LA PATRIA COLLEGE

Santiago City

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION IN EDUC 4

(Curriculum Development)
First Semester, A.Y. 2019-2020
September 14, 2019

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Directions: Carefully read and analyze the following questions and choose the letter of the
best answer. Erasure means wrong.

1. There are two major perspectives in defining a curriculum: Prescriptive and Descriptive. Which of the following
definitions entails a prescriptive curriculum?
a. Curriculum is all planned learning outcomes for which the school is responsible.
b. Curriculum is a set of actual experiences and perceptions of the experiences that each individual learner has
of his or her program of education.
c. All experiences of the learner for which the school accepts responsibility.
d. The reconstruction of knowledge and experiences that enables the learner to grow in exercising intelligent
control of subsequent knowledge and experience.
2. Which of the following definitions pertain to a descriptive curriculum?
a. Curriculum is all planned learning outcomes for which the school is responsible.
b. Curriculum is a set of experiences to be provided for the learners under the guidance of teachers.
c. Curriculum is a continuous reconstruction, moving from the child’s present experience out of set of areas of
studies.
d. Curriculum means the planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and
processes for evaluating the attainment.
3. Good program planning provides the proper instructional equipment and meeting places that are often most conducive
to learning. To which of the following criteria of a good curriculum does this subscribe?
a. Curriculum is continuously evolving.
b. Curriculum is based on the needs of the people.
c. Curriculum is democratically conceived.
d. Curriculum is a complex of details.
4. Curriculum must be made up of offerings that pass the test of good and sound education. Which of the following does
this refer to?
a. Curriculum has administrative flexibility
b. Curriculum is based on the needs of the people
c. Curriculum must complement and cooperate with other programs in the community.
d. Curriculum has educational quality.
5. If a curriculum is ready to adapt and incorporate changes whenever necessary, we can say that it is,
a. Democratically conceived c. Flexible
b. Dynamic d. Logical
6. Why is it important to consider curriculum flexibility?
a. To accommodate various levels of educational attainment usually found in the student body.
b. To accomplish more than competitive zeal.
c. To be responsive to the needs of the changing society.
d. To provide friendly social meeting, good student-teacher relationships, effective guidance opportunities, and a
favourable attitude on the part of the learners.
7. Which of the following criteria of a good curriculum pertains to the idea that curriculum must have continuous evaluation
and reappraisal on which it must adapt its educational activities and services to meet the needs of a modern and
dynamic society?
a. Curriculum is continuously evolving.
b. Curriculum is based on the needs of the people.
c. Curriculum is democratically conceived.
d. Curriculum is a complex of details.
8. A good curriculum provides continuity of experiences. Which of the following characteristics does this refer to?
a. Curriculum is continuously evolving
b. Curriculum provides for the logical sequence of subject matter
c. Curriculum is based on the needs of people
d. Curriculum is a complex of details
9. Why is it important that curriculum must complement with other programs of the community?
a. To accommodate various levels of educational attainment usually found in the student body.
b. To accomplish more than competitive zeal.
c. To be responsive to the needs of the changing society.
d. To provide friendly social meeting, good student-teacher relationships, effective guidance opportunities, and a
favourable attitude on the part of the learners.
10. A good curriculum is developed through the efforts of a group of individuals from different sectors in the society. This
implies that:
a. Curriculum is continuously evolving.
b. Curriculum is based on the needs of the people.
c. Curriculum is democratically conceived.
d. Curriculum is a complex of details.
11. Which of the following criteria of a good curriculum pertains to the idea that it should be in its proper shape in order to
meet the challenges of the times and make education more responsive to the clientele it serves.
a. Curriculum has administrative flexibility
b. Curriculum is based on the needs of the people
c. Curriculum must complement and cooperate with other programs in the community.
d. Curriculum has educational quality.
12. Curriculum can be defined broadly as dealing with the learner’s experiences. This implies that,
a. Anything planned in or outside of school is part of the curriculum
b. Curriculum has a content
c. Curriculum includes a series of courses to be taken by the students
d. Curriculum must be taken in terms of theoretical manner rather than practical.
13. Who controls the subject-centered curriculum?
a. Learner c. Parent
b. Teacher d. Teacher and Parent
14. Which of the following best defines curriculum development?
a. The total phenomena directly received at any given time
b. The planning of learning opportunities intended to bring about certain desired changes in pupils and the
assessment of the extent to which these changes have taken place.
c. A continuous cycle of activities in which all elements of curriculum are considered
d. Education is aiding each child to be socially creative individuals
15. What do you call the curriculum when the teacher puts into action all the different planned activities in the classroom?
a. Recommended Curriculum
b. Written Curriculum
c. Taught Curriculum
d. Supported Curriculum
16. Objectives must be evaluated in the light of practical considerations, including teacher competence, availability of
instructional materials, time allotment, etc. What characteristic of educational objective is defined by the
aforementioned statement?
a. Comprehension c. Consistency
b. Attainability d. Feasibility
17. This curriculum design component is purposely stated generally because they are developed for a general level of
education and by the society.
a. Behavioural Objectives c. Aims
b. Instructional Objectives d. Goals
18. This criterion describes an observable student behaviour or an observable product of student behaviour.
a. Behavioural Objectives c. Educational Aims
b. Instructional Objectives d. Goals
19. The element or component of the curriculum that provides bases for the selection of learning content and learning
experiences which also set the criteria against which learning outcomes will be evaluated.
a. Aims c. Objectives
b. Goals d. Targets
20. In the objectives to read: By the end of the unit, the students will describe at least two values held by the pioneers as
presented in the film and reading materials listed in the study guide, which of the elements pertains to the expected
behaviour?
a. At the end of the unit c. the students will describe
b. At least two values d. given a film
21. Considering the behavioural objective in item no. 22, which among the elements pertains to the expected performance
level of the students?
a. As presented in the film c. the students will describe
b. At least two values d. held by the pioneers
22. What level in the cognitive domain is concerned with recall or remembering prior learning?
a. Knowledge c. Analysis
b. Synthesis d. Comprehension
23. Teacher Kim regularly requires his students to sort different instructional media and various resources to facilitate
teaching-learning process. To which of the following does Teacher Kim subscribe to?
a. Assessed curriculum c. Supported curriculum
b. Concomitant curriculum d. Taught curriculum
24. Though not deliberately planned, institutional policies are often discussed and integrated in teaching whenever
violations arise. From this, the learners definitely learn significant and valuable values from the course of immediate
reproof which may modify their behaviour. To what type of curriculum does this anchored on?
a. Assessed Curriculum c. Recommended Curriculum
b. Hidden Curriculum d. Taught Curriculum
25. Mr. Dela Cruz, a curriculum consultant on Social Science insists that in selecting the curriculum content, it is better that
throughout the high school years, economic geography concepts be used to recur and be repeated with depth for
effective learning. What criterion in content selection is shown here?
a. Continuity c. Significance
b. Learnability d. Validity
26. Which of the following statements about the concept of curriculum is NOT quite acceptable?
a. It refers to all experiences that both the school and the teacher provide the students with.
b. It is the set of acquired knowledge, habits, and skills.
c. It consists of everything that goes within the school.
d. It is planned action for instruction.
27. Francis Hunkins, in his questioning strategies and techniques, shows that questions correspond to Bloom’s taxonomy
of Cognitive Objectives. In this question in Mathematics: “How do you find the area of a square?” Which type of question
is this under Bloom’s taxonomy?

a. Knowledge c. Application
b. Comprehension d. Analysis
28. Which of the following is not a component of curriculum designing?
a. Diagnosis of needs c. Learning experiences
b. Learning content d. Objectives
29. Selection of objectives as a major stage in the process of curriculum development answers the question __________
a. What shall I teach ? c. Whom will I teach?
b. How will I teach ? d. What should I get my pupils to action?
30. Which set shows affective objectives arranged in hierarchical order?
a. Organization, receiving, valuing
b. Receiving, valuing, responding
c. Characterization, valuing, responding
d. Valuing, organizing, characterization
31. What level in the taxonomy of psychomotor domain requires the students to competently respond and with confidence?
a. Guided response c. Mechanism
b. Adaptation d. Origination
32. What level of affective objective requires the students to develop an organized system of values that serves as one’s
philosophy in life?
a. Organization c. Adaptation
b. Characterization d. Evaluation
33. Which is an example of an objective for the synthesis level?
a. convert fractions to decimals
b. identify the unknown in the given problem
c. propose a solution to a multi-step problem
d. judge the accuracy of the answer to the given problem

34. Following Bloom’s Taxonomy of cognitive objectives from lowest level to highest level, which is the correct sequence
of the objectives below?
i. Identify the implications of not having unity in the revolutionary period.
ii. Criticize the steps on how the Malolos Government was established in the year 1898.
iii. Construct the important events during the 1898 Philippine Revolution
iv. Summarize the important provisions of the Malolos Constitution

a. i, iii, iv, ii c. iii, I, ii, iv

b. ii, I, iii, iv d. iv, I, iii, ii
35. The content of the school subjects offered in the school, and a sub-set of the curriculum is called
a. Course of Study c. Lesson Plan
b. Syllabus d. Curriculum
36. All the planned experiences that the school offers as part of its educational responsibility is called
a. Course of Study c. Lesson Plan
b. Syllabus d. Curriculum

Prepared by: Reviewed/Approved by:

JULIE ANN P. HERNANDEZ, LPT, MAEd NOVELYN A. MITRA, LPT, MAT

Instructor, Teacher Education Program Head, Teacher Education