Nursing quiz

1. When considering philosophy of education, John Dewey was a proponent of

A. Existentialism

B. Pragmatism

C. Idealism

D. Realism

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2. Who advocated removing children from their mothers' care and raising them as wards of the state, with great care being taken to differentiate children suitable to the various castes, the highest receiving the most education, so that they could act as guardians of the city and care for the less able?

A. Plato

B. Aristotle

C. Immanuel Kant

D. Jean Piaget

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3. Cognitive domain in Bloom’s Taxonomy includes all the following, except

A. Evaluation

B. Synthesis

C. Analysis

D. Criticism

E. Application

F. Comprehension

G. Knowledge

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4. A type of educational assessment which is generally carried out throughout a course or project is

A. Summative assessment 

B. Formative assessment

C. Criterion-referenced assessment

D. Ipsative  assessment

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5. Which of the following is an example of Criterion-referenced assessment ?

A. Driving test

B.  Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)

C. SAT

D. Graduate Record Examination (GRE)

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6. Who stated “education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself” ?

A. Mahatma Gandhi

B. Bertrand Russell

C. Helen Keller

D. John Dewey

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7. Trained Nurses Association of Indian (TNAI) was formed in the year

A. 1920

B. 1947

C. 1908

D. 1888

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8. In India, first MSc Nursing programme was started in RAK college in the year

A. 1959 

B. 1947

C. 1946

D. 1968

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9. Characteristics of Problem Based Learning include all, EXCEPT:

A. Learning is driven by challenging, open-ended, ill-defined and ill-structured problems.

B. Students generally work in collaborative groups.

C. The teacher is the authority

D. Teachers take on the role as "facilitators" of learning

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10. In India, the first four year basic Bachelor Degree nursing program was established in

A. 1910

B. 1940

C. 1946 

D. 1880

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