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Concept of Inclusive Education — Practice

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Q1. Inclusive education is best defined as
- A. An approach to educate all children who are at risk for neglect in the education system through access to common educational provisions.
- B. A scheme to place only children with disabilities in special schools meant for them.
- C. A teaching method limited to gifted and high-achieving learners in urban areas.
- D. A government order making private school admission compulsory for every child.
Q2. Which Act is described as 'one of the very recent steps' toward equal opportunity for every child?
- A. The Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995
- B. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
- C. The Juvenile Justice Act, 2015
- D. The POCSO Act, 2012
Q3. Which thinker said — 'The problem is not to wipe out the differences but how to unite with the differences intact'?
- A. Mahatma Gandhi
- B. Albert Einstein
- C. Rabindranath Tagore
- D. Helen Keller
Q4. Under the 'Human Rights' angle of the need for inclusive education, the first ground listed is
- A. All children have the right to learn together.
- B. Inclusion makes the school building cheaper to maintain.
- C. Inclusion produces uniform examination results.
- D. Inclusion replaces the need for trained teachers.
Q5. Under the 'Psychological' need for inclusive education, an inclusive classroom helps an upper-primary learner develop
- A. A safe and secure feeling within the group and confidence in individual ability amid diversity.
- B. A competitive ranking habit against every classmate.
- C. Dependence on the teacher for every small decision.
- D. Avoidance of peers from different backgrounds.
Q6. The central emphasis of integrated education is
- A. To 'fit' the child into the existing education system.
- B. To restructure the school as a community for all children.
- C. To exclude children with disabilities from regular schools.
- D. To eliminate examinations from school life.
Q7. Mr. Rao, an upper-primary teacher in Rampur, says: 'In my classroom the system must change, not the child.' His statement best reflects which approach?
- A. Mainstreaming
- B. Integration
- C. Inclusion
- D. Segregation
Q8. How many factors affecting inclusive education are commonly enumerated?
- A. Three
- B. Four
- C. Five
- D. Seven
Q9. The rigidity of our pattern of evaluation is called 'a major deterrent to the cause of inclusive education' because
- A. It forces every child to be assessed only through reading and writing, ignoring other abilities.
- B. It makes the school timetable too short for completing the syllabus.
- C. It pays teachers less than other professionals.
- D. It bans the use of any teaching aids in the classroom.
Q10. Within 'making use of learning materials' in an inclusive classroom, a real hibiscus flower or a real mango brought to class is an example of
- A. Visual material
- B. Tactual material
- C. ICT material
- D. Low-cost printed material
Q11. A child with hearing impairment should be seated
- A. At the back of the room near the window
- B. In the first row, preferably in the centre
- C. In a separate room with a resource teacher
- D. Anywhere — seating does not affect hearing
Q12. Shruthi, a Class 7 student in a Bihar school, follows lessons well but cannot answer oral questions due to shyness. Her teacher allows her to respond through the computer or pictures. Which evaluation adaptation is this?
- A. Modification
- B. Substitution
- C. Omission
- D. Compensation
Q13. Vikram is 13 years old and studies in Class 7. His ability to grasp abstract concepts is below his age but he answers simple questions well. The better evaluation option for Vikram is
- A. Modification
- B. Substitution
- C. Omission
- D. Compensation
Q14. Among 'children at risk for exclusion from the education system', the girl child is named as a vulnerable group because
- A. Girls are biologically less able to learn
- B. In villages and traditional joint families, girls' roles are decided in the family and educational needs are ignored
- C. The RTE Act 2009 does not apply to girls
- D. Girls voluntarily refuse school admission
Q15. Why are 'gifted and creative children' counted among those at risk for exclusion?
- A. They are too clever for school and need no teacher
- B. Routine classroom activity bores them and they may be labelled as 'trouble makers'; they risk dropping out
- C. The RTE Act bars their admission to government schools
- D. Their families always send them abroad for education

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