CTET January -2012:

Child Development and Pedagogy:

  1. Environmental factors  that shape development include all of the following
    1. Quality of education 
    2. Quality of nutrition
    3. Culture except for Physique
  2. Development starts from the pre-natal stage.
  3. A predominant hereditary related factor  – the color of the eyes.
  4. A student is aggressive in his behavior towards his peer group and does not conform to the norms of the school. This student needs help in
    1. cognitive domain
  5. The stage of cognitive development according to Piaget, in which a child displays ‘Object permanence’ is – sensorimotor stage
  6. According to Kohlberg, the thinking process involved judgments about questions of right and wrong is called Moral reasoning.
  7. A good textbook avoids gender bias.
  8. Gifted students will realize their potential when they learn with other students.

Inclusive education and children with special needs:

  1. Inclusive education refers to a school education system that includes children regardless of physical, intellectual, social, linguistic or other differently-abled conditions.
  2. Dyslexia is mainly associated with difficulties in reading
  3. The major frustration that children with hearing loss face in the classroom are an inability to communicate or share information with others.
  4. When a teacher involves a visually challenged learner in a group activates with the other learners of the class she is acting according to the spirit of inclusive education.

Learning and Pedagogy:

  1. A blend of heredity and environment plays a significant role in the development of personality.
  2. The doing aspects of behavior fall in the affective domain of learning.
  3. A student works hard to clear an entrance test for admission into a medical college. The student is said to be motivated intrinsically.
  4. A teacher engages her learners in a number of group activities such as group discussion, group projects, role plays, etc, The learning dimension highlights learning as a social activity.
  5. Creativity is usually associated with divergent thinking.
  6. A teacher always helps her learners link the knowledge they have derived in one subject area with the knowledge from other subject areas. This helps to promote individual differences.
  7. Teachers should study the errors of their students as they often indicate the remedial strategies needed
  8. When previous learning makes no difference at all to the learning in a new situation, it is called – zero transfer of learning.
  9. According to Piaget’s cognitive theory of learning, the process by which the cognitive structure is modified is called – schema
  10. According to theories of motivation, a teacher can enhance learning by Setting realistic expectation from students
  11. A teacher uses audio-visual aids and physical activities in her teaching because they utilize the maximum number of senses to enhance learning.
  12. Science and Art exhibition, music, and dance shows and bringing out of school magazines, are meant to provide a creative channel for learners.

CTET May-2012

Child Development and Pedagogy:

  1. Socialization means understanding social diversity.
  2. ” Thought precedes language ” – An Idea put forward by Piaget.
  3. The correct statement in relation to ‘concept formation’ by a child – 
    1. There is a set pattern of concept development.
  4. The most appropriate in relation to adolescence 
    1. Thinking starts reflecting on concrete actions.
  5. The main characteristics of ’emotionally motivated children’ is their introvert nature.
  6. An important characteristic of the ‘formal operational stage of mental development’ is ‘Abstract thinking’.
  7. Principle of reinforcement is associated with – skinner
  8. The most important factor in the effective teaching process is mastery of the content by the teacher.
  9. The best way to inculcate moral values in children is to put across a situation and ask students to take decisions.
  10. The factors associated with ‘child-centered education’ are individual differences.
  11. The least important in the process of thinking – Memory.
  12. The major responsibility of a teacher is to – provide learning opportunities as per the different learning styles of students.
  13. The most important in the process of learning – style of learning.
  14. The most appropriate way of explaining the topic “purification of water” is by taking students to the plant where water is purified.
  15. The most appropriate logical predicate for the continuous and comprehensive evaluation should be
    1. Assessing more than one aspect of learning.
  16. According to Kohlberg, ‘children approach thinking about right and wrong’ – differently at different stages.
    ‘Emotional catharsis’ means increasing the ability to tolerate emotional repression.

Inclusive education:

  1. The characteristic of a teacher which is least important in inclusive education socio-economic status of teacher.
  2. There are three polio-affected children in a class. During the games period, they should be encouraged to take part in the games appropriate for them, with other children.
  3. The least important in an inclusive classroom – more efforts by teachers to “cover” course.
    1. Most important includes:
      1. Lesser stress on competition and grades
      2. More choice for students
      3. More cooperative and collaborative activity.

Learning and Pedagogy:

  1. A teacher uses a dice labeled describe, predict, explain, summarise, deconstruct and evaluate.
    1. Each time after a topic is completed the teacher throws the dice and asks the students to answer a question based on the location of a dice. The teacher is – provoking thoughts of students.
  2. The characteristic of a teacher which is least important in inclusive education socio-economic status of teacher.
  3. Mohit likes to teach children and is preparing hard for the entrance exam for B.Ed. He is Motivated -Intrinsically.
  4. logical-mathematical intelligence is associated with  – hierarchical theory.
  5. ‘Activity-based teaching’ emphasizes active participation by all the students.
  6. A teacher took her class on an educational trip to provide an opportunity to children for direct observation.
  7. The presence of identical elements between already learned skills and new skills results in the generalized transfer.
  8. A teacher normally assigns different tasks to the students. He/she believes that there are individual differences among students.
  9. Imagination, language, concept, and proposition are involved in thinking.
  10. Continuous and comprehensive evaluation is  Student-centered.

CTET November-2012:

Child Development and Pedagogy:

  1. Children in primary school follow which of the following stages as proposed by L. Kohlberg:
    1. Obedience and punishment orientation
    2. Individualism and exchange
    3. Both belong to the pre-conventional level by children in primary school.
  2. Features of anecdotal record it is subjective evidence of behavior and therefore does not provide feedback for the scholastic area.
  3. Raven’s progressive matrices test is an example of Culture free IQ test.
  4. Group project activity as prescribed by CBSE is a powerful means 
    1. of facilitating social participation.
  5. Self-regulation of learners means – Ability to monitor their own learning
  6. The following principle not involved in lesson planning – Rigidity of planning
    1. It includes clarity of objectives 
    2. knowledge of teaching
    3. knowledge of pupils
  7. The news of a woman selling her child to obtain food may be understood best on the basis of the theory of hierarchical need
  8. Scaffolding in the context of learning theories refers to temporary support in learning by adults.
  9. Classification of students in different groups on the basis of their IQ tends to decrease their self-esteem and has no effect on their academic performance.
  10. The lab schools advocated by John Dewey were examples of – progressive schools.
  11. Child-centered education was advocated by —- thinkers – John Dewey.
  12. Knowledge of developmental stages will be most significant for a teacher dealing with a class comprising students of mixed age groups.
  13. Gifted students – realize their full potential without any help.
  14. Systematic presentation of concepts may be related to the following principles of development – Development is relatively orderly.
  15. The end-stage of a child possessing bodily kinesthetics intelligence – surgeon.
  16. Assessment of learning influences learning by reinforcing the connections between instruction and assessment.
  17. Ideal ‘waiting time’ for getting a response from students should be proportional to the difficulty level of question.
  18. The word comprehensive in the scheme of continuous and comprehensive evaluation is supported by the following except Guilford’s theory of the structure of intellect
    1. But followed by the theory of multiple intelligence
    2. Theory of information processing
    3. Thurstone’s theory of mental abilities

Inclusive education and children with special needs:

  1. The word ‘compulsory’ in the right to free and compulsory education means – the appropriate government will ensure admission, attendance, and completion of elementary education.
  2. Classrooms after the implementation of RTE act 2009 are – age-wise more homogenous.

Learning and Pedagogy:

  1. Acceleration with reference to gifted children means promoting such students to the next higher grade by skipping the present grade.
  2. While teaching a single parent-child a teacher should – overlook this fact and treat such a child at par with other children.
  3. The most appropriate activity for gifted students – Write an original play on given concepts.
  4. For an intrinsically motivated student’s external rewards are not enough to keep up the motivation.
  5. On being the chairperson of the board of the school of education in order to plan to improve the overall quality of education in the schools under your jurisdiction – this type of question is an example of Higher-order divergent thinking.
  6. In science practical boys generally take control of apparatus and ask girls to record data or wash utensils. This tendency reflects that
    1. stereotyping of masculine and feminine roles takes place in schools.
  7. How teachers and student adapt gender in the classroom it perturbs the learning environment.
  8. For an intrinsically motivated student, external rewards are not enough to keep them motivated
  9. Achievement motivation is the tendency to persist at challenging tasks.

CTET July-2013

Child Development and Pedagogy:

  1. A critique of the theory of multiple intelligence – Multiple intelligence is only the ‘talents’ present in intelligence as a whole.
  2. Least likely to be a correct match – Language is a stimulus in the environment – B.F.Skinner (sound is a stimulus for operant conditioning)
    1. Correct Pair includes
      1. Children enter the world with certain knowledge about language – Chomsky
      2. Language and thought are initially 2 different activities – Vygotsky
      3. Language is contingent on thought – Piaget
  3. Features assigned due to social roles and not due to the biological endowment are called gender role stereotypes.
  4. The most appropriate to maximize learning – The teacher should identify her cognitive style as well as of her student’s cognitive style.
  5. Those which promote assessment as learning are telling
    1. students to take internal feedback.
    2. generating a safe environment for students to take chances.
    3. tell students to reflect on the topic taught
  6. When a cook tastes a food during cooking it may be akin to assessment for learning.
  7. Differentiated instruction is using a variety of groupings to meet the student needs.
  8. Socialization includes cultural transmission and 
    1. development of individual personality
  9. Intelligence theory incorporates the mental process involved in intelligence(i.e meta-components)  and the varied forms that intelligence can take – (Creative intelligence) – Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence.

Inclusive education and children with special needs:

  1. Learning disabilities may occur due to the following:
    1. prenatal use of alcohol
    2. Mental retardation
    3. Meningitis during infancy
  2. In a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom, before deciding whether a student comes under the special education category a teacher should evaluate the student on his/her mother language to establish disability.
  3. An inclusive school reflects on all the following:
    1. On believing all students can learn
    2. On working with teams to plan and deliver learning enabling environment.
    3. Adopting strategies to cater to the diverse needs of students.

Learning and Pedagogy:

  1. Gifted students are divergent thinkers.
  2. Children learn faster when they are involved in activities that seem to be useful in real life.
  3. CBSE prescribed group activities for students in place of activities for individual students. The idea behind doing so could be
    1. to overcome the negative emotional response to the individual competition which may generalize across learning.
  4. ‘Children can learn violent behaviors depicted in  movies’ derived on the basis of work done by the psychologists – Albert bandura
  5. Students observe fashion shows and try to imitate models. This kind of imitation may be called Social learning.
  6. If students repeatedly make errors during a lesson a teacher should – make changes in instruction, tasks, timetable or seating arrangements.
  7. Some techniques to manage anxiety due to an approaching examination
    1. familiarising with the pattern of Q.P
    2. seeking support
    3. empathizing strengths
  8. Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchical organization of cognitive objectives
  9. Even though this was clearly in violation of his safety needs, a captain died fighting in the Kargil war while protecting the country. He might have achieved self-actualization.
  10. One did not spend income tax despite legal procedures and expenses. He thinks that he cannot support a corrupt government which spends millions of rupees in building a dam.- Kohlberg’s stage of moral development suggests that this is a post-conventional.
  11. A teacher shows two identical glasses filled with an equal amount of juice in them. She empties them in 2 different glasses one of which is taller other one is wider. She asks her class to identify which glass would have more juice in it. Students replied taller glass has more juice. Her students have difficulty in dealing with decentring.
  12. A child is emotionally and socially fit in a class except – Concentrate persistently on competing with peers
    1. to develop a good relationship with peers.
    2. concentrate on persisting with challenging tasks
    3. to manage both anger and joy effectively.