Pedagogy & Teaching Methodology — Practice MCQs (DSSSB TGT CS)
40 original questions styled for teaching exams. Choose the best option.
1. According to behaviourism, learning is primarily a change in:
- A) Innate instincts only
- B) Observable behaviour through stimulus–response
- C) Genetic structure
- D) School building design
2. Operant conditioning is most closely associated with:
- A) Piaget
- B) Skinner
- C) Freud
- D) Kohlberg
3. Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) refers to:
- A) What a learner can do alone without help
- B) Gap between independent performance and assisted performance
- C) Only physical classroom space
- D) Final examination ranking
4. Scaffolding in teaching means:
- A) Permanent removal of all support
- B) Temporary support that is gradually withdrawn
- C) Building school walls
- D) Ignoring learner difficulty
5. Constructivism emphasises that learners:
- A) Passively receive fixed knowledge
- B) Actively construct knowledge from experience
- C) Learn only by rote
- D) Never collaborate
6. In revised Bloom’s taxonomy, the highest cognitive level is:
- A) Remember
- B) Understand
- C) Apply
- D) Create
7. The verb “define” typically maps to which Bloom level?
- A) Evaluate
- B) Create
- C) Remember
- D) Analyze
8. Formative assessment is mainly used:
- A) Only after the course ends for certification
- B) During learning to guide improvement
- C) To replace teaching entirely
- D) Only for teacher appraisal
9. Summative assessment primarily aims to:
- A) Give continuous diagnostic feedback only
- B) Certify achievement at the end of a unit/term
- C) Avoid any grading
- D) Measure only attendance
10. Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) covers:
- A) Only one annual exam
- B) Scholastic and co-scholastic aspects continuously
- C) Sports only
- D) Teacher salaries
11. Assessment for learning is closest to:
- A) Pure ranking without feedback
- B) Using evidence to adjust teaching and learning
- C) Ignoring student errors
- D) Only entrance tests
12. Inclusive education means:
- A) Separate schools for all CWSN only
- B) All learners learning together with appropriate support
- C) Excluding slow learners
- D) Teaching only gifted students
13. An Individualised Education Plan (IEP) is mainly for:
- A) School accountants
- B) Learners needing tailored goals and accommodations
- C) Building contractors
- D) Only sports coaches
14. NCF 2005 is associated with the phrase:
- A) Learning without burden
- B) Punishment as primary method
- C) Textbook as the only knowledge source
- D) Ban on activity methods
15. NCFTE 2009 emphasises the teacher as a:
- A) Mere content deliverer
- B) Reflective practitioner / facilitator
- C) Strict examiner only
- D) Administrative clerk
16. Microteaching mainly helps student-teachers to:
- A) Practice discrete teaching skills in a scaled setting
- B) Avoid lesson planning
- C) Replace school practice entirely
- D) Grade board exams
17. A “skill of probing questions” in microteaching aims to:
- A) Discourage student talk
- B) Draw out deeper responses and thinking
- C) Only shout louder
- D) Skip content
18. Herbartian steps of lesson planning typically begin with:
- A) Application
- B) Preparation / introduction
- C) Home assignment only
- D) Evaluation only
19. An advance organiser (Ausubel) is used to:
- A) Confuse prior knowledge
- B) Bridge new material with existing cognitive structure
- C) Replace all examples
- D) Ban textbooks
20. Discovery learning is strongly associated with:
- A) Bruner
- B) Pavlov only
- C) Thorndike’s cats only
- D) Classical conditioning alone
21. Motivation that comes from interest in the task itself is:
- A) Extrinsic
- B) Intrinsic
- C) Compulsory only
- D) Punitive
22. A teacher praising effort to encourage persistence uses mainly:
- A) Negative punishment only
- B) Positive reinforcement
- C) Extinction of all behaviour
- D) Sensory deprivation
23. Diagnostic testing is best used to:
- A) Award final certificates only
- B) Identify learning gaps before or during instruction
- C) Rank schools nationally
- D) Measure furniture quality
24. Peer tutoring primarily supports:
- A) Isolation of weak learners
- B) Collaborative learning and mutual explanation
- C) Ban on group work
- D) Only competitive ranking
25. ICT integration in teaching is most effective when:
- A) Used as a substitute for all human interaction
- B) Aligned with learning objectives and pedagogy
- C) Limited to showing slides without purpose
- D) Banned from classrooms
26. NEP 2020 emphasises foundational literacy and numeracy mainly at:
- A) Only postgraduate level
- B) Early grades / foundational stage
- C) Only adult education
- D) Only vocational training abroad
27. Multidisciplinary and holistic education is a key thrust of:
- A) NEP 2020
- B) Only colonial syllabus
- C) Ban on arts subjects
- D) Exclusive rote exams
28. Classroom management that sets clear routines mainly aims to:
- A) Maximise chaos
- B) Create a conducive learning environment
- C) Reduce teaching time to zero
- D) Ignore student needs
29. Differentiated instruction means:
- A) Same task, same pace for every learner always
- B) Adjusting content/process/product to learner needs
- C) Teaching only one ability group forever
- D) Avoiding any support
30. Reflective teaching involves:
- A) Never reviewing one’s practice
- B) Critically examining one’s teaching to improve
- C) Copying only old notes
- D) Avoiding feedback
31. Piaget’s concrete operational stage typically involves:
- A) Only sensorimotor reflexes
- B) Logical thinking about concrete objects
- C) Formal abstract hypothetico-deductive thought only
- D) No conservation skills
32. The lowest level in Bloom’s revised taxonomy is:
- A) Create
- B) Evaluate
- C) Remember
- D) Analyze
33. Portfolio assessment is useful because it:
- A) Shows only one end test score
- B) Documents growth through samples of work over time
- C) Ignores student products
- D) Replaces all teaching
34. Co-scholastic areas under CCE may include:
- A) Only mathematics marks
- B) Life skills, attitudes, co-curricular participation
- C) Only attendance registers
- D) Building blueprints
35. A good instructional objective should be:
- A) Vague and unobservable
- B) Specific, measurable, and learner-centred
- C) Only teacher-centred slogans
- D) Impossible to assess
36. Remedial teaching is meant for:
- A) Learners who have already mastered everything
- B) Addressing identified learning difficulties
- C) Replacing enrichment forever
- D) Only sports practice
37. Collaborative learning differs from competitive learning mainly by:
- A) Emphasising shared goals and mutual help
- B) Ranking only one winner always
- C) Banning discussion
- D) Isolating students
38. RTE Act, 2009 is primarily concerned with:
- A) Free and compulsory education for children in the prescribed age group
- B) Only university research funding
- C) Private coaching bans worldwide
- D) Teacher transfer rules alone
39. A lesson’s “closure” phase typically:
- A) Introduces brand new unrelated topics only
- B) Summarises and consolidates learning
- C) Avoids checking understanding
- D) Starts homework without review
40. Which pair is correctly matched?
- A) Skinner – classical conditioning only
- B) Vygotsky – social constructivism / ZPD
- C) Piaget – operant conditioning
- D) Bloom – only physical education
Answer Key
- B — Behaviourism defines learning as observable behaviour change via S–R.
- B — Skinner developed operant conditioning with reinforcement.
- B — ZPD is the gap between unaided and assisted performance.
- B — Scaffolding is temporary, fading support.
- B — Constructivism: learners actively build knowledge.
- D — Revised Bloom peaks at Create.
- C — Define/list/recall map to Remember.
- B — Formative assessment guides ongoing improvement.
- B — Summative certifies achievement at end points.
- B — CCE is continuous and covers scholastic + co-scholastic.
- B — Assessment for learning informs next teaching steps.
- B — Inclusion = common setting with support for all.
- B — IEPs tailor goals/accommodations for individual needs.
- A — “Learning without burden” is a NCF 2005 hallmark.
- B — NCFTE stresses reflective, facilitating teachers.
- A — Microteaching drills specific skills in reduced settings.
- B — Probing questions deepen student responses.
- B — Classic Herbartian flow starts with preparation/intro.
- B — Advance organisers link new content to prior schema.
- A — Bruner is linked with discovery and spiral curriculum.
- B — Intrinsic motivation arises from the task itself.
- B — Praise/rewards after desired behaviour = positive reinforcement.
- B — Diagnosis finds gaps to plan instruction.
- B — Peer tutoring enables collaborative explanation.
- B — ICT works when tied to clear pedagogical goals.
- B — NEP stresses FLN in the foundational stage.
- A — Multidisciplinary education is central to NEP 2020.
- B — Clear routines support orderly learning.
- B — Differentiation adapts teaching to learner diversity.
- B — Reflective practice critiques and improves teaching.
- B — Concrete operational: logic with concrete materials.
- C — Remember is the base of revised Bloom.
- B — Portfolios collect evidence of progress over time.
- B — Co-scholastic includes attitudes, skills, activities.
- B — Good objectives are clear and assessable.
- B — Remediation targets diagnosed difficulties.
- A — Collaboration emphasises shared success.
- A — RTE guarantees free & compulsory education in the age band.
- B — Closure consolidates the day’s learning.
- B — Vygotsky ↔ social constructivism and ZPD.