laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | NTS NTS CURRENT AFFAIRS EDUCATION MCQ SET 1

The truth of the conclusion of an inductive argument is

1. certain
2. experience
3. observation
4. probable

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The process of reasoning from one or more given statements to reach a logically certain conclusion is called

1. Deductive Reasoning
2. Inductive Reasoning
3. Qualitative Reasoning
4. Quantitative Reasoning

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The reasoning in which the given statements are viewed as supplying strong evidence for the truth of the conclusion is called

1. Deductive Reasoning
2. Inductive Reasoning
3. Qualitative Reasoning
4. Quantitative Reasoning

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Jean Piaget, children develop abstract logic and reasoning skill during

1. Sensorimotor stage
2. Preoperational stage
3. Concrete operational stage
4. Formal operational stage

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Children are usually egocentric during __________ and __________ stages.

1. Sensorimotor, Preoperational
2. Preoperational, Concrete operational
3. Concrete operational, Formal operational
4. Formal operational, Sensorimotor

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Jean Piaget, children are no longer egocentric when entering

1. Sensorimotor stage
2. Preoperational stage
3. Concrete operational stage
4. Formal operational stage

✅ Correct Answer: 3

According to Piagets theory of cognitive development, the Concrete operational stage starts at age

1. 3
2. 7
3. 11
4. 15

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Piagets theory of cognitive development, the Formal operational stage starts at age

1. 3
2. 7
3. 11
4. 15

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The most recent response is most likely to

1. forget
2. compromised
3. reoccur
4. not occur again

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Rousseau advocated an educational method which consisted of removing the child from

1. school
2. burden
3. past memory
4. society

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who advocated removing children from their mothers care and raising them as wards of the state?

1. Socrates
2. Plato
3. Aristotle
4. John Locke

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The famous book The Republic was written by

1. Socrates
2. Plato
3. Aristotle
4. John Locke

✅ Correct Answer: 2

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.This is the saying of

1. Aristotle
2. Socrates
3. Plato
4. John Locke

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which three main capacities Waldorf Education System is aimed to cultivate in children?

1. thinking, planning, acting
2. thinking, feeling, willing
3. observing, thinking, analyzing
4. observing, listing, calculating

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Waldorf education approach emphasizes a balanced development of

1. head and heart
2. head and hands
3. heart and hands
4. head, heart, and hands

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Plato�believed that talent and intelligence are

1. distributed genetically
2. not distributed genetically
3. distributed gender-wise
4. not distributed gender-wise

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A priori knowledge is knowledge that is known independently of

1. analysis
2. information
3. experience
4. evidence

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A posteriori knowledge is knowledge that is known by

1. analysis
2. information
3. experience
4. evidence

✅ Correct Answer: 3

According to John Locke, a child�s mind does not contain any

1. innate ideas
2. memory
3. observation
4. imagination

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The philosopher who for the first time mentioned the importance of play (or sports) in education was

1. Socrates
2. Plato
3. Aristotle
4. John Locke

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The process of selecting units from a population to estimate characteristics of the population is called

1. analyzing
2. inference
3. research
4. sampling

✅ Correct Answer: 4

We calculate average marks of a student in the way as we calculate

1. arithmetic mean
2. geometric mean
3. standard deviation
4. variance

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The __________ is a measure of how spreads out points are from the mean.

1. arithmetic mean
2. geometric mean
3. standard deviation
4. variance

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The standard deviation is the __________ of the variance.

1. square
2. square root
3. cube
4. cube root

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The concept of pragmatism in educational philosophy says that education should be about

1. obedience
2. virtue
3. life and growth
4. shaping good citizens

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The idea of practical learning means education should apply to the

1. practice
2. society
3. abstract knowledge
4. real world

✅ Correct Answer: 4

An aspect of pragmatism is experiential learning, which says, education should come through

1. experience
2. practice
3. knowledge
4. observations

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Aristotle, virtue is a/an __________ state between excess and deficiency.

1. natural
2. intermediate
3. real
4. artificial

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In case of spending money, the virtue is __________ between wastefulness and stringiness.

1. generosity
2. penury
3. Lavishness
4. prodigal

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The concept of perennialism in education means school curricula should focus on what is

1. important
2. everlasting
3. in demand
4. in need

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to John Dewey, children should experience __________in school to make them better citizens.

1. rules
2. discipline
3. democracy
4. practical implementation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Progressivism believes that education comes from the experience of the

1. child
2. teacher
3. principal
4. society

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The idea of teaching the whole child in the philosophy of pragmatism in education means teaching students to be good

1. learners
2. thinkers
3. scientists
4. citizens

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Progressivism believes that children learn in a/an

1. community
2. competition
3. isolation
4. closed environment

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A normal human being has __________ senses.

1. 4
2. 5
3. 6
4. 7

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which from the following is NOT among the five senses?

1. vision
2. touch
3. smell
4. thought

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The application of ideas, knowledge and skills to achieve the desired results is called

1. problem solving
2. critical thinking
3. reasoned arguments
4. deductive method

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Socrates of Meno, virtue is

1. teachable
2. unteachable
3. reachable
4. unreachable

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The curriculum of educational institutes should be based on

1. theory
2. practice
3. theory and practice
4. theory, practice and research

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The new curriculum should be introduced

1. abruptly
2. continuously
3. gradually
4. relatively

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Evaluation of the process of curriculum development should be made

1. abruptly
2. continuously
3. gradually
4. relatively

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Curriculum revision should be a/an __________ process.

1. abrupt
2. continuous
3. gradual
4. relative

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The term heuristic means __________ in decision making.

1. brain storming
2. calculations
3. thoroughness
4. mental shortcuts

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Robert Sternberg, a famous psychologist, argued that creativity requires __________ different types of intelligence.

1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 6

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Robert Sternberg, the three different types of required intelligence for creativity are

1. synthetic, analytical, and practical
2. analytical, observational and practical
3. analytical, critical and practical
4. abstract, synthetic and analytical

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A common technique to help people begin the creative process is

1. calculations
2. brain storming
3. thoroughness
4. mental shortcuts

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Plato, the highest goal in all of education is knowledge of the

1. science
2. mathematics
3. philosophy
4. good

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Plato argued that __________ are fit to rule.

1. educationists and philosophers
2. only educationists
3. only philosophers
4. only psychologists

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The book A Brief History of Time is written by

1. Aristotle
2. John Dewey
3. Robert Sternberg
4. Stephen Hawking

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The branch of philosophy focuses on the nature of reality is

1. Connectionism
2. Epistemology
3. Metaphysics
4. Pedagogy

✅ Correct Answer: 3