Q.1: Who proposed the scientific study of pedagogy and established pedagogical school in 1803?
a) Travers
b) Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
c) Catterl
d) Thorndike
Ans: b) Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Q.2: Who used the series of questionaires for securing information about children in 1894?
a) Hall
b) Oswego
c) Pestalozzi
d) Binet
Ans: a) Hall
(Imp Fact)
Hall’s questionnaire were mainly related to educational topics such as “The Beginnings of Reading and Writing,” “School Statistics,” “Number and Mathematics,” “Examination and Recitations,” and “Some Characteristics and Tendencies of School Children.”
Q.3: Who conducted the experiments on memory and demonstrated that it could be measured by some techniques accurately?
a) Wundt
b) Weber
c) Fechner
d) Ebbinghaus
Ans: d) Ebbinghaus
Q.4 “Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Laws and Consequences” was published in 1869. This famous work belongs to whom?
a) Sir Francis Galton
b) Francis Bacon
c) Pestalozzi
d) Torsten Husen
Ans: a) Sir Francis Galton
Q.5: An important work known as “Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development,” was published in 1883. Who was the author of this work?
a) Joseph M. Rice
b) Sir Francis Galton
c) Thorndike-McCall
d) Flesch
Ans: b) Sir Francis Galton
Q.6: Who wrote the article called “Mental Tests and Measurement,” in 1890?
a) James McKeen Cattell
b) Ebbinghaus
c) Thorndike
d) None of the above
Ans: a) James McKeen Cattell
(Imp Fact)
Cattell introduced “Mental Test,” into literature for first time.
Q.7: “Uniform Spelling Test,” in 1897 was proposed by________?
a) Joseph Mayer Rice
b) Sir Francis Galton
c) James McKeen Cattell
d) Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Ans: a) Joseph Mayer Rice
(Imp Fact)
Joseph Mayer Rice conducted a study on fourth to eighth grade students in United States. His research was aminig at to investigate the effectiveness of spelling instructions in American schools. In 1897 he published his work in “The Forum.”
Q.8: Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon in 1905 pioneered which Test?
a) Intelligence Test
b) Spelling Test
c) “Mental Test”
d) Social Reform Test
Ans: a) Intelligence Test
(Imp Fact)
Binet-Simon General Intelligence Scale is used to measure cognitive abilities in children.
Q.9: Who pioneered “Arithmetic Test,” in 1908?
a) Alfred Binet
b) Theodore Simon
c) Cliff W. Stone
d) Thorndike
Ans: c) Cliff W. Stone
Q.10: Who developed a “Hand-writting Scale,” in 1915 for assessment and evaluating handwriting quality?
a) Leonard Porter Ayres
b) Milo B. Hillegas
c) Joseph Mayer Rice
d) None of the above
Ans: a) Leonard Porter Ayres
Q.11: Match the following:
a) Buckingham i) Spelling Scale
b) Starch ii) Reading Test
c) Kelley Kansas iii) Silent Reading Test
d) Stone iv) Arithmetic Test
A) (a) (i), (b) (ii), (c) (iii), (d) (iv)
B) (a) (ii), (b) (i), (c) (iii), (d) (iv)
C) (a) (iv), (b) (ii), (c) (iii), (d) (i)
D) (a) (i), (b) (iii), (c) (ii), (d) (iv)
Ans: A) (a) (i), (b) (ii), (c) (iii), (d) (iv)
Q.12: Match the following:
a) Thorndike-McCall i) Reading Scale for understanding sentences.
b) Wakter Monroe ii) Standrized Silent Reading Test
c) Joseph Mayer Rice iii) Uniform Spelling Test
d) Carl Seashore iv) Test of Musical Talent
A) (a) (i), (b) (ii), (c) (iii), (d) (iv)
B) (a) (ii), (b) (i), (c) (iii), (d) (iv)
C) (a) (iv), (b) (ii), (c) (iii), (d) (i)
D) (a) (i), (b) (iii), (c) (ii), (d) (iv)
Ans: A) (a) (i), (b) (ii), (c) (iii), (d) (iv)