. True or False Questions. (10)

Question

After each statement, indicate whether the statement is true or false.

 

1.1 According to the Collins Pocket Reference English Thesaurus (1993:375) the verb ‘to plan’ could mean ‘to prepare, to outline, to envisage, to devise, or to design.

 

 

1.2 The ‘extra curriculum’ refers to the outside the classroom curricular events and activities as planned experiences apart from the planned subjects, their teaching and assessment.

 

 

1.3 Ralph Tyler’s book ‘Basic principles of curriculum and instruction’ discussed and related earlier curriculum ideas and proposed 5 categories as basics for curriculum development: e.g. purposes; experiences; organization, improvement and evaluation.  

 

 

1.4 Harrow (1972) developed a taxonomy for the psychomotor domain of objectives and Apple explored (1979) the kinds of knowledge and class relationships perpetuated by the curriculum.

 

 

1.5 For the existentialists, the overall purpose of education is to support learners in their discovery of their unique personality features, cognitive and other abilities.

 

  

 

1.6 Behaviourism has its roots in the early 1900s in the work of the Russian experimental psychologist, Ivan Pavlov and the American psychologist John Watson.

 

 

1.7 Competency-based education can be defined as being an ‘integrated system’, with a focus on ‘relevant competence’ as well as ‘learner-oriented’ results.

 

 

1.8 Decision on the structure of the learning programme, credit values and the mode of delivery is one of the step involved when designing a qualification.

 

 

1.9 The facilities and students admitted has implications for staff needed while the total of staff employed to influence the budget.

 

 

1.10 The new secondary academic curriculum does not allow grade 11 learners to possess a national certificate which will allow them admission to vocational training centres, agricultural colleges and other possible training institutes.

 

Answer 1

Here are the answers to the true or false questions:

1.1 True
1.2 True
1.3 True
1.4 True
1.5 True
1.6 True
1.7 True
1.8 True
1.9 True
1.10 False

Please note that while the answers provided are based on the statements as given, some statements may vary in validity based on the specific educational context or updates in curriculum theory and practice.