UGC NET Education Questions and Answers

1. Whitehead gives more importance to ……… while defining education.
(A) Wisdom
(B) Experience
(C) Skill
(D) Values

2. According to idealism ……………… is the true tool of achievement of knowledge.
(A) Sense organs
(B) Intelligence
(C) Experience
(D) Object

3. ‘Entire world is in a state of flux, nothing is permanent.’ This thinking is related to the …………. school of philosophy.
(A) Idealism
(B) Naturalism
(C) Pragmatism
(D) Realism

4. According to …………. the aim of education should be preparation for the life of the man of the world.
(A) Social realism
(B) Humanistic realism
(C) Sense realism
(D) Critical realism

5. ‘Education is not the self-realization, but it is self-expression.’ This slogan is of ………….
(A) Naturalism
(B) Realism
(C) Spiritualism
(D) Pragmatism

6. The maxim of teaching ‘Simple to Complex’ is based on …………. school of philosophy.
(A) Realism
(B) Pragmatism
(C) Idealism
(D) Spiritualism

7. ‘Education should be selfsupporting.’ This idea was given by …………..
(A) Vivekananda
(B) Vinoba Bhave
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Rabindranath Tagore

8. The Article of the Constitution of India that safeguards the interests of minority institutions is ………….
(A) Article 30
(B) Article 45
(C) Article 14
(D) Article 28

9. ‘There is no religion for the state.’ This philosophy is relevant to the ………………. value in the Indian Constitution.
(A) Socialism
(B) Secularism
(C) Equality
(D) Justice

10. ‘Purush and Prakrati’ are the universal truths and they differ from each other. This is the assumption of ………….
(A) Vedant
(B) Buddhism
(C) Sankhya
(D) Jainism

11. Philosophers from ……………………. school deny transcendental metaphysics because this cannot be verified.
(A) Realism
(B) Pragmatism
(C) Logical positivism
(D) Existentialism

12. Untouchability is abolished by the Article ……………. of the Indian Constitution.
(A) 17
(B) 30
(C) 25
(D) 29

13. The scope of Sociology ………….
(A) is limited to a particular society only
(B) is limited to global social interaction only
(C) ranges from interaction between two persons to global social interaction
(D) includes interaction in schools among students and teachers

14. Linkages between school and community can be established through …………
(A) Common school system
(B) Parental participation in teaching
(C) Mid-day meal programme
(D) Reservation for SC/STs

15. …………….is useful in overcoming caste, creed and religious discrimination based on.
(A) Equal political opportunity to all
(B) Equal financial opportunity to all
(C) Equal educational opportunity to all
(D) Equal vocational opportunity to all

16. Attitudes, religious beliefs, moral values, social beliefs and etiquetts are components of …………
(A) Industrial culture
(B) Non-material culture
(C) Material culture
(D) Intellectual culture

17. Emphasis on equal opportunities in education makes ………….
(A) Status attainment important
(B) Family background important
(C) Geographical mobility difficult
(D) Social mobility easier

18. Moving on from one social class to a higher social class is known as ………….
(A) Social change
(B) Social mobility
(C) Social transformation
(D) Geographical mobility

19. Education is a ……………
(A) Social effort
(B) Global effort
(C) Ideological effort
(D) Physical effort

20. Politics of education is not concerned with …………
(A) Conflicts in educational institutions
(B) Development of educational policies
(C) Influence of education on politics
(D) Influence of politics on education

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21. Indicators of societal modernity are …………..
(A) Geographical mobility, democratic and secular attitudes
(B) Wearing of western clothes
(C) Education in English medium schools
(D) High rise buildings, technological modes of communication, well laid out roads

22. Family as a social institution performs the following function :
(A) Procreation
(B) Rearing of children
(C) Informal education
(D) Taking forward family name

23. Which of the following is not correct ?
(A) Schools are affected by the social and economic situations and changes in civilisation
(B) Schools are powerful agents of social change
(C) Schools are sources of social conflicts
(D) Schools are agents of acculturation

24. The scope of sociology of education is …………
(A) role and structure of education in society
(B) global practices
(C) ideology of education
(D) personality and behaviour of students

25. Economics of education is not concerned with ………..
(A) Manpower planning
(B) Determining the rate of return of education
(C) Higher economic development vis-a-vis educational expenditure
(D) Commercialisation of education

26. Habit formation is related with …………. theory of learning.
(A) Bandura’s
(B) Pavlov’s
(C) Tolman’s
(D) Kohler’s

27. ‘‘A learner should transfer his knowledge into action purposefully and with determination.’’ This statement is related to ……….. theory of transfer of learning.
(A) Thorndike’s
(B) Judd’s
(C) Bagley’s
(D) Woodworth’s

28. Ramesh was trying to solve a geometrical problem in various ways but was unable to get a solution. All of a sudden he got a solution for the problem. This type of learning is an example of …………..
(A) learning by trial and error
(B) learning by conditioning
(C) learning by imitation
(D) learning by insight

29. The components of creativity are :
(A) originality, fluency, flexibility
(B) imagination, constructivity, intelligence
(C) novelty, critical thinking, fantacy
(D) fantacy, novelty, productivity

30. According to Freud boys and girls prefer to be in the company of their own sex and hate members from the opposite sex at the ……….
(A) Oral stage
(B) Anal stage
(C) Latency stage
(D) Genital stage

31. In the identification of mentally retarded children …………. criteria is used.
(A) Low I.Q. and deficient adaptive behaviour
(B) Deficient adaptive and social behaviour
(C) Low I.Q. and in-attentiveness
(D) Attention deficiency and poor motor co-ordination

32. The process of guidance is ………….
(A) giving direction
(B) assisting the individual to develop his capacity for self direction
(C) imposing one person’s point of view upon another person
(D) making decision for an individual

33. Four (4) years old Arnav solves the intelligence test correctly that is made for 4 years of age. He then solves four questions correctly from the test made for 5 years of age. Then he solves three questions correctly from the test made for 6 years of age followed by one question from the test made for 7 years of age. He is unable to solve any questions from the test made for 8 years of age. Thus Arnav’s IQ will be ………
(A) 137.50
(B) 72.72
(C) 100
(D) 125

34. To identify the interests of individuals we need to use ……………….
(A) Likert’s technique
(B) Thurston’s scale
(C) Kuder’s preference record
(D) Differential aptitude test

35. Savita does not get satisfactory marks in SSC examination but she always says that she is satisfied as she secured the first rank in the fifth standard. This is an example of …………..
(A) Compensation
(B) Regression
(C) Identification
(D) Rationalization

36. For defining educational psychology C.E. Skinner has given stress on ………..
(A) Teaching and learning
(B) Life stages in development
(C) Solution for educational problems
(D) Study of behaviour

37. ‘‘At the time of teaching a poem a teacher should read the full text of the poem and then teach line by line.’’ This statement is an application of ………….. theory of learning.
(A) Thorndike’s
(B) Kohler’s
(C) Pavlov’s
(D) Skinner’s

38. A researcher studies school climate by conducting participant observation for about 115 hours in a school and several unstructured interviews. The approach used for conducting this study is ………..
(A) Quantitative
(B) Qualitative
(C) Positivist
(D) Historical

39. The following is an example of experimental research :
(A) Education thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar
(B) An analysis of opinions of teachers towards semester system
(C) Factors affecting stress amongst students of Standard X
(D) Effect of constructivist teaching learning treatment programme on students’ academic performance in Mathematics

40. Ex-post-facto research is also known as ………….
(A) post-test only equivalent groups design
(B) pre-test post-test design
(C) correlational research
(D) causal-comparative research

41. Among the various research tools/ techniques/methods, the most cost effective is …………….
(A) Questionnaire
(B) Interview
(C) Case-study
(D) Observation

42. The most important characteristic of a good research tool is ………..
(A) Neatness
(B) High validity
(C) Simplicity
(D) Correct language

43. What is the meaning, structure and essence of the lived experience of this phenomenon for a person or group of people ? This is the central question of ………..
(A) Ecological psychology
(B) Phenomenology
(C) Ethnography
(D) Ethno-methodology

44. The worthiness of a research problem is not judged by ………….
(A) contribution to knowledge development
(B) utility to society
(C) contribution by way of new invention
(D) the cost involved in the conduct of research

45. The size of the sample is not directly related to …………
(A) standard of accuracy in the investigation
(B) preference of the investigator
(C) time of investigation
(D) cost of investigation

46. To study the Mode of dressing in a city ………………….. is most appropriate.
(A) Interview
(B) Checklist
(C) Questionnaire
(D) Observation

47. When one uses the data that someone else has already collected which may be coded or uncoded, for his/her own research, such data is called …………… data.
(A) Resource
(B) Analysed
(C) Archived
(D) Primary

48. You want to compare the mean job satisfaction of permanent and temporary teachers. The following statistical test will used for this :
(A) ANOVA
(B) Pearson’s r
(C) Spearman’s Rho
(D) t-test

49. Variance is ……………
(A) Square root of mean plus mode
(B) Square of standard deviation
(C) Square root of standard deviation
(D) Square of Geometric Mean

50. You want to compare the working conditions of teachers teaching in ICSE, CBSE and SSC schools. The following statistical technique will be used for this purpose :
(A) ANCOVA
(B) ANOVA
(C) MANOVA
(D) Chi-square