Professional Education Diagnostic Test Review

A collection of vocabulary terms and definitions derived from a Professional Education diagnostic test, covering child development, curriculum foundations, and educational philosophies.

Analysis

The thinking skill that involves breaking down complex information into smaller parts.

Metacognitive

The process where a student thinks about their own thinking.

Command

A single word or phrase that tells a computer to do something with a program or file.

Visual-spatial intelligence

The ability to perceive how objects are related in order to mentally perceive what is seen and create concrete visual images from memory.

Hidden Curriculum

A dimension of curriculum that is both unplanned and implicit, but whose instructional effects are evident in students’ behavior, values, and dispositions.

Self-actualization

The highest level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs where an individual is Asked to develop himself to the fullest.

Modified In School Off School Approach (MISOSA)

An approach that frees children from the four corners of the classroom by dividing a class into two groups, where one learns at school and the other at home.

Robert M. Hutchins

The educator who views curriculum as “permanent studies” where rules of grammar, reading, rhetoric, logic, and mathematics are emphasized for basic education.

Curriculum Development

The concept that includes the sub-processes of curriculum planning, organization, implementation, and evaluation.

Operant Conditioning

A learning principle by Skinner stating that a change in overt behavior can result from specific events or reinforcements.

Written Curriculum

A type of curriculum that comes in the form of memoranda, policies, standards, and guidelines from governing bodies like DepEd, CHED, or UNESCO.

Culture Shock

The experience of a conservative Filipino student who witnesses public displays of affection upon migrating to the United States.

Frustration Control

A scaffold instruction reading strategy intended to help reduce stress for students during independent reading.

Scaffolding

A key concept for Vygotsky referring to the appropriate assistance provided by teachers to learners so they can complete their learning tasks.

Socialization

The process by which children become participating and functioning members of society by fitting into an organized way of life.

PD 1006

The first legal document that professionalized teaching in the Philippines.

Synaptic Pruning

A natural process of eliminating extra synapses that occurs in the brain between early childhood and adulthood.

Stagnation

In Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory, a state of self-absorption that cares for no one.

Learner Reference Number (LIS)

A unique identification number for students composed of $12\,digits$.

Mean

The average of a score distribution; for example, the mean of $4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10$ is $7$.

John Watson

The psychologist associated with the quotation “Men are built not born,” emphasizing the effect of environmental stimulation on development.

Drive

A characteristic for successful teaching that connotes physical vigor, energy, industry, endurance, zealousness, and quickness.

Rationalization

A defense mechanism used by a student who always gives an explanation or reason for their failures rather than owning their faults.

Learning to Do

The pillar of learning concerned with transforming certified skills into personal competence.

Assimilation

The process, illustrated by a migrant losing their previous group identity, of taking on the culture and attitudes of a new group.

Hilda Taba

A curriculum theorist who believed curriculum development should begin from the bottom (teachers) rather than from the top.

Language Acquisition Device

The concept for which Noam Chomsky is the forerunner concerning innate language learning.

Lewis Terman

The individual known as the Father of the Modern I.Q. Test.