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  1. Models of teaching were classified into four families by —
    1. Bloom and Krathwohl
    2. Joyce and Weil
    3. Ausubel and Suchman
    4. Johnson and Johnson
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    Answer: (B) Joyce and Weil

    Bruce Joyce and Marsha Weil, in Models of Teaching.

  2. The Advance Organizer Model was developed by —
    1. Suchman
    2. Ausubel
    3. Thelen
    4. Rogers
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    Answer: (B) Ausubel

    David Ausubel, on the principle of meaningful reception learning.

  3. An advance organizer is presented —
    1. after the lesson
    2. before the lesson
    3. during the evaluation
    4. as homework
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    Answer: (B) before the lesson

    Before, to give the new material something to anchor to.

  4. Which kind of advance organizer is used when the material is wholly new?
    1. comparative
    2. expository
    3. inductive
    4. deductive
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    Answer: (B) expository

    An expository organizer supplies the ideas that are missing.

  5. The Inquiry Training Model, in which learners ask only yes/no questions, was developed by —
    1. Bruner
    2. Suchman
    3. Dewey
    4. Ausubel
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    Answer: (B) Suchman

    Richard Suchman, beginning from a puzzling event.

  6. The Group Investigation Model belongs to which family?
    1. Information Processing
    2. Social Interaction
    3. Personal
    4. Behavioural Systems
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    Answer: (B) Social Interaction

    The Social Interaction family, after Dewey and developed by Thelen.

  7. The Non-Directive Teaching Model is associated with —
    1. Skinner
    2. Carl Rogers
    3. Maslow
    4. Thelen
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    Answer: (B) Carl Rogers

    Carl Rogers — the teacher works as a counsellor.

  8. Which is NOT one of the four elements of a model of teaching?
    1. Syntax
    2. Social system
    3. Principles of reaction
    4. Evaluation design
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    Answer: (D) Evaluation design

    The four are syntax, social system, principles of reaction and support system.

  9. The Zone of Proximal Development is a concept of —
    1. Piaget
    2. Vygotsky
    3. Bruner
    4. Ausubel
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    Answer: (B) Vygotsky

    Lev Vygotsky.

  10. The "spiral curriculum" was proposed by —
    1. Bloom
    2. Bruner
    3. Dewey
    4. Tyler
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    Answer: (B) Bruner

    Jerome Bruner, who held that any subject can be taught honestly at any stage.

  1. Which of these is NOT one of the five elements of cooperative learning?
    1. positive interdependence
    2. individual accountability
    3. competition between members
    4. group processing
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    Answer: (C) competition between members

    Cooperative learning replaces competition within the group with interdependence.

  2. In Bloom’s original taxonomy, the highest cognitive level was —
    1. analysis
    2. synthesis
    3. evaluation
    4. application
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    Answer: (C) evaluation

    Evaluation was highest in 1956; in the 2001 revision, Creating is.

  3. In the revised taxonomy, the highest level is —
    1. evaluating
    2. creating
    3. analysing
    4. understanding
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    Answer: (B) creating

    Creating — the top two were swapped in the revision.

  4. Bloom’s taxonomy was revised in 2001 by —
    1. Bloom and Simpson
    2. Anderson and Krathwohl
    3. Mager and Gagne
    4. Dave and Harrow
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    Answer: (B) Anderson and Krathwohl

    Anderson and Krathwohl, turning the nouns into verbs.

  5. The affective domain of the taxonomy was developed by —
    1. Bloom
    2. Krathwohl
    3. Simpson
    4. Harrow
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    Answer: (B) Krathwohl

    Krathwohl, in 1964.

  6. Which verb is unsuitable in a behavioural objective?
    1. identify
    2. list
    3. understand
    4. classify
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    Answer: (C) understand

    Understand cannot be observed or measured.

  7. The Herbartian steps, in order, are —
    1. Presentation, Preparation, Application, Comparison, Generalisation
    2. Preparation, Presentation, Comparison, Generalisation, Application
    3. Preparation, Comparison, Presentation, Application, Generalisation
    4. Presentation, Comparison, Generalisation, Preparation, Application
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    Answer: (B) Preparation, Presentation, Comparison, Generalisation, Application

    Preparation → Presentation → Comparison → Generalisation → Application.

  8. A plan covering a whole chapter over several periods is a —
    1. lesson plan
    2. unit plan
    3. daily plan
    4. annual plan
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    Answer: (B) unit plan

    A unit plan; a lesson plan covers one period.

  9. The Cone of Experience was given by —
    1. Bruner
    2. Edgar Dale
    3. Dewey
    4. Gagne
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    Answer: (B) Edgar Dale

    Edgar Dale — concrete at the base, abstract at the apex.

  10. "Realia" in teaching means —
    1. realistic pictures
    2. real objects
    3. realistic dialogues
    4. reality television
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    Answer: (B) real objects

    Real objects brought into the classroom.

  1. Micro-teaching was developed at —
    1. Harvard, 1958
    2. Stanford, 1963
    3. Chicago, 1970
    4. Cambridge, 1965
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    Answer: (B) Stanford, 1963

    Stanford University, 1963, under Dwight Allen.

  2. A micro-teaching session normally lasts —
    1. 2–3 minutes
    2. 5–10 minutes
    3. 20 minutes
    4. 35 minutes
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    Answer: (B) 5–10 minutes

    5–10 minutes, with 5–10 pupils and one skill.

  3. The micro-teaching cycle begins with —
    1. teach
    2. plan
    3. feedback
    4. re-teach
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    Answer: (B) plan

    Plan – teach – feedback – re-plan – re-teach – re-feedback.

  4. "Set induction" is the skill of —
    1. concluding a lesson
    2. introducing a lesson
    3. asking probing questions
    4. managing the class
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    Answer: (B) introducing a lesson

    Introducing the lesson and linking it to previous knowledge.

  5. Flanders’ Interaction Analysis has how many categories?
    1. seven
    2. eight
    3. ten
    4. twelve
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    Answer: (C) ten

    Ten — seven for teacher talk, two for pupil talk, one for silence or confusion.

  6. Which maxim of teaching requires moving from the seen to the unseen?
    1. simple to complex
    2. concrete to abstract
    3. whole to part
    4. analysis to synthesis
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    Answer: (B) concrete to abstract

    Concrete to abstract — the principle behind Dale’s cone.

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