Building and Enhancing New Literacies across the Curriculum

PART 1

1. To enable learners to respond to the demands of the present world, which should schools
do?
A. Teach application-based, creative, critical, and innovative thinking
B. Teach information and concepts
C. Offer a fixed curriculum
D. Prepare students for the present
2. What does the statement "with the advent of Information and Communication Technology,
learning has become borderless" mean?
A. Information acquisition and dissemination as well as delivery of education all over the
globe has been made with ICT.
B. Boundaries and limitations are set in relation to acquisition of knowledge and education.
C. Teaching and learning today are expensive and unaffordable.
D. The use of internet, modern laptops, tablet, i-phones and other gadgets has borders.
3. Which of the following skills should be required of children and youth to master the greatest
challenges regardless of national origin or cultural upbringing?
A. Higher-order cognitive and interpersonal skills
B. Psychomotor skills
C. Social and spiritual skills
D. Emotional and leadership skills
4. Which is NOT true about globalization?
A. It affects all countries, some are favorably than the others in terms of economic growth,
national sovereignty, and cultural identity.
B. It seeks to explain the integration of economies and societies around the world as they are
knit together by travel, language, values and ideas, trade, labor and financial flows,
communication and technology.
C. It is one of the most dominant forces facing education in the 21st century.
D. as advanced by the ASEAN Heads of States it has three district pillars: economic,
socio-cultural, and political community.
5. The following are attributes of a peace educator EXCEPT_______________________.
A. A responsible global citizen and an agent of culture and peace
B. Has the skills of communication and conflict resolution
C. Is motivated by service but expects rewards for services
D. Lifelong learner who continues to improve his/her own learning abilities
6. Which component is the most important in 21st Century Learning?
A. Learning and Innovation Skills
B. Life and Career Skills
C. Information, Media, and Technology Skills
D. All are important as they are interconnected.
7. What skill shows ability to reason effectively, use systems thinking, make judgments and
decisions, and solve problems?
A. Collaboration
B. Critical Thinking
C. Communication
D. Creativity
8. What skill demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams ,
exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to
accomplish a common goal, and assume shared responsibility for group work, and value the
individual contributions made by each team member?
A. Creativity
B. Critical Thinking
C. Communication
D. Collaboration
9. What skill exhibits ability to articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and
non-verbal skills and to listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values,
attitudes, and intentions?
A. Collaboration
B. Critical Thinking
C. Communication
D. Creativity
10. What skill shows the ability to use a wide range of idea creation techniques to create new
and worthwhile ideas, and elaborate, refine, analyze, and evaluate original ideas to improve? It
demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to
adopting new ideas. Act on ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which
the innovation will occur.
A. Creativity
B. Critical Thinking
C. Collaboration
D. Communication
11. What is NOT true about the assessment of 21st century skills?
A. Emphasizes useful feedback of student performance
B. Support a balance of assessments, including high-quality standardized tests
C. Enables development of portfolios of student work that demonstrate mastery of 21st century
skills
D. Emphasizes the importance of all studying to be done through collaboration or web
chats
12. What is the heart of the approach to literacy in Literacy for the 21st Century?
A. Students must be able to make meaning of various kinds of media
B. Students must be able to understand the mechanics of letters and phonemes
C. Students must be able to identify various kinds of media
D. Students must be able to read and write effectively for various purposes.
13. Miss Sanchez engaged her learners in activities where they develop critical thinking,
problem solving skills, creativity, and risk taking. Which of these 21st century skills does Miss
Sanchez possess?
A. Communication Skills
B. Learning and Innovations Skills
C. Information and Technology Skills
D. Life and Career Skills
14. In a multicultural education, much emphasis is given on...
A. Perspective
B. Curriculum
C. Achievement
D. Environment
15. Which is/are characteristics of a culturally responsive teaching?
I. Crosses disciplines and cultures to engage learners while respecting their cultural integrity.
II. Accommodates the dynamic mix of race, ethnicity, class, gender, region, religion, and family
that contributes to every student's cultural identity
III. Presents some cultures to be superior than others to improve inferior cultures

A. I and III
B. III only
C. II only
D. I and II
16. Which of the following is TRUE about New Literacy?
A. A state of being able to read and write
B. The ability to correspond visual shapes to spoken sounds in order to decode written materials
and translate them into oral language.
C. The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, and compute using
printed and written materials.
D. The ability to understand the meaning of what is being read.
17. Which of the following BEST defines globalization?
A. It is the process of interaction among different nations with its varying cultures supported by
information technology.
B. It is the process of interaction and integration between nations and their dealings with
their varying cultures supported by information technology.
C. The exchange of different cultures between people.
D. Both A and C.
18. Which of the following BEST defines multicultural education?
A. Education that celebrates differences and also challenges all forms of discrimination
B. A form of "No Child Left Behind"
C. A method dispute resolution
D. Education focused on studying different cultures
19. Teaching that purposely puts on emphasis on clearing up myths and stereotypes associated
with gender and with different races and ethnic groups is known as
A. Teaching towards social justice
B. Field-sensitive teaching style
C. Teaching cultural literacy
D. Field-independent teaching style
20. Which best describes globalization?
A. It has brought economic development to our society.
B. It only affects the economic aspects of the country.
C. It has brought technological advancement to developing countries.
D. Inclusion is given emphasis than exclusion.
21. Which of the following situation displays a Doña Victorina Syndrome?
A. Dodong enjoys listening to foreign music as much as he enjoys OPM
B. Inday takes pride of choosing and using foreign products
C. Clara marries a foreigner whom she really love
D. Juan grabs the opportunity to study abroad to pursue his dream
22. It is defined as how a particular culture communicates/conveys itself in its language, music,
arts and the like
A. Instrumental literacy
B. Instrumental culture
C. Expressive literacy
D. Expressive culture
23. It refers to "common models of social order" (Meyer, 2000)
A. Instrumental literacy
B. Instrumental culture
C. Expressive literacy
D. Expressive culture
24. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the expanded flow of people among societies
due to globalization?
A. Fertility rate of a country
B. Travel/tourism
C. Socio-economic migration
D. Political expulsion
25. Which of the following demonstrates the skill of being willing to compromise due to
differences?
A. A stands to defend his belief to B regardless of the risk it might bring to their relationship.
B. Y ignores X due to X's contrasting belief.
C. B and D respects each differences in culture by ignoring one another.
D. L gives way by respecting E first. L seeks to understand E for the sake of avoiding
conflict.