CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT 2 - LET REVIEWERS

 1. This type of curriculum focuses more on problem-solving processes and skills and human relations than on content acquisition. Which type is this?

A. subject-centered C. learner-centered

B. society-culture-based D. None of the above

Correct Answer: B

2. While having supper, Mrs. Garcia asks her two children what they learned in school earlier that day. Which level of curriculum is shown in this situation?

A. Institutional C. societal

B. Experiential D. Instructional

Correct Answer: B

3. The Kalayaan Elementary School uses a curriculum design that recognizes the ability levels of its pupils. Thus, the contents of each subject area taught across grade levels are so organized that the simplest concepts are taken up in the early grades and the more difficult ones, in the higher levels. This shows a widening and deepening sequence of similar concepts taught through the elementary levels. Which curriculum design is this?

A. Correlated C. spiral

B. broad fields D. core

Correct Answer: C

4. Mr. Carlos is interested in getting involved in school-related functions. He asked, “Why should schools need a curriculum?” Which curriculum foundations could give him some ideas for an answer?

A. socio-philosophical C. historical

B. psychological D. technological

Correct Answer: A

5. The San Jose School District plans to adopt the leading program used in the La Loma School District. What curriculum improvement level does this show?

A. Variation C. substitution

B. value orientation D. restructuring

Correct Answer: A

6. Mr. Gabriel, a curriculum consultant on economics insists that in selecting the curriculum content, it is better that throughout the high school year levels, economic geography concepts used recur and be repeated with depth for effective learning. What criterion in content selection is shown here?

A. Validity C. significance

B. continuity and sequence D. learnability

Correct Answer: B

7. Dr. Magracia intends to open a school with a curriculum that must be primarily experience-centered. Which of the following criteria must she NOT follow to ensure that the curriculum is that which she wants?

A. The curriculum should promote the use of an active and dynamic process so that learning is improved.

B. The curriculum should be used with a high level of cooperative interaction.

C. The curriculum content should be primarily based on the learners’ needs, ability levels, and interests.

D. The curriculum should emphasize the teaching of facts and knowledge.

Correct Answer: D

8. Which statement is true in using the non-technical approach to curriculum development?

A. The teachers function both as curriculum developers and implementors.

B. The processes used in curriculum development are rational and systematic.

C. The teachers rarely participate in the development of curricula.

D. Curriculum functions are separate but related to instructional functions

Correct Answer: A

9. Atty. Bautista is involved in curriculum development. His conception of curriculum strongly leans on its being a cognitive process. Which of the following statement specifically reflects this conception he holds?

A. Curriculum aims to make learning efficient and systematic.

B. Curriculum develops skills in analyzing, deducing and speculating.

C. The content of the curriculum is sourced from different academic disciplines.

D. The curriculum largely considers the full development of the learners. 

Correct Answer: B

10. What refers to the authenticity of the content selected by the curriculum developers?

A. Feasibility C. significance

B. learnability D. validity

Correct Answer: D

11. Which is NOT a description of the experience-centered curriculum?

A. emphasis is on the total growth and development of the learners

B. controlled and cooperatively directed by learners, teachers, and parents

C. education is a means to develop socially creative individual

D. emphasis upon facts and knowledge for future use

Correct Answer: D

12. Ms. Mateo, a Science teacher tries to enrich in the content of her lesson by identifying related concepts in Math. What pattern of organizing content/subject matter did she consider?

A. Broadfield C. core

B. correlated D. separate subject

Correct Answer: B

13. Which curriculum design element is taking place when Eduardo, s Senior high students can connect the lessons he learned in a subject area to related content in another subject area?

A. Articulation C. continuity

B. balance D. integration 

Correct Answer: D

14. Which educational philosophy focuses on the role of curriculum as a means of remaking society and rebuilding culture?

A. Perennialism C. existentialism

B. progressivism D. reconstructionism 

Correct Answer: D

15. What process is being undertaken by curriculum developers when they enrich and modify certain aspects of a particular program without changing its fundamental conceptions?

A. curriculum improvement C. curriculum design

B. curriculum change D. curriculum implementation

Correct Answer: A

16. Which curriculum development phase focuses on the change which will take place in a certain aspect of the curriculum without changing the fundamental conceptions?

A. curriculum planning C. curriculum improvement

B. curriculum implementation D. curriculum evaluation

Correct Answer: C

17. As a member of the curriculum committee, your chief concern is to give the child freedom to choose what to learn and believe, they set their own identities and standards. What philosophy will you consider?

A. Existentialism C. Idealism

B. Realism D. Pragmatism

Correct Answer: A

18. What process of curriculum development is being undertaken by the developers when they try to obtain relevant and significant information to be able to judge the worth of an educational program, its product, procedures, and objectives?

A. curriculum planning C. curriculum organization

B. curriculum designing D. curriculum evaluation

Correct Answer: D

19. Proponents of the technical-scientific approach to curriculum development believe that curriculum is a means and _______________ is the end.

A. Techniques C. learning

B. institution D. strategies

Correct Answer: C

20. One example of this design of a subject-centered curriculum is that which shows social studies being combined with geography, civics, culture, and history to comprise one subject area. Which design is this?

A. correlated C. fused

B. broad fields D. core

Correct Answer: C

21. Suppose that in developing a curriculum, your intention is to put a lot of importance on developing the mind and spirit of the learners. What philosophical belief will help you with this?

A. Axiology C. Pragmatism

B. Idealism D. Reconstructionism

Correct Answer: B

22. The aim of our education during the Commonwealth period was

 

A. designed after Japanese education

B. predominantly religious

C. purely nationalistic and democratic

D. patterned after the American curriculum

Correct Answer: C

23. A school curriculum should include a common body of knowledge that all students should know.

A. Essentialism C. Perennialism

B. Progressivism D. Reconstructionism

Correct Answer: A

24. One teacher says: If it is billiard that brings students out of the classroom, let us bring it into the classroom. Perhaps, I can use it to teach mathematics.” To which philosophy does this teacher adhere?

A. Progressivism C. Idealism

B. Essentialism D. Existentialism

Correct Answer: A

25. The curriculum may come from a national agency or any professional organization which has a stake in education. This type of curriculum operating in schools is

A. taught curriculum. C. recommended curriculum.

B. written curriculum. D. learned curriculum.

Correct Answer: C