pedagogy mcqs test

Prepare for the Pedagogy MCQs Test with important questions on teaching methods, learning theories, and classroom management. Each MCQ includes answers for quick learning. Start practicing now to succeed!

141) Educational psychologists normally work collaboratively with ______.

a) Teacher & parents✅

b) Teacher & learner

c) Doctor & parents

d) All of these

142) According to psychology, education is:

a) Deliberation

b) Functional

c) Purposive

d) Self-education✅

143) Educational psychology studies the behavior of the learner in relation to his/her ______.

a) Educational environment✅

b) Home environment

c) Peer gathering

d) All of these

144) Who is the father of experimental psychology?

a) Boring

b) Hull

c) Wundt✅

d) Tolman

145) Where was the first experimental psychology laboratory set up?

a) Berlin

b) Boston

c) Frankfurt

d) Leipzig✅

146) Who is the first woman awarded a Ph.D. in psychology?

a) Anna Freud

b) Melanie Klein

c) Margaret Floy Washburn✅

d) William James

147) The concept of psychology came into teaching, and the first psychology course was offered by…

a) Wilhelm Wundt

b) E. B. Titchener

c) J. B. Watson

d) William James✅

148) Which method has made educational psychology a science?

a) Experimental method✅

b) Clinical method

c) Observational method

d) Survey method

149) The oldest method in psychology is…

a) Observation

b) Introspection✅

c) Case study

d) Clinical method

150) Introspection as a method stands rejected by…

a) Functional school

b) Behaviorists✅

c) Psychoanalysis

d) Gestalt

151) Educational psychology is concerned with…

a) The learner

b) The learning process

c) The learning situation

d) All of these✅

152) In an experimental method, there are variables.

a) Only one

b) Dependents

c) Single group

d) All of these✅

153) The first step of the experimental method is…

a) To collect data

b) To set up a laboratory

c) To formulate a hypothesis✅.

d) To interpret data

154) The first book of psychology was written by…

a) Kohler

b) William James✅

c) Clark Hall

d) Plato

155) The first book of psychology titled "Principle Psychology" was published in…

a) 1895✅

b) 1905

c) 1830

d) 1873

156) In ______ method of study in psychology, passive study and analysis of human behavior is usually done.

a) Introspection Method

b) Experimental Method

c) Observational Method✅

d) Genetic Method

157) What is called when more than one independent variable works in an experimental situation?

a) Situational Crisis

b) Interaction✅

c) Multi-situational Effect

d) Variable Crisis

158) Which of the following is the primary concern to an educational psychologist?

a) The formulation of a hypothesis

b) The discovery of a practical solution to an educational problem

c) The development of professional insights

d) The discovery of teaching procedures of maximum effectiveness✅

159) The primary task of a teacher is…

a) To teach the prescribed curriculum

b) To stimulate and guide student learning✅

c) To promote habits of conformity to adults

d) To provide diagnostic and remedial aid as and wherever indicated

160) Which method of research contributes most to the advancement of educational psychology as a science?

a) Experimental method✅

b) Historical method

c) Survey method

d) None of these

161) Which group is used as a control group?

a) Single group

b) control group

c) Rotation group

d) All of these✅

162) The basic conditions of physical, mental, and personality development are laid in the period of

a) Adulthood

b) Adolescence

c) Childhood✅

d) Infancy

163) The ______ is defined as the factor which is manipulated.

a) Dependent variable

b) Independent variable✅

c) Both a and b

d) None of these

164) The ______ variable is the factor that varies or changes as a result of manipulating the independent variable.

a) Dependent variable✅

b) Control variable

c) Independent variable

d) All of these

➡ Next MCQs Page

Pedagogy mcqs for ct test

Prepare for the Pedagogy MCQs for CT Test with important questions on teaching methods, learning theories, and classroom management. Each MCQ includes answers for quick learning. Ideal for CT Test preparation. Start practicing now to succeed!

121. … branch of Psychology describes and explains the relation of physical environment, like weather, climate, and soil with behavior.

a) Physiological

b) Para-psychology

c) Geo-psychology✅

d) None of these

122. General psychology deals with…

a) Personality

b) Development

c) Intelligent

d) Fundamentals of all branches of psychology✅

123. … branch of Psychology describes and explains the biological and physiological basis of behavior.

a) Para psychology

b) Social Psychology

c) Experimental Psychology

d) Physiological Psychology✅

124. Clinical psychology deals with the practical aspect of…

a) Abnormal psychology✅

b) Educational psychology

c) Experimental psychology

d) Child psychology

125) To study Abnormal psychology means to study mainly the nature of:

a) Normality of mind

b) Unconscious level of mind✅

c) Subconscious level of mind

d) Abnormality of mind

126) Abnormal psychology is concerned with:

a) Developmental stages of an individual

b) Diagnosis of abnormal behavior

c) Abnormal behavior and its causes✅

d) Treatment of abnormal behavior

127) Which branch of psychology deals with the study of animal behavior?

a) Social Psychology

b) Comparative Psychology✅

c) Abnormal Psychology

d) Differential Psychology

128) To deal with a preschool child with major temper tantrums, a parent can seek advice from:

a) Therapist

b) Educational psychologist✅

c) Clinical psychologist

d) Industrial psychologist

129) Social psychology deals with:

a) Behavior of individuals at work

b) Behavior and experience in social situations✅

c) Behavior of ethnic groups

d) Abnormal behavior of people

130) Which perspective of psychology emphasizes the overt behavior of the individual?

a) Developmental perspective

b) Behavioristic perspective✅

c) Humanistic perspective

d) Psychoanalytic perspective

131) Educational psychology is a ______ branch of psychology.

a) Applied✅

b) Pure

c) Both a & b

d) None of these

132) Industrial psychology is ______.

a) Theoretical psychology

b) Applied psychology✅

c) Abnormal psychology

d) All of these

133) Who is the psychologist who constructed the first intelligence test?

a) William James

b) J.B. Watson

c) William McDougall

d) Alfred Binet✅

134) Educational psychology revolves around three areas: the learner, the learning process, and ______.

a) Student’s parents

b) Teachers

c) Learning situation✅

d) Community

135) Who defined "Education psychology is the science of education"?

a) Peel✅

b) Skinner

c) Crown and Crown

d) Carroll

136) Who defined "Educational psychology is that branch of psychology which deals with teaching and learning"?

a) Crown and Crown

b) Skinner✅

c) McDougal

d) Alfred Adler

137) Educational psychology is mostly concerned with what is happening ______.

a) In the past

b) In the future

c) In the present✅

d) All of these

138) Who is known as the father of educational psychology?

a) E.L. Thorndike

b) Watson

c) Pestalozzi✅

d) Sigmund Freud

139) Educational psychology deals with ______.

a) Learner and parents

b) Learner and teacher✅

c) Learner and school

d) None of these

140) Educational psychology is concerned with:

a) The learning process

b) The learner

c) The learning situation

d) All of these✅

➡ Next MCQs Page

pedagogy mcqs for fpsc

101. … education refers to learning generated from the social experiences and observations of an individual:

a) Formal

b) Informal✅

c) Non-Formal

d) All of these

102. … education refers to the education that happens outside the context of a formal structured educational institution.

a) Formal

b) Non-formal

c) Informal✅

d) None of these

103. Which type/mode of education is not pre-planned and has no time table?

a) Formal

b) Informal✅

c) Non-Formal

104. Psychology is a…

a) A natural science

b) A physical science

c) A biological science

d) A social science✅

105. Today Psychology is the scientific study of human and animals…

a) Behavior✅

b) Mind

c) Soul

d) All of these

106. According to J. B Watson, ‘Psychology is a science of…’

a) Soul

b) Mind

c) Brain

d) Behavior✅

107. A systematic study of facts according to reliable and correct method of study is called a…

a) Scientific study✅

b) Biological study

c) Social technique

d) Methodology

108. The earliest definition of Psychology was “Study of…”

a) Soul✅

b) Mind

c) Behavior

d) None of these

109. Psychology as a ‘Science of Mind’, defined by………School of psychology.

a) Psychoanalysts

b) Behaviorists

c) Ancient Greek Philosophers✅

d) Functionalists

110. In the year … the Scientific Psychology was first accepted.

a) 1779

b) 1679

c) 1879✅

d) 1889

111. For the first time, the word psychology is introduced by…

a) Rudolf Goekle✅

b) William James

c) Sigmund Freud

d) C.G. Jung

112. Rudolf Goekle used the word ‘Psychology’ for the first time in the year…

a) 1590 AD✅

b) 1090 AD

c) 1950 AD

d) 1509 AD

113. Who is the father of Experimental Psychology?

a) Wilhelm Wundt✅

b) Sigmund Freud

c) C.G. Jung

d) E.B. Titchener

114. Who established the first Psychology Laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany?

a) William Jam

b) Wilhelm Wundt✅

c) Wood worth

d) None of these

115. J.B. Watson, the founder and father of behavioristic school of psychology defined Psychology as the science of…

a) Soul

b) Consciousness

c) Mind

d) Behavior✅

116. Behavior of organisms is…

a) Static

b) Dynamic✅

c) Predictable

d) All of these

117. Psychology is the science studying the behavior of…

a) Mankind

b) Living organism✅

c) Animal

d) Plants

118. E.B. Titchener (1867-1927) defined ‘Psychology’ as the science of…

a) Conscious Experience✅

b) Science of Mind

c) Science of Experience

d) Science of Soul

119. Who defined ‘Psychology’ as the scientific study of adjustments in relation to his environment?

a) J.B Watson

b) Sigmund Freud

c) Wood worth✅

d) William James

120. Who defined “Psychology as the science of immediate experience with consciousness being the main subject matter”?

a) E.B. Titchener

b) William James

c) Sigmund Freud

d) Wilhelm Wundt✅

➡ Next MCQs Page

Fpsc pedagogy solved mcqs

81. Learning in classroom is the example of … learning?

a) Formal✅

b) Informal

c) Non-Formal

82. There is no curriculum is required in … education.

a) Formal

b) Informal✅

c) Non-Formal

83. Sometimes accidentally we learn a lot is a type of … learning.

a) Distance

b) Non-formal

c) Informal✅

84. Mosque and church are the institution of … learning.

a) Distance

b) Non-formal✅

c) Informal

85. Examinations are linked with…

a) Formal evaluation✅

b) Informal evaluation

c) Non-formal evaluation

d) Both a and b

86. Formal education has…

a) Rigid rules of entry and exit✅

b) Flexible rules of entry and exit

c) Few rules of entry and exit

d) No rules of entry and exit

87. Informal education has…

a) Flexible rules of entry and exit

b) Rigid rules of entry and exit

c) Few rules of entry and exit

d) No rules of entry and exit✅

88. Which type/Mode of education is structured?

a) Formal✅

b) Informal

c) Non-formal

d) All of these

89. Through which type of education you can get knowledge such as media, friends, family, and life experience etc.?

a) Formal

b) Informal✅

c) Non-formal

d) All of these

90. In which type/mode of education the child is taught by a teacher?

a) Non-formal

b) Formal✅

c) Informal

d) All of these

91. It is a lifelong process in a natural way.

a) Informal✅

b) Formal

c) Non-formal

d) All of these

92. Through which institution do we get informal education?

a) Home✅

b) School

c) College

d) All

93. Boy Scouts and Girl Guides develop some sports programs such as swimming. It comes under:

a) Formal learning

b) Informal learning

c) Non-formal learning✅

d) All of these

94. … education refers to the education, which is conducted in the formal educational institutions for the achievement of pre-determined goals.

a) Formal✅

b) Informal

c) Both of these

d) None of these

95. Distance and online education is a part of…

a) Formal learning✅

b) Informal learning

c) Non-formal learning

d) None of these

96. If a person standing in a bank learns about opening and maintaining an account at the bank, it is known as…

a) Formal learning

b) Informal learning

c) Non-formal learning✅

d) All of these

97. Mosque and church are the institutions of …

a) Non-formal✅

b) Formal

c) Informal

98. Education planned with a particular end in view is?

a) Formal education✅

b) Informal education

99. … education is the process of training & developing the abilities of individuals in a certified program.

a) Formal✅

b) Informal

100. … is concerned with society rather than formal or non-formal educational setting.

a) Formal

b) Non-formal✅

➡ Next MCQs Page

Nts pedagogy solved mcqs

 61) Which strategy is most suitable for introducing a lesson?

a) Demonstration

b) Questioning✅

c) Lecture

d) None of these

62) Basic education means:

a) System of education

b) Poor learning

c) Basic of any learning✅

d) None of these

63) Which sense is widely used in gaining large information?

a) Visual✅

b) Taste

c) Touch

d) Smell

64. The word Education is derived from a ………. word “Educatum”.

a) French

b) Latin✅

c) English

d) Hindi

65. Education is the combination of ………. Latin words.

a) 1

b) 2

c) 3✅

d) 4

66. Education is derived from a Latin word?

a) Educate

b) Educere✅

c) Evolution

d) Learning

67. Education means…

a) Transfer of Education

b) Change in behavior

c) To bring out

d) All of these✅

68. Every system of education is based on?

a) Ideology of nation✅

b) Social development

c) Intellectual development

d) Skill development

69. … is a social process that enables an individual for a balanced life.

a) Learning

b) Education✅

c) Communication

d) Helping

70. Education is a process through which a ………. transmits its collected excellence to the next generation.

a) Society✅

b) Individual

c) Group

d) None of these

71. According to Piaget, the main goal of education should be…

a) To help students how to learn✅

b) To change students' behavior

c) To adjust the students with his environment

d) To bring change in students’ attitude

72. Which of the following is not the characteristic of education?

a) Factual absorption✅

b) Lifelong activity

c) Formal and informal activities

d) Experiences of life

73. The chief source for the accomplishment of the aim of education is?

a) Teacher

b) Curriculum✅

c) Method of teaching

d) Evaluation

74. The basic source of educational objectives is?

a) Human experience✅

b) Schools

c) Educational psychology

d) Professional organization

75. Determining the … of education is the responsibility of society.

a) Aim✅

b) Goal

c) Objective

d) Job

76. Whole education system revolves around ………

a) Society

b) Program

c) Teacher

d) Student✅

77. There are main the Modes/Types of education.

a) 3✅

b) 4

c) 5

d) 6

78. … learning usually takes place in the premises of the school, where a person may learn basic, academic, or trade skill.

a) Formal✅

b) Informal

c) Non-formal

d) None

79. Process of living is called … learning.

a) Formal

b) Informal✅

c) Non-Formal

80. … sometime arranges or sometimes not arrange. It has rules, but the rules in the form of education are flexible.

a) Formal

b) Informal

c) Non-Formal✅

➡ Next MCQs Page

pedagogy most repeated mcqs

41) How much knowledge is gained through the sense of seeing?

a) 75%✅

b) 60%

c) 85%

d) 90%

42) How much knowledge is gained through the sense of listening?

a) 20%

b) 10%

c) 13%✅

d) 25%

43) How much knowledge is gained through the sense of touch?

a) 9%

b) 6%✅

c) 4%

d) 12%

44) How much knowledge is gained through the sense of smell?

a) 3%✅

b) 7%

c) 5%

d) 9%

45) How much knowledge is gained through the sense of taste?

a) 6%

b) 1%

c) 2%

d) 3%✅

46) Progressivism believes that education comes from the experience of the:

a) Teacher

b) Child✅

c) Parents

d) Community

47) What should be the role of a teacher in meeting individual differences?

a) To know the ability and interest of an individual

b) Adjust the curriculum as per need

c) Both a & b✅

d) None

48) Teachers should present information to students clearly and in an interesting way, relating it to things students:

a) Don’t know

b) Already know✅

c) Are willing to know

d) Are not willing to know

49) According to John Dewey, school is a ______ institution, and education is a ______ process.

a) Nothing, Power

b) Social, Social✅

c) Growth, Development

d) None of these

50) The Waldorf education approach emphasizes a balanced development of:

a) Head and Heart

b) Hand and Heart

c) Head, Heart, and Hand✅

d) None of these

51) Pedagogy refers to the theory and practice of:

a) Playing

b) Reading

c) Learning✅

d) None of these

52) A good teacher is one who:

a) Has lots of degrees

b) Reads a lot

c) Cooperates with staff

d) Teaches well✅

53) Teaching will be effective if the teacher:

a) Masters the subject

b) Has much experience in teaching

c) Starts from what students✅ already know

d) Uses many instructional aids

54) Which is the least important in teaching?

a) Maintaining discipline in the class

b) Punishing the students✅

c) Lecturing impressively

d) Drawing sketches and diagrams

55) A teacher reads aloud to the class to improve students’:

a) Feeling about reading

b) Pronunciation

c) Comprehension

d) All of these✅

56) The primary duty of a teacher is to be responsible to:

a) Students✅

b) Nation

c) Society

d) Family

57) Primary teachers should give top priority to:

a) Understanding the community

b) Understanding the school staff

c) Interaction with parents✅

d) Understanding the child

58) The best technique of teaching at the primary stage is:

a) Traditional blackboard and chalk technique

b) Teaching with punishment

c) Practical training

d) Game techniques✅

59) The psychological environment of the class is mainly the duty of:

a) Student himself

b) Only the class teacher✅

c) Community and class teacher

d) Administration of high level

60) On which basis can the ability of teachers be judged?

a) To fulfill the need of the student

b) Personality of the teacher✅

c) Degrees of the teacher

d) None of these

➡ Next MCQs Page

Pedagogy mcqs solved

21) Focuses on co-learning or co-creating.

a) Andragogy

b) Heutagogy

c) Peeragogy✅

d) Cybergogy

22) Encourages learner engagement in an online environment.

a) Heutagogy

b) Peeragogy

c) Cybergogy✅

d) None of these

23) The first learning center of a child is:

a) School

b) Society

c) Home✅

d) All of these

24) A scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of students is called:

a) List card

b) Rubrics✅

c) Rating scale

d) None of these

25) Education according to John Dewey is:

a) Prepare for future life

b) Shaping

c) Learning to do by doing✅

d) Struggling

26) According to John Dewey, schools must prepare students for:

a) Research

b) Fighting

c) Present life✅

d) Future life

27) According to John Dewey, the educational process has two sides:

a) Economical and sociological

b) Psychological and sociological✅

c) Economical and philosophical

d) Sociological and philosophical

28) Which of the following is dimensional teaching aid?

a) Display board

b) Whiteboard

c) Still picture

d) Model✅

29) Rousseau advocated an educational method that involved removing the child from:

a) School

b) Family

c) Society✅

d) Friends

30) The first educational institution of a child is:

a) Peer

b) Home✅

c) Village

d) School

31) The very first teacher of a child is:

a) Peer

b) Friends

c) Parents✅

d) All of these

32) According to John Locke, a child’s mind does not contain any:

a) External thinking

b) Perception

c) Innate ideas✅

d) Observation

33) A posteriori knowledge is knowledge that is known independently of:

a) Observation

b) Experiences✅

c) Data

d) None of these

34) The philosopher who first mentioned the importance of play (sports) in education was:

a) John Dewey

b) Plato

c) Aristotle✅

d) Socrates

35) Who said that man is a social animal?

a) Al-Ghazali

b) Aristotle✅

c) Plato

d) Socrates

36) The idea of practical learning means education should apply to the:

a) Only jobs area

b) Sometime

c) Real world✅

d) Practice

37) The use of technology to enhance learning process is called:

a) ICT✅

b) GT

c) Communication technology

d) None of these

38) Who said education refers to the process of uncovering principles of truth, beauty, and good?

a) Aristotle

b) Plato

c) Socrates✅

d) John Dewey

39) If a child’s mental age is 5 years and chronological age is 4 years, what will be the IQ of the child?

a) 125✅

b) 90

c) 56

d) 102

40) What will be the IQ of a 25-year-old whose mental age is 16?

a) 50

b) 64✅

c) 75

d) 100

➡ Next MCQs Page

Pedagogy solved mcqs with answers

 1. The word “pedagogy” means:

a) To guide the child

b) To lead the child✅

c) To educate the child

d) None of these

2. Pedagogy is the study of:

a) Books

b) Education

c) Teaching method✅

d) Learning process

3. "Peda" word derived from Greek means:

a) Teaching

b) Learning

c) Child✅

d) Method

4. Which type of learning is predominantly teacher-centered?

a) Andragogy

b) Pedagogy✅

c) Both a and b

d) None of these

5. He is considered as the father of research in teaching:

a) Edward Lee Thorndike

b) Lewis Medison

c) Joseph Mayer Rice✅

d) None of these

6. Joseph Mayer Rice was a great:

a) Philosopher

b) Poet

c) Classroom observer✅

d) Tutor

7. Pedagogy is a joint activity in which the ______ has an active role.

a) Father

b) Learner✅

c) Family

d) All of these

8. What does andragogy mean?

a) Teaching

b) Teaching of adults✅

c) Teaching of kids

d) Teaching right from the book

9. An adult in training "needs to know", which means:

a) They are goal-oriented and expect it to be relevant✅

b) They bring knowledge they want to share

c) They need to be motivated

d) They know their own needs

10. The attitude of successful teachers towards their students is:

a) Arrogant

b) Friendly

c) Non-serious

d) Realistic✅

11. The primary task of the teacher is:

a) To teach the prescribed curriculum

b) To stimulate and guide student learning✅

c) To promote habits of conformity to adult demands and expectations

d) To provide diagnostic and remedial aid wherever indicated

12. Most important work of a teacher is:

a) To organize teaching work✅

b) To evaluate the students

c) To deliver lectures in class

d) To take care of children

13. Teachers should present information to the students clearly and in an interesting way, and relate this new information to the things students:

a) Not willing to know

b) Already know✅

c) Willing to know

d) Don’t know

14. Which of the following is the most important factor underlying the success of a beginning teacher?

a) His personality and ability to relate to the class✅

b) His attitude and outlook on life

c) His verbal facility and organizational ability

d) His scholarship and intellectual ability

15. Which of the following is most likely to characterize the ineffective teacher?

a) Emphasis upon standards

b) Emphasis upon pupil discussion in the clarification of group goals

c) Emphasis upon the control of the immediate situation✅

d) Refusal to help children until they have helped themselves

16. _______ encourages learners to become more self-directed.

a) Andragogy

b) Heutagogy✅

c) Peeragogy

d) Cybergogy

17. _______ is self-determined learning.

a) Pedagogy

b) Andragogy

c) Heutagogy✅

d) All of these

18. Learners are "problem finders" and become interdependent on those who can help them determine the route.

a) Pedagogy

b) Heutagogy✅

c) Andragogy

d) All of these

19. The role of a teacher is a coach—bringing together opportunity and fostering a culture of collaboration and curiosity.

a) Peeragogy

b) Heutagogy✅

c) Andragogy

d) All of these

20. Learners are inquiry-driven, take a long-term view of their learning, and seek further complexity and uncertainty.

a) Heutagogy✅

b) Peeragogy

c) Andragogy

d) All of these

➡ Next MCQs Page