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(a) By encouraging girls towards 'feminine' traits and roles; and boys towards 'masculine'.
(b) By giving gender specific learning tasks to boys and girls that they are genetically programmed for.
(c) By having gender appropriate expectations- girls to excel in languages and boys in maths.
(d) By presenting role models of people in 'non-stereotypical sex roles'.
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Answer: (d) By presenting role models of people in 'non-stereotypical sex roles'.
Explanation:
1. Flexibility is built by showing people in non-traditional roles.
2. The other options reinforce stereotypes.
Teacher's Note:
1. Avoid fixed expectations by gender.
2. Offer equal opportunities.
(a) Yes, children's intuitions and guesses help them develop their cognitive reasoning.
(b) No, intuitions are mere conjectives and need to be discarded.
(c) Yes, but teachers should immediately tell correct answers to the students.
(d) No, intuitive thinking is subjective and non-scientific.
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Answer: (a) Yes, children's intuitions and guesses help them develop their cognitive reasoning.
Explanation:
1. Intuitive guesses are a starting point for reasoning.
2. Testing them develops cognitive reasoning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Bruner valued intuitive thinking.
2. Do not reject guesses; let children test them.
Reason (R): Childhood experiences unfold differently for children depending upon their socio-cultural contexts.
Choose the correct option.
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false
(d) Both (A) and (R) are false
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Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
Explanation:
1. Both statements are true.
2. Cultural differences in treating menarche are explained by socio-cultural context.
Teacher's Note:
1. Childhood is socially constructed.
2. Experiences vary with culture.
(a) Disorderly
(b) Totally unpredictable
(c) Unidimensional
(d) Dynamic
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Answer: (d) Dynamic
Explanation:
1. Development is ongoing, changing and multidimensional.
2. So it is dynamic.
Teacher's Note:
1. Development follows orderly patterns.
2. It covers several domains.
Reason (R): Media is a powerful secondary agency of socialization.
Choose the correct option:
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false
(d) Both (A) and (R) are false
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Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
Explanation:
1. Media is an agency of socialisation and shapes attitudes and values.
2. So R explains A.
Teacher's Note:
1. Family is the primary agency.
2. Media, school and peers are secondary.
According to Kohlberg at which stage of morality is Ramesh?
(a) Instrumental relativist orientation
(b) Punishment and obedience orientation
(c) Social contract orientation
(d) Good boy-Good girl orientation
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Answer: (d) Good boy-Good girl orientation
Explanation:
1. Ramesh acts to keep approval of his parents.
2. Seeking approval is the good boy-good girl orientation (stage 3).
Teacher's Note:
1. Stage 3 stresses approval of others.
2. Stage 1 is fear of punishment.
Reason (R): Socio-cultural factors play an important role in cognitive development.
Choose the correct option
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false
(d) Both (A) and (R) are false
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Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
Explanation:
1. Critics say Piaget ignored cultural variation in how children progress.
2. R explains why the uniform progression criticised in A is questioned.
Teacher's Note:
1. Vygotsky stressed the socio-cultural context.
2. Stage timing varies across cultures.
(a) Teachers should help the children varying the level and amount of their support.
(b) Teachers should enable conditioning of stimulus and response.
(c) Teachers should promote both positive and negative reinforcement.
(d) Teachers should formulate ways to enhance the memory strategies.
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Answer: (a) Teachers should help the children varying the level and amount of their support.
Explanation:
1. Vygotsky's theory implies scaffolding: support is adjusted to the child's needs.
2. Conditioning and reinforcement belong to behaviourism.
Teacher's Note:
1. Support is withdrawn as the child gains competence.
2. Link: ZPD, scaffolding, peer collaboration.
(a) B.F. Skinner
(b) Lawrence Kohlberg
(c) Lev Vygotsky
(d) Albert Bandura
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Answer: (b) Lawrence Kohlberg
Explanation:
1. Kohlberg proposed three levels and six stages of moral development.
2. Skinner is operant conditioning, Vygotsky socio-cultural, Bandura social learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Kohlberg used moral dilemmas such as the Heinz dilemma.
2. Piaget also studied moral judgement, but Kohlberg is the usual answer.
(a) Scaffolding
(b) Conditioning
(c) Rehearsal
(d) Passive imitation
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Answer: (a) Scaffolding
Explanation:
1. Scaffolding is guided support that helps a child do what she cannot yet do alone.
2. This moves the child through the ZPD.
Teacher's Note:
1. Support is gradually withdrawn.
2. Passive imitation does not build understanding.
(a) What is sum of 4984 and 4694?
(b) When did World War II take place?
(c) In which year was Mahatma Gandhi born?
(d) How can we challenge prejudices and stereotypes?
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Answer: (d) How can we challenge prejudices and stereotypes?
Explanation:
1. Critical thinking needs analysis, evaluation and reasoning.
2. Only (d) is open-ended and asks for reasoned solutions; others need simple recall or calculation.
Teacher's Note:
1. Factual questions test memory.
2. Open-ended 'how' and 'why' questions build critical thinking.
Reason (R): The aim of inclusive education is to work towards making everyone the same by dismissing differences.
Choose the correct option:
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false
(d) Both (A) and (R) are false
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Answer: (d) Both (A) and (R) are false
Explanation:
1. Inclusive education values differences and adapts curriculum and assessment.
2. So A is false, and R is false too.
Teacher's Note:
1. Inclusion celebrates diversity.
2. Standardisation ignores individual needs.
(a) Promote gender stereotyping.
(b) Enhance gender discrimination.
(c) Enhance gender conformity.
(d) Promote gender equity.
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Answer: (d) Promote gender equity.
Explanation:
1. Gender-neutral language and awareness that gender is socially constructed reduce bias.
2. This promotes gender equity.
Teacher's Note:
1. Stereotyping and discrimination are what the teacher wants to reduce.
2. Source key (c) is not correct.
(a) Autism
(b) Dyslexia
(c) Dysgraphia
(d) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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Answer: (a) Autism
Explanation:
1. Repetitive movements, social difficulty and strong attention to detail are typical of autism spectrum disorder.
2. Dyslexia and dysgraphia are reading and writing difficulties; ADHD involves inattention.
Teacher's Note:
1. Autism affects social communication and behaviour.
2. Do not confuse with ADHD.
(a) transmitted by the teacher to the learners.
(b) discovered independently by the learners.
(c) co-constructed by the learners with support from the teachers.
(d) directed and dictated only by the textbooks.
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Answer: (c) co-constructed by the learners with support from the teachers.
Explanation:
1. Socio-constructivism sees knowledge as built jointly with others.
2. Teachers guide and support the process.
Teacher's Note:
1. Independent discovery is Piagetian.
2. Transmission is the traditional view.
Reason (R): Even though the first few years of life are significant for development, from the point of view of brain plasticity, the whole of childhood and adolescence is a sensitive period.
Choose the correct option.
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(d) Both (A) and (R) are false.
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Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Explanation:
1. The brain remains plastic through childhood and adolescence.
2. So attention to the whole span is important; R explains A.
Teacher's Note:
1. Early years are important but not the only sensitive period.
2. Development is lifelong.
Choose the set of options that indicate teacher's belief about socialisation and learning.
i) Recognising the importance of knowledge that children gain through community.
ii) Understanding that learning takes place in a social context and it is important to connect with it.
iii) Importance of linking school knowledge with local knowledge.
iv) Giving more importance to school knowledge.
(a) (i) only
(b) (ii) and (iii) only
(c) (i), (ii) and (iii)
(d) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
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Answer: (c) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Explanation:
1. The teacher values community knowledge, social context and local knowledge, so (i), (ii) and (iii) apply.
2. Giving more importance to school knowledge (iv) contradicts the action.
Teacher's Note:
1. NCF stresses linking school to community.
2. Eliminate the statement that conflicts with the scenario.
(i) conducting formative assessment.
(ii) testing the capability of students to summarize the main points.
(iii) developing rubrics to evaluate the level of the students.
(iv) testing the artistic ability of students.
(a) (i), (ii) and (iii)
(b) (i) and (iv)
(c) (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(d) (ii) and (iv)
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Answer: (a) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Explanation:
1. Concept maps show understanding and summarising of main points and can be scored by rubrics.
2. They are not meant to test artistic ability.
Teacher's Note:
1. Concept maps are a formative tool.
2. Match the tool to its purpose.
(a) Asking students to read the textbook on their own and avoid discussion with peers.
(b) Asking students to discuss topics in groups and come up with questions.
(c) Presentation by the teacher using lecture method.
(d) Giving students homework to write the answers to recall the questions given at the end of the textbook.
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Answer: (b) Asking students to discuss topics in groups and come up with questions.
Explanation:
1. Group discussion and questioning make students analyse and evaluate ideas.
2. The other options encourage passive recall.
Teacher's Note:
1. Questioning is central to critical thinking.
2. Rote tasks do not build it.
(a) maturation
(b) reinforcement
(c) social interaction
(d) cognitive conflict.
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Answer: (c) social interaction
Explanation:
1. Vygotsky held that higher mental functions arise from social interaction.
2. Cognitive conflict is Piagetian and reinforcement is behaviourist.
Teacher's Note:
1. Social interaction and language drive his theory.
2. Keep Piaget and Vygotsky apart.
(a) Copying answers written by the teacher on the blackboard.
(b) Brainstorming
(c) Writing passages from the textbook multiple times.
(d) Direct Instruction.
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Answer: (b) Brainstorming
Explanation:
1. Brainstorming generates and examines many ideas.
2. The others are passive or rote.
Teacher's Note:
1. Active strategies develop critical thinking.
2. Copying and repetition do not.
(a) hinder teaching - learning process
(b) facilitate teaching - learning process
(c) are irrelevant for teaching - learning process
(d) play minute role in teaching - learning process
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Answer: (b) facilitate teaching - learning process
Explanation:
1. New learning is built on what the learner already knows.
2. So prior knowledge facilitates learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Constructivism and Ausubel stress prior knowledge.
2. Find out what students know before teaching.
(a) Standardized tests for assessment
(b) Written tests of long duration
(c) Testing of ability to work under stress
(d) Providing preferential seating
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Answer: (d) Providing preferential seating
Explanation:
1. Reasonable accommodation removes barriers without lowering standards.
2. Preferential seating is one; the others add difficulty.
Teacher's Note:
1. Other examples: extra time, oral tests.
2. Avoid uniform stressful tests.
(a) Understand, accept and value diversity
(b) Identify, label and segregate children
(c) Focus on uniformity and standardization
(d) Focus on cultivating an attitude of pity and sympathy
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Answer: (a) Understand, accept and value diversity
Explanation:
1. Inclusive schools welcome all learners and value differences.
2. Labelling, segregation and pity go against inclusion.
Teacher's Note:
1. Inclusion is about belonging, not sympathy.
2. Diversity is a resource.
(a) Convergent thinking
(b) Originality of ideas
(c) Preference for repeating tasks
(d) Centration in thought
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Answer: (b) Originality of ideas
Explanation:
1. Creativity involves new, original ideas.
2. The other options are narrow or rigid.
Teacher's Note:
1. Guilford: fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration.
2. Creativity relies on divergent thinking.
(a) A class where the teacher dictates the answers to the questions in the textbook.
(b) A class where what is taught is determined by what is to be assessed.
(c) A class where teacher controls the behaviour of the students by offering them appropriate rewards.
(d) A class where the children learn collaboratively.
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Answer: (d) A class where the children learn collaboratively.
Explanation:
1. Socio-constructivism stresses learning through collaboration.
2. The other options are teacher-centred or behaviourist.
Teacher's Note:
1. Peer learning is a key feature.
2. Teacher acts as facilitator.
(a) Discussion and Discovery
(b) Conditioning
(c) Standardized assessment
(d) Repeated drill and practice
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Answer: (a) Discussion and Discovery
Explanation:
1. Meaningful learning needs active engagement and sense-making.
2. Discussion and discovery provide this; drill and conditioning promote rote learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Link new ideas to prior knowledge.
2. Rote repetition gives surface learning.
(a) Analogical thinking
(b) Algorithms
(c) Heuristics
(d) Response set
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Answer: (d) Response set
Explanation:
1. A response set is a tendency to keep using one familiar approach.
2. This blocks new solutions, while analogies, algorithms and heuristics help.
Teacher's Note:
1. Other barriers: functional fixedness, mental set.
2. Encourage flexible thinking.
(a) Decontextualised activities.
(b) Mechanical activities.
(c) Purposeful activities.
(d) Activities totally controlled and directed by the teachers.
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Answer: (c) Purposeful activities.
Explanation:
1. Purposeful activities are meaningful and engaging.
2. The other options are disconnected or restrictive.
Teacher's Note:
1. Give learners relevant tasks.
2. Let students have some choice.
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