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(a) Assessment should generate fear and stress among students and encourage competition.
(b) Assessment includes a variety of tools including portfolios and classroom interactions.
(c) Assessment is carried out to enhance the children's ability to reproduce information.
(d) Assessment should focus only on what the child does not know rather than what the child knows.
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Answer: (b) Assessment includes a variety of tools including portfolios and classroom interactions.
Explanation:
1. Socio-constructivist assessment is continuous and uses varied tools like portfolios and interactions.
2. It focuses on understanding, not fear, competition or reproduction.
3. So option (b).
Teacher's Note:
1. Look for authentic, formative assessment.
2. Assessment should capture what the child knows as well as the gaps.
(a) only knowledge
(b) only comprehension
(c) problem-solving
(d) convergent thinking
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Answer: (c) problem-solving
Explanation:
1. The question is open-ended and asks the learner to devise a solution.
2. This needs analysis and application, that is problem-solving.
3. It is not about recall, only comprehension or a single right answer.
Teacher's Note:
1. How-can questions are higher-order.
2. Convergent thinking has one right answer, which does not fit here.
Reason (R): Outcome of severely deprived childhood can be easily modified in later years.
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: (c) (A) is true but (R) is false
Explanation:
1. (A) is true because early years are critical for development.
2. (R) is false because the effects of severe early deprivation are hard to reverse.
3. So (A) is true and (R) is false.
Teacher's Note:
1. Early childhood care and education is stressed in NEP 2020.
2. If R were true it would weaken the need for early care.
(a) asking them to keep home tuitions.
(b) giving them lot of recall based worksheets.
(c) inducing fear and shame of failure
(d) providing appropriate pedagogical support
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Answer: (d) providing appropriate pedagogical support
Explanation:
1. Disadvantaged learners need support within school.
2. Appropriate pedagogical support meets their needs.
3. Tuition, rote worksheets and fear do not.
Teacher's Note:
1. Equity means extra support, not more pressure.
2. Fear and shame are harmful.
(a) analyze the system
(b) blame the parents
(c) shame the student
(d) refer the student to special school
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Answer: (a) analyze the system
Explanation:
1. Poor performance may stem from the teaching, school or environment.
2. The teacher should first analyse the system and find the causes.
3. Blaming, shaming or sending away is wrong.
Teacher's Note:
1. Reflective teachers look at their own practice first.
2. Do not label the child as the problem.
(a) Frustration
(b) Boredom
(c) Anger
(d) Pride
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Answer: (d) Pride
Explanation:
1. Pride is a positive emotion linked to achievement and motivation.
2. Frustration, boredom and anger discourage effort.
3. So pride.
Teacher's Note:
1. Positive emotions boost effort and persistence.
2. Praise for effort builds healthy pride.
(a) did not refer to Piaget's theory of moral development.
(b) proposed six stages of moral development organised into two general levels.
(c) conducted research on children by presenting them with a hypothetical situation - 'Heinz dilemma.'
(d) argues that morality in girls and boys progresses differently in the course of their cognitive development.
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Answer: (c) conducted research on children by presenting them with a hypothetical situation - 'Heinz dilemma.'
Explanation:
1. Kohlberg used moral dilemmas such as the Heinz dilemma in his interviews.
2. He built on Piaget, proposed six stages in three levels, and did not claim gender differences.
3. So only (c) is correct.
Teacher's Note:
1. Three levels: pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional.
2. Option (b) is a trap: two levels instead of three.
(a) Intelligence can be accurately predicted by administering standardized tests.
(b) Intelligence comprises of several independent intelligences.
(c) Intelligence is a complex interplay of heredity and environmental factors.
(d) Intelligence can be nurtured by providing appropriate stimulating environment.
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Answer: (a) Intelligence can be accurately predicted by administering standardized tests.
Explanation:
1. Contemporary views see intelligence as multiple and modifiable.
2. Standardised tests cannot accurately predict all of it.
3. So (a) is not correct.
Teacher's Note:
1. Gardner criticised the narrow IQ view.
2. Environment can nurture intelligence.
Reason (R): Textbook can be the only source of knowledge in the middle grades.
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 and (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: (c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
Explanation:
1. (A) is true because comparing sources in groups builds critical thinking.
2. (R) is false because the textbook should not be the only source of knowledge (NCF).
3. So (A) is true and (R) is false.
Teacher's Note:
1. Multiple sources promote evaluation and discussion.
2. 'Only' statements are usually false.
(a) Flexible grouping
(b) Reasonable accommodation
(c) Differentiated instruction
(d) Labelling and segregation
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Answer: (d) Labelling and segregation
Explanation:
1. Flexible grouping, reasonable accommodation and differentiated instruction include all learners.
2. Labelling and segregation exclude children.
3. So (d).
Teacher's Note:
1. Inclusion = belonging, participation and support.
2. Labels lower expectations.
(a) Teachers should take only those examples that are given in the textbook.
(b) Teachers should give examples and prompt children to bring examples from their lives.
(c) Teachers should encourage only children from dominant groups to give examples.
(d) Teachers should focus on giving examples from her own experience only.
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Answer: (b) Teachers should give examples and prompt children to bring examples from their lives.
Explanation:
1. Examples from children's own lives connect learning to their context.
2. This respects diversity and involves everyone.
3. Textbook-only, dominant-group-only or teacher-only examples exclude learners.
Teacher's Note:
1. Culturally relevant examples make learning meaningful.
2. Avoid options that favour a single group.
Reason (R): Students with ADHD have low concentration span and get distracted easily.
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. Because ADHD students get easily distracted, reducing distractions helps them.
3. So (R) explains (A).
Teacher's Note:
1. Seat them away from windows and noise and give short, clear tasks.
2. ADHD involves inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
(a) books with pictures and small print.
(b) use of tactile and other materials which are embossed.
(c) restriction on usage of assistive technology.
(d) use of sign language by teacher and peers.
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Answer: (b) use of tactile and other materials which are embossed.
Explanation:
1. Learners with visual impairment need tactile and embossed materials such as Braille.
2. Small print and pictures do not help, restricting assistive technology hinders them, and sign language is for hearing impairment.
3. So (b).
Teacher's Note:
1. Match the support to the disability: Braille for visual, sign language for hearing.
2. Assistive technology should be encouraged.
(a) Conformity
(b) Convergent thinking
(c) Divergent thinking
(d) Hypothetico-deductive reasoning
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Answer: (c) Divergent thinking
Explanation:
1. Creativity involves producing many original ideas.
2. This is divergent thinking.
3. Conformity and convergent thinking limit originality.
Teacher's Note:
1. Guilford linked creativity with divergent thinking.
2. Fluency, flexibility and originality are its signs.
(i) Organising and reorganising previous knowledge
(ii) Exploration and discovery
(iii) Social interactions
(a) (ii), (iii)
(b) (i), (ii), (iii)
(c) (i), (iii)
(d) (i), (ii)
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Answer: (b) (i), (ii), (iii)
Explanation:
1. Knowledge is built by reorganising prior knowledge (Piaget).
2. Exploration and discovery help (Bruner).
3. Social interaction helps (Vygotsky), so all three contribute.
Teacher's Note:
1. Constructivism combines individual and social processes.
2. If all statements are valid, choose the 'all' option.
Reason (R): Helping students recognize and express their feelings encourages emotional self-regulation.
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. Naming and writing about feelings helps students recognise and regulate emotions.
3. So (R) explains (A).
Teacher's Note:
1. Emotional vocabulary is part of emotional intelligence.
2. Journaling is a reflective tool.
(a) A step-by-step prescribed procedure is followed for achieving the goals
(b) The problem is divided into a number of intermediate goals and then focus is on solving each sub-goal.
(c) The students begin at the goal and move back to the unsolved initial problem.
(d) The student limits her search for solutions to situations that have something in common with the one she currently faces.
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Answer: (b) The problem is divided into a number of intermediate goals and then focus is on solving each sub-goal.
Explanation:
1. Means-end analysis breaks a problem into sub-goals.
2. Each sub-goal reduces the gap between the current state and the goal.
3. Step-by-step procedures are algorithms and working backwards is a different strategy.
Teacher's Note:
1. Newell and Simon used this in problem solving.
2. Do not confuse it with algorithms, working backward or analogy.
(a) Memorization
(b) Imitation
(c) Metacognition
(d) Rote learning
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Answer: (c) Metacognition
Explanation:
1. The question asks students to think about their own thinking and learning.
2. This is metacognition.
3. The other options are not reflective.
Teacher's Note:
1. Metacognition includes awareness of strengths and strategies.
2. Reflection questions develop it.
Reason (R): Learning is a social activity.
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. Vygotsky held that learning is social, so classrooms should provide interaction.
3. So (R) explains (A).
Teacher's Note:
1. Peer collaboration supports learning in the ZPD.
2. Remember social interaction as Vygotsky's keyword.
(a) ignoring them
(b) minimizing them through punishment
(c) minimizing them through negative reinforcement
(d) working out appropriate strategies to induce cognitive conflict
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Answer: (d) working out appropriate strategies to induce cognitive conflict
Explanation:
1. Errors show how the learner is thinking.
2. Inducing cognitive conflict leads learners to re-examine their ideas.
3. Ignoring or punishing errors does not help learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Cognitive conflict is from Piaget's idea of disequilibrium.
2. Treat errors as learning opportunities.
(a) Socio-constructivist perspective.
(b) Behaviouristic perspective
(c) Psycho-dynamic perspective
(d) Psycho-sexual perspective
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Answer: (a) Socio-constructivist perspective.
Explanation:
1. The teacher uses the learners' own language and builds on their thinking.
2. He then supports them to move forward, as in scaffolding.
3. This is socio-constructivist.
Teacher's Note:
1. Starting from the home language and building on it is a socio-constructivist approach.
2. Behaviourism would stress drill and correction.
(a) Infancy
(b) Early Childhood
(c) Middle childhood
(d) Adolescence
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Answer: (d) Adolescence
Explanation:
1. In adolescence youth question norms and seek independence.
2. Peer opinion becomes more important than family.
3. Earlier stages do not fit.
Teacher's Note:
1. Adolescence = search for identity and peer influence.
2. Parents and teachers should guide with understanding.
(a) Egocentric Speech
(b) Private Speech
(c) Social Speech
(d) Irrational Speech
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Answer: (b) Private Speech
Explanation:
1. Self-directed talk used to guide one's own actions is private speech in Vygotsky's theory.
2. Piaget called it egocentric speech.
3. Social speech is directed at others.
Teacher's Note:
1. Private speech later becomes inner speech.
2. The same behaviour has different names under Piaget and Vygotsky.
(i) Enquiry and questioning.
(ii) Reproduction and recall.
(iii) Application and reflection.
(iv) Debate and discussion.
Choose the correct option.
(a) (i), (ii), (iv)
(b) (i), (iii), (ii)
(c) (i), (iii), (iv)
(d) (ii), (iii), (iv)
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Answer: (c) (i), (iii), (iv)
Explanation:
1. Active engagement involves enquiry, application, reflection, debate and discussion.
2. Reproduction and recall are passive memory tasks.
3. So (i), (iii), (iv).
Teacher's Note:
1. Active engagement needs thinking, not just remembering.
2. Exclude the recall statement to find the answer.
(a) ensure that the concept is absolutely alien to students.
(b) relate what students already know with the new concept.
(c) give ready-made notes to students and ask them to memorise.
(d) ensure that students do not share their socio-cultural knowledge in the discussion about the concept.
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Answer: (b) relate what students already know with the new concept.
Explanation:
1. New learning is meaningful when linked to prior knowledge.
2. The teacher should relate what students know to the new concept.
3. The other options ignore or block learners' experience.
Teacher's Note:
1. Ausubel: prior knowledge is the most important factor in learning.
2. Start from the known and move to the unknown.
(a) gross motor skills; fine muscles
(b) fine motor skills; gross muscles
(c) language; analytical reasoning
(d) analytical reasoning; language
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Answer: (a) gross motor skills; fine muscles
Explanation:
1. Large muscle (gross motor) control develops first.
2. Fine muscle control develops later.
3. This follows the cephalocaudal and proximodistal trends.
Teacher's Note:
1. Walking comes before writing or buttoning.
2. Large to small is the general direction.
(a) Development depends only on environmental factors.
(b) Development depends only on the heredity factors.
(c) Development is a temporary change of short duration.
(d) Development continues in a holistic and systematic manner.
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Answer: (d) Development continues in a holistic and systematic manner.
Explanation:
1. Development depends on both heredity and environment.
2. It is lifelong, not temporary.
3. It proceeds in an orderly and holistic manner.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'Only' options are wrong.
2. Development is continuous, orderly and integrated.
(a) sensori-motor stage
(b) pre-operational stage
(c) concrete operational stage
(d) formal operational stage
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Answer: (b) pre-operational stage
Explanation:
1. In Piaget's pre-operational stage (2-7 years) children use symbols such as words, images and pretend play.
2. This is called the semiotic function.
3. So (b).
Teacher's Note:
1. Symbolic thought is the key gain of the pre-operational stage.
2. Logical thinking appears in the concrete operational stage.
(a) Instrumental purpose orientation
(b) Punishment and obedience orientation
(c) Universal ethical principles orientation
(d) Good boy-good girl orientation
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Answer: (a) Instrumental purpose orientation
Explanation:
1. In stage 2 (instrumental relativist orientation) right action satisfies one's own needs and sometimes others'.
2. Stage 1 is avoiding punishment.
3. Stage 3 seeks approval and stage 6 follows universal principles.
Teacher's Note:
1. Stage 2 is the 'what's in it for me' stage.
2. Stages 1-2 are pre-conventional.
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