URDANETA CITY UNIVERSITY SEPTEMBER 2019 LET CRITICAL REVIEW

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION Professional Education

1 San Vicente West, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan Curriculum Development

1. Mrs. Rodriguez, the mother of Juanita commended the 10. In understanding by Design (UbD), does developing
teacher of her daughter Mr. Soriano, because it is in his instructional plan to come right after identifying desired
class where her daughter learned how to cooperate with results?
others and also learned how to manage time well. Which a. Yes
type of curriculum caused this learning? b. No
a. Explicit curriculum c. It’s the choice of the teacher applying UbD
b. Null curriculum d. Yes, provided the instructional plan includes an
c. Overt curriculum evaluation part
d. Hidden curriculum 11. Why does UbD insist on identifying assessment evidence
2. Which stakeholder of the curriculum will say “I keep in of learning right after identifying learning results?
mind, how I can sustain the interest of the learners?” a. Teaching is faster that way
a. Teacher c. Principal b. Teaching-learning is more interesting
b. Head teacher d. Parent c. Teaching-learning becomes more focused and
3. Which condition most likely could help in the fast and organized
smooth implementation of the K to 12 curriculum in d. It leads to a more comprehensive understanding of
schools of the Philippines? content
a. Decrease the driving forces 12. Teacher has been constructivist in his approach to lesson
b. Increase the driving forces planning. What must be the features of his lessons?
c. Decrease the restraining forces I. Students are engaged in learning
d. Increase the restraining forces II. Students guide their own learning and meaning-
4. Which of the following statements gives the real value of making
lesson-planning? III. Students keep the learning to themselves
I. It helps the teacher to be orderly IV. Students are not encouraged to share their thoughts
II. It helps the teacher recall the subject matter about a new concept for that calls for much time
previously taken a. I and III c. I and II
III. It helps the teacher organize his activities b. II and IV d. III and IV
a. II only c. I only 13. Which holds TRUE of a constructivist lesson planning
b. II and III d. I, II, and III approach?
5. With which does an outcomes-based approach to lesson a. Students building their own understanding
planning begin? b. Students not encouraged to venture into sharing
a. Outcomes thoughts when not sure
b. Content c. Raising questions when lesson is not clear since
c. Assessment task students should research on their own
d. Teaching-learning activities d. Students doing all the teaching-learning process in
6. Which are supposed to be aligned in an outcomes-based the presence of a teacher.
course syllabus? 14. In a constructivist lesson planning approach, which is
I. Learning outcomes UNACCEPTABLE?
II. Teaching-learning activities a. Learners are helped to construct understanding
III. Assessment tasks based on what they already know
IV. Teacher qualifications b. Learners confront their understanding in the light
a. I and III c. II and III of new learning
b. I, II, and III d. II and IV c. Learners accommodate change in their
7. What does constructive alignment mean in outcomes- understanding as a result of new understanding
based lesson planning? d. Learners accept blindly what teacher teaches
a. The learning outcomes are the bases of teaching- because she is an authority on the subject
learning activities and assessment tasks 15. If curriculum is planned following the behavioral
b. The content is the basis for assessment tasks approach, which sequence is CORRECT?
c. The content is the basis for teaching methodology I. Ends with implementing the planned curriculum
and assessment tasks II. Start with the setting of objectives and goals
d. The assessment task is the basis of teaching III. Learning outcomes are evaluated along goals and
methodology objectives set at the start
8. Teacher Ligaya wants to treat a particular lesson from the IV. Change in behaviour indicates the measure of the
point of view of different subjects. Which lesson planning accomplishments
does she observe? a. I and II c. II and IV
a. Thematic c. Experiential b. II and III d. II, III, and IV
b. Constructivist d. Metacognitive 16. If curriculum is planned following the humanistic
9. In a backward design approach to curriculum and lesson approach, which feature applies?
planning, which comes ahead? a. Very child-centered
a. Identifying results desired b. Excludes the hidden curriculum
b. Determining acceptable level of evidence that the c. Downplays the significance of the informal
intended results were realized curriculum
c. Designing activities that will make desired results d. Emphasizes on the child’s cognitive development
happen 17. A humanistic approach to curriculum planning has the
d. Clarifying content following features, EXCEPT ______.
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a. Recognizes the significance of the hidden and a. Integrative c. Discipline-based
informal curriculum b. Constructivist d. Child-centered
b. Very progressivist because it is child-centered 29. This refers to the subsidy given by the state to Grade 10
c. Subject matter is not necessary in curriculum completers.
planning a. Educational Service Contracting Grant
d. Emphasizes on the child’s holistic development b. Voucher Program
18. When a school applies the systems approach to c. Performance-Based Incentive
curriculum planning, what is expected? d. SHS Scholarship
a. The parts of the school system are considered in 30. This refers to the unconditional means by which students
terms of how they relate to each other learn in formal education.
b. Curriculum, instruction and evaluation are the only a. Alternative Learning System
things that matter in curriculum planning b. Alternative Delivery Mode
c. The school’s external environment is not taken into c. Multi-grade Instruction
consideration d. Modified-In school Off School Approach
d. Only the internal stakeholders are consulted for 31. BESRA is composed of how many Key Reform Thrusts
curriculum planning purposes (KRTs)?
19. In a systems approach to curriculum planning, should a. 9 c. 5
external stakeholders be a part? b. 7 d. 3
a. No, they are not curricularists 32. Considers K to 12 Program as a flagship reform strategy
b. Yes, they are part of the school system a. TESDA c. CHED
c. Yes, if they are willing b. DepEd d. BESRA
d. That depends on the educational attainment of the 33. The math curriculum is composed of how many content
external stakeholders areas?
20. When one wants children to develop positive attitude a. 5 c. 3
toward life and life problems, which approach in b. 6 d. 4
curriculum planning is most appropriate? 34. The following schools are the area of study of SEAMEO
a. Problem-centered approach INNOTECH in the process of reviewing the Philippine
b. Humanistic approach curriculum before the implementation of the K-12
c. Systems approach Program EXCEPT
d. Child-centered approach a. Manila Science High School
21. Which of the following processes usually comes first in b. Don Bosco Technical College
developing curriculum? c. San Pedro Relocation Center National High School
a. Evaluating educational experiences d. Polytechnic University of the Philippines
b. Identifying learning goals and objectives 35. The MTB-MLE is composed of how many subjects?
c. Selection of educational content a. 11 c. 13
d. Organization of learning experiences b. 10 d. 12
22. Dr. Balkin, the provincial hospital director, plans to attend 36. This curricularist uses unique and out-of-box strategies to
a school board meeting where a new high school science make his/her class highly engaging. He/She is a/an:
curriculum will be discussed. Which level of curriculum is a. Innovator c. Knower
shown in this situation? b. Implementer d. Writer
a. Experiential c. Institutional 37. When teachers conduct a series of evaluation to
b. Instructional d. Societal determine the extent of teaching, what must be
23. K-12 curriculum is what type of subject-centered implemented?
curriculum? a. Learned curriculum
a. Spiral c. Broad-field b. Assessed curriculum
b. Fused d. Correlated c. Hidden curriculum
24. The K-12 curriculum is otherwise called as the d. Taught curriculum
___________. 38. Which is not a component of curriculum designing?
a. Revitalized Basic Education Curriculum a. Diagnosis of needs
b. 2002 Basic Education Curriculum b. Learning content
c. Extended Basic Education Curriculum c. Objective
d. Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum d. Learning experiences
25. In what year was K-12 offered to incoming Grade 1 and 39. The following are characteristics of progressive curriculum
Grade 7? except
a. 2011-2012 c. 2012-2013 a. Takes into account all the curricular elements and
b. 2013-2014 d. 2016-2017 tests these elements through real life application
26. Which is new in the teaching of TLE in the K-12 b. Knowledge that comes from various disciplines
Curriculum? should be the focus
a. NC I is expected of the Grade 7 completer c. The classroom is only one place for the students to
b. Grade 7 is exploratory. learn; learning can take place anywhere
c. NC II is expected of the Grade 8 completer d. Focuses on the experiences of the students and
d. Grade 7 and 8 TLE are exploratory supervised by the teacher
27. Specialization in TLE under K-12 Curriculum starts in what 40. What factor contributed to the great demand for teachers
grade level? during the American regime?
a. Grade 7 c. Grade 9 a. Rationalist period for the next generation
b. Grade 8 d. Grade 10 b. American literacy modelling
28. Which approach was used in the teaching of Science and c. Democratic tutoring of the country
Math before the K-12 Curriculum Reform? d. Opening of the free public education

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41. A movement based on the belief that education should be a. Students’ individually evaluate how effectively
concerned with actualities of life, in effect it was a form of their group worked.
protest against the formalism of humanist and the b. Interaction is a must, but not necessarily face-to-
religious reformers. face interaction.
a. Idealism c. Existentialism c. Students’ success depends on the success of the
b. Realism d. Essentialism group.
42. Prof. Lorenzo, a social activist, won the presidency d. The accountability for learning is on the group not
because of her slogan. “I will bring Social Change in this on the individual.
nation”. On which philosophy id Prof. Belen’s conviction 53. Which of the following represents a minuscule
based? curriculum?
a. Reconstructionism c. Nationalism a. Textbook that learners use
b. Realism d. Socialism b. Lesson plan that teachers prepare
43. Every curriculum has this dimension. This is both c. Reference materials that supplement the text
unplanned and implicit but its instructional effects are d. Lecture notes of the teacher
often evident in the students’ behaviour, values and 54. Teacher Ligaya has presented a reading lesson to her
dispositions. This dimension is referred to as ______. students. The lesson went on for a span of a week. After a
a. Hidden curriculum day or two, when the teacher introduced a new lesson
b. Assed curriculum that requires them the knowledge of the previous lesson,
c. Instructional curriculum the students no longer remember it. What could be the
d. Societal curriculum cause of this problem?
44. School curricula reflects the world’s economic and a. There was a lack of constant drill and practice given
political integration and industrialization. What does this by the teacher.
point in curriculum development? b. The text used and instruction given in the previous
a. The trend toward participatory curriculum lesson is within the students’ independent level.
development. c. There was a lack of activities that integrate the
b. The trend towards the classical approach to students’ background experiences to the text
curriculum development. presented.
c. The shift in the paradigm of curriculum d. The text used and the instruction given in the
development from a process-oriented to a product- previous lesson is within the students’ instructional
oriented one. level.
d. The trend toward the globalization and localization. 55. Will you be more student-centered or teacher-centered if
45. It aims to prepare the child to face the real world. you use the cognitive approach?
a. Pragmatism c. Idealism a. Depends on the nature of the subject matter.
b. Essentialism d. Realism b. Student-centered
46. He introduced a curriculum for individual and societal c. Depends on the ability of yur students.
development. d. Teacher-centered.
a. Dewey c. Erasmus 56. It is a learning area that serves as a “Laboratory of Life”
b. Da Feltre d. Luther a. Values Education c. TLE
47. He was one of the hallmarks of curriculum, who believed b. MAKABAYAN d. Home Economics
that curriculum is a science and extension of schools 57. With whose ideas is the development of contemporary
philosophy. curriculum program in elementary education primarily
a. Holllis Caswell c. Franklin Bobbit associated?
b. Hilda Taba d. Ralph Tyler a. Horace Mann c. John Dewey
48. If you decide to develop a lesson the constructivist’s way, b. Henry Barnard d. Edward Thorndike
what kind of learning environment must you create for 58. Which of the following school activities is closely related
you to succeed? and has greater impact to curriculum development?
a. Laissez faire c. Authoritarian a. Principal’s evaluation of teachers
b. Structured d. Open and flexible b. Monthly meeting with the barangay officials
49. Which one appropriately describes your lesson if you use c. Review of the textbooks and reference material
the cognitive approach? d. School visit of visitors from other places
a. Rote-learning dominated 59. If you apply integrated curriculum approach, which one is
b. Lecture-dominated out?
c. Highly-directed teaching a. Rote learning
d. Promotes “find out for yourself” approach b. Problem-solving
50. Mrs. Ganaden often makes use of experiential rather than c. Relating to life experiences
the rote method in teaching; she is, thus, observed to d. Lifelong learning
provide “custom-made” activities for her pupils. The 60. A P.E. teacher wrote this objective in her lesson plan, “to
curriculum patter she apparently follow is that of: execute the four fundamental steps”. When observed by
a. Child-centered the school principal, she was showing her class how to
b. Process-oriented execute basic dance step correctly. Why did the teacher
c. Life-functions-focused use a demonstration method to implement her objective?
d. Activity-based a. It is a chance to show teacher’s expertise.
51. It aims to develop the inherent power of the learner. b. Class time is limited to ask students to execute
a. Pragmatism c. Existentialism c. No students know how to execute the steps.
b. Reconstructionism d. Realism d. It is easier to imitate a teacher who shows the
52. You choose cooperative learning as a teaching approach. steps.
What thought do you impress on your students?

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61. One popular conception of curriculum is that which aims 70. It guided the child toward maturity within the context of
to provide the learners with the needed skills in this ever- social group.
changing world. Which conception is this? a. Experience Curriculum
a. Technology b. Subject-centered Curriculum
b. Cumulative tradition of organized knowledge c. Problem-centered Curriculum
c. Social relevance d. Child-centered Curriculum
d. Self-actualization 71. He believed that curriculum is a set of experiences in
62. Several students in an art class may be exposed which the subject matter is developed around social
simultaneously to the same painting. The painting itself functions and learners’ interests.
constitutes the content of learning. One student may be a. Harold Hugg c. Werret Charters
attracted more to the color than to other elements. b. William Kilpatrick d. Hollis Caswell
Another may react more to form or to composition. This 72. The teacher have the right to teach students how to think
suggests to what component of curriculum? but not what to think, this anchored in what philosophy?
a. Learning evaluation a. Existentialism c. Pragmatism
b. Goals and objectives b. Idealism d. Essentialism
c. Learning experiences 73. Other than the teacher, there must be materials which
d. Subject matter should help in the implementation of a written curriculum
63. Before reader could read the WORD, he must learn to in order to have a successful teaching. This is referred to
read the WORLD first. This statement implies that: as:
a. The text supplies the readers with the necessary a. Supported curriculum
knowledge they need to make sense of the print. b. Intended curriculum
b. Students or readers must know the names of the c. Recommended curriculum
letter first before they will know what the word d. Taught curriculum
means. 74. Teacher Ervin aims his students towards the holistic
c. Readers must know the sounds of the letters first development. Teacher Ervin is?
before they will know what the word means. a. Realist c. Progressivist
d. Words are only representations of the concepts b. Essentialist d. Idealist
that the child or reader knows before encountering 75. Which step of a daily lesson plan provides opportunities
the print. for the students to independently learn beyond what is
64. What characteristics of a good curriculum does this imply? taught in the classroom where other stakeholders of
“The curriculum must adapt the educational activities and curriculum implementation are involved?
services to meet the needs of a modern ad dynamic a. Doing homework
community”. b. Formulation of lesson objectives
a. The curriculum is democratically conceived. c. Motivating the learners
b. The curriculum is a complex of details d. Evaluating the lesson
c. The curriculum is based on the needs of the people 76. All of the following are the basic tool subjects, except.
d. The curriculum is continuously evolving a. Mathematics c. English
65. If you are a constructivist, what assumptions about b. Filipino d. MAPEH
learning and learner govern your thinking? 77. Which of the following reading skills or strategies is the
a. Learners are empty receptacles waiting to be filled. closest to outside-in processing or reading?
b. Learners are capable of constructing meaning of a. Predicting outcomes c. Inferencing
what is taught to them. b. Structural analysis d. Outlining
c. For learners to learn, knowledge should be 78. Mr. Palma, the principal of Domanpot Elementary School,
transmitted directly from teachers to learners. opted to use the curriculum that involves the integration
d. Teachers are the only source of knowledge. of Social Studies, Music, Arts, and P.E. on longer time
66. If the “what” in teaching refers to curriculum, the “how” blocks. This shows that the design pattern he prefers is
of it refers to: ______. that of the ________ curriculum.
a. Learning c. Instruction a. Mastery learning c. Broadfields
b. Approaches d. Strategies b. Correlatedsubjects d. Core
67. Learning constitutes a logical method for organizing and 79. The establishments of the School of the Future (SOF)
interpreting learning. This is one thinking of the: introduces improvement and reform in education to
a. Cognitivist c. Sociologist respond to both human and social needs. What
b. Humanist d. Behaviourist philosophy is related to it?
68. As senior high school class will take up paragraph writing a. Epistemology c. Pragmatism
but at a more sophisticated and advanced level than a first b. Idealism d. Reconstructionism
year class. This is one example of what organization of 80. You want your students to develop the ability to look at a
learning content? problem from various perspectives, which approach will
a. Articulation c. Integration be more fit?
b. Continuity d. Sequence a. Behaviourist Approach
69. Teacher Christine uses the timeline as a graphic organizer b. Modular Approach
to teach the readers to understand a given expository c. Affective Approach
text. Which of the following organizational structures d. Integrative Approach
might be the one used in the exposition of the text’s 81. Which is NOT true to experienced-centered pattern of
information? curriculum?
a. Sequence or procedural a. Process-oriented c. Activity-based
b. Cause and effect b. Teacher-controlled d. Child-centered
c. Enumeration-description 82. Bryan works on his assignments which was based on their
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a. Societal curriculum 94. Objectives must be evaluated in the light of practical
b. Institutional curriculum considerations, including teacher competence, availability
c. Experimental curriculum of instructional materials, time allotment, etc. What
d. Instructional curriculum characteristic of educational objective is defined by the
83. The emphasis on curriculum of this philosophy deals with aforementioned statement?
the choices in subject matter and electives as well as the a. Comprehension c. Consistency
emotional, aesthetic, and philosophical subjects. b. Attainability d. Feasibility
a. Pragmatism c. Existentialism 95. Which design is easy to deliver because complementary
b. Idealism d. Realism books and materials are commercially available?
84. Which curriculum development phase focuses on a. Experience centered design
alteration of curriculum’s basic structure and design? b. Problem design
a. Curriculum implementation c. Process design
b. Curriculum evaluation d. Subject centered design
c. Curriculum improvement 96. What refers to the matching between curriculum and test
d. Curriculum change to be used to assess the learners?
85. Which holds true when each level of subject matter is a. Alignment c. Articulation
smoothly connected to the next level and glaring gaps, b. Auditing d. Delivery
wasteful overlaps in subject matter are avoided? 97. Teacher Bert puts emphasis on the immediate felt
a. The curriculum must be articulated. interests and needs of his students and not on the
b. The curriculum must be sequenced. anticipated needs and interests. What type of curriculum
c. The curriculum must be integrated. does teacher Bert adheres?
d. The curriculum must be continued. a. Subject-centered
86. Learning should be organized in order that students can b. Learner-centered
experience success in the process of mastering the subject c. Experience-centered
matter. This is one advocacy of a: d. Culture-based
a. Sociologist c. Cognitivist 98. What type of curriculum divides the school day into
b. Behaviourist d. Humanist different periods such as language arts, social studies,
87. This concept includes the sub-processes of curriculum science and health, arithmetic, etc.?
planning, organization, implementation and evaluation. a. Correlated c. Integrated
Which concept is this? b. Broad fields d. Separate Subject
a. Curriculum development 99. The following curricular changes took place in what
b. Curriculum assessment particular period? Restore Grade VII, double-single session
c. Curriculum management was abolished and more textbooks were written by
d. Curriculum and instruction Filipino authors.
88. If the curriculum is the “means”, what is the “end”? a. American Period
a. Strategies c. Technique b. Philippine Republic
b. Instruction d. Approaches c. Japanese Occupation
89. What refers to the authenticity of the content selected by d. New Society
the curriculum developer? 100. The curriculum used during the period in Philippine
a. Feasibility c. Significance history terminated the use of English as a medium of
b. Learnability d. Validity instruction. What period is this?
90. What do we call the allocation of content to a definite a. American
grade capable of learning? b. Spanish
a. Time allotment c. Grade level c. Commonwealth
b. Grade placement d. Maturity level d. Japanese
91. Which of the following best defines curriculum
development?
a. The total mental phenomena directly received at
any given time
b. The planning of learning opportunities intended to
bring about certain desired changes in pupils and
the assessment of the extent to which these
changes have taken place.
c. A continuous cycle of activities in which all
elements of curriculum are considered.
d. Education is aiding each child to be socially creative
individuals.
92. What refers to an individual or group of individuals who
have a direct and indirect influence in curriculum
development?
a. Stockholders c. Promoters
b. Stakeholders d. Incorporators
93. What refers to the appropriateness of the content in the
light of the particular students who are to experience the
curriculum?
a. Significance c. Interest
b. Validity d. Learnability

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