Learning Environment MCQ Quiz - Objective Question with Answer for Learning Environment - Download Free PDF

The first thing that is expected from a teacher is to create situations and opportunities for encouraging learning for each and every student in the class.

• The classroom environment should be such that each and every student feels comfortable, joyful, and feel encouraged to use his potentials in a maximum way for learning.

Key Points

•  The teacher by using a democratic teaching strategy provides that type of learning environment where students get choices in their learning and incorporate shared decision-making to promote increased engagement and improved learning outcomes for students.
• This is a completely child-centered teaching strategy. It develops affective and cognitive domains.
• Maximum interaction between teachers and students is seen in this type of teaching strategy.
•  It is important for the all-round development of students.
• An example of a democratic learning environment for the classroom teaching-learning process is - Students are provided with opportunities to investigate a problem, search for possible solutions, make observations, ask questions, etc.  
  • In this example, the students will have the choice to search for solutions by following their own path of discovery.

Thus, it is concluded that the students are provided with opportunities to investigate a problem, search for possible solutions, make observations, ask questions, etc. is an example of a democratic teaching strategy.

Hint

•  To instruct the students to follow strict discipline is an example of an autocratic teaching strategy where the students become passive learners and remain quiet during most of the learning process.
• In the Autocratic teaching strategy, the teacher decides the nature of the experiment, the nature of activities, time place, and students have to follow their instructions.
• Basically, the teacher is the center of all learning activities in autocratic teaching strategy.

A teacher’s presence in the classroom is not just about physical presence but also about how they engage with students, establish authority, and create a positive learning environment.

Key Points

• The best option to ensure effective presence in the classroom is adoption of a well-established posture.
• A teacher's posture, both physical and professional, communicates confidence, authority, and approachability.
• By adopting a posture that conveys calmness, openness, and attentiveness, teachers can establish a positive and respectful atmosphere in the classroom.
• This encourages students to feel comfortable and engaged, promoting better learning outcomes.
• A well-established posture also reinforces the teacher’s role as a facilitator of learning while fostering a supportive environment.

Hint

•  Use of peer command may lead to authority issues and disrupt the teacher-student relationship if not handled carefully.
• Making aggressive statements can create a hostile environment, undermining trust and respect between the teacher and students, which negatively affects learning.
• Being authoritarian may create fear and resistance rather than fostering a positive and open learning environment.

Hence, the correct answer is Adoption of well-established posture.

Models of teaching are designed to bring about particular kinds of learning and to help students become effective learners.

• The aim of models of teaching is not only to enhance our competence in the use of teaching strategies but also to help us to become better learners. 
• The main model of teaching is the Information processing model/family.
• Information processing models emphasize ways of enhancing the human being's innate drive to make sense of the world, by acquiring and organizing data, sensing problems, generating solutions to them arid developing concepts and language for conveying them.

Key Points Some of the important information models are:

1. Concept attainment model
2. Inquiry training model
3. Advance organizers model

• This model, developed by David Ausubel is aimed at helping teachers organize and convey large amounts of information as meaningfully and as efficiently as possible.
• According to this model, the teacher organizes the subject content and presents information through lectures, readings and designing tasks for the learners to integrate what they have learned.  The learner's primary role is to master ideas and information.

Hence it can be concluded that the family organizer model is related to Information processing.

The correct answer is 'Meta cognitive knowledge'

Key Points

• Meta cognitive knowledge:
  • Meta cognitive knowledge refers to the awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes. It involves self-regulation of cognition through planning, monitoring, and evaluating.
  • It helps individuals understand which learning strategies work best for them and enables them to adapt these strategies to different learning tasks.
  • Using learning strategies and tactics effectively is a clear reflection of meta cognitive knowledge, as it requires awareness of one’s cognitive processes and the ability to control them.

Additional Information

• Intellectual Humility:
  • Intellectual humility involves recognizing the limits of one's knowledge and being open to new ideas and perspectives.
  • While it is an important trait for effective learning, it does not directly reflect the use of learning strategies and tactics.
• Overlearning:
  • Overlearning refers to the continued practice of a skill or study of material beyond initial mastery, which helps in better retention.
  • Although beneficial, overlearning is a specific technique rather than a broad reflection of using various learning strategies and tactics.
• Rote learning:
  • Rote learning involves memorizing information without necessarily understanding it, often through repetition.
  • This approach does not typically involve the strategic and reflective processes that characterize meta cognitive knowledge.

The correct answer is '(A), (C) and (D) Only'

Key Points

• Positive Transfer of Learning:
  • Occurs when previous learning facilitates the learning of new skills or knowledge.
  • Examples include mastering Algebra which helps in understanding Calculus, or learning one language aiding in the acquisition of another.
• Explanation of Correct Answer:
  • (A) Learning of Piano makes it more difficult to learn the violin - This is an example of negative transfer of learning because the previous skill is hindering the new skill.
  • (C) Knowing how to drive a car makes it harder to learn how to ride a bicycle - This is another example of negative transfer as the prior skill interferes with learning the new one.
  • (D) Learning to speak French hinders learning Spanish - This is also an example of negative transfer due to interference from the previously learned language.

Additional Information

• Incorrect Options:
  • (B) Mastering Algebra helps in understanding Calculus - This is an example of positive transfer of learning, where previous knowledge aids in learning new concepts.
• Negative Transfer of Learning:
  • Occurs when previous learning hinders the learning of new skills or knowledge.
  • It is important to identify and address negative transfer to improve learning outcomes.

Student-centered learning applies to many educational, learning, teaching, and support approaches that tackle individual students, groups of students, and specific learning needs, interests, preferences, or cultural backgrounds.

Key Points

Student-centered (Learner-centered) approach in the teaching-learning process: 

• In this approach, the ‘learner’ or ‘child’ and not the ‘teacher’ is the main focus of the educational program.
• It emphasizes ‘learning’ rather than ‘teaching’
• The overall goal of education, according to this approach is the all-round development of the child and not only that of acquiring knowledge.
• Curriculum, according to this approach, should be based upon needs, interests, aptitudes, and abilities of learners at different levels so that it enables them to acquire the necessary skills, knowledge, attitudes, and values for realizing their full potential.

Hence, Student- Centric Classroom is mean for addressing individual differences.

Additional Information

There are broadly two types of teaching approaches:

The constructivist Theory of Vygotsy supports the active participation of the learner in the learning process in an interactional setting with intrinsic motivation as the basis.

​The classic definition of teaching is the design and creation of environments. Students learn by interacting with those environments and they study how to learn (Dewy, 1916).

1. A model of teaching can be defined as the depiction of the teaching and learning environment, including the behavior of teachers and students while the lesson is presented through that model.
2. Models of teaching enable the students to engage in robust cognitive and social tasks and teach the student how to use them productively.
3. Models of teaching are the specific instructional plans which are designed according to the concerned learning theories.
4. It provides a comprehensive blueprint for the curriculum to design instructional materials, planning lessons, teacher-pupil roles, supporting aids, and so forth.
5. Joyce & Weil (2014) defines A model of teaching as a description of a learning environment, including our behavior as teachers when that model is used.
6. Eggen (1979) defines that Models are prescriptive teaching strategies that help to realize specific instructional goals.
7. Hence the main aim of models of teaching is to create powerful learners.

Thus, option 2 is the correct answer.

The quality and nature of a learner become effective on learning as well as the learning environment and learning materials also influence the process of learning.

The major factors which affect learning are as follows,

• Factors associated with learner
• Factors associated with the learning environment

Important Points

The factors affecting teaching are related to instructional facilities and the learning environment:

• Method of learning: Proactive moves in the interactive processes, learning by doing, direct interaction, etc.
• Mode of learning: online or offline mode
• Learning support materials: availability or non-availability of textbooks/reading materials for use
• Feedback system: information given to the learner or teacher about the learner's performance relative to learning goals or outcomes.
• Infrastructural facility: availability of important instruments and facilities also the availability of smart classes
• The environment at the institution: noise-free and suitable for education

Therefore, ii), iii), and v) are the correct answer here.
Confusion Points

• Shortage of highly qualified teachers: it is a factor related to the factor of teaching. It comes under the personal qualification of the teacher that can affect the formal nature of the teaching.
• Praise and encouragement by teachers are a part of the learning environment but it is not a factor that affects teaching.

Mental Hygiene- It is defined as the science dealing with the preservation and promotion of mental health as well as prevention and treatment of mental illness. It provides rules, laws and principles for achieving adjustment with self and environment.

Key Points

Its objectives are:

• To develop respect for others.
• To help to realize one's potentiality.
• To enable one to know his or herself.
• To enable one to make an effective adjustment.
• To cause harmonious development and create happiness.
• To understand one's limitations and tolerate other's limitations.

Hence, we conclude that the given statement is about mental hygiene.

Additional Information

• Motivation refers to the process that guides an individual to achieve a goal. There are two main types of motivation which include extrinsic and intrinsic motivation.
• Learning is the acquisition of new behaviour or the strengthening or weakening of old behaviour as a result of experience. It represents progressive changes in behaviour. 
• Conflict refers to a situation in which a person wants to make a decision which has two choices and both choices seem good.

Learning is simply a process of acquiring knowledge or modify knowledge or skill or behaviour. 

Key Points

Factors that influence learning:

• Physical factors:  physical factors such as the physical setting, classroom environment, infrastructure, noise-free environment, comfortability.
• Mental factors: motivation, readiness to learn, attitude and behaviour, etc.
• The instructor or facilitator is a factor: the personality of the teacher, teaching skill, affection towards students, communication skills, etc.
• Physiological factors: health, well-being, cleanliness, fitness, maturity etc.
• The personal quality of learner: intelligence, communication skill, good memory, regularity, etc.
• External factors: outside inference, outside noise, political influence, local events, culture, society, etc.
• Social factors in school result in positive peer relationships, management, and academic performance which reflect learner’s ability to engage in self-regulation while attending school sessions.
  • Regardless of the basic motivation, the anxiety aroused by disturbed family background shows itself in thinking difficulties, viz, daydreaming, inattentiveness, and difficulty in concentration. 

Thus we can say that physical, social, and cultural factors influence the quality of learning.

The direction of influence is mainly one way in the process of Learning.

Learning:

• Although there is no single definition of learning, most psychologists and educators would agree that learning is a process by which behavior is either modified or changed through experience or training.
• Learning is thus a relatively permanent change in response potentiality which occurs as a function of reinforced practice.
• For example, a child touches a hot pan placed near the gas stove in the kitchen because he is unaware that it can burn his fingers. Once he has had such an experience, he becomes careful in the future. He has learned that hot objects can burn his fingers. 
• The direction of influence in learning is one-way in the sense that learning is an individualistic phenomenon. 
• In the above example, the child learning not to touch hot objects didn't require the interference of anyone else. He learned as a result of experience with the environment. 

Thus, option 4 is the correct answer.

1. Counseling: Counseling is the process of assisting and guiding clients, especially by a trained person on a professional basis, to resolve especially personal, social, or psychological problems and difficulties. It involves interaction between at least two persons.
2. Guiding: To guide means to indicate, to point out, to show the way. It means more than to assist. If individual slips on the road we assist him/her to get up but we do not guide him unless we help him/her to go in a certain direction. It involves interaction between at least two persons.
3. Teaching: Teaching is a process in which one individual teaches or instructs another individual. Teaching is considered as the act of imparting instructions to the learners in the classroom situation. It is watching systematically. Dewey:- considers it as a manipulation of the situation, where the learner will acquire skills and insight with his own initiation. It involves interaction between at least two persons.

Meaningful learning occurs in an environment that is free of distraction and disruption.

Positive learning environment introduces a new dimension to the educational experiences beyond the textbook, making learning more constant and enlivening.

There are four categories of classroom environment including dysfunctional, adequate, orderly restrictive and orderly enabling/flexible environment, in which adequate classroom environment exhibits the basic level of order for meaningful learning, but the teacher still struggles to maintain it.

4 kinds of classroom environments

• Dysfunctional – Teacher and Students struggle for control. Feeling is uneasy, difficult to sustain academic work.
• Adequate – Basic level of order to accomplish some academic work. Still tension, interruptions are common.
• Orderly-restrictive – Run smoothly, highly managed. Routines are tight. Limited range of instructional strategies.
• Orderly-flexible – Run smoothly, characterizes by loose (not loose) structures. Wide range of instructional strategies and classroom routines.

Hence, we conclude that an Adequate classroom environment exhibits a basic level of order, but the teacher still struggles to maintain it.

Mental health is an integral part of health. The globally accepted principle of health is “no health without mental health”.

• The World Health Organization supports and advocates for greater investment in mental health. Investment in mental health is significant not only in terms of human development and dignity but also in terms of social and economic development.
• Stress is a daily occurrence in our life. There are many factors that disrupt our mental health. Stress can also affect our mental well-being.

Key Points

• Children spend a major part of their active time in school under the care of teachers. As teachers, they should understand what mental health is and how mental health affects the well-being of their learners.
• Understanding the causes of mental health problems helps teachers to minimize the impact of such factors and create an environment that facilitates the mental health of their learners.
• It should be noted that curricula activities, freedom of expression are dependent on teachers. Also, students' variety of interests can be entertained only if the teacher allows it.

​Hence, the teacher's role and school environment are more important for keeping the good mental health of students.