Module 1 Previous Year Questions:
Q1. A mode of learning in higher education which system facilitates student to have some freedom in selecting his/her own choices, across various disciplines for completing a UG / PG programme. It is popularly known as the cafeteria model. It is:
A) Flexible Learning Environment
B) Choice based Credit
C) Blended Learning
D) Flipped Classroom
Answer Key:
B) Choice based Credit
Q2. What are the two dimensions in Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy?
A) Knowledge and Cognitive Process
B) Cognitive and Psychomotor
C) Knowledge and Understanding
D) Evaluate and Create
Answer Key:
A) Knowledge and Cognitive Process
Q3. Which of the following core values among the institutions of higher education are promoted by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council)?
a. Contributing to national development
b. Fostering global competencies among the students
c. Inculcating a value system among students and teachers
d. Promoting the optimum utilization of the infrastructure
A) b, c, and d
B) a, b, and c
C) a, c, and d
D) a, b, c, and d
Answer Key:
B) a, b, and c
Q4. Which is NOT a part of Cognitive characteristics of an Adolescent?
A) Increase ability of understanding
B) Increase ability of generalize the facts
C) Increase ability of deal with abstraction
D) Increase ability to deal with adults
Answer Key:
D) Increase ability to deal with adults
Q5. Name the statutory organization set up by the Union government in 1956, charged with coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of University Education
A) National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT)
B) All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
C) Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE)
D) University Grants Commission (UGC)
Answer Key:
D) University Grants Commission (UGC)
Q6. The ability to reason effectively, use systems thinking, make judgements and decisions and solve problems
A) Creativity
B) Critical thinking
C) Communication
D) Collaboration
Answer Key:
B) Critical thinking
Q7. __________ objectives typically target the awareness and growth in attitudes, emotion, and feelings
A) Cognitive
B) Affective
C) Psychomotor
D) General
Answer Key:
B) Affective
Q8. Andragogy is __________
A) a child-focused teaching approach
B) an adult-focused teaching approach
C) a trainer-focused teaching approach
D) an instructor-focused teaching approach
Answer Key:
B) an adult-focused teaching approach
Q9. AICTE established an autonomous body known as __________ to have periodic evaluations of Engineering Colleges Programmes according to specified norms and standards as recommended by AICTE.
A) NBA
B) NAAC
C) DEC
D) ABET
Answer Key:
A) NBA
Q10. Which is NOT a learning domain?
A) Cognitive
B) Affective
C) Affirmative
D) Psychomotor
Answer Key:
C) Affirmative
Q11. What is another name for Instructional objective in Outcome based Education
A) Learning Outcomes
B) Lesson plan
C) Assessment
D) Aims /Goa
Answer Key:
A) Learning Outcomes
Q12. According to Dual Coding Theory, there are two channels for receiving multimedia information. They are
A) Nonverbal and Verbal channels
B) Visual and Auditory channels
C) Verbal and Nonverbal channels
D) Aural and Kinesthetic channels
Answer Key:
B) Visual and Auditory channels
Q13. The impetus for learner- centeredness derives from a theory of learning known as
A) Constructivism
B) Behaviourism
C) Cognitivism
D) Connectivism
Answer Key:
A) Constructivism
Q14. “Teaching” is the process of
A) Telling the subject in the class
B) giving information in the class
C) enabling the students to achieve the set objectives
D) completing the curriculum
Answer Key:
C) enabling the students to achieve the set objectives
Q15. Basic teaching model was developed by
A) Robert Glaser
B) Robert Gagne
C) E. Thorndike
D) B.F. Skinner
Answer Key:
A) Robert Glaser
Q16. The characteristic of attention seeking student is that he/she
A) Will Not participate class activity on their own
B) Is Teacher-dependent
C) Is Fond of discussion
D) Has Excessive concern about grades
Answer Key:
C) Is Fond of discussion
Q17. Teaching is defined as
A) An informative process
B) An intellectual process
C) An initiative process
D) An interactive process
Answer Key:
D) An interactive process
Q18. The engineering/technology programmes offered by academically autonomous institutions and by university departments and constituent colleges of the universities is termed as
A) Tier –I
B) Tier –II
C) Tier –III
D) Institute of National Importance
Answer Key:
A) Tier –I
Q19. Summative evaluation implies:
A) Judging the performance during teaching learning interactions
B) Finding out the level of achievement initially
C) Judging the learning outcome for motivational purposes
D) Ascertaining the performance level after the academic session comes to end
Answer Key:
D) Ascertaining the performance level after the academic session comes to end
Q20. Name the ability to articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and non-verbal skills and to listen effectively to decipher meaning including knowledge, values, attitudes and intention
A) Communication
B) Collaboration
C) Critical thinking
D) Creativity
Answer Key:
A) Communication
Q21. Which of the following theorists identified the three domains of learning?
A) B.F. Skinner
B) Jean Piaget
C) Benjamin Bloom
D) Lev Vygotsky
Answer Key:
C) Benjamin Bloom
Q22. This refers to the learner’s sensitivity to the existence of stimuli – awareness, willingness to obtain, or selected attention
A) Receiving
B) Responding
C) Valuing
D) Organization
Answer Key:
A) Receiving
Q23. The __________ domain of learning occurs when person learns new information and gains new skills through physical movement
A) Cognitive
B) Psychomotor
C) Affective
D) Emotional
Answer Key:
B) Psychomotor
Q24. Which one of the following is a scaled down teaching situation?
A) Team Teaching
B) Cooperative Teaching
C) Macro Teaching
D) Micro Teaching
Answer Key:
D) Micro Teaching
Q25. There are four types of Knowledge. They are
A) Factual, Conceptual, Procedural and Metacognitive
B) Fact, Data, Knowledge and Wisdom
C) Cognitive, Psychomotor, Affective and Social
D) Factual, Cognitive, Metacognitive and Procedural
Answer Key:
A) Factual, Conceptual, Procedural and Metacognitive
Q26. NBA aligned its methodology with international benchmarks and started accreditation on the basis of
A) Outcomes
B) Input-process-output
C) Availability of resources / facilities
D) None of the above options
Answer Key:
A) Outcomes
Q27. Knowledge of principles and generalizations is:
A) Factual Knowledge
B) Procedural Knowledge
C) Metacognitive knowledge
D) Conceptual Knowledge
Answer Key:
D) Conceptual Knowledge
Q28. Identify the Components of Curriculum
A) Evaluation and assessment
B) Objectives and outcomes
C) Instructional strategies and methods
D) All of the above
Answer Key:
D) All of the above
Q29. The phase of life in which the people will have hormonal changes is
A) infanthood
B) adolescent
C) adult
D) early childhood
Answer Key:
B) adolescent
Q30. One of the popular theories of motivation was proposed by
A) Bloom
B) Krathwohl
C) Gaslow
D) Simpson
Answer Key:
C) Gaslow
Note: The term is not Gaslow. It should be Maslow.
Q31. The best way for providing value education is through:
A) Discussions on scriptural texts
B) Lectures/discourses on values
C) Seminars / symposia on values
D) Mentoring / reflective sessions
Answer Key:
D) Mentoring / reflective sessions
Q32. According to Piaget / Montessori / Dewey Learning is __________
A) Boring and Serious
B) Fun and Enjoyable
C) Experiential and Exploratory
D) Informative and Knowledgeable
Answer Key:
C) Experiential and Exploratory
Q33. What is the percentage of retention rates in learning by doing?
A) 75
B) 80
C) 90
D) 100
Answer Key:
A) 75
Q34. The characteristic of a Silent student is
A) Not participate in class activity on their own
B) Teacher-dependent
C) Optimistic
D) Excessive concern about grades
Answer Key:
A) Not participate in class activity on their own
Q35. The membership of __________ is an international recognition of the quality of undergraduate engineering education offered by the member country
A) Dublin Accord
B) Washington Accord
C) US/UK Accord
D) ABET
Answer Key:
B) Washington Accord
Q36. Which is NOT a part of Physical characteristics of an Adolescent?
A) Complexity
B) Labile emotions
C) Development of abstract concept
D) Loneliness
Answer Key:
C) Development of abstract concept
Q37. Instructional objectives guide students by helping them to
A) Identify important high level skills
B) Discuss the lesson with each other
C) Monitor their own learning
D) Create teachable moments
Answer Key:
C) Monitor their own learning
Q38. The three types of transfer of learning are:
A) Positive, Negative and Neutral
B) Cognitive, Psychomotor and Affective
C) Knowledge, Skills and Attitude
D) Remember, Understand and Apply
Answer Key:
A) Positive, Negative and Neutral
Q39. If a teacher finds a problematic student in the class, what should the teacher do?
A) Provide counselling to the student
B) Punish the student
C) Ignore the student
D) Make the student sit beside a good student
Answer Key:
A) Provide counselling to the student
Q40. How do rote and critical thinking differ?
A) Rote thinking is the usual kind of thinking humans do daily and critical thinking means to judge others idea
B) Rote thinking requires memorizing while critical thinking requires difficult processing like evaluating, synthesizing and working towards solutions
C) They are the same
D) Rote thinking is thinking alone and critical thinking is collective thinking by the group members
Answer Key:
B) Rote thinking requires memorizing while critical thinking requires difficult processing like evaluating, synthesizing and working towards solutions
Q41. Computer Assisted Instruction is based on __________ principle
A) Operant Conditioning
B) Responsive Conditioning
C) Classical Conditioning
D) Pavlovian Conditioning
Answer Key:
A) Operant Conditioning
Q42. The most important problem of a student for the teacher is
A) Inferiority complex
B) Excessive sleepiness
C) Superiority complex
D) No interest in academics
Answer Key:
D) No interest in academics
Q43. Which one of the following aspects is an extremely powerful distracter in any classroom learning?
A) appropriate voice level
B) mannerisms
C) appropriate voice modulation
D) multiple media usage
Answer Key:
B) mannerisms
Q44. Adolescence is the
A) Process or state of growing to maturity
B) Process of growing from adulthood to old age
C) Process of getting very old
D) Process or state of growing from infant to child
Answer Key:
A) Process or state of growing to maturity
Q45. ‘A combination of both face-to-face traditional classroom methods with online learning to create a hybrid approach to teaching’. What type of learning is this quote describing?
A) Blended Learning
B) Distance Learning
C) Synchronous Learning
D) Virtual Learning
Answer Key:
A) Blended Learning
Q46. Diploma Level Technical Institutes such as Polytechnics, are generally recognized by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and administered by __________
A) National Council of Vocational Education
B) National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research
C) National Council of Educational Research and Training
D) State Directorate of Technical Education
Answer Key:
D) State Directorate of Technical Education
Q47. Each learning outcome should begin with
A) A learning verb
B) An Action Verb
C) An outcome verb
D) Any verb
Answer Key:
B) An Action Verb
Q48. Effectiveness of teaching has to be judged in terms of :
A) Syllabus coverage
B) Student’s interest
C) Use of teaching aids in the classroom
D) Learning outcomes of the students
Answer Key:
D) Learning outcomes of the students
Q49. On which list is Education in Indian Constituent
A) State list
B) Physical List
C) Concurrent List
D) Central List
Answer Key:
C) Concurrent List
Q50. Education acquired without any specific purpose, fixed period, and place is called as:
A) Formal Education
B) Informal Education
C) Indirect Education
D) Individual Education
Answer Key:
B) Informal Education
Q51. Which one of the following does not include personal factor?
A) Relationship
B) Motivation
C) Interest
D) Needs
Answer Key:
A) Relationship
Q52. The purpose of value education is best served by focusing on
A) Cultural practices prevailing in the society
B) Norms of conduct laid down by a social group
C) Concern for human values
D) Religious and moral practices and instructions
Answer Key:
C) Concern for human values
Q53. What are the 4C’s essential skills of 21 st Century Learning?
A) Communication, Collaboration, Commitment and Coordination
B) Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity
C) Collaboration, Commitment, Coordination and Creativity
D) Collaboration, Commitment and Coordination and Content Mastery
Answer Key:
B) Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity
Q54. Recall information is
A) Higher order ability
B) Strong Memory
C) Remember Level of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
D) Affective Domain
Answer Key:
C) Remember Level of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
Q55. Listening to a Physics Professor explaining how to perform an experiment and then performing the experiment back in the laboratory falls into which level of learning?
A) Imitation
B) Articulation
C) Manipulation
D) Precision
Answer Key:
C) Manipulation
Q56. Bullying is
A) Absenteeism
B) Poor academic performance
C) Skipping classes
D) Hurting/disturbing behaviour
Answer Key:
D) Hurting/disturbing behaviour
Q57. The term curriculum is derived from Latin word meaning:
A) Course of learning
B) Chariot race course
C) Course of study
D) Course of Education
Answer Key:
B) Chariot race course
Q58. Most appropriate meaning of Learning is:
A) Acquisition of Knowledge
B) Personal adjustment
C) Inculcation of Knowledge
D) Modification of behaviour
Answer Key:
D) Modification of behaviour is correct answer
Q59. Multimodal learning is __________
A) when students learn by using internet and www
B) when a number of senses – visual, auditory, kinesthetic – are being engaged during learning
C) when students learn by listening to the teacher
D) when students learn through experiments and experiences
Answer Key:
B) when a number of senses – visual, auditory, kinesthetic – are being engaged during learning
Q60. An outline of the topics of a subject to the covered in specific time is called
A) Program
B) Course
C) Syllabus
D) Curriculum
Answer Key:
C) Syllabus
Q61. Emotional Fluctuations in adolescence are caused by
A) Hormonal changes and brain development
B) Body image
C) Lack of confidence
D) Environmental factors
Answer Key:
A) Hormonal changes and brain development
Q62. The main objective of Outcome Based Education is to:
A) Set clear standards for observable, measurable outcomes
B) Encourage diversity among students
C) Ensure quality education for all
D) Ensure good results among students
Answer Key:
A) Set clear standards for observable, measurable outcomes
Q63. The method used to evaluate the curriculum during the process of development/Implementation is:
A) Formative Evaluation
B) Summative Evaluation
C) Diagnostic Evaluation
D) Process Evaluation
Answer Key:
A) Formative Evaluation
Q64. Personality is
A) a combination of attitude, behavior and competencies of students
B) a combination of attitude, skill and knowledge of students
C) the sum of the physical, cognitive, emotional and social characteristics of students
D) behavior and knowledge
Answer Key:
C) the sum of the physical, cognitive, emotional and social characteristics of students
Q65. How many events/conditions does Gagne’s event of instructions have?
A) Five
B) Six
C) Nine
D) Ten
Answer Key:
C) Nine
Q66. The basic teaching model consists of four basic components or parts. They are:
A) Instructional Objectives, Course Outcomes, Assessment, Feedback
B) Instructional Objectives, Entering behaviour, Instructional Procedures, Performance assessment
C) Entering behaviour, Terminal behaviour, Course Objective and outcomes
D) Methods, Materials, Media and Management
Answer Key:
B) Instructional Objectives, Entering behaviour, Instructional Procedures, Performance assessment
Q67. Which statement is NOT correct about the “the National Education Day” of India?
A) It is celebrated on 5th September every year
B) It is celebrated on 11th November every year
C) It is celebrated in the memory of India’s first Union Minister of Education, Dr. Abul Kalam Azad
D) It is being celebrated since 2008
Answer Key:
A) It is celebrated on 5th September every year
Q68. This refers to the learner’s highest of internalization and relates to behavior that reflect
(i) A generalized set of values; and
(ii) A characterization or a philosophy about life
A) Receiving
B) Responding
C) Valuing
D) Characterizing
Answer Key:
D) Characterizing
Q69. Which of the following learning domains related to development of a person’s value system?
A) Cognitive
B) Affective
C) Psychomotor
D) Social
Answer Key:
B) Affective
Q70. You have a student who has failed in a particular class. How will you motivate this student to study sincerely in the same class?
A) By teacher’s counselling
B) By friends’ counselling
C) By parent’s counselling
D) By psychological counselling
Answer Key:
D) By psychological counselling
Q71. Which of the following verb is at greatest risk for misinterpretation?
A) List
B) Understand
C) Demonstrate
D) Construct
Answer Key:
B) Understand
Q72. Higher order thinking skills refer to
A) Analyze, Evaluate, Create
B) Remember Understand and Apply
C) Understand and Evaluate
D) Understand and Apply
Answer Key:
A) Analyze, Evaluate, Create
Q73. What is the difference between a goal and an objective?
A) Goals are broad, objectives are narrow
B) Goals are specific, objectives are general
C) Goals are short-term, objectives are long-term
D) Goals are measurable, objectives are not
Answer Key:
A) Goals are broad, objectives are narrow
Q74. The four pillars of learning do NOT include
A) To know
B) To do
C) To live together
D) To like
Answer Key:
D) To like
Q75. Which of the following learning domain deals with acquisition of knowledge?
A) Cognitive
B) Affective
C) Psychomotor
D) Social
Answer Key:
A) Cognitive
Q76. The major purpose of co-curricular activities is to:
A) Help students achieve a well-adjusted personality
B) Provide relief from the usual classroom routine
C) Allow students an opportunity to develop in to good citizens
D) Permit students to have a choice of educational program
Answer Key:
A) Help students achieve a well-adjusted personality
Q77. Curriculum improvement should be a/an __________ process
A) last
B) Initial
C) Internal
D) Continuous
Answer Key:
D) Continuous
Q78. The correct order of human life is
A) Babyhood, adolescent and adulthood
B) Infancy, babyhood, and adolescent
C) Babyhood, infancy and adolescent
D) Infancy, babyhood and adult
Answer Key:
A) Babyhood, adolescent and adulthood
Q79. The most vital activity in motivational strategy is
A) proper lesson planning
B) preparation of instructional materials
C) preparation of instructional media
D) Lesson need establishment
Answer Key:
D) Lesson need establishment
Q80. Strategic knowledge, knowledge about cognitive tasks, including appropriate contextual and conditional knowledge and self-knowledge is classified as
A) Metacognitive Knowledge
B) Abstract Knowledge
C) Conceptual knowledge
D) Procedural Knowledge
Answer Key:
A) Metacognitive Knowledge
Q81. Writing precise learning outcomes requires that ambiguous verbs be avoided. Identify the Precise verbs
A) Understand, comprehension
B) Understand, Appreciate
C) To know, to study
D) Construct, Identify
Answer Key:
D) Construct, Identify
Q82. Curriculum and Syllabus
A) are one and the same
B) are in the hierarchy, where curriculum is the superset of the syllabus
C) are in the hierarchy, where syllabus is the superset of curriculum
D) do not have any connections with each other
Answer Key:
B) are in the hierarchy, where curriculum is the superset of the syllabus
Q83. Select all the statements that indicates the purpose and impact of accreditation
(i) Encourages quality improvement initiatives by Institutions
(ii) Improves student enrollment both in terms of quality and quantity
(iii) Helps the Institution in securing necessary funds
(iv) To rank the institutes of higher education
A) (i) and (ii)
B) (i), (ii) and (iii)
C) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
D) (i), (ii) and (iv)
Answer Key:
B) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Q84. Which one is not the component, of the Curriculum
A) Objectives
B) Syllabus
C) Design
D) Evaluation
Answer Key:
C) Design
Q85. National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) provides accreditation of institutions and individual departments with a validity for
A) 3 years
B) 4 years
C) 5 years
D) 10 years
Answer Key:
C) 5 years
Q86. Which is NOT a part of Physical characteristics of an Adolescent?
A) Rapid intense growth
B) Height and weight variation
C) Nutrition deficiency
D) Intelligence
Answer Key:
D) Intelligence
Q87. The characteristic of a discouraged worker is
A) Positive image of self
B) Not interested in academics
C) Friendly with teachers and peers
D) Optimistic underachievers
Answer Key:
B) Not interested in academics
Q88. Making value judgment about curriculum is:
A) Curriculum evaluation
B) Curriculum design
C) Curriculum development
D) Curriculum elements
Answer Key:
A) Curriculum evaluation
Q89. Knowledge of cognition in general as well as awareness and knowledge of one’s own cognition is known as:
A) Factual Knowledge
B) Conceptual Knowledge
C) Procedural Knowledge
D) Metacognitive knowledge
Answer Key:
D) Metacognitive knowledge
Q90. The ‘3M’ concept in instructional procedure refers to:
A) Materials, Money, Machinery
B) Men, Materials, Money
C) Men, Media, Machines
D) Materials, Media, Methods
Answer Key:
D) Materials, Media, Methods
Q91. Which is NOT a part of Physical characteristics of an Adolescent?
A) Development of Internal organs
B) Increase in Height and weight
C) Increased Socialization with peers
D) Avoiding Nutrition
Answer Key:
C) Increased Socialization with peers
Q92. Which is NOT a part of social characteristics of an Adolescent?
A) Interested in recreation and games
B) Increased socialization with peers
C) Self cantered attitudes
D) Problem solving abilities
Answer Key:
D) Problem solving abilities
Q93. Which is an example for Synchronous communication tool
A) Email communications
B) Videoconferences
C) Online forums
D) Discussion lists
Answer Key:
B) Videoconferences
Q94. A constructively designed course is one where
A) The students know what they have to learn
B) The teacher knows what he or she wants to do and lesson plans are given.
C) The outcomes, assessment and learning activities are all clearly aligned with course outcomes
D) The classes follow a logical sequence; examinations are conducted according to the schedule.
Answer Key:
C) The outcomes, assessment and learning activities are all clearly aligned with course outcomes
Q95. You are asked to compare Bubble sort with Selection Sort in Data structures course. What is the level of learning according to Bloom’s Taxonomy
A) Apply
B) Evaluate
C) Analyze
D) Understand
Answer Key:
C) Analyze
Q96. The most important document, connecting teachers, students, curriculum developers, employers, society, administrators and examiners is
A) Syllabus
B) Instructional Materials
C) Assignment Sheets
D) Curriculum
Answer Key:
D) Curriculum
Q97. Learning outcomes are
A) Observable and measurable
B) Communicate the objective
C) Define learning
D) Overall objective of a lesson
Answer Key:
A) Observable and measurable
Q98. The well-known resource was developed in 1956 as a way for classifying the three domain of learning – Cognitive, Psychomotor and Affective is
A) Dave’s Taxonomy
B) Bloom’s Taxonomy
C) Richard Mayer Multimedia Principles
D) Meager Method Instructional Objectives
Answer Key:
B) Bloom’s Taxonomy
Q99. Why should a teacher be an idealist and set examples?
A) Students do not have values
B) Students usually imitate teachers
C) Teacher is an adult
D) Teacher is a paternal figure
Answer Key:
B) Students usually imitate teachers
Q100. Mayer’s Cognitive theory of Multimedia Learning is based on three assumptions. They are
A) Sweller’s theory of cognitive load, Gagne’s Nine events of Instruction, Baddeleys’s model of working memory
B) Gagne’s Nine events of Instruction, Bloom’s taxonomy, Baddeleys’s model of working memory
C) Baddeleys’s model of working memory, Paivio’s dual coding theory, Gagne’s Nine events of Instruction
D) Paivio’s dual coding theory, Sweller’s theory of cognitive load, Baddeleys’s model of working memory
Answer Key:
D) Paivio’s dual coding theory, Sweller’s theory of cognitive load, Baddeleys’s model of working memory
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