REVIEW MATERIALS IN

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Who viewed curriculum as a permanent studies?

a. *Robert Hutchins b. Joseph Schwab c. Ralph Tyler
2. Which person stated that “ curriculum are all experiences in the classroom which are
planned and enacted by the teacher, and also learned by the students.
a. J. Schwab b. R. Hutchins c. *Marsh and Willis
3. What do we call curriculum that were proposed by scholars and professional
organizations?
a. *Recommended curriculum b. Taught Curriculum c. written curriculum
4. Which curriculum is visible in school, district, division or country documents?
a. *Written curriculum b. hidden curriculum c. taught curriculum
5. What type of curriculum is tested and evaluated?
a. Supported curriculum b. *Assessed Curriculum c. Taught Curriculum
6. Which curriculum is concerned with materials that should support or help in the
implementation of written curriculum?
a. Assessed Curriculum b. *Supported Curriculum c. Hidden Curriculum
7. What type of curriculum pertains to the learning outcomes achieved by the students?
a. Taught Curriculum b. *Learned Curriculum c. Assessed Curriculum
8. Which curriculum is concerned with the unintended curriculum?
a. Written curriculum b. Assessed Curriculum c. *Hidden Curriculum
9. Who presented curriculum as a science that “ emphasizes on students’ need?
a. *Franklin Bobbit b. Werret Charters c. William Kilpatrick
10. Who stated that curriculum is a set of experiences?
a. *Hollis Caswell b. Werret Charters c. Franklin Bobbit
11. Which person stated that curricula are purposeful activities which are child centered?
a. Harold Rugg b. Ralph Tyler c. * William Kilpatrick
12. What level in the cognitive domain is concerned with recall or remembering prior learning?
a. *Knowledge b. Synthesis c. Analysis
13. What is referred to as the ability to grasp meaning of material?
a. Application b. Synthesis c. *Comprehension
14. What do we call the ability to pass judgment on something based on given criteria?
a. *Evaluation b. Knowledge c. Analysis
15. Which is being described by the students willingness to pay attention to particular event,
stimuli or classroom activities?
a. Responding b. *receiving c. organization
16. What do we call the ability to break down materials into component parts so that its
organizational structure may be understood?
a. Comprehension b. *Analysis c. Synthesis
17. What do we call the ability to put parts together to form a new whole?
a. Application b. Comprehension c. *Synthesis
18. What is the focus of learner centered curriculum?
a. *Interests b. Learnability c. Significance
19. Which subject refers to the skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing as well as the
effective use of language in daily living?
A. Math b. *Communication c. Science
20. What subject is includes numeric and computational skills?
a. Science b. *Mathematics c. Social Studies
21. This subject includes psychomotor and manipulative skills.
a. Physical Education b. Social Studies c. *Vocational Education
22. What is the basis of authenticity of a subject?
a. Significance b. *Validity c. Utility
23. What characteristics of curriculum pertains to the fair distribution of subjects depth and
breadth?
a. *Balance b. sequence c. integration
24. What is known as logical arrangement of subjects?
a. *Sequence b. Continuity c. Balance
25. Which is known as constant repetition, review and reinforcement of learning?
a. Integration b. Sequence c. *Continuity
26. What is known as the environment of the curriculum?
a. *Context b. process c. product
27. Which is referred to the ways and means of how the curriculum has been implemented?
a. A. *Process b. product c. Context
28. The accomplishment of curriculum is visible in terms of the achievement of________.
a. Process b. *product c. context
29. In the teaching process, which stage includes decision about the needs of the learners, the
achievable goals and objectives to meet the needs and the selection of the content to be
taught, motivation to carry out the goals and the strategies most fit to carry out the goals
and the evaluation process to measure the learning outcomes.
a. *Planning phase b. implementation phase c. evaluation phase
30. The stage in teaching process which requires the teacher to implement what has been
planned.
a. Planning phase b.* implementation phase c. evaluation phase
31. In the features of curriculum, who teaches?
a. *The Teacher b. the learner c. knowledge, skills and values
32. Which feature is concerned with how do teachers teach?
 a. *Strategies and methods b. knowledge, skills and values c. teacher
33. How many tracks do we have in the K to 12 curriculum?
a. *Four b. two c three
34. For those students who would like to take science, technology, engineering and
mathematics, what tracks should be taken?
a. *Academics b. sports c. arts
35. What do we call the tracks that is concerned with the development of skills?
a. *Technical-vocational b. academics c. arts
36. What is the process of collecting information for use in evaluation?
a. *Curriculum Assessment b. Curriculum Planning c. Curriculum Guide
37. Which refers to the various ways of teaching, teaching styles, approaches, techniques and
steps in delivering the curriculum?
a. Evaluation b. Learners c.* Instruction
38. What do we call the content of instruction?
a. *Subject matter b. measurement c. teacher
39. What is expressed in terms of competencies?
a. *Objectives B. content c. materials
40. What do we call the implementation of curriculum in small group?
a. *Piloting b. testing c. training
41. In the bottom-up perspective, a reader could read a text when he/she
a. uses his prior knowledge to make sense of the text.
b. selects only the meaningful segments in the text.
c. *can translate the visual symbols to their aural equivalent.
d. relates the text to other texts previously read.
42. Which of the following reading skills or strategies is the closest to outside-in processing or
reading?
a. inferencing
b. outlining
c. predicting outcomes
d. *structural analysis
43. Before a reader could read the WORD, he must learn to read the WORLD first. This
statement implies that
a. students or readers must know the names of the letter first before they will know what the
word means.
b. readers must know the sounds of the letters first before they will know what the word
means.
c. *words are only representations of the concepts that the child or reader knows before
encountering the print.
d. the text supplies the readers with the necessary knowledge they need to make sense of the
print.
44. Teacher A explicitly teaches his/her students the rhetorical patterns of an informational text
taken from a science textbook. Which of the following does the teacher want to develop in
the reader?
a. print skill
 b. content schemata
c. *formal schemata
d. vocabulary knowledge
45. Teacher B uses the timeline as a graphic organizer to teach the readers to understand a given
expository text. Which of the following organizational structures might be the one used in the
exposition of the text’s information?
a. cause and effect
b. comparison and contrast
c. enumeration-description
d. *sequence or procedural
46. Teacher C has presented a reading lesson to her students. The lesson went on for a span of a
week. After a day or two, when the teacher introduced a new lesson that requires them the
knowledge of the previous lesson, the students no longer remember it. What could be the cause
of this problem?
a. There was a lack of constant drill and practice given by the teacher.
b. The text used and the instruction given in the previous lesson is within the students’
independent level.
c. *There was a lack of activities that integrate the students’ background experiences to the
text presented.
d. The text used and the instruction given in the previous lesson is within the students’
instructional level.
47. A reader was asked to fill in words to the sentences that are found inside the box below. Which
of the following cueing systems did the reader fail to consider?
The candy is in the sweet. It’s in the inside bowl.

a. graphophonic cues
b. *syntactic cues
c. semantic cues
d. pragmatic cues
48. A reader read the word “plan” with a pronunciation like “plane” in the sentence, “It’s my plan
to sail across the ocean.” The deviation of the reader in reading the text can be explained by
the reader’s use of
a. syntactic cues
b. semantic cues
c. *graphophonic cues
d. pragmatic cues
49. An office secretary encoded her boss’s memorandum for the company’s employees. The boss
returned the memo to the secretary along with the note, “Please justify this!” The secretary
felt bad and wanted to resign immediately because she thinks that it’s not her job to explain
the contents of the memo. What cueing system did the secretary fail to consider?
a. graphophonic
b. syntactic
c. semantic
d. *pragmatic
50. A reader was asked to read the sentence found inside the box below. Instead of reading the
word “moved”, he substituted it with the word “ran”. Which of the cueing systems could have
interfered his reading so that he manifests such a deviation from the text?
The car moved fast.

a. graphophonic cues
b. syntactic cues
c. *semantic cues
d. pragmatic cues
51. Which of the following refers to the movement of the eyes across a line of text?
a. *saccades
b. fixation
c. clustering
d. regression
52. A reader was asked to read a short story. When the reader started reading the text, he
encountered several words that are unfamiliar. He tried to pause for a moment and tried to
convert the word from visual to aural. Which of the following physiological correlates of
effective reading does the reader evidently practice in this situation?
a. saccadic movements
b. return sweeps
c. *fixations
d. clustering
53. The following are the reasons why fixation is not encouraged at times EXCEPT for
a. *Fixation allows readers to think of the meaning of a word encountered.
b. Fixation slows down fluency.
c. Readers are given the chance to do subvocalization when they fixate.
d. Too much fixation results to poor comprehension.
54. It refers to the learned ability to see words in groups rather than as individual words.
a. subvocalization
b. regression
c. fixation
d. *clustering
55. You asked a group of students to read a passage silently. After a minute of observation, you
noticed that they are moving their lips as they do saccadic movements along the page. Which
of the following terms refers to the practice that you have observed from your students?
a. *subvocalization
b. regression
c. fixation
d. clustering
56. You asked your students to silently read the passage you have prepared for them. The passage
is all about arthropods. As a student go over his passage, you noticed that he sweeps his hands
along the page. After a while, his eyebrows met, as if he doubts what the passage is all about.
You noticed that he made return sweeps to the text in a backward manner, as if trying to search
for a previously read word. This situation implies that the reader is doing
a. *regression.
 b. saccades.
c. fixation.
d. subvocalization.
57. Regression is BEST when the reader uses it as a means to
a. search for keywords in a text.
b. *monitor comprehension when the text seems not to make sense.
c. read a passage all over again.
d. highlight important lines in the text for retrieval purposes.
58. Teacher D entered the classroom and posted images that she has taken from the story she is
about to tell the students. Before she started telling the story to the class, she grouped the
students and asked them to make a story out of the pictures posted on the board. Which of the
following approaches reflects the practice of the teacher?
a. Explicit Phonics
b. Basal Approach
c. Embedded Phonics
d. *Language Experience Approach
59. Teacher E entered the classroom and showed a list of word families like cat, mat, fat, rat, pat,
and bat. This practice clearly shows that the teacher employs
a. Whole-language approach.
b. Language experience approach.
c. Literature-based approach.
d. *Phonics approach.
60. A student asked the teacher to tell him the meaning of the word “disestablishmentarianism”,
which is found in the text that the student read. Instead of explicitly stating the meaning of the
word, the teacher asked the student to segment the word and look for its base word, prefix, and
suffixes so that they may construct the meaning of the word through these word parts. Which
of the following vocabulary strategy did the teacher use to help the students arrive at the
meaning of the unfamiliar word?
a. semantic feature analysis
b. semantic mapping
c. *structural analysis
d. context clues
61. You were given a long passage to read in a short period of time. Along with the passage, you
were also asked to answer questions regarding the text you have read. Which of the following
reading strategies should you use to successfully meet your aim?
a. skimming
b. *scanning
c. close reading
d. summarizing
62. You want your students to give you a detailed account of what they have understood from the
story you have all read in the classroom. Which of the following assessment measures, tools,
or procedures should you use to meet your goal?
a. think-aloud
b. cloze procedure
c. *retelling
d. standardized tests
63. A teacher wants to know the current functional reading level of a student in her reading class
in terms of word recognition. Which of the following assessment measures, tools, or
procedures should the teacher use to meet her aim?
a. think-aloud
b. miscue analysis
c. standardized tests
d. *informal reading inventory
64. You want to know the quality of responses the students make as they process a text while they
are in the act of audibly reading it. You recorded their reading and found out that they stop at
times and give personal reactions to the text. Some of the students’ reactions are even stated
in their mother tongue. Which of the following assessment tools or procedures refers to this
practice?
a. *think-aloud
b. miscue analysis
c. standardized tests
d. cloze procedure
65. You want to know the range of your students’ vocabulary, graphophonic knowledge, syntactic
knowledge, semantic knowledge, and pragmatic knowledge by filling in gaps within
information. Which of the following should you use to achieve your goal?
a. think-aloud
b. miscue analysis
c. standardized tests
d. *cloze procedure
66. Teacher A has found out that the results of the curriculum that was implemented call for an
alteration in the set of objectives and competencies. Which of the following curriculum
development stages does teacher A want to happen?
a. curriculum planning
b. curriculum evaluation
c. *curriculum change
d. curriculum improvement
67. Ms. Natividad, a classroom teacher, wants to try-out to her class another strategy she has
learned from a seminar-workshop she has attended. Which level of curriculum is shown in
this situation?
a. societal
b. experiential
c. *instructional
d. institutional
68. Mr. Reyes, the principal of Bagumbato National High School, opted to use the curriculum that
employs the integration of Music, Arts, P.E., and Social Studies on a longer time block. This
situation clearly shows that the principal prefers to use
a. core curriculum design.
b. correlated subjects design.
c. *broad-fields curriculum design.
d. single-subject curriculum design.
69. The sub-processes of curriculum planning, organization and designing, implementation and
evaluation sum up the process of
 a. curriculum and instruction.
b. curriculum management.
c. *curriculum development.
d. curriculum assessment.
70. When the aim of the curriculum is to provide the learners with the needed skills in this ever-
changing world, the curriculum reflects the belief that it should
a. *provide learner’s with the knowledge needed for social relevance.
b. perpetuate cumulative tradition of organized knowledge.
c. provide avenues for the students to do self-expression.
d. allow learner’s self-actualization.
71. The following statements are characteristics of the subject-centered curriculum EXCEPT for
a. The main task is mastery learning.
b. The teacher has full control of the lesson.
c. *There is a high level of cooperative interaction.
d. It covers much of the content in a short span of time.
72. The phase of curriculum development which involves a survey of the current needs of the
learners and the demands of society is curriculum
a. *planning.
b. evaluation.
c. organization.
d. implementation
73. Ms. Oliveros, a language teacher, has noticed that Bryan, a diagnosed dyslexic child, has
already improved in his reading, writing, gross, and fine motor abilities. She recommended to
her principal that Bryan should be learning in a regular classroom. Which of the following
does the teacher want to happen?
a. promotion
b. intervention
c. *inclusion
d. exclusion
74. When developers try to obtain relevant information to be able to judge the worth of an
educational program, its product, procedures, and objectives, the developers are in the process
of curriculum
a. planning.
b. designing.
c. *evaluation.
d. alignment.
75. Johnny, a junior high school student, connected his lesson on fractions with his Social Studies
lesson on land ownership during the time of Feudalism. Which curriculum design element is
reflected in Johnny’s practice?
a. articulation
b. *integration
c. continuity
d. balance
76. Teacher B wants to give his student the freedom to choose what to learn and believe, and allow
the student to set his own identity and standards. Teacher B clearly shows that he believes in
a. Realism.
 b. Idealism.
c. Perennialism.
d. *Existentialism
77. A curriculum developer wants to combine geography, civics and culture, and history to
complete the subject area of Social Studies. The curriculum developer clearly manifests favor
for the
a. correlated subjects curriculum design.
b. broad fields curriculum design.
c. *fused curriculum design.
d. core curriculum design.
78. Teacher C has found out that there was a mismatch between the content she was teaching in
the class and the competencies tested in the standards-based assessment (SBA) given after a
year of instruction. This situation calls for curriculum
a. planning.
b. designing.
c. *alignment.
d. implementation.
79. The following are characteristics of the experience-centered curriculum EXCEPT for
a. The classroom activities are cooperatively controlled by the learner and the teacher.
b. The emphasis is on the holistic development of the individual learner.
c. Education aims to develop a socially creative individual.
d. *Facts and knowledge are to be mastered for future use.
80. The students’ first languages are to be the medium of instruction during the first three years
of formal schooling both in the public and private schools. Which of the following
stakeholders in curriculum development asks for this requirement?
a. parents
b. teachers
c. publishers
d. *legislators
 KEY TO CORRECTION

1 c 21 b

2 d 22 retelling

3 c 23 d

4 c 24 a

5 d 25 d

6 c 26 c

7 b 27 c

8 c 28 c

9 d 29 c

10 c 30 a

11 a 31 c

12 c 32 a

13 a 33 c

14 d 34 c

15 a 35 b

16 a 36 d

17 b 37 c

18 d 38 c
19 d 39 d

20 c 40 d