R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | CTET CTET Mcqs Questions on Pedagogy of Language Development

The teacher noticed that Pushpa cannot solve a problem on her own. However she does so in the presence of adult or peer guidance. This guidance is called

1. Lateralization
2. Pre-operational thinking
3. Zone of proximal development
4. Scaffolding

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A teacher labelled the head of a committee as chairperson instead of chairman . It indicates that the teacher

1. follows a more acceptable term
2. has a good command of language
3. is using a gender-free language
4. has gender bias

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation is essential for

1. fine tuning of test with the teaching
2. diluting the accountability of the Board of Education
3. correcting less-frequent errors more than more-frequent errors
4. understanding how learning can be observed recorded and improved upon

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In Lawrence Kohlberg s theory which level signifies the absence of morality in the true sense?

1. Level III
2. Level IV
3. Level I
4. Level II

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following is not correct for the progressive model of socialization of children?

1. Active participation in the group work and learning social skills.
2. Children accept what they are offered by the school irrespective of their social backgrounds.
3. There should be a place for democracy in the classroom.
4. Socialization is an adoption of social

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In learning assessment is essential for

1. Grades and Marks
2. Screening test
3. Motivation
4. Fostering of the purpose of segregation and ranking

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Fitting new information into existing schemes is known as

1. Accommodation
2. Equilibration
3. Assimilation
4. Organisation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

We all differ in terms of our intelligence motivation interest etc. This principle refers to

1. Individual difference
2. Theories of Intelligence
3. Heredity
4. Environment

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Students of disadvantaged groups should be taught along with the normal students. It implies

1. Inclusive Education
2. Special Education
3. Integrated Education
4. Exclusive Education

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Anyone can become angry - that is easy but to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy. This is related to

1. Emotional development
2. Social development
3. Cognitive development
4. Physical development

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Deficiency in the ability to write associated with impaired handwriting is a symptom of

1. Dysgraphia
2. Dyspraxia
3. Dyscalculia
4. Dyslexia

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Piaget theory which one out of the following will not influence one s cognitive development?

1. Language
2. Social experiences
3. Maturation
4. Activity

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of these does not imply practical intelligence in the Triarchic theory?

1. Reshaping the environment
2. Thinking practically about oneself only
3. Choosing an environment in which you can succeed
4. Adapting to the environment

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Cognitive development is supported by

1. conducting relevant and well-designed tests as frequently as possible
2. presenting activities that reinforce traditional methods
3. Providing a rich and varied environment
4. focusing more on individual activities in comparison to collaboration

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Human development is

1. quantitative
2. qualitative
3. unmeasurable to a certain extent
4. both quantitative and qualitative

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The nature-nurture debate refers to

1. genetics and environment
2. behaviour and environment
3. environment and biology
4. environment and upbringing

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is a passive agency of socialization?

1. Health club
2. Family
3. Eco club
4. Public library

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In Vygotsky s theory which aspect of development gets neglected

1. Social
2. Cultural
3. Biological
4. Linguistic

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following stages are involved when infants THINK with their eyes ears and hands?

1. Concrete operational stage
2. Pre-operational stage
3. Sensorimotor stage
4. Formal operational stage

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Ria does not agree with Rishabh about setting up a class picnic. She thinks that the rules can be revised to suit the majority. This kind of peer disagreement according to Piaget refers to

1. Heteronomous morality
2. Cognitive immaturity
3.
4. Morality of cooperation

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which one of the following is a form of Sternberg s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence?

1. Practical Intelligence
2. Experimental Intelligence
3. Mathematical Intelligence
4.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who developed the first Intelligence test?

1. David Wechsler
2. Alfred Binet
3. Charles Edward Spearman
4. Robert Sternberg

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Phonological awareness refers to the ability to

1. reflect and manipulate the sound structure
2. speak fluently and accurately
3. know understand and write
4. master the rules of grammar

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Gender discrimination in a classroom

1. Does not affect the performance of the students
2. May lead to diminished effort or performance of the students
3. May lead to diminished effort or performance of the male students
4. is done more by the male teachers than their female counterparts

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is an example of learning style?

1. Visual
2. Accrual
3. Factual
4. Tactual

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A teacher collects and reads the work of the class then plans and adjust the next lesson to meet student needs. He/ She is doing

1. Assessment of learning
2. Assessment as learning
3. Assessment for learning
4. Assessment at learning

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Teachers who work under School Based Assessment

1. are overburdened as they need to take frequent tests in addition to Monday tests
2. need to assign projects work in each subject to individual students
3. observe students minutely on a daily basis to assess their values and attitudes
4. feel a sense of ownership for the system

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How do grades differ from marks? This question belongs to which of the following classes of question?

1. Divergent
2. Analytic
3. Open-ended
4. Problem-solving

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Girls students

1. learn questions on mathematics well but face difficulty only when they are asked to reason them out
2. are as good in mathematics as boys of their age
3. perform less competently in spatial concepts than boys of their age
4. possess more linguistic and musical abilities

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Difficulty in recalling sequence of letters in words and frequent loss of visual memory is associated with

1. Dyslexia
2. Dyscalculia
3. Dysgraphia
4. Dyspraxia

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Education-of-all-in-schools-for-all could be a tagline for which of the following?

1. Cohesive education
2. Inclusive education
3. Cooperative education
4. Exclusive education

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Fluency elaboration originality and flexibility are the factors associated with

1. giftedness
2. talent
3. divergent thinking
4. acceleartion

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Gifted students may be asked to spend more time on questions dealing with

1. remembering
2. understanding
3. creating
4. analysing

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Learning disabilities in Mathematics can be assessed most appropriately by which of the following tests?

1. Aptitude tests
2. Diagnostic tests
3. Screening tests
4. Achievement tests

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Concept maps are most likely to increase understanding of new concept by

1. Transferring knowledge between content areas
2. Focusing attention on specific details
3. Prioritizing academic content for study
4. Increasing ability to organize information logically

✅ Correct Answer: 4

According to the theory of social learning of Albert Bandura which of the following is true?

1. Play is essential and should be given priority in school.
2. Modelling is a principal way for children to learn
3. An unresolved crisis can harm a child.
4. Cognitive development is independent of social development

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Deductive reasoning involves

1. reasoning from general to particular
2. reasoning from particular to general
3. active construction and reconstruction of knowledge
4. methods including inquiry learning and heuristics

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When children learn a concept and use it practice helps in reducing the errors committed by them. This idea was given by

1. E.L. Thorndike
2. Jean Piaget
3. J.B. Watson
4. Lev Vygotsky

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following skill is associated with emotional intelligence?

1. Memorising
2. Motor processing
3. Envisaging
4. Empathising

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The inner force that stimulates and compels a behavioural response and provide specific direction to that response is

1. Motive
2. Perserverance
3. Emotion
4. Commitment

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which term is often used interchangeably with the term motivation ?

1. Incentive
2. Emotion
3. Need
4. Inspiration

✅ Correct Answer: 3

________ motives deal with the need to reach satisfying feeling states and to obtain personal goals.

1. Effective
2. Affective
3. Preservation-oriented
4. Safety-oriented

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following is a factor that affects learning positively?

1. Fear of failure
2. Competition with peers
3. Meaningful association
4. Pressure from parents

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Year - 2013 (Paper 1) 1. The following three aspects of intelligence are dealt by Sternberg s triarchic theory except

1. componential
2. social
3. experiential
4. contextual

✅ Correct Answer: 2