ABCTE PTK Exam Educational Theory and Pedagogy
Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What is a KWL chart?
Answer: a graphic organizer that allows students to iterate what they Know, what they Want to know, and
what they have Learned about a concept. completed as 3 columns.
Question 2: Recall questions are best used for which age group?
Answer: elementary students
Question 3: Which type of questions are theoretical questions with hypothetical answers? Usually
contain more than one answer
Answer: open-ended questions
Question 4: probing questions promote
Answer: thoughtful inquiry
deeper thinking by the student
Question 5: Which type of questions can provide an assessment of knowledge attainment?
Answer: guiding questions
Question 6: How long does it take for new learning to be understood and transferred into long-term
memory?
Answer: 5 seconds
Question 7: Do the quality of answers increase or decrease with increased wait time?
Answer: increase
Question 8: An instructional response that asks the student to re-word their thinking so that the
teacher can collect more info or provide clarity
Answer: Clarifying
Question 9: a type of instructional response that restates or summarizes a student answer using
different wording
Answer: paraphrasing
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,Question 10: an instructional response that uses a neutral tone, promotes the flow of the lesson,
continues thinking, and offers a non-committal response to the students
Answer: Non-Judgmental
Question 11: an instructional response that imparts advice to the students
Answer: Advisory
Question 12: the manner in which students conduct themselves
Answer: student deportment
Question 13: What is a piggyback response?
Answer: where an answer builds upon the previous answer
Question 14: What is the SQ3R/SQ4R instructional strategy useful for?
Answer: useful in getting students to interact with reading passages.
Question 15: What are the elements of SQ3R/SQ4R?
Answer: 1. survey
2. Questions
3. Reading/Relate
4. Recite
5. Review
Question 16: How are students grouped when they are differentiated?
Answer: they are grouped by academic need
Question 17: What is scaffolding?
Answer: breaking learning into parts
Question 18: What is think-pair-share?
Answer: an instructional strategy for small groups where students:
1. think- individually come to an answer
2. pair- work in pairs to combine responses into a new one
3. share- present new, combined reponses
Question 19: what is the RAFT instructional technique?
Answer: 1. Role
2. Audience
3. Format
4. Topic
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, Question 20: what is a portfolio?
Answer: a collection of student work that demonstrates their level of achievement can be used as assessment
technique
Question 21: What are tiered assignments?
Answer: differentiation based on academic ability and preferred modality of learning
Question 22: What things do an effective lesson closure contain?
Answer: 1. summary of objectives
2. connections between prior and future lessons
Question 23: What can a well-constructed lesson minimize?
Answer: Disruptions
Question 24: Every lesson has 3 things
Answer: 1. a beginning
2. a middle
3. an end
Question 25: applying behavior, knowledge, and skills acquired during a learning event the ability to
effectively use acquired content knowledge and skills
Answer: learning transfer
Question 26: What is a teacher-centered lesson plan?
Answer: one where the teacher does most of the work students are passive learners Example= lecture
Question 27: what is a student-centered lesson?
Answer: one where the student does most of the work
(accomplishing a task)
students are motivated, active learners students are allowed to talk and answer questions
Question 28: Which is more effective for transfer of learning- a teacher- centered lesson or a
student-centered lesson?
Answer: student-centered
Question 29: What is meta-cognition?
Answer: awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.
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Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What is a KWL chart?
Answer: a graphic organizer that allows students to iterate what they Know, what they Want to know, and
what they have Learned about a concept. completed as 3 columns.
Question 2: Recall questions are best used for which age group?
Answer: elementary students
Question 3: Which type of questions are theoretical questions with hypothetical answers? Usually
contain more than one answer
Answer: open-ended questions
Question 4: probing questions promote
Answer: thoughtful inquiry
deeper thinking by the student
Question 5: Which type of questions can provide an assessment of knowledge attainment?
Answer: guiding questions
Question 6: How long does it take for new learning to be understood and transferred into long-term
memory?
Answer: 5 seconds
Question 7: Do the quality of answers increase or decrease with increased wait time?
Answer: increase
Question 8: An instructional response that asks the student to re-word their thinking so that the
teacher can collect more info or provide clarity
Answer: Clarifying
Question 9: a type of instructional response that restates or summarizes a student answer using
different wording
Answer: paraphrasing
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,Question 10: an instructional response that uses a neutral tone, promotes the flow of the lesson,
continues thinking, and offers a non-committal response to the students
Answer: Non-Judgmental
Question 11: an instructional response that imparts advice to the students
Answer: Advisory
Question 12: the manner in which students conduct themselves
Answer: student deportment
Question 13: What is a piggyback response?
Answer: where an answer builds upon the previous answer
Question 14: What is the SQ3R/SQ4R instructional strategy useful for?
Answer: useful in getting students to interact with reading passages.
Question 15: What are the elements of SQ3R/SQ4R?
Answer: 1. survey
2. Questions
3. Reading/Relate
4. Recite
5. Review
Question 16: How are students grouped when they are differentiated?
Answer: they are grouped by academic need
Question 17: What is scaffolding?
Answer: breaking learning into parts
Question 18: What is think-pair-share?
Answer: an instructional strategy for small groups where students:
1. think- individually come to an answer
2. pair- work in pairs to combine responses into a new one
3. share- present new, combined reponses
Question 19: what is the RAFT instructional technique?
Answer: 1. Role
2. Audience
3. Format
4. Topic
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, Question 20: what is a portfolio?
Answer: a collection of student work that demonstrates their level of achievement can be used as assessment
technique
Question 21: What are tiered assignments?
Answer: differentiation based on academic ability and preferred modality of learning
Question 22: What things do an effective lesson closure contain?
Answer: 1. summary of objectives
2. connections between prior and future lessons
Question 23: What can a well-constructed lesson minimize?
Answer: Disruptions
Question 24: Every lesson has 3 things
Answer: 1. a beginning
2. a middle
3. an end
Question 25: applying behavior, knowledge, and skills acquired during a learning event the ability to
effectively use acquired content knowledge and skills
Answer: learning transfer
Question 26: What is a teacher-centered lesson plan?
Answer: one where the teacher does most of the work students are passive learners Example= lecture
Question 27: what is a student-centered lesson?
Answer: one where the student does most of the work
(accomplishing a task)
students are motivated, active learners students are allowed to talk and answer questions
Question 28: Which is more effective for transfer of learning- a teacher- centered lesson or a
student-centered lesson?
Answer: student-centered
Question 29: What is meta-cognition?
Answer: awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.
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