Issues and Trends in Contemporary Indian Education | Set 4
1. The aim of value education to inculcate in students is
Correct : A. The moral values
2. When individual share similar standards in a community, we can use the term
Correct : B. Value system
3. SUPW was introduced in the school curriculum in 1978 to promote
Correct : B. Gandhian values
4. The work experience is
Correct : B. An integral part of education
5. At what level the programme of work experience deal with simple handwork?
Correct : A. Lower primary classes
6. Craft was chosen as _____ in the school
Correct : D. All of the above
7. Knowledge, Skills, Application, Interest and Attitudes are the five major objectives of
Correct : B. Work Experience
8. ________ is a method of integrating the world of study with the world of work.
Correct : A. Work experience
9. Work experience is designed to bridge the gap between
Correct : D. All of these
10. Which of the following is the specific aim of work experience programme should deal
at the higher secondary stage?
Correct : D. Production in real situation
11. In SUPW, exphasis is laid on
Correct : C. Manual work
12. “to develop in pupils a sense of respect for manual workers in the society” is one of
the objectives of
Correct : B. SUPW
13. Wood and Abbott in the year 1937 gave emphasis on _______ which lead to the
harmonious development of personality.
Correct : A. Activity-centred education
14. Which committee introduced the terminology socially useful productive work
(SUPW)
Correct : C. Ishwar Bhai Committee
15. The contents of SUPW should be
Correct : D. All of these
16. Exploration, experimentation and work practice are the three phases of
Correct : B. SUPW
17. The concept of SUPW was elucidated by
Correct : C. Ishwar Bhai Patel Review Committee
18. Work experience is a training for
Correct : C. Participation in productive work for earning
19. The idea of basic education is propounded by
Correct : C. Mahatma Gandhi
20. SUPW was introduced in the year
Correct : A. 1978
21. “An educational programme which provides for a study of population situation of the family, the community, nation and the world with the purpose o developing in the students a rational and responsible attitudes and behavior towards that situation”. The definition is given by UNESCO on
Correct : D. Population education
22. The first attempt to conceptualize population education in India was made in the year
Correct : A. 1969
23. The process of acquiring information and forming attitudes and beliefs about sex, sexual
identity, relationships and intimacy is
Correct : C. Sex education
24. Imparting sexual education helps in preventing or controlling diseases such as
Correct : B. HIV/ADS
25. In pursuance of the recommendation of the National Seminar on Population
Education(1969), a “Population Education Syllabus” was developed by
Correct : A. National Council For Teacher Education
26. Schools have a significant role in imparting sex education to
Correct : A. Adolescents
27. Poverty, inflation, housing shortage, mounting illiteracy is the result of
Correct : A. Over-population
28. To develop an understanding of the influence of population trends on the various aspects
of human life, political, social, cultural and economic is the aim and objective of
Correct : D. Population education
29. ___________________recommended that Population education should be included in
the existing curriculum of schools and colleges .
Correct : B. National Seminar on Population Education (1969)
30. The first country to address “ Population Education” was
Correct : D. Sweeden
31. _______________________ coined the term “Population Education”
Correct : A. Pof.Sloan R. Wayland
32. National Population Education Project ( NPEP) was launched for institutionalizing
__________________________in schools
Correct : C. Population education
33. To promote population education, a comprehensive programme of “National Population
Policy” was evolved by the Government of India in
Correct : A. April, 1976
34. In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations recommended that
__________would be internationally observed as “World Population Day”
Correct : B. 11th July
35. The Government of India launched a national pogramme known as___________________________________________ designed to introduce population education along with the formal education system
Correct : B. National Population Education Project
36. To enable the students to extend their understanding, attitudes, perspectives and practices related population matters, issues and problems is the ultimate goal of
Correct : D. Population education
37. The first “National Population Policy(1969)” is essentially related to
Correct : A. Human Resource Development
38. The first national seminar on “Population Education” (1969) jointly organized by the
Ministry of Education and Health &Family Planning was held in
Correct : C. Bombay
39. “An educational programme which provides for a study of the population phenomenon so as to enable the students to take rational decisions towards problems arising out of the rapid growth”. This definition of population education is given by
Correct : B. Gopal Rao
40. _________________ is essential to prevent the young people from sexual abuses and harassment, exploitation, early pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS
Correct : D. Sex education
41. ____________________ refers to planned educational actions aimed at the development
of proper attitudes, values, emotions and behaviour pattern of the learners.
Correct : D. Value Education
42. Who defined values as ‘enduring belief, a specific mode of conduct and state existence
along a continuum of relative importance.’
Correct : D. Rokeach
43. According to __________________________ duty is the supreme concern and no other
worldly matters.
Correct : C. Bigourist Theory
44. Who said education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
Correct : A. Swami Vivekananda
45. In which year the NCERT organized seminar on work-oriented education and
recommended Gandhian values at the primary stage of education.
Correct : A. 1970
46. “If we exclude spiritual training in our institutions, we would be untrue to our whole
historical development” given by
Correct : B. Radhakrishnan Commission (1948)
47. ________________ stressed the role of education in combating obscurantism, religious
fanaticism, exploitation and injustice as well as the inculcation of values.
Correct : C. Programme of action NPE (1992)
48. To develop in child the habits of truthfulness, tidiness, punctuality, honesty etc. and to make them liberal in thought and practice are the aim and objectives of
Correct : D. Value-oriented Education
49. Education that is concerned with the transformation of individual personality
Correct : C. Value Education
50. Education without character leads to criminality; educated persons have wider opportunities in crime and that too committing them more efficiently and technically
Correct : A. Gandhiji
51. The programme of socially useful productive work aims at
Correct : B. Harmonious development of the whole man
52. A teacher must succeed in conveying the larger ideals of service to the community, virtues of tolerance and respect for all faiths, the importance of character and integrity and the values of humanism to his pupils, states by
Correct : B. Shankar Dayal Sharma
53. According to ______________________ commission, work experience is participation in productive work in school, in the home, in a workshop, on a farm, in a factory or in any other productive situation.
Correct : C. Kothari
54. Work-experience is
Correct : B. An integral part of education
55. The Kothari Commission (1964-66) has recommended making _________________ as
an integral part of education.
Correct : D. Work Experience
56. SUPW was introduced to the school curriculum to promote the values and educational ideas of
Correct : B. Mahatma Gandhi
57. The full for of SUPW is
Correct : C. Socially Useful Productive Work
58. What is the full form of SUPW/WE
Correct : D. Socially Useful Productive Work/Work Experience
59. SUPW was introduced to the school curriculum in
Correct : A. 1978
60. The success of SUPW programme depends upon the involvement of
Correct : C. The community
61. In India elementary education is defined as the education from
Correct : A. Classes I-VIII
62. In elementary education the upper primary stage covers classes
Correct : D. Classes VI-VIII
63. National Universalization of Elementary Education target concentrate on
Correct : C. Access, Retention, Attainment
64. Free and compulsory education is provided to children of the age group
Correct : D. 6-14 years
65. According to__________ commission “ Elementary Education should prepare children
become responsible and useful citizen
Correct : D. Kothari
66. Gandhiji strongly advocated______________ compulsory education through the schemes
of basic education
Correct : D. Seven year
67. National Elementary Education Mission (NEEM) was set up in August
Correct : B. 1995
68. One of the foremost interventions under UEE schemes is
Correct : C. Community Participation
69. National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) was established in the
year
Correct : A. 1961
70. The full form of NCERT is
Correct : C. National Council of Educational Research and Training
71. National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is a/an
Correct : A. Autonomous Organisation
72. NCERT act as the nodal centre at the national level for the implementation of
Correct : C. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009
73. The National Council of Educational Research and Training was established in
Correct : D. None of the above
74. NCERT has a separate department called
Correct : A. The Department of Elementary Education
75. The function of NCERT are
Correct : D. All of the above
76. There are______________ major constituent unit of the NCERT
Correct : C. 8
77. The full form of SCERT is
Correct : D. State Council of Educational Research and Training
78. The function of SCERT is for excellence of teachers education programme
____________ in the state
Correct : D. Elementary and Secondary Level
79. The State Council of Educational Research and Training is set up in each state on the
pattern of
Correct : C. NCERT
80. State Council of Educational Research and Training, Mizoram was established on
Correct : C. 20th January 1980
81. The Directorate of Teacher Education and SCERT came into existence as an
Independent Directorate on
Correct : C. January 15, 1990
82. In 1973 the Ministry of Education and Social Welfare recommended that all the existing institutions or various units in the state education department be merged into a single organisation and be designated as
Correct : B. SCERT
83. Who is the present director of SCERT, Mizoram
Correct : C. Laldawngliani Chawngthu
84. Who is the present Education Minister of Mizoram
Correct : B. Lalchhandama Ralte
85. What is the full form of DIET
Correct : A. District Institute of Education and Training
86. A centrally sponsored scheme of Restructuring and Reorganization of Teacher Education
was approved in
Correct : C. October 1987
87. SSA realizes the important of Early Childhood Care and Education and look at the
_________ age as a continuum
Correct : B. 0-14
88. The problems faced by DIET are
Correct : D. All of the above
89. SSA was launch in
Correct : A. 2000 - 2001
90. Govt. of India has recently introduced NPEGEL as an additional support to the existing scheme of SSA for providing additional component for education of________ at elementary level
Correct : B. Girls
91. According to ______________ commission of all the factors that influence the quality of education, the quality of competence and characters of teachers are undoubtedly the most significant
Correct : C. Education
92. The full form of NPEGEL is
Correct : A. National Programme for Educational of Girls at Elementary Level
93. SSA is a partnership between
Correct : B. The Central and State
94. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is Government of India’s flagship programme for
achievement of Universalization of
Correct : D. Elementary Education
95. The Government of India Flagship Programme for Universalization of Elementary
Education is
Correct : A. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
96. The full form of SSA is
Correct : D. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
97. All the children in School, Education Guarantee Centre, Alternate School, ‘ Back-toSchool’ is the objectives of
Correct : A. SSA
98. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan which in English means
Correct : D. Education for All Movement
99. SSA aims to provide useful and relevant education to all children in the ______________
group by 2010
Correct : C. 6-12 age
100. In SSA the sharing between Govt. of India and State Govt. (especially in NE) in the 11th
Five Year plan is