UGC NET SEPTEMBER 2013
PAPER-III
EDUCATION
1. Pragmatism as a School of Philosophy assumes that
(A) learning takes place through pure trial and error
(B) predictions can be made only in terms of probabilities
(C) laws governing the universe are the only universals
(D) nature of the universe is best described by stability
2. Who among the following is an existentialist thinker ?
(A) Sartre (B) Kilpatrick (C) Rousseau (D) Froebel
3. Which of the following philosophies claimed that Vāsna and Trishn.
a (irrational desires and appetites) lie at the root of human suffering ?
(A) Jainism (B) Vedanta (C) Buddhism (D) Samkhya
4. For equality of educational opportunities among women, the Constitution has provision under
(i) Article 45
(ii) Article 15(3)
(iii) Article 16(1) and (2)
(iv) All the above
Which of the above is correct ?
(A) Only (i) is correct.
(B) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(C) (i) and (iii) are correct.
(D) (iv) is correct.
5. Special schools are required for equality of educational opportunities among
(A) Talented students
(B) Backward students
(C) Physically challenged students
(D) SC/ST students
6. Who said ‘Education follows social change’ ?
(A) Durkheim
(B) Johnson
(C) Ottaway
(D) John Dewey
7. Which of the following is not correct in the context of formal operational stage
of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development ?
(A) Children start using abstract symbols.
(B) Children start formulating hypotheses and testing them in their experience.
(C) they follow trial and error methods to solve problems.
(D) they develop the capacity to analyse, synthesize and generalize.
8. Which of the following is not a condition for creativity ?
(A) Rationality
(B) Non-rationality
(C) Openness to experience
(D) Correctedness
9. The most common “model” a child selects is
(A) An older sibling
(B) His parent, a teacher or a person in authority
(C) A person whose conduct approaches perfection
(D) A person who approximates the child’s self-ideal
10. Chain learning is connected with
(A) Bruner (B) Gagne (C) Tolman (D) Thorndike
11. In List – I name of the psychologists and in List – II the concepts
developed by them are given. Match List – I with List – II in correct order.
List – I List – II
a. Thurston 1. Emotional Intelligence
b. Goleman 2. Social Intelligence
c. Guilford 3. Mutifactor Theory of Intelligence
d. Gardner 4. Structure of Intellect
5. Two factor Theory of Intelligence
Codes :
a b c d
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 3 2 1 5
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 2 1 5
12. Learning driving is based on
(A) Insight learning
(B) Operant conditioning
(C) Instrumental conditioning
(D) Trial and Error learning
13. Psychoanalysis is propounded by
(A) Carl Justav Jung
(B) Anna Freud
(C) Alfred Adler
(D) Sigmund Freud
14. Match the following in List – I with that of in List – II in the correct order :
List – I List – II
a. Alfred Adler 1. TAT
b. Henry Murray 2. Inferiority feelings
c. Sigmund Freud 3. Creative thinking
d. Wallach- Kogan 4. Defence mechanism
5. Critical thinking
Codes :
a b c d
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 2 4 3 5
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 2 3 1
15. Critically judge the following :
Assertion (A) : Creativity can be nurtured in the classroom.
Reason (R) : If the teacher is open to experience and tolerant of ambiguity
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(B) Only (A) is correct.
(C) Only (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are not correct.
16. Purpose of guidance is to
(A) free the child of all serious conflicts.
(B) prevent conflicts from overcoming the child.
(C) prevent conflicts from arising in the life of the child.
(D) see that pupils conform to the school regulations.
17. In handling placement services, one should remember that
(A) the placement officer should not attempt to do counselling.
(B) placement should include training as well as job placements.
(C) follow-up of job placement is a function of counselling.
(D) answer (B) and (C)
18. The key advantage of using group counselling over individual counselling is
(A) Confidentiality
(B) Social interaction
(C) Peer exploration of issues
(D) less fear of speaking about emotions
19. Critically judge the following and answer :
Assertion (A) : You can safely generalize the findings of your experiment.
Reason (R1) : It is target population.
Reason (R2) : It is experimentally accessible population.
(A) (A) matches with both (R1) and (R2)
(B) (A) matches with (R1) more than (R2)
(C) (A) matches with (R2)
(D) (A) matches neither with (R1) nor with (R2)
20. In experimental research an investigator normally prefers to formulate
null hypotheses rather than research hypotheses because
(A) It is easy to formulate null hypotheses.
(B) It is wrong to formulate research hypotheses.
(C) Null hypotheses are statistically testable.
(D) None of these
21. In the context of testing of a null hypothesis, if it is significant at
(A) α = 0.05, it is also significant at α = 0.01
(B) α = 0.01, it is also significant at α = 0.05
(C) α = 0.05, it is not significant at α = 0.01
(D) α = 0.01, it is not significant at α = 0.05
22. Read the assertion and reasons given below and find the correct match.
Assertion (A) : An experimenter used section – A students of a class as experimental group
and section – B students of the same class as control group for a period of one year.
Reason-1 (R1) : Both the groups are equivalent.
Reason-2 (R2) : The experiment would disturb normal activities of the school.
(A) (A) matches with (R1)
(B) (A) matches with (R2)
(C) (A) matches with both (R1) and (R2)
(D) (A) matches neither with (R1) nor with (R2)
23. Which of the following factors does not affect internal validity of an experimental design ?
(A) Statistical regression
(B) Maturation of subjects
(C) Pre-testing
(D) Noise during experiment
24. A researcher compared the mean
IQ scores of randomly selected government and private school
students and arrived at conclusion that private school curriculum has significant positive effect on
intelligence of students as compared to that of the government school. This study can be categorized as
(A) Experimental
(B) Ex-post facto
(C) Historical
(D) Case study
25. Which of the following is the foremost factor in the determination of the effectiveness of the curriculum ?
(A) The competence of the teacher
(B) The cooperation of the community
(C) The interest of the body
(D) The leadership of the administration
26. The school curriculum should be planned to agree with
(A) The goals, purposes and interests of the pupils
(B) Available text books in various subjects.
(C) College entrance requirements
(D) Training and interest of teachers
27. The main purpose of co-curricular activities is to
(A) facilitate pupil development.
(B) provide a progressive school.
(C) keep pupils from dropping out.
(D) meet the demands of the community.
28. The mid-day meal programme for Pr. Schools was initiated with a view to
(A) increase enrolment
(B) involve community
(C) engage teachers
(D) increase the employment
29. VEC under SSA stands for
(A) Village Education Committee
(B) Village Enabling Council
(C) Village EnvironmentCommittee
(D) None of the above
30. The strategy adopted in India for the universalization of elementary education is
(A) universal enrolment
(B) universal retention
(C) universal provision for schooling
(D) all above
31. Supervision in school administration should be primarily
(A) preventive and critical
(B) preventive and corrective
(C) constructive and creative
(D) constructive and critical
32. The effectiveness of supervision must, in the final analysis be judged in term of
(A) greater community satisfaction
(B) greater personal satisfaction
(C) greater pupil progress towards the goal of education
(D) reduced classroom misbehaviour
33. The chief responsibility of the Principal is to
(A) organize and administer the guidance programme
(B) provide leadership in theinstitutional programme
(C) listen to parental criticism
(D) keep proper school records
34. Who has advocated Human Relation approach ?
(A) Henry Fayol (B) Elton Mayo (C) Taylor (D) Davis
35. Who replaced rule the thumb with science and advocated principles of scientific management ?
(A) Carl Davis (B) F. Taylor (C) R. Bruner (D) H. Fayol
36. Which of the following is not a kind of Leadership ?
(A) Charismatic leadership
(B) Formal or situational leader
(C) Functional leadership
(D) Mass leadership
37. Who stated that “some are born great, some achieve greatness and others have
greatness thrust upon them” ?
(A) Katz & Kahn
(B) W. Shakespeare
(C) Rauch & Behing
(D) Hosking
38. Which of the following can be the most effective leadership style in your opinion for a country like India ?
(A) Autocratic
(B) Democratic
(C) Laissez Faire
(D) None of the above
39. The responsibility of managing an Educational Institution lies with
(A) Principal
(B) The Administrator
(C) Every Teacher
(D) All the above
40. Which of the following type of test items would result in wide range of scores ?
(A) Too easy
(B) Too difficult
(C) Average difficult
(D) Combination of (A) and (B)
41. Rearrange in proper order, the following activities related to test standardization :
(a) Preparation of test items
(b) Planning the test
(c) Assessment of reliability and validity
(d) Tryout of the test
(A) (b), (a), (d), (c)
(B) (c), (d), (a), (b)
(C) (d), (a), (b), (c)
(D) (a), (d), (c), (b)
42. Difficulty level of item is not a matter of concern in the case of
(A) Placement test
(B) Intelligence test
(C) Criterion referenced test
(D) Norm referenced test
43. Rearrange, in proper order, the following points of Likert type attitude scale :
(a) Strongly agree
(b) Strongly disagree
(c) Agree
(d) Disagree
(e) Undecided
(A) (a), (c), (d), (e), (b)
(B) (b), (d), (e), (c), (a)
(C) (a), (b), (e), (c), (d)
(D) (a), (c), (d), (b), (e)
44. Which of the following is correct explanation about a test ?
(A) Reliability is sufficient.
(B) Validity is sufficient.
(C) Reliability and validity are not essential.
(D) Reliability is essential but not sufficient.
45. Rorschach ink-blot test is related to measurement of
(A) Intelligence (B) Attitude (C) Aptitude (D) Personality
46. Which of the following is an unstructured tool ?
(A) Attitude scale
(B) Objective test
(C) Intelligence test
(D) Essay test
47. The type of grading that asserts fixed proportion of learners at different grade points is known as
(A) Direct grading
(B) Indirect grading
(C) Relative grading
(D) Absolute grading
48. Preparation of a test according to test specification/test blue-print mostly enhances
(A) Reliability
(B) Content validity
(C) Concurrent validity
(D) Construct validity
49. Assertion (A) : Important contribution of educational technology is in qualitative and
quantitative development of education.
Consequences (C) : Goal of universalisation of education can be achieved by educational technology.
(A) (A) is true but (C) is false.
(B) Both (A) and (C) are true.
(C) (A) is false and (C) is true.
(D) Both (A) and (C) are wrong.
50. Mathetics Programmed Instruction is based on
(A) Connectionism
(B) Configuration theories
(C) Operant conditioning theory
(D) None of the above
51. Which micro teaching skill is not described by Allen and Rayon ?
(A) Student Participation
(B) Question Fluency
(C) Blackboard skill
(D) Objective writing
52. What is currently the most popular method of delivering distance learning courses ?
(A) Video conferencing
(B) Video broadcasting
(C) Teleconferencing
(D) Internet
53. Concept attainment model was propounded by
(A) Ausubel (B) Bruner (C) Piaget (D) Dewey
54. Concept of proprioceptive feedback is related with
(A) Training psychology
(B) Cybernetics
(C) Instructional designs
(D) System analysis
55. In different levels of teaching problem solving ability develops at
(A) Memory level
(B) Understanding level
(C) Reflective level
(D) All above
56. The use of multimedia approach in teaching learning process is in
(A) Attainment of learning objectives
(B) Individualized instruction
(C) Enrichment of instructional material
(D) All of the above
57. Distance education is not
(A) Telemetric teaching
(B) Distance study
(C) Work oriented education
(D) De-schooling
58. Which is the following agency regulates and monitors special education programme in India ?
(A) Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
(B) Ministry of Human Resource and Development
(C) Rehabilitation Council of India
(D) National Council of Teacher Education
59. In which models of Integrated Education Programme is being
implemented in large scale by governmental and non-governmental agencies in India ?
(A) Resource model
(B) Itinerant model
(C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) Dual Teaching Model
60. Match the following List – I with List – II in correct order :
List – I List – II
a. Mild mental retardation 1. 25%
b. Moderately, severely or profoundly
mental retardation 2. 75%
c. Mental retardation have associated
medical condition 3. 4%
d. Mental retardation have multiple handicaps 4. 10%
5. 3%
Codes :
a b c d
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 2 3 1 4
(C) 1 4 2 5
(D) 3 2 1 5
61. There are three emerging patterns of technologies in teaching for
the mentally retarded is followed. Which of the following is incorrect one ?
(A) Using both Braille and sign language
(B) Assistive technologies
(C) Technologies in therapy and education
(D) Standard technologies in the workplace, community and home
62. Who have signed MOU for recognition of Teacher Education in Special Education Programme in India ?
(A) NCTE and NAAC
(B) RCI and NCERT
(C) NCDS and RCI
(D) RCI and NCTE
63. Match the following List – I with List – II in correct order :
List – I List – II
a. Expanded programme of immunisation
implemented in India 1. 1986
b. National iodine deficiency disorder control
programme started in India 2. 1978
c. Child survival and safe motherhood programme
launched in India. 3. 1993
d. National nutritional policy was launched in India 4. 1992-93
5. 1992
Codes :
a b c d
(A) 1 4 3 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 2 5 1
64. Glaucoma is a result of
(A) Vitamin A deficiency
(B) Malnutrition
(C) Aging process
(D) In case of intra ocular pressure in eye ball
65. Which of the following does not belong to measure for employment of the hearing impaired ?
(A) Identification, assessment of hearing impaired children
(B) Establishment of special employment exchange and special cells
(C) Establishment of vocational rehabilitation centres
(D) Restrictions of jobs in the public sector
66. In List – I the common condition causing learning disability are given
and in List – II the statements are given. Match the List – I with List – II in correct order.
List – I List – II
a. Cerebral Palsy 1. Absence of all or part of the limb
b. Muscular dystrophies 2. Joint inflammation
c. Arthritis 3. Heterogeneous group of inherited disorders with gradual
degeneration of muscle fibres
d. Amputation 4. Persistent disorder of movement and posture
due to developmental non-progressive disorder of brain
Codes :
a b c d
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 1 2 4
(D) 4 3 2 1
67. The National flagship programme of education (SSA) aims at
(A) Universalization of Elementary Education
(B) Universalization of Secondary Education
(C) Special Education in Primary Schools
(D) Special Secondary Academic Programs
68. “A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A
lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame” who pronounced
(A) Gandhi (B) Aurobindo (C) Tagore (D) Vivekananda
69. The role of a teacher is to
(A) impart knowledge and skills
(B) correct the behaviour of students
(C) conduct examinations and award degree
(D) facilitate learning and development
70. Match the following :
List – I (Special Schools) List – II (Teaching Program)
a. School for the Blind 1. Sign language
b. School for the deaf 2. Braille language
c. School for the mentally retarded 3. Braille and Sign language
d. School for the deaf-dumb 4. Individual Educational Programme
5. Lip reading
Codes :
a b c d
(A) 1 3 4 5
(B) 2 3 1 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 2 1 5
71. ERIC which sponsors research projects in education is a unit of
(A) NCTE (B) NCERT (C) UGC (D) NUEPA
72. As per the NCTE norms the man power required for starting up M.Ed. with a strength of 25 students is
(A) 1 + 4 (B) 1 + 5 (C) 1 + 8 (D) 1 + 9
73. Refresher courses for teacher education in secondary level are conducted by
(A) State Institutes of Education
(B) Academic Staff Colleges
(C) National Institute of Education
(D) National Council for Teacher Education
74. In teaching, if nothing has been learned, nothing has been
(A) Taught (B) Studied (C) Examined (D) Observed
75. DIET stands for
(A) District Institute of Educational Technology
(B) District Institute of Education and Training
(C) District Institute of Elementary Training
(D) District Institute of Elementary Teachers
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