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Education [ Question No: 1 To 20 ] :
According to Ralph Taylor (1949), major steps of curriculum development are :
Indian education requires rapid vocational expansion to ................. .
According to Piaget's developmental theory, in ........................ stage child can learns that symbols represent something else.
Anita hesitates to talk to strangers. According to Eyesenck's view of personality Anita's behaviour falls in ............. .
According to Gardner's multiple intelligence theory, art of photography is the example of ............. type of intelligence.
Cumulative record is a ................... tool of guidance.
The community influences the ....................... .
The family imparts education to the child .................... .
Integration of spiritualism and science in education was propounded by ......................... .
Which of the following is INCORRECT with reference to the knowledge system?
Curriculum is ________.
The 'Motto' of the Central Board of Secondary Education is :
As per the Manual of Finance and Accounts 2019 of CBSE, who is responsible for approving the recommendations of the various committees of the Board ?
Institutional planning has several stages, which are given below. Arrange them in the correct order.
i. Undertaking a survey of the need of the school
ii. Undertaking a survey of the resources available in the school as well as community
iii. Preparing plans for improvement programmes
iv. Implementing the programme
v. Evaluating the programme
Which among the following statements is/are true in the context of probability samples ?
i. Probability sample is useful if the researcher wishes to be able to make generalisation.
ii. Probability sample draws randomly from the wider population.
iii. Probability sample seeks representativeness of the narrow population.
iv. Probability sample is a form of sampling used in randomized controlled trials.
Match the following as per John W. Cresswell :
| i. Outcome of the study, which the researcher is trying to explain | a. Independent variable |
| ii. Variables or factor which influence the outcome | b. Dependent variable |
| iii. Variable which also needs to be measured to ensure that only major factors influence the outcome, not any other | c. Confounding variable |
| iv. Variables which may influence the outcome but are not measured | d. Control variable |
Madhyama Pratipada is a Cardinal Principle of __________.
Which of the following statements is/are true in the context of Aristotle's philosophy ?
i. He considered private property as essential and justified.
ii. He did not advocate private family system.
iii. He justified slavery.
iv. He was not an advocate of status quo.
In his book 'Republic', Plato discussed about education. Which of the following statements is true about Education according to Plato ?
Basic national education was introduced in the year:
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Education [ Question No: 1 To 20 ] :
According to Ralph Taylor (1949), major steps of curriculum development are :
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Correct Answer : A
Tyler's steps are objectives - learning experience - organization - evaluation (the option adds 'outcomes').
In Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction (1949), Ralph Tyler (spelt Taylor in the paper) built curriculum development on four questions: what educational purposes the school should seek to attain; what learning experiences are likely to attain them; how these experiences can be effectively organised; and how we can determine whether the purposes are being attained. That gives objectives, learning experiences, organisation and evaluation.
The other options replace learning experiences with teaching methods, syllabus or content, which misses Tyler's emphasis on what the learner experiences.
Indian education requires rapid vocational expansion to ................. .
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Rapid vocational expansion is needed to provide skilled manpower.
A growing economy needs technicians, craftsmen and skilled workers in agriculture, industry and services, while the general academic stream produces graduates who often lack employable skills. Vocational courses link education with the world of work, which is why the Kothari Commission and the National Policy on Education stressed vocationalisation.
Reducing enrolment in general education or the importance of white-collar jobs may follow, but they are side effects, not the purpose. Providing cheap labour to industry is not an aim of educational policy; the aim is skill and productivity.
According to Piaget's developmental theory, in ........................ stage child can learns that symbols represent something else.
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Correct Answer : B
The child learns that symbols represent something else in the pre-operational stage.
Piaget's pre-operational stage runs from about 2 to 7 years. Its key achievement is the symbolic (semiotic) function: the child uses words, images and objects to stand for other things, as in language, drawing and pretend play, where a stick becomes a horse. Thinking is still egocentric and lacks conservation.
In the sensori-motor stage (birth to 2) the infant knows the world through action and is only beginning to form mental representations. Concrete operational children (7 to 11) reason logically about concrete objects, and formal operational thinkers (11 onwards) reason abstractly and hypothetically.
Anita hesitates to talk to strangers. According to Eyesenck's view of personality Anita's behaviour falls in ............. .
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Correct Answer : C
Anita's behaviour falls at the level of habitual response.
Eysenck described personality as a hierarchy of four levels. At the bottom are specific responses, single acts seen once. When the same response recurs in similar situations it becomes a habitual response. Related habitual responses group into traits, such as shyness or sociability, and related traits group into types, such as introversion-extraversion.
Hesitating to talk to strangers is a regular way of responding to a recurring situation, so the paper places it at the habitual-response level. It would become part of a trait or type only when combined with other related habits, so 'trait' and 'introversion (type)' describe higher levels, and a specific response would be a single act.
According to Gardner's multiple intelligence theory, art of photography is the example of ............. type of intelligence.
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Correct Answer : A
Photography is an example of visual (visual-spatial) intelligence.
In Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, spatial intelligence is the ability to perceive the visual world accurately and to transform and represent it: composition, framing, light and perspective. Photographers, painters, architects and navigators show it strongly.
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is skill in using the body, as in dance or sport. Logical-mathematical intelligence is reasoning with numbers and logic, and musical intelligence is sensitivity to pitch and rhythm. Handling a camera uses the hands, but the art of photography lies in seeing and composing images.
Cumulative record is a ................... tool of guidance.
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Correct Answer : A
A cumulative record is a non-standardized tool of guidance.
A cumulative record is a file kept by the school for each pupil over the years, collecting information on attainment, attendance, health, family background, interests, activities and teachers' remarks. It is compiled by teachers from many sources and is not constructed, tried out and normed like a test, so it is classed with anecdotal records, rating scales and interviews among the non-standardized (non-testing) techniques.
Standardized tools are tests such as intelligence and aptitude tests with fixed procedures and norms. A cumulative record is not wholly objective, since it includes teachers' judgements, and 'appropriate' is not a category of guidance tool.
The community influences the ....................... .
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Correct Answer : D
The community influences all of the above.
The school is part of the community and serves it. The community's needs, values and occupations shape the school's educational objectives; its culture, language and local resources enter the curriculum; and its expectations, parents' involvement and facilities affect the school's day-to-day practices, such as festivals, timings and teaching methods. In return the school is expected to serve and improve the community.
Choosing only one of the three would ignore the other two channels of influence, so the complete answer is all of the above.
The family imparts education to the child .................... .
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Correct Answer : B
The family educates the child informally.
The family has no syllabus, timetable, examinations or trained teachers. The child learns language, habits, values, manners and attitudes simply by living with parents and relatives, through imitation and daily interaction. That is why the family is the most important informal agency of education.
Formal education is the planned, structured education of schools and colleges. 'Deliberately' and 'regularly' describe features of formal teaching, whereas much of what the child learns at home is not deliberately taught at all.
Integration of spiritualism and science in education was propounded by ......................... .
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Correct Answer : A
The integration of spiritualism and science in education was propounded by Sri Aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo's integral education aims at developing all parts of the human being: the physical, vital, mental, psychic and spiritual. He wanted modern scientific knowledge combined with India's spiritual heritage, and the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Puducherry was built on that integral approach.
Swami Vivekananda also spoke of combining Western science with Vedanta, and the paper takes Aurobindo as the thinker whose whole educational system was built on that integration. J. Krishnamurti stressed freedom from conditioning, and Gandhi's basic education centred on craft and work.
Which of the following is INCORRECT with reference to the knowledge system?
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Correct Answer : A
The incorrect statement is that Aristotle called knowledge ‘justified truth’. The definition of knowledge as justified true belief is credited to Plato.
The other statements are standard descriptions of knowledge.
Plato, in the Theaetetus, discusses knowledge as true belief with an account, which is known as justified true belief. Dewey saw knowledge as the outcome of inquiry, and the statement about Dewey is given as correct in the key.
Curriculum is ________.
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Correct Answer : B
A curriculum is a complete set of organised experiences in the school. The word covers everything a school plans for learners, including subjects, activities, co-curricular work and methods, and not merely a list of topics.
General education is a wider and vaguer term. A body of knowledge describes a discipline or a syllabus, which is only one part of a curriculum. A part of thinking has no standard meaning in this connection. The definition as the whole planned set of experiences is the one used in teacher-education texts, and it matches the key.
The 'Motto' of the Central Board of Secondary Education is :
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Correct Answer : B
CBSE's motto is Asto Maa Sadgamaya.
The motto, from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, means 'lead me from untruth to truth', and appears on the Board's logo.
'Satyamev Jayate' is the national motto of India, from the Mundaka Upanishad. The other two options are not CBSE's motto.
The phrase comes from the prayer 'asato ma sadgamaya, tamaso ma jyotirgamaya', lead me from darkness to light, often recited in Indian schools.
As per the Manual of Finance and Accounts 2019 of CBSE, who is responsible for approving the recommendations of the various committees of the Board ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The key gives the Governing Body of the Board.
The Board's committees, such as the Finance Committee, advise the Board, and their recommendations are placed before the Governing Body for approval. The Governing Body's agendas and minutes on the CBSE website show this pattern: the Finance Committee's recommendations are listed as items for the Governing Body to approve, and its own minutes are ratified there before the Controlling Authority's approval. That fits the keyed option.
The Secretary, the Chief Administrative Officer and the Director (Administration) are officers who carry out decisions and put proposals forward; they do not approve the recommendations of the Board's committees. I could not retrieve the 2019 Manual itself to quote its clause, so the answer rests on the key and on how the Governing Body's papers work.
Institutional planning has several stages, which are given below. Arrange them in the correct order.
i. Undertaking a survey of the need of the school
ii. Undertaking a survey of the resources available in the school as well as community
iii. Preparing plans for improvement programmes
iv. Implementing the programme
v. Evaluating the programme
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The correct order is i, ii, iii, iv and v.
Institutional planning starts with a survey of the school's needs, then a survey of the resources available in the school and the community, then preparation of improvement plans to meet those needs with those resources, then implementation of the programme, and finally its evaluation.
Plans cannot be prepared before needs and resources are known, which rules out the options that put iii early, and the needs come before the resources available to meet them.
Which among the following statements is/are true in the context of probability samples ?
i. Probability sample is useful if the researcher wishes to be able to make generalisation.
ii. Probability sample draws randomly from the wider population.
iii. Probability sample seeks representativeness of the narrow population.
iv. Probability sample is a form of sampling used in randomized controlled trials.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The answer is Only i, ii and iv.
A probability sample is useful when the researcher wants to generalise (i); it draws randomly from the wider population (ii); and it is the form of sampling used in randomised controlled trials (iv).
Statement iii is wrong: a probability sample seeks to represent the wider population, not a narrow one, so options including iii fail.
Representativeness of the wider population is what allows results from a probability sample to be generalised with known margins of error.
Match the following as per John W. Cresswell :
| i. Outcome of the study, which the researcher is trying to explain | a. Independent variable |
| ii. Variables or factor which influence the outcome | b. Dependent variable |
| iii. Variable which also needs to be measured to ensure that only major factors influence the outcome, not any other | c. Confounding variable |
| iv. Variables which may influence the outcome but are not measured | d. Control variable |
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The correct matching is i-b, ii-a, iii-d, iv-c.
- The outcome the researcher tries to explain is the dependent variable (b).
- The factors that influence the outcome are independent variables (a).
- A variable that is measured and held constant so that only the main factors influence the outcome is a control variable (d).
- A variable that may influence the outcome but is not measured is a confounding variable (c).
The first code swaps the dependent and independent variables, and the others mismatch the control and confounding variables.
Madhyama Pratipada is a Cardinal Principle of __________.
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Correct Answer : B
Madhyama Pratipada is a cardinal principle of Buddhism.
Madhyama pratipada, the Middle Path, was taught by the Buddha in his first sermon at Sarnath: avoid both the extreme of sensual indulgence and the extreme of severe self-mortification. The Noble Eightfold Path is that middle way.
Jainism is known for its rigorous asceticism and anekantavada, Vedanta for its doctrine of Brahman, and Sankhya for the dualism of purusha and prakriti.
Which of the following statements is/are true in the context of Aristotle's philosophy ?
i. He considered private property as essential and justified.
ii. He did not advocate private family system.
iii. He justified slavery.
iv. He was not an advocate of status quo.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The answer is Only i and iii.
Aristotle defended private property as natural and useful (i), criticising Plato's communism, and he justified slavery, arguing that some people are slaves by nature (iii).
Statement ii is wrong, since he defended the family against Plato's proposal to abolish it, and statement iv is wrong, since he favoured stability and the existing order, warning against revolution. Options including ii or iv fail.
In his book 'Republic', Plato discussed about education. Which of the following statements is true about Education according to Plato ?
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Correct Answer : A
According to Plato, social education is a means to social justice.
In the Republic, justice in the state means each class doing the work for which it is fitted, and a state-controlled system of education is the means of training each person for that role. Education is therefore the chief instrument of creating a just society, and it shapes character above all.
The other statements contradict Plato: he held that education builds character, treated it as a function of the state rather than private enterprise, and saw its aim as virtue and justice, not mere social success.
Basic national education was introduced in the year:
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Correct Answer : C
Basic national education, the Wardha scheme, was introduced in 1937, after Gandhi's article in Harijan in 1937 and the Wardha conference of October 1937, where the scheme of Basic Education was put forward. The Zakir Husain Committee report followed in 1938. So 1937 is the year the scheme was introduced, and 1935, 1936 and 1938 are not. Gandhi proposed the scheme in the Harijan in July 1937, after which the Wardha Education Conference of October 1937 passed resolutions, and a committee under Zakir Husain framed the syllabus in 1938. Basic education was a seven-year scheme built round a craft.
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