Educational Management and Administration

JKPSC Assistant Professor (Education) · Education · 53 practice questions with answers and explanations: 15 Easy, 37 Medium, 1 Hard.

Sample questions

Sample Easy question 1

In SWOT analysis, T stands for:

  1. Targets
  2. Threats
  3. Time
  4. Tasks
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Answer: B. Threats are external factors.

Sample Easy question 2

A school's vision statement describes:

  1. Its desired future
  2. Its accounts
  3. Its past
  4. Its timetable
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Answer: A. The mission states its purpose.

Sample Easy question 3

Preparing the school timetable is part of:

  1. Evaluation only
  2. Organisation
  3. Research only
  4. Budgeting only
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Answer: B. It allocates teachers, rooms and periods.

Sample Medium question 4

Instructional leadership focuses on:

  1. Fee collection
  2. Transport
  3. Improving teaching and learning
  4. Building construction
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Answer: C. The head supports teachers' growth.

Sample Medium question 5

Transformational leadership was described by:

  1. Kurt Lewin
  2. Fred Fiedler
  3. James MacGregor Burns
  4. F. W. Taylor
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Answer: C. The leader inspires followers to go beyond self-interest.

Sample Medium question 6

Fiedler's contingency model says leadership effectiveness depends on:

  1. The leader's age
  2. The size of the school only
  3. Luck
  4. The match between the leader's style and the situation
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Answer: D. It uses the least preferred co-worker scale.

Sample Hard question 7

Management by Objectives in a school emphasises:

  1. Fixed salaries
  2. Setting clear goals jointly and measuring performance against them
  3. Annual transfers
  4. Rigid supervision
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Answer: B. It was popularised by Peter Drucker.

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