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First Quarterly Test 21st Century Skills Sy 20192020

This document appears to be a test on trends, networks, and 21st century critical thinking skills given to students at Mendez Nunez Montessori school. The test contains multiple choice and short answer questions about defining and differentiating between fads and trends, social networks, neural networks, and different types of thinking. It asks students to analyze case studies, diagrams, and classify different examples. The test aims to assess students' understanding of key concepts related to trends, networks, and critical thinking.

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First Quarterly Test 21st Century Skills Sy 20192020

This document appears to be a test on trends, networks, and 21st century critical thinking skills given to students at Mendez Nunez Montessori school. The test contains multiple choice and short answer questions about defining and differentiating between fads and trends, social networks, neural networks, and different types of thinking. It asks students to analyze case studies, diagrams, and classify different examples. The test aims to assess students' understanding of key concepts related to trends, networks, and critical thinking.

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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV A –CALABARZON
Division of Cavite

MENDEZ NUNEZ MONTESSORI


Mendez, Cavite
Tel. No.: (046)861-0697

Name : ____________________________ Year/Track/Strand: ________________________Score: _________


Teacher: Sir Tristan R. Perey

1st Quarterly Examination:

Trends, Networks and 21st Century Critical Thinking Skills

Directions: Multiple Choice. Read each item carefully and then choose the letter of the best answer. Avoid erasures
whenever possible. Please avoid guesswork, there is very little likelihood of passing this exam based on pure intuition. Do
try to keep you answers to yourselves and please refrain from looking at your neighbor’s. Best of luck.

_____ 1. Which statement best describes a fad?


a. A product, service, or idea that is extremely popular for a long period of time and retains its popularity for a
very long time
b. A product, service, or idea that is extremely popular for a very brief period of time and then becomes
unpopular just as quickly.
c. A product, service, or idea that has a very long development period and lengthy stage of maturity and gradual
decline.
d. A product, service, or idea that is extremely popular for an extraordinarily very long period of time and is
very likely never to fade. (i.e. sneakers and denim pants)
_____ 2. Which best describes a trend?
I. It has a long product development life
II. It has a rapid (fast) decline
III. It has a gradual decline
IV. It becomes popular in short period of time
a. I and II c. II and III
b. II and IV d. I and III
_____ 3. Which of the following can be considered a fad?
a. Rising popularity of organic food; that is food raised or grown without the use of artificial fertilizers
b. ICT technologies becoming pervasive in the workplace and even at home
c. The current notion of fashion and beauty as popularized in print and television media
d. Development of the notion of healthy lifestyle, exercise and general wellbeing
_____ 4. Which of the following can be considered a trend?
a. The immediate popularity and rapid decline of “joggerpants” or tapered denim pants
b. Last year’s worldwide, although unexplainable craze for fidget spinners
c. The growing awareness for environmental protection and sustainability of natural resources
d. Hoverboards became all the rage just before Christmas of 2016; none can be seen today.
_____ 5. Which statement best differentiates a fad from a trend?
a. Fads gain popularity without any basis; trends last because it answers a real need
b. Fads have support from the wide population; trends cover a narrow segment of the population
c. Fads solve real world problems; trends rely on “coolness factor”
d. Fads slowly decline; trends quickly decline

#6-11 Marcus Collins, A Professor and TEDx Speaker decoded the worldwide trending of the Ice Bucket Challenge and
proposed six key factors as to how it became a global phenomenon. Read each statement below and determine which
factor is described in each.
a. Built in Propagation d. Social Proof
b. Network Strengthening e. Ease of Participation
c. Social Currency
_____ 6. It provided a reason to tell a story about oneself
_____ 7. Picking three people to challenge helped in relationship grooming
_____ 8. Seeing other people, especially notable ones, helped lower the threshold of adoption
_____ 9. You have been challenged by a family member or a friend
_____ 10. Low barrier of participation; it’s easy to do.
_____ 11. Picking three persons to challenge ensures sustainment
_____ 12. How can businessmen benefit from the knowledge of fads, if at all?
a. Awareness of current fads allows one to become an early adopter and to benefit from the initial high demand
for the products or services
b. Fad products need to be totally avoided by businessmen because of the danger of sudden decline of demand
for these products
c. Awareness of the fads allows a businessman to gain greater profit by demanding unreasonable amounts from
consumers
d. Fad products have a long development cycle, businessmen can stock up on fad products because they will
eventually sell.
_____ 13. Which best describes a social network?
a. A social network is a collection of persons linked by a type of relationship
b. A social network is a collection of unrelated persons with no relationships to each other
c. A social network is defined by formal relationships, of authority, responsibility and accountability
d. A social network
_____ 14. In what way is a strong social network related with health?
a. Having a strong social network adversely (negatively) affects one’s health
b. Having a strong social network positively affects one’s health
c. Having strong social networks means we are more productive
d. There is no connection between them
#15 – 18 Study the diagram below then answer the questions that follow

_____ 15. Which personnel has the widest social network?


a. Mares c. Hussan
b. Mitchell d. Zaheer
_____ 16. Who has the greatest formal authority (positional power) in this organization?
a. Mares c. Hussan
b. Mitchell d. Zaheer
_____ 17. Which type of relationship is shown in the diagram at the right?
a. Team to team c. Individual to individual
b. Company to company d. Ecosystem to ecosystem
_____ 18. Who is likely to have access to more ideas? Why?
a. Mares. All information within the organization eventually comes to him because he is at the top of the formal
structure
b. Mitchell. He is connected to a more diverse (assorted) kind of people that have different ideas.
c. Hussan. He is at the top of the informal structure and has access to varied information.
d. Zaheer. He knows Mitchell.
_____ 19. When we talk about biological neural networks we are actually talking about?
a. AI or artificial intelligence
b. The human brain
c. Computers and robots
d. Technologies that allows machines to “think”
_____ 20. The inner-workings of the human brain are often modeled around the concept of ____________, which are
connected along pathways throughout these networks.
a. Neurons c. Axons
b. Dendrites d. Synapse
_____ 21. These were directly inspired by, and partially modeled on biological neural networks that enables “machine
learning”- the capability of modeling and processing nonlinear relationships between inputs and outputs in parallel.
a. Biological Neural Networks c. Artificial Neural Networks
b. Artificial Intelligence d. Robotics
_____ 22. This is an individual capacity to think conceptually, imaginatively, systematically and opportunistically.
a. Creative Thinking c. Intuition
b. Strategic Thinking d. Conceptual Thinking
# 23 – 26. Determine the type of thinking used in the following cases.
a. Conceptual
b. Imaginative
c. Systematic
d. Opportunistic
_____ 23. Methodical or step-by-step.
_____ 24. Based on analysis
_____ 25. Creative and visual
_____ 26. Grasps new information and value propositions

#27-31 Classify the following as I- Intuitive or S- Strategic thinking.


_____ 27. Relies on inferred knowledge, similar to guesswork.
_____ 28. Driven more by gut-feel
_____ 29. Derived from experience
_____ 30. Step-wise and logical.
_____ 31. Takes a lot of time.

# 32. –35 . Classify the kind of people described based of their way of thinking. Write N- Naïve, F- Fair-minded or S-
Selfish critical thinker.
_____ 32. Petra swears by her principles in life. “Wag ka makialam” or do not interfere with the business of others so that
others will not interfere with her life. She does not realize the impact of important issues on herself, her family and her
community.
_____ 33. Knowing that the products he retails are about to be expired, Antonio decided to take the labels off the tins. In
that way, people will not be able to know the expiry date of the products. He is a very smart man.
_____ 34. Mrs. Perey, a businesswoman sees to it that the best conditions for work of his employees exist. For her,
employees are the best assets of the business.
_____ 35. Mr. Santos a chicken dealer at the market sells the biggest chicken for a bargain price. That’s because he injects
the chicken breasts with water to make them fluffier and of course heavier.

II. Complete the diagram/s below by supplying the necessary information or answer the following questions briefly/

A. Label the phases of a product’s life cycle then provide a short explanation of each (10 pts.)

1. 2. 3. 4.
B. Briefly explain (5 pts.)

“People who live in the intersection of social worlds are at higher risk of having good ideas. – Ron Burt”

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C. Decide to Agree or Disagree.


Steve Hawking, a famous cosmologist (scientist who studies the nature and origin of the universe) and futurist
warns us of the dangers of AI. He tells us that one day computers will be smarter than humans one AI or artificial
intelligence comes online. Do you agree or disagree that there will be a Terminator (A movie AI gains awareness
and decides to kill off humans) like scenario in the future?

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J.

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