________ is a combination of some factors which helps in the planning of an educational program, whereas a _______ covers the portion of what topics should be taught in a particular subject?

1. Syllabus, Curriculum
2. Coues, syllabus
3. Curriculum, syllabus
4. Curriculum, content

ANSWER - 3

Q240. _______ is the document that contains all the portions of the concepts covered in a subject.

1. Syllabus
2. Curriculum
3. Content
4. Course

ANSWER – 1

Q241. The syllabus is a:

1. Latin term
2. Greek term
3. American term
4. Persian Term

ANSWER – 2

Q242. Which of the following statement is incorrect?

1. The syllabus is for a fixed term, normally a year
2. The syllabus is narrow in scope
3. Syllabus is prescriptive in nature
4. The syllabus is a Greek term

ANSWER – 3

Q243. Who expresses three general principles of the participatory approach?

1. Rob Markus
2. Wout Ottevanger
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Robert Ottevanger

ANSWER - 3

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