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Students who are interested in basketball may be encouraged to research on the history of that game to further understand how it is being played. Students will learn how to collect data and evaluate historical evidence. Which of the following best captures the above-mentioned situation?

Students also view history to further discover their areas of interest.

Teacher Ana observed that her students became interested in learning their lessons in history after playing the quiz game called Jeopardy, which features questions that are from their history lessons. Which of the following rationales in learning history best captures the above-mentioned situation?

Students view history as a form of entertainment.

Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

Social Studies

Head Teacher A observed that the focus of Teacher C is on the lesson itself or the content while the focus of Teacher D is on the development of more sophisticated understanding through the use of procedural concepts in history. Which of the following generalizations best captures the situation?

The difference between a novice from an expert history educator is evident.

Master Teacher F learned that her colleagues in the Araling Panlipunan department tend to have doubts on the capacity of their high school students in doing historical thinking. What will Master Teacher F do?

Share the recent research finding that learners can do source work as early as seven years old while high school students can already do it like a historian.

Students and even adults who were not taught how to think historically were said to approach sources as decontextualized, disembodied, authorless forms of neutral information that appear to fall out of the sky ready-made. What does this statement mean regarding historical thinking?

Students who did not learn how to think historically tend to conclude that the past is either given or inaccessible or both.

Teacher M encourages his students to use a truth–lie dichotomy in assessing the reliability of historical accounts. What is the effect of truth–lie dichotomy among students in history?

It might only lead the learners to a dead end as they will think that sources are conflicting because they are not true at all.

Teacher Z is still using a 35-year-old history textbook instead of a very recently published text because he believes that there is nothing since this has discussed historical events out so clearly. Which of the following best explains this situation?

Some teachers tend to insist on using their tried and tested resources in history over primary sources

Recent research in history education claims that the most important resource in any classroom remains the teacher. Which of the following recommendations is most consistent with this research finding?

There is a need to place a premium on teachers’ knowledge and ability to deploy resources which enable them to realize their classroom aims and aspirations.

In relation to history education, which of the following is the most accurate mission of Social Studies in basic education?

The mission of Social Studies is not to produce historians but to hone citizens who are informed, educated, thoughtful, critical readers, who appreciate investigative enterprises, know good arguments when they hear them, and who engage their world with a host of strategies for understanding it.

Which is the most appropriate strategy for Teacher N to help students understand the progression of human life from the past to the present?

The teacher needs to provide learning activities where students will have intriguing encounters with the subjective experience of people in the past and opportunity to speculate how people made meaning of that experience through their own temporal lenses.

What does the statement 'History is an infinitely tangled web of cause and effect, or reinforcement and negation, reflection and refraction, acceleration and hindrance' mean?

A historical event may have multiple causes.

Teacher P learned from a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) seminar that causal explanation, when taught to the students in the proper way, can definitely help the learners in grasping the content of the lesson. Which of the following strategies can Teacher P use to teach causal explanation to her students?

Use games and analogies to help students understand the causes of various historical events.

The shift to online learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic was coupled with problems and issues like the rampant spread of fake and biased news and information through social media. What should be done in terms of history education to address these problems and issues?

Develop an understanding of the nature and status of historical knowledge through a developed concept of evidence.

The existence of different historical accounts is said to be a consequence of historians not having access to all the bits and inventing things to fill in the gaps. Which of the following statements best describes learning history?

Learning history should be viewed like a Lego puzzle wherein available pieces of evidence can be put together in different but perfectly valid ways.

Research on history education claims that students tend to believe that primary sources are better than secondary sources and historians are seen as providing second-rate knowledge because their accounts are second-hand. However, some educators contend that primary sources or eyewitness accounts are difficult to interpret while a secondary source or a textbook written by a historian is easier to interpret. This proves that complex understandings can be developed from limited starting points. Which of the following recommendations can be adopted by history teachers?

Teachers should provide complex ideas in simple ways and avoid the teaching of simple ideas in complex ways.

Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

Challenging or supporting others’ judgments about significance

Recent research claims that teachers of history education should consider the place of moral learning within their subject and to engage in careful reflection as to the ways in which pupils encounter values within their classrooms. Which of the following statements best describes the benefit of moral learning in history?

The learning of history should involve moral thinking in order to have reasoned judgments.

One of the challenges in moral learning in history is on which values are to be explored and promoted as there is no particular list of values that are given to history teachers. How should history teachers address this challenge?

History teachers should explore controversial and sensitive issues in the society.

Research claims that there is currently a scarcity of resources available which explicitly seek to help history teachers to carry out moral learning in their lessons. Which of the following statements best describes moral reasoning as an approach of moral learning in history?

It promotes the ability of students to reflect on their moral positions, to take perspectives, and to make rational and reasoned autonomous decisions.

Which of the following is included under historical literacy?

discourse analysis

Research indicates that it seems history textbooks are not instructional materials after all, as they are not serving their purpose to aid in the understanding of students about the lesson. Which of the following attributes of textbooks are said to be the reason for this?

voiceless and dispassionate

Teacher V always enters her class with a Philippine history textbook authored by her favorite historian. Which of the following statements best describes this situation?

Teachers in basic education will not survive without a textbook just like a “mariner without a compass.”

Which of the following does not belong to the group?

deep historical knowledge

Which of the following features of history textbooks are said to be foundational aspects of true historical writing? I. Short biographical descriptions of the authors, along with introductory chapters describing the area of their research II. Struggles during the data collection and writing process III. Footnotes, endnotes, parenthetical comments IV. Techniques designed to lay bare the fact-finding process

I, II, III, IV

Teacher A checks first the author of a textbook before he will use it in his lesson. Which of the following practices is close to this situation?

employ sourcing heuristics

History textbooks are said to be dull and lifeless, erroneous, with overly broad coverage, and difficult to understand. Thus, there were several suggestions in order to make history textbooks better. Which of the following suggestions was not approved due to politics on the ideas that should be transmitted to students like patriotism and democracy?

Just teach history as a discipline and deviate from using textbooks

Which of the following describes metadiscourse as a feature of history textbooks? I. The reader is just a receiver of information. II. The author can express views and opinions and guide the reader on how to analyze the ideas in the text. III. The readers can determine the perspective of the author which will eventually guide them in understanding the text. IV. The way an author intrudes into the primary, informational discourse of a text to give opinions or direct the reader.

II, III, IV

Which of the following statements best describes “less considerate texts” in history?

High-knowledge readers or students with high levels of comprehension are benefited as they are challenged to fill in gaps and make their own inferences regarding the text

Research suggests that students trust the content of history textbooks even if they do not know the authors. However, this is detrimental to the students as they may not develop critical thinking skills due to its impersonal approach that often leads to memorization of facts. Which of the following recommendations can address this issue?

Textbooks should have a visible author so that students will have an idea who is the source of the information in the textbook and will make them understand why one historical account is contrary to another

Since textbooks are the most common sources of teaching history in schools, it gives them an “authoritative edge” in the classroom, particularly when compared with primary sources. Which of the following statements describes the effect of this situation?

Students tend to be more exposed to textbooks and in turn just accept their contents as historical truths.

Students tend to view History as a subject that consists of indisputable stories told about the past, packaged with clear lessons and unfettered by considerations of evidence. This shows the authoritative tone and stance that history textbooks and even teachers portray inside the classroom. Which of the following practices tend to make history textbooks authoritative? I. Requiring students to take good care of their textbooks by covering them and by not writing on their pages II. Authors of textbooks tend to fill them with a lot of information so that they look like encyclopedias in thickness and weight III. Authors of textbooks often present facts in a confident, omniscient, and objective tone IV. History textbook writers need to establish the connection between students and the textbooks’ content, tone, and rhetoric

I, II, III

Research suggests that history textbooks tend to use terms and events that were not explicated nor elaborated. Which of the following “historiographic shortcomings” in a history textbook best describes this situation?

Textbook’s reliance on insufficient, misleading, or inaccurate facts

Research indicates that history textbooks fail to have mechanisms like footnotes and endnotes that will guide the learners and provide them with better understanding about the lesson. Which of the following “historiographic shortcomings” in a history textbook best describes this situation?

Lack of supporting documentation

Teacher M designed her lessons in Philippine history such that students can create webs of meaning woven from facts and evidence. Which of the following “historiographic shortcomings” in a history textbook is being addressed?

Treated events in isolation

Master Teacher A was asked to join a group of history teachers to write a textbook in Philippine history. He suggested that the history textbook they write should have author visibility, wherein students feel the author is like a storyteller speaking with them. Which of the following “historiographic shortcomings” is being addressed?

Absence of the human story

Teacher F noticed that most historical accounts of the Magellan expedition in the Philippine history textbook are from Spanish explorers. Which historiographic shortcoming is this?

The textbook is Eurocentric

How should teachers plan their lessons to help students counter the authoritative nature of a history textbook and its shortcomings?

Teachers should review primary sources first in order to understand various concepts about the lesson

In a lesson on works of famous Filipino sculptors during the American period, Teacher D mistakenly showed a photo of the Ramon Magsaysay monument instead of the Bonifacio monument. There was no reaction from students. Which best explains this?

Students are just absorbing the lessons their teachers teach

In a lesson about the effects of trading with America and the Philippines, Teacher C asked a student to read a portion of the textbook, then asked questions about the topic. What is the effect of this practice?

Students are prone to insufficient, misleading, or inaccurate facts as readers of the textbook

Which of the following best describes the inconclusive nature of historical inquiry?

Inquirers might reinterpret history from time to time in light of new evidence or different historical positions assumed by inquirers.

History texts are presumed to faithfully and directly correspond to the past. This may give students the idea that the “real truth” could be had as long as we could get to the “right evidence” that conveyed it. What view concerning historical knowledge is depicted in this situation?

Fundamentalist epistemological stance

Which of the following historical views make students develop a naive trust in history texts?

Referential illusion

Conflicting interpretations of the available sources are not uncommon results in the practice of history. Differences in historical interpretations are said to be a consequence of historians not having access to all the bits and inventing things to fill in the gaps. It was noted that attempts to construct a history of events operate on an inextricable connection between a reality past and interpretations of the reality, a connection that is denied. Which of the following views reflect this required-but-denied connection between reality and interpretation?

Interpretive paradox

Students who will encounter opposing historical interpretations may think that much of the evidence simply could not be trusted because people regularly and intentionally distort the truth. Which of the following views result to having an overgeneralized suspicion among students?

Interpretiveparadox

Teacher E helps his students understand that the perspectives contained in primary sources are analyzed through their historical context and that the way people recollect and write down their memories is colored by their historical positions. Which of the following views best describes the action of Teacher E?

Interpretive epistemological stance

Research suggests that students tend to think that any source is potentially biased and as a result they either treat all sources equally or throw sources out altogether and base their conclusions on what they "kinda know". Which of the following views is the reason for this situation?

Interpretive paradox

With pedagogical dilemma in history in mind, complete the following analogy: An overgeneralized suspicion among students: Interpretive paradox Students' naive trust towards history texts: ________________

Referential illusion

Which of the following refers to the deductive approach that requires students to question the past, propose a hypothesis, check the available sources, and analyze sources with respect to their reliability in order to offer a response to the initial question?

Historical Method

With historical thinking and understanding in mind, complete the following analogy: Historical understanding: Contextualized and Evidence-based Interpretation Historical thinking: ________________

Historical Perspective

Teacher S planned that her objective for their lesson is to help students on the sequencing of historical events. Which of the following teaching approaches should Teacher N use?

Chronological-thematic

Teacher B designed a learning task for her students in Philippine History where they will use a central theme to explain a historical event. Which of the following teaching approaches matches this instructional task?

Interdisciplinary

Teacher F decided to ask her students to incorporate trends, issues, and current events in their Philippine history class project. Which of the following historical thinking skills is being developed in this activity?

Establishing historical significance

Complete the following analogy: Multidisciplinary: Take historical perspectives Chronological-thematic: ________________

Analyze cause and consequence

Teacher C wants his students to apply the steps of the scientific method, i.e. from asking questions to forming conclusions in their activity in Philippine History. Which of the following teaching approach matches this instructional task?

Inquiry

Recent research claims that teachers in history tend to confine their lessons on a single perspective and fail to shift from one perspective to another. Which of the following teaching approaches should teachers employ to enable students to shift from one perspective to another?

Multidisciplinary

Teacher D engages her Philippine history students in moral thinking and judgment. Which of the following historical thinking skill can her students develop?

Understand the ethical dimensions of historical interpretations

Teacher L assigned her history students to investigate the progression of human life. Which of the following historical thinking skills will students most likely develop?

Identify continuity and change

Teacher N asked her students to use concepts from different Social Science disciplines like History,Geography, and Economics to discuss a historical event. Which of the following teaching approach did Teacher N used?

Multidisciplinary

How can teachers manage the pedagogical dilemma in history and help students understand the "always-interpretative nature of historical inquiry"?

History teachers should enable students to develop historical thinking and understanding rather than a naive trust and an overgeneralized suspicion to evidence.

Which of the following is/are considered as the central theme of geography?

Human–environment interaction

Student A noticed that their Social Studies textbook states that the tropical climate in the Philippines makes Filipinos indolent. Which of the following views in geography serves as context of the given statement?

Environmental determinism

Teacher B taught his geography students that the archipelagic nature of the country is the reason for having regionalism, which hampers unity among people. Which of the following views in geography does Teacher B adhere to?

Environmental determinism

Teacher C discussed in her geography class that humans should be the ones to regulate nature in order to conserve Earth’s resources. Which of the following views in geography does Teacher C adhere to?

Political ecology

Teacher D told his geography class that decisions and actions of people are regarded as the reasons for the ecological problems and changes in the environment. Which of the following views in geography does Teacher D adhere to?

Political ecology

Which of the following defines how the development of cultures through time has affected the environment?

Historicism

Humans are regarded as the greatest contributors to climate change so they should take initiatives like adaptation approaches in order to minimize the effects of it. Which of the following best explains this situation?

Cultural ecology

People need to be mindful and careful of their actions and decisions in order to maintain a sustainable environment for everyone. Which of the following is explained by the statement?

Posthumanism

Nature was seen as a one-way force that determined cultural development. Which of the following is explained by the statement?

Environmental determinism

Which of the following is concerned with how humans relate with non-human objects in the environment, but it also considers the incompatible relationship of nature and society?

Political ecology

Complete the following analogy: describes the condition of the environment: realist epistemology explains that environmental condition through a political lens: ______

Constructivist epistemological stance

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Political Ecology has a constructivist epistemology.

Which of the following is/are part of geographical literacy? I. Geographic knowledge II. Geographic skills III. Geographic perspectives IV. Geographic concepts

I, II, III

Which of the following can help students answer questions on why a lowland community is prone to floods and how relocations affect the livelihood of people in that community?

Geographic perspectives

The teaching of climate change as a controversial issue in geography must be done through an inquiry approach. Which of the following characteristics best describes this inquiry approach to teaching climate change as a controversial issue in geography? I. Deliberative II. Open-ended III. Differentiated IV. Pluralistic

I,II,IV

Which of the following approaches to teaching geography can help students see things differently and understand issues regarding people–environment interactions through cultural and critical lenses?

Issues-based approach

Teacher A asked his students to create their own maps first before analyzing them. Which of the following statements best explains this practice?

This practice will make students easily relate to the maps that they will create and analyze due to their familiarity of the place.

Which of the following comprise geographic perspectives can students use as framework in understanding human–environment interactions? I. Spatial perspectives II. Ecological perspectives III. Human perspectives IV. Environmental perspectives

I,II

Which of the following abhors the idea that changes in nature occur independently?

Political ecology

Which of the following is characterized by narratives of justice and injustice, which portray the ill effects of human actions to marginalized sectors of the society?

Political ecology

According to research, which of the following is the best measure to teaching effectiveness in economics education?

Quality of knowledge that students have gained

Teacher B uses active methods or experience-based instruction like simulations and role-plays in her economics class in order to motivate students in learning about the economy. Which of the following pedagogical frameworks in teaching secondary school Economics does Teacher B subscribe to?

Constructivism

Teacher E plans to use active learning strategies to have an effective interdisciplinary lesson in Economics. Which of the following strategies should Teacher E use?

Whole-class discussion

Which of the following can be developed if Economics teachers relate students’ prior knowledge with their lesson?

Horizon content knowledge

Which of the following can be developed if Economics teachers clarify students’ misconceptions about the lesson?

Specialized content knowledge

Which of the following can be improved by developing economic reasoning skills?

Content knowledge

Complete the following analogy: lessons in Economics : declarative knowledge application of lessons in Economics to real-life situations : ______

Practical knowledge

Teacher D plans to develop economic literacy among her students. Which of the following is a good way of teaching economic literacy to students?

Performance tasks regarding marginal costs and marginal benefits

Based on research, who are the most qualified to write textbooks in Economics?

Professional economists

Which of the following is considered as the foundation of all 21st century skills that Economics teachers need to hone among their students?

Critical thinking

Which of the following should be developed among students to have citizens who can respond to economic problems in the time of COVID-19 and beyond?

Responsible economic citizenship

What can be integrated into the economics curriculum to have economically literate and responsible citizens?

Citizenship education

Which of the following outcomes in economics are geared toward citizenship? I. Decision making II. Ideological skepticism to become wise consumers III. Affective socialization IV. Workforce preparations

I, II, III, IV

Which of the following approaches to economics and citizenship education is essential in honing active and financially literate citizens in the time of COVID-19 where people need to learn how to manage and allocate their resources wisely?

Integrative

Complete the following analogy: inherently about values : economics education for values-based participation : ______

Citizenship education

Which of the following is said to promote a world that is anti-democratic and unjust as it supports the status quo of inequality, patriarchy, and neoliberalism?

Neoclassical economics

Which of the following helps students and teachers to explore the world in a variety of ways by exposing the ignored and marginalized?=

Feminist economics

Teacher L emphasizes supply-and-demand analysis as the central way of understanding the real world, scarcity and choice, and general equilibrium. Which of the following schools of thought in economics does Teacher L subscribe to?

Neoclassical economics

Teacher M adopts an individualist-collectivist approach to citizenship education in her economics class. Which of the following describe this postmodern approach? I. Eclectic II. Less reliant on a single essentialist perspective III. Pragmatic IV. Diverse

I, II, III, IV

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Which of the following has the primary purpose to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world?

Social Studies

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