2017 

EDUCATION

Full marks: 100

Pass marks: 30

Time: Three hours

The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions.

1. No. 1 carries 1 marks each …………………. 1 x 12 = 12
2. No. 2 carries 2 marks each …………………. 2 x 12 = 24
3. No. 3 carries 4 marks each …………………. 4 x 10 = 40
4. No. 4 carries 6 marks each …………………. 6 x 4 = 24

                                                                          Total = 100

1. Answer the following questions: (any twelve)   1 x 12 = 12

Fill in the Blanks:

(a) Name the first secondary school in Assam.

Ans: Cotton Collegiate School.

(b) ___________  University is the first open university in India.

Ans: Dr. B.R Ambedkar Andra Pradesh Open University.

(c) International Women’s Day is observed on ____________ .

Ans: March 8^th in every year.

(d) Attention paid by students to study at the time of examination is _____________ attention.

Ans: Voluntary attention.

(e) Treatment of mental diseases is the _______________ function of mental hygiene.

Ans: Curative function

(f) Satisfaction and practice are basic factors in _____________  method of teaching.

Ans: Learning by doing.

• Give Short Answer in one sentence :

(g) Mention one characteristics which distinguishes ‘Non-formal Education’ from ‘Formal Education’.

Ans: Absence of direct contact between teacher and students is an important characteristic’s of Non-Formal Education which distinguish from Formal Education.

(h) Objectives of Environmental Education were determined in ___________ conference.

Ans: Tbilisi Conference in 1977.

(i) Write a common characteristics of maturation and learning.

Ans: Learning and Maturation both result in modification of behaviour.

(j) Why recognition is easier than recall ?

Ans: Yes, Recognition is easier than recall because recognition is an act of verifying the correctness of the remembered facts which helps to students generally while answering objective types tests.

(k) What is Mean ? In a distribution ∑fX= 1480 and N =50 . Find out the Mean of the distribution.

Ans: When all the scores are added together and the sum is divided by the number of items, the result is called the mean.

   The Mean is 29.6

(l) What is the positional measure of central tendency ?

Ans: Median.

2. What do you mean by ECCE ? 2

Ans:  ECCE generally refers to defined as the care and education of children from birth to eight years to provide as a support service for universalisation of primary education, to enable girls in taking care of sibling to attend school and a support service for working women belonging to proper section is known as ‘Early Childhood Care and Education’.

3. What were the suggestions forwarded by Mudaliar Commission regarding ‘Development of Vocational Efficiency’ as aim of secondary education ? 2

Ans: For improvement of vocational efficiency among students in all the secondary schools, the Mudaliar Commission suggested the following recommendation:

(i) Secondary education one should be able to earn enough for maintaining himself.             

(ii) Vocational subjects should be introduced in the curriculum such as craft and productive work like – agriculture, technical commercial courses to add to the productive capacity of the country.

4. Why Non-formal Education is considered as a supportive system of education ? 2

Ans: Non-formal Education is considered as a supportive system of education because of the following:

(i) This system of education is helpful to create a learning society to provide life-long education to all.

(ii) It reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of the formal system of education.

                                    or

‘Distance Education is a flexible system of education’ – Explain.

Ans: Non-formal education or Distance Education is considered as a flexible system of education because this system of education has flexible point of entry and exit and it is needs based and life-long system of education which provides educational opportunities to those who are late-bloomer, dropouts and to the deprived classes to enhance their qualification.

5. Write two important characteristics of Correspondence Education. 2

(i) Through correspondence education, individual may complete a prescribed courses of study offered by an institution without attending to its classes.

(ii) This system affords the learner considerable independence regarding both place and time of study.

6. What is Population Education ? 2

Ans: Population Education is nothing but it is a programme of creating awareness among students and the public in terms of increasing population, causes of problems and solutions and the ways of controlling population is known as Population Education.

7. What is conditioned response ? Which was the conditioned response in Pavlov’s experiment on conditioning ? 1=1=2

Ans: Conditioned response is a process in which a neutral stimulus acquires all the properties of natural stimulus when both are repeated together for several times.

       The conditioned response in Pavlov’s experiment with a dog. Pavlov conditioned the natural response of salivation to the sight of food with artificial response of the ringing of a bell.

8. Describe the two parts of ‘Law of exercise’ of learning. 2

Ans: The two parts or types of ‘laws of exercise’ in learning are briefly discussed below:

(i) Law of use: It refers to the strengthening of connection with practice.

(ii) Law of disuse: It refers to the weakening of connection or forgetting when the practice is discontinued.

9. ‘Forgetting is a blessing’ – explain this statement. 2

Ans: As we know that forgetting is an unavoidable mental phenomenon and a natural mental condition that acts as a defence mechanism for our mind because every one of us is blessed with felling and interest generally originated from them. It helps in removing unnecessary things from mind and makes space to retain new experiences. Therefore, it is called forgetting is a blessing.

10. What is ideational attention ? Give an example. 2

                               or

Why attention is considered as an exploratory process ?     2

11. Write two demerits of Mode as a measure of central tendency. 2

12. What is the preventive function of mental hygiene ? 2

13. What is Quartile Deviation ? In a distribution Q3 = 78.43 and Q1= 61.44 . Find out the Quartile Deviation. 1+1=2

14. Write four provision of ‘Assam Secondary Education Act ,1961’. 4

15. ‘Non-formal Education is based on democratic principles’ – Discuss. 4

16. What is Physical Education ? Discuss three measures to impart Physical Education in school. 1+3=4

17. What is Value ? Discuss briefly the importance of value education in present society. 1+3=4

18. Discuss about four important areas within the scope of Environmental Education. 4