CTET Exam Paper I (CDP) – 21 Dec 2021 (Official Answer Key)

CBSE conducted the CTET (Central Teacher Eligibility Test) Exam Paper 2021-22. This Paper held on 21 December, 2021. Here The CTET Paper – I, Part – I (Child Development and Pedagogy) in English Language Solved Question Paper. CTET December, 2021 Question Paper with Answer Key.

CTET (Central Teachers Eligibility Test)
Paper – I Primary Level (Class 1 to Class 5)

Exam – CTET Paper I Primary Level (Class I to V) 
Part – Part – I (Child Development and Pedagogy)
Organized – CBSE 
Number of Question – 30
Exam Date – 21 December, 2021

CTET Exam December 2021 Paper – I (Primary Level)
Part – I Child Development and Pedagogy
(Official Answer Key)

1. Development is
1. unidimensional.
2. uni-directional.
3. modifiable.
4. totally genetically pre-programmed.

2. Which of the following is definitely predetermined by genetics / heredity?
1. Choice of friends
2. Colour of the eyes
3. Academic success
4. Interest in studies

3. ________ refers to the learning that children undergo when they enter social institutions such as school.
1. Maturation
2. Passive socialisation
3. Primary socialisation
4. Secondary socialisation

4. In Kohlberg’s moral development theory, stage 3 at level 2, conventional morality is referred to as
1. The obedience and punishment orientation
2. “Good boy-good girl” orientation
3. The Law and order orientation
4. The Social contract and individual rights orientation

5. In Jean Piaget’s theory, creation of a new scheme on account of inability to understand the environment with the existing schema is known as
1. accomodation.
2. assimilation.
3. adaptation.
4. organisation.

6. According to Jean Piaget, is a concept/framework that organizes and interprets information.
1. expository model
2. schema
3. advance organizer
4. sensory register

7. Rashmi uses a variety of tasks to cater to the different learning potential of learners in her class and often makes groups to facilitate peer learning, Which of the following theory supports her actions?
1. Sigmund Freud’s psycho-sexual theory
2. Lev Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory
3. Lawrence Kohlberg’s moral development-theory
4. B.F. Skinner’s behavioristic theory

8. Which of the following is NOT an example of scaffolding by the teacher?
1. Modelling skills for imitation
2. Rote memorization
3. Prompts and cues
4. Peer tutoring

9. Which of the following does NOT depict appropriate strategies for learning in a constructivist classroom?
1. Encouraging multiple perspectives
2. Group collaboration
3. Drill and Recall
4. Experimentation

10. Who dismissed the idea of general intelligence and defined intelligence in terms of several distinct set of processing operations?
1. Charles Spearman
2. Alfred Binet
3. Theodore Simon
4. Howard Gardner

11. In a constructivist classroom, emphasis should be placed on:
1. Summative assessment
2. Formative assessment
3. Singular assessment
4. Standardized and uniform assessment

12. ‘Private speech’ in Vygotsky’s theory
1. is indicative of children’s egocentricism.
2. hinders children’s actions and behaviour.
3. helps children to regulate their behaviour while doing complex tasks.
4. is an indication that cognition is never internalized.

13. Dolls and pink dresses are usually associated with girls while cars and blue dresses are usually associated with boys. This is a demonstration of –
1. gender constancy.
2. gender empowerment.
3. gender diversity.
4. gender stereotyping.

14. Assertion (A): Education fails the child when children are expected to reproduce knowledge in more or less the same way it was received.
Reason (R): Reproduction of information is a meaningful indicator of children’s learning.
Choose the correct option.
1. Both(A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both(A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
3. (A) is true but (R) is false.
4. Both (A) and (R) are false.

15. What is the role of teacher and students in constructivist classroom?
1. Both students and teachers are passive.
2. Students are active but teachers are passive.
3. Both teacher and students are active.
4. Teacher is active but students are passive.