Enerio E.

Ebisa
Assignment #6
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

ACHIEVEMENT TEST

Name:_____________________________________________________________________
_________________________
Name of School:
____________________________________________________________________________
________
Gender [ ] Male [ ] Female
Designation: [ ] Teacher I [ ] Teacher II [ ] Teacher III [ ] Master
Teacher
Years in Service : ____________ Grade Level Taught:____________
Educational Qualification:
[ ] Ph.D. Graduate [ ] w/ Ph.D. Unit [ ] Master’s
Degree
[ ] with Master’s Units [ ] Bachelor’s Degree

Directions: Encircle the letter corresponds to your answer.

Questions 1 – 4 are adapted from (Susan C. Anthony,2001)

1. Philosophy in Greek means love of
A. wisdom B. humanity C. existence
2. The following are the basic questions about Philosophy except one
A. Who am I? B. Why am I here? C. What are
your secrets?
3. holds that the major purpose of education is to study timeless values
and knowledge
A. Idealism B. Pragmatism C. Perennialism
4. holds that the major purpose of education is to transmit culture and core
knowledge to each new generation.
A. Idealism B. Essentialism C. Perennialism
Questions 5 – 7 are adapted from the book “On Truth and Reality”,2009
Who said this line?
5. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
A. Aristotle B. Plato C. John Dewey
6. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are
grown is given us by education
A. Aristotle B. Plato C. Jean Jacques
Rousseau
7. Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since
children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not
instruct them in it?
A. Aristotle B. Plato C. Michel de Montaigne
Questions 8 - 11 are adapted from Ron Kurtus, 2001
8. It is based on the view that reality is a world within a person's mind
A. Idealism B. Realism C. Behaviorism
9. It believes that truth is what we sense and observe and that goodness is
found in the order of the laws of nature
A. Idealism B. Realism C. Behaviorism
10. It believes that truth is what works right now and that goodness comes
from group decisions.
A. Existentialism B. Experimentalism C. Essentialism
11. believes in the personal interpretation of the world
A. Existentialism B. Experimentalism C.
Essentialism

Questions 12 - 15 are adapted from Rick Garlikov, 2007)

What philosophy utilizes the following methods of teaching?
12. Dialectic
A. Idealism B. Realism C. Pragmatism
13. Syllogism
A. Constructivism B. Postmodernism C. Realism
14. Inductive
A. Pragmatism B. Essentialism C. Humanism
15. Socratic
A. Behaviorism B. Idealism C. Progressivism

Questions 16 - 25 are adapted from Frederick Edwords,2003

What philosophy is best described?

16. The teacher is not concerned with turning out students with technical
skills as having students with a broad view and understanding of the world
in which they live.
A. Humanism B. Idealism C. Pragmatism
17. Instructional process seeks to teach fundamentals, encourage
specialization, and teach the scientific method
A. Pragmatism B. Realism C. Idealism
18. Children do not learn to be social but that they do have to be social to
learn
A. Pragmatism B. Progressivism C. Idealism
19. Learners should arouse interest in public activism
 A. Behaviorism B. Existentialism C.
Reconstructivism
20. Knowledge is not power, but maybe language is
A. Behaviorism B. Idealism C. Progressivism
21. knowledge exists as it relates to the individual’s interpretation of it
A. Perennialism B. Realism C. Existentialism
22. Teachers are “cultural workers” who have jobs asocial and political
reformers.
A. Postmodernism B. Realism C. Idealism
23. Knowledge is constructed rather than acquired or transmitted by one
person to another.
A. Reconstructivism B. Constructivism C. Realism
24. outlook or way of life centered on human need and interest.
A. Humanism B. Idealism C. Pragmatism
25. believes that one should teach the things that one deems to be of
everlasting importance to all people everywhere
A. Perennialism B. Realism C. Existentialism