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(i) Wheel chairs
(ii) Walker
(iii) Ramps with hand-rails
(iv) Embossed tiles
(v) Braille systems
(a) (i), (ii), (iii)
(b) (i), (iii), (iv)
(c) (ii), (iii), (iv)
(d) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
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Answer: (a) (i), (ii), (iii)
Explanation:
1. Wheelchairs, walkers and ramps with hand-rails help mobility.
2. Embossed tiles and Braille systems are for visual impairment.
Teacher's Note:
1. Match provisions to the disability.
2. Tactile paths are for low vision.
(a) Omits words or lines in readings; makes mistakes in spellings.
(b) Cannot see things after a distance of 2 feet
(c) Performs the same motor action repeatedly
(d) Cannot hear sounds of 70 dB.
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Answer: (a) Omits words or lines in readings; makes mistakes in spellings.
Explanation:
1. Skipping words or lines and spelling errors are typical learning disability signs.
2. The others relate to visual impairment, autism or hearing impairment.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learning disability does not involve sensory loss.
2. Repetitive actions suggest autism.
(a) Offering positive and negative reinforcement
(b) Passive listening
(c) Reinforcing competition.
(d) The processes of enquiry and questioning
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Answer: (d) The processes of enquiry and questioning
Explanation:
1. Active engagement means students think, ask and explore.
2. Enquiry and questioning make students construct knowledge themselves.
3. Passive listening, competition and reinforcement alone do not build active involvement.
Teacher's Note:
1. Constructivist classrooms rely on enquiry, questioning and discussion.
2. Avoid options that make the learner a passive receiver.
Reason (R): Learning is a process that is individualistic in nature and not social in character.
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. Peer dialogue supports problem solving, so (A) is false.
2. Learning is social (Vygotsky), so (R) is false.
3. Both are false.
Teacher's Note:
1. Socio-constructivism holds that learning is social and interaction-based.
2. In assertion-reason items, test each statement separately first.
(a) Mastery-oriented
(b) Performance oriented
(c) Failure accepting
(d) Failure avoiding
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Answer: (a) Mastery-oriented
Explanation:
1. Mastery goals focus on learning and understanding.
2. They lead to persistence and a growth view of ability.
Teacher's Note:
1. Mastery goals are linked with intrinsic motivation.
2. Performance goals focus on proving ability to others.
(a) Emphasises the role of the learner in constructing his own view of the world
(b) Emphasises on memorising information and testing through recall
(c) Emphasises on the dominant role of the teacher
(d) Focuses on the role of passive imitation in learning
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Answer: (a) Emphasises the role of the learner in constructing his own view of the world
Explanation:
1. Constructivism says learners build knowledge from their own experiences.
2. The other options describe rote or teacher-centred learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. The teacher is a facilitator in constructivism.
2. Piaget and Vygotsky are the key names.
(a) what is irrelevant for them.
(b) what is already understood by them.
(c) what is completely alien to them.
(d) what is much beyond their cognitive levels.
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Answer: (b) what is already understood by them.
Explanation:
1. Constructivism says new learning is linked to existing knowledge.
2. Alien or irrelevant content cannot be connected to anything.
Teacher's Note:
1. Always begin from what the child already knows.
2. Ausubel: the most important factor is prior knowledge.
(a) Cognition and emotions are processes independent of each other
(b) Cognition and emotions are intertwined and affect each other
(c) Cognition affects emotions but emotions do not affect cognition
(d) Emotions affects cognition but cognition does not affect emotions
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Answer: (b) Cognition and emotions are intertwined and affect each other
Explanation:
1. Thinking shapes how we feel, and feelings (anxiety, interest) shape attention and memory.
2. So the influence is two-way.
Teacher's Note:
1. Fear can block learning; interest improves it.
2. Reject options that claim a one-way effect.
(a) to completely ignore them.
(b) to assign lot of content for passive memorization.
(c) to punish the students.
(d) to give opportunities for discussing counter perspectives.
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Answer: (d) to give opportunities for discussing counter perspectives.
Explanation:
1. Misconceptions are corrected when learners meet other viewpoints and rethink.
2. Ignoring, memorising or punishing does not change understanding.
Teacher's Note:
1. Misconceptions are the child's own constructions and need to be addressed.
2. Cognitive conflict through discussion helps.
Reason (R): Establishing links of the school with the community hinders meaningful learning for students.
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. Parent and community involvement supports learning, so (A) is false.
2. School-community links help learning, so (R) is false.
Teacher's Note:
1. NEP and RTE encourage community participation (e.g. SMCs).
2. Absolute words like 'not in any manner' are usually wrong.
(a) the best way to encourage students to learn is through use of rewards and punishment
(b) the experiences and perspective of students should be taken into consideration while teaching
(c) learning is directed and controlled by the environment.
(d) learning needs to be solely centered around textbooks
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Answer: (b) the experiences and perspective of students should be taken into consideration while teaching
Explanation:
1. Child-centred pedagogy starts from the child's experiences, interests and views.
2. The other options are behaviourist or textbook-centred.
Teacher's Note:
1. NCF stresses linking learning to the child's life.
2. Rewards and punishment belong to behaviourism.
(a) Spatial intelligence
(b) Interpersonal intelligence
(c) Naturalist intelligence
(d) Fluid intelligence
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Answer: (b) Interpersonal intelligence
Explanation:
1. Sensing and responding to others' moods is interpersonal intelligence (Gardner).
2. It suits counsellors and therapists.
Teacher's Note:
1. Interpersonal means understanding others; intrapersonal means understanding oneself.
2. Fluid intelligence is not in Gardner's list.
(a) Creativity
(b) Learning disability
(c) Autism
(d) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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Answer: (a) Creativity
Explanation:
1. Divergent thinking and originality are the core features of creativity (Guilford).
2. The others are developmental conditions.
Teacher's Note:
1. Creativity includes fluency, flexibility, originality.
2. Convergent thinking leads to one right answer.
(a) Media
(b) Educational institutions
(c) Neighbourhood
(d) Religion
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Answer: (a) Media
Explanation:
1. The children copy behaviour seen in a television show.
2. The influence comes from the media.
Teacher's Note:
1. Media includes TV, internet and films.
2. Agencies: family, school, peers, media, religion.
(a) Spatial intelligence
(b) Bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence
(c) Naturalistic intelligence
(d) Creative intelligence
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Answer: (d) Creative intelligence
Explanation:
1. Gardner's types include spatial, bodily-kinaesthetic and naturalistic.
2. Creative intelligence is not one of them.
Teacher's Note:
1. Gardner: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinaesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic.
2. Creative is from Sternberg's triarchic idea.
(a) Learn and display skills of problem solving
(b) Understand verbal communication
(c) Execute distinctive activities associated with shifting of objects
(d) Participate in games based on concentration
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Answer: (c) Execute distinctive activities associated with shifting of objects
Explanation:
1. Locomotor disability affects movement of limbs.
2. So moving or shifting objects is the difficulty, not thinking or understanding.
Teacher's Note:
1. Locomotor disability does not by itself affect intelligence.
2. Provide ramps and adapted tasks.
(a) infancy
(b) Childhood
(c) Adolescence
(d) Adulthood
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Answer: (a) infancy
Explanation:
1. Primary socialisation happens in the family from the earliest years.
2. It begins in infancy.
Teacher's Note:
1. Family is the primary agent.
2. Secondary socialisation occurs through school, peers and media.
(a) Linguistic intelligence
(b) Bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence
(c) Musical intelligence
(d) Crystallised intelligence
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Answer: (d) Crystallised intelligence
Explanation:
1. Linguistic, bodily-kinaesthetic and musical are Gardner's types.
2. Crystallised intelligence comes from Cattell's fluid-crystallised theory.
Teacher's Note:
1. Fluid and crystallised belong to Cattell and Horn.
2. Learn Gardner's eight types.
(a) Multiple ways of representation of content.
(b) Multiple ways of labelling the students.
(c) Multiple ways of expressing the opinions.
(d) Multiple ways of engaging in process of learning.
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Answer: (b) Multiple ways of labelling the students.
Explanation:
1. Labelling students stigmatises and excludes them.
2. The other options are Universal Design for Learning principles that support inclusion.
Teacher's Note:
1. UDL: multiple means of representation, expression and engagement.
2. Labelling is discouraged in inclusive classrooms.
1. Formal operational stage
2. Pre-operational stage
3. Concrete operational stage
4. Sensorimotor stage
A. Able to think logically and can conserve
B. Starts reasoning hypothetically and abstractly
C. Begins to understand permanence of objects
D. Starts thinking symbolically but cannot conserve
(a) 1-A, 2-D, 3-B, 4-C
(b) 1-B, 2-D, 3-A, 4-C
(c) 1-D, 2-A, 3-B, 4-C
(d) 1-B, 2-A, 3-C, 4-D
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Answer: (b) 1-B, 2-D, 3-A, 4-C
Explanation:
1. Formal operational: abstract and hypothetical reasoning (B).
2. Pre-operational: symbols but no conservation (D); concrete operational: logic and conservation (A); sensorimotor: object permanence (C).
Teacher's Note:
1. Remember the order sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete, formal.
2. Conservation is achieved at the concrete stage.
(a) hinders cognitive development
(b) facilitates cognitive development
(c) does not influence cognitive development
(d) functions independently of cognitive development
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Answer: (b) facilitates cognitive development
Explanation:
1. Vygotsky saw language as the main tool of thought.
2. It develops thinking through social interaction.
Teacher's Note:
1. Private speech becomes inner speech.
2. Piaget saw language as following thought.
(a) Choosing to read the blackboard from far away.
(b) Reading physical maps with minute details.
(c) Completing worksheets with fine print quickly.
(d) Struggling to read and squinting eyes while doing so.
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Answer: (d) Struggling to read and squinting eyes while doing so.
Explanation:
1. Squinting and struggling to read are signs of poor vision.
2. The other behaviours show good vision.
Teacher's Note:
1. Other signs: holding books very close, frequent eye rubbing.
2. Refer the child for screening.
(a) Pre-operational stage
(b) Sensorimotor stage
(c) Concrete operational stage
(d) Formal operational stage
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Answer: (d) Formal operational stage
Explanation:
1. Piaget places abstract and hypothetico-deductive reasoning in the formal operational stage.
2. This begins at about 11-12 years.
Teacher's Note:
1. Concrete operational thinking needs concrete objects.
2. Formal operations allow 'what if' thinking.
(a) is valid since they can predict intelligence accurately.
(b) has been critiqued since many tests are culturally biased.
(c) is very useful to rank and sort students in clear cut categories for their educability.
(d) helps the teacher in predicting students' academic performance and success.
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Answer: (b) has been critiqued since many tests are culturally biased.
Explanation:
1. IQ tests often favour particular cultures and languages.
2. So they are criticised, and the other claims are too strong.
Teacher's Note:
1. Intelligence is multi-dimensional.
2. Avoid labelling children by IQ scores.
(a) abstract thinking.
(b) manipulative operations with concrete materials.
(c) seriation tasks.
(d) classification tasks.
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Answer: (a) abstract thinking.
Explanation:
1. Algebra and hypothetical situations need abstract thinking.
2. Adolescents reach the formal operational stage.
Teacher's Note:
1. Seriation and classification belong to the concrete stage.
2. Formal operations deal with possibilities.
(a) Comparison of the student performance with the marks across the state.
(b) Progress of the learners in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains.
(c) Correct identification and labelling of the student in an eight point grade scale as per her cognitive capabilities.
(d) Problem areas in the students' comprehension that the parents need to work upon.
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Answer: (b) Progress of the learners in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains.
Explanation:
1. NEP 2020 wants the progress card to cover cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains.
2. It includes self, peer and teacher assessment.
Teacher's Note:
1. It is not meant for comparison or labelling.
2. Remember the phrase 'holistic, 360 degree'.
(a) Flexibility in the curriculum as a result of recognition of individual differences
(b) Segregation of students on the basis of their abilities
(c) Standard curriculum for all learners
(d) Provisioning of only vocational education to learners with special needs
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Answer: (a) Flexibility in the curriculum as a result of recognition of individual differences
Explanation:
1. Inclusive education accepts individual differences and adapts the curriculum.
2. Segregation and a rigid curriculum contradict inclusion.
Teacher's Note:
1. All learners study together in the same classroom.
2. Adaptation is the key word.
(a) There is a uniform way of socialization across cultures.
(b) Socialization is a complex process in which several agencies influence children during various times in their life-span.
(c) Media and family are secondary agencies of socialization.
(d) Secondary socialization occurs first when the children learn their individual identity and acquire language.
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Answer: (b) Socialization is a complex process in which several agencies influence children during various times in their life-span.
Explanation:
1. Many agencies (family, school, peers, media) influence children at different times.
2. Socialization differs across cultures; family is primary and secondary comes later.
Teacher's Note:
1. Primary socialization comes first, in the family.
2. Check each option for words like 'uniform'.
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