This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Teaching > Characteristics Of Adult Learners – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Characteristics Of Adult Learners Quiz 1 (16 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To give good feedback ..... A) Prioritize what is most important and give it in real-time. B) Consider what was seen and write it up at a later date. C) Focus on constructive feedback to improve mainly weaknesses. D) Allow students to decide how to interpret feedback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prioritize what is most important and give it in real-time. 2. The experiential learning cycle is the process of ..... A) Growth and change. B) Experiencing something and learning. C) Doing something and actively reflecting on it to change behavior. D) Moving through the cycle of experience over a lifetime. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Doing something and actively reflecting on it to change behavior. 3. Which one of the following is not the phase of adults' self-diagnosis? A) Construct a model of competencies or characteristics required to achieve an ideal model of performance. B) Help learners to measure the gaps between present competencies and those required by the model. C) Provide diagnostic experiences. D) Adults' self-evaluation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adults' self-evaluation. 4. Assumption #1 says as a person matures, her ..... moves from that of a dependent personality toward one of a self-directing human being. A) Memory. B) Experience. C) Self-concept. D) Resistance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self-concept. 5. Which theorist is associated with the development of andragogy? A) Malcom Knowles. B) Pavlov. C) Bloom. D) Maslow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malcom Knowles. 6. Which of these is NOT a characteristic of adult learners? A) Self-directed. B) Motivated intrinsically. C) Value being told information. D) Have prior knowledge/experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Value being told information. 7. Which one of the following is wrong about andragogy's orientation to learning? A) Adult learners see education as a process of developing increased competence. B) Learning experiences should be organized in competency-development categories. C) Adult educators are concerned with development of subject matter. D) Adult learners tend to be performance-centered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adult educators are concerned with development of subject matter. 8. Adults are mostly driven by ..... A) External motivation. B) Lectures. C) Chauffeurs. D) Internal Motivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal Motivation. 9. Which of these statements about adults experiences are true? A) Adults are a resource for one another. B) Rejecting or ignoring experience is threatening to an adult's self-concept, which inhibits new learning. C) Different experiences assure diversity in groups of adults. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 10. What does andagogy mean? A) Teaching of kids. B) Teaching of adults. C) Teaching. D) Teaching right from the book. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Teaching of adults. 11. The need to know is characteristic of what principle of adult learning? A) Self-concet. B) Readiness to Learn. C) Engagement. D) Fear of Missing out. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Readiness to Learn. 12. An adult in training 'needs to know', which means ..... A) They are goal-oriented and expect it to be relevant. B) They bring knowledge they want to share. C) They need to be motivated. D) They know their own needs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are goal-oriented and expect it to be relevant. 13. The Learning Pyramid identifies which teaching approach as the least effective in terms of student retention? A) Lectures. B) Discussion. C) Teaching others. D) Reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lectures. 14. If adult learners do not perform as well in learning situations as they could, which one of the following causes is untrue? A) Less readily to external sanctions for learning than to internal motivation. B) Decline in visual acuity. C) Lack of confidence. D) Less dependent personality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Less dependent personality. 15. Which one of the following is not an assumption underlying andragogy? A) Adults become more self-directed in learning. B) Adults need to relate their past experience to new experience. C) Adults need to know why they need to learn something. D) Adults will seek learning opportunities due to some internal motivators, but the more potent motivators are external. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adults will seek learning opportunities due to some internal motivators, but the more potent motivators are external. 16. Which one of the following is not a technique encouraged in andragogy? A) Demonstrations. B) Simulations. C) Problem-solving cases. D) AV presentations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) AV presentations. Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net Quizzes21St Century Education Quiz21St Century Learning Skill QuizAndragogy And Pedagogy QuizAssessment And Evaluation QuizAssessment In Learning QuizBehaviorism QuizBenefits Of Technology In Teaching QuizBlended Learning Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books