CBSE prescribed group activities for students in place of activities for individual students. The idea behind doing so could be

• to overcome the negative emotional response to individual competition which may generalise across learning

• to make it easy for teachers to observe groups instead of individual students

• to rationalise the time available with schools most of which do not have enough time for individual activities

• to reduce the infrastructural cost of the activity

If students repeatedly make errors during a lesson, a teacher should

• make changes in instructions, tasks, time-table or seating arrangements

• leave the lesson for the time being and come back to it after some time

• identify, the erring students and talk to principal about them

• make erring students stand outside the classroom

Following are some techniques to manage anxiety due to an approaching examination,except

• familiarising with the pattern of question paper

• thinking too much about the result

• seeking support

• emphasising strengths

Bloom's taxonomy is a hierarchical organization of ______

• achievement goals

• curricular declarations

• reading skills

• cognitive objectives

A, B and C are three students studying English. 'A' finds it interesting and thinks it will be helpful for her in future. 'B' studies English as she wants to secure first rank in the class. 'C' studies it as she is primarily concerned to secure passing grades. The goals of A, B and C respectively are

• mastery, performance, performance-avoidance

• performance, performance-avoidance, mastery

• performance-avoidance, mastery, performance

• mastery, performance-avoidance, performance

Mastery orientation can be encouraged by

• focusing on students' individual effort

• comparing students' successes with each other

• assigning lot of practice material as home assignments

• taking unexpected tested

Learners cannot learn unless

• they are taught according to the needs of social aims of education

• they know that the material being taught will be tested in the near future

• they are not prepared to learn

• they are asked about their learning in schools by their parents at home on a daily basis

Psychosocial theory emphasises on which of the following?

• Stimuli and Response

• Phallic and Latency stages

• Industry versus Inferiority stage

• Operant Conditioning

To explain, predict, and/or control phenomena are the goals of

• traditional reasoning

• inductive reasoning

• deductive reasoning

• the scientific method

A Class VII student makes errors in Mathematics. As a teacher, you would

• provide the student the correct answer

• allow the student to use calculator

• ask the student to use alternative method or redo it to find out errors on his/her own

• show the student where the errors were made and ask the student to redo it