ABCTE PTK Exam Paper Questions with Correct Answers
(Grade A+)
Question 1: Which type of correlational relationship would the following statement indicate? As one
variable increases, so does the other
Answer: Positive correlation
Question 2: an instructional response that imparts advice to the students
Answer: Advisory
Question 3: Who do you need to know before you begin planning lessons?
Answer: your students
Question 4: When a student is misbehaving, is asking them to explain WHY they are misbehaving an
appropriate response to managing the situation?
Answer: no; the student has already ignored the teacher's expectations
Question 5: Next to students, who are the best consumers of educational services?
Answer: Parents
Question 6: Which type of questions are theoretical questions with hypothetical answers? Usually
contain more than one answer
Answer: Open-ended questions
Question 7: Asking questions to obtain information
Answer: Inquiry
Question 8: Why do students benefit from rule relationships?
Answer: Rule relationships organize and categorize individual units of knowledge
Question 9: a successful teacher views discipline as a ___________________ and a
________________________
Answer: process; product
Question 10: When is a cause and effect chart most useful?
Answer: When showing the relationship between events
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,Question 11: students retain information better when they
Answer: use it, especially in an analytical way
Question 12: Which statement BEST completes the following behavioral objective? The student will
demonstrate the ability to
Answer: Compare communication methods in the American Civil War
Question 13: What learning objectives uses a higher order thinking skill?
Answer: Bloom's Taxonomy identifies thinking skills in increasing order of sophistication as knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. "Students will create a metaphor to describe
an emotion." requires synthesis in order to complete the task.
Question 14: What does it mean if a student scores in the 25th percentile at a score of 39?
Answer: This means 25% of scores were at or below a score of 39
Question 15: What is the best way to aid retention of learning?
Answer: Get the students actively involved in their learning
Question 16: A baseline of data usually grade and/or subject specific
Answer: Benchmark
Question 17: What can you determine about a class's performance if the range is high? What if it is
low?
Answer: If it is high, then achievement is highly variedIf it is low, then the class performed at about the same
level
Question 18: Every lesson has 3 things
Answer: 1. a beginning2. a middle3. an end
Question 19: How much repetition is enough?
Answer: as much as possible until mastery is acheived
Question 20: Which type of correlational relationship would the following statement indicate? As
one variable increases, so does the other
Answer: Positive correlation
Question 21: asking students a series of questions designed to guide them toward understanding of a
concept
Answer: socratic approach
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,Question 22: A condition that not only inhibits the ability to concentrate but also causes the learner
to be impulsive, easily distracted, and overly active
Answer: ADHD
Question 23: Which of the following statements would BEST help students to understand the
distributive property of multiplication over addition?
Answer: Show students that 3(a + b) = (a + b) + (a + b) + (a + b)
Question 24: What is classical conditioning?
Answer: A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate eventsPavlov
Question 25: What should a teacher do to focus on reading material?
Answer: Establish a purpose for the reading
Question 26: What does curriculum contain?
Answer: objectives, sample lessons, assessments, procedures, materials/equipment needed, activities, samples
of student work
Question 27: New teachers can learn a lot from __________________ teachers
Answer: Successful
Question 28: Thought and reasoning usually divided into two categories- knowledge or factual, and
processes
Answer: Cognitive development
Question 29: an instructional approach in which students learn to ask teacher-type probing
questions
Answer: reciprocal teaching
Question 30: why do students benefit from rule relationships?
Answer: rule relationships organize and categorize individual units of knowledge
Question 31: what does curriculum contain?
Answer: objectives, sample lessons, assessments, procedures, materials/equipment needed, activities, samples
of student work
Question 32: what is the best descriptor of central tendency of a data set?
Answer: the medianit is not affected by extreme data points
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, Question 33: the rate at which progress is made through curriculum or at which the teacher
conducts individual lessons
Answer: pacing
Question 34: What is the mode of a data set?
Answer: the most frequently occuring score
Question 35: A teacher should position themselves so that they can see as many __________________
as possible
Answer: Students
Question 36: The gathering of data, during the time the program is being developed, to guide the
development process
Answer: Formative evaluation
Question 37: The learning, idea, or processes becomes a part of the learner so that it is second nature
Answer: Internalization
Question 38: A middle level in Bloom's Taxonomy. Includes verbs such as compare, analyze, classify,
distinguish, categorize, differentiate, infer, survey, select, prioritize
Answer: Analysis & Application
Question 39: How can a teacher tell when classroom rules are working?
Answer: When students recognize their violations and correct their behavior on their own
Question 40: The mood of the classroom including teacher-student interactions, student-student
interactions, and the belief system in the classroom
Answer: Classroom climate
Question 41: In class work time allows the teacher to provide the students with what?
Answer: Feedback
Question 42: what is practical knowledge?
Answer: learning from others
Question 43: the gathering of data, during the time the program is being developed, to guide the
development process
Answer: formative evaluation
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(Grade A+)
Question 1: Which type of correlational relationship would the following statement indicate? As one
variable increases, so does the other
Answer: Positive correlation
Question 2: an instructional response that imparts advice to the students
Answer: Advisory
Question 3: Who do you need to know before you begin planning lessons?
Answer: your students
Question 4: When a student is misbehaving, is asking them to explain WHY they are misbehaving an
appropriate response to managing the situation?
Answer: no; the student has already ignored the teacher's expectations
Question 5: Next to students, who are the best consumers of educational services?
Answer: Parents
Question 6: Which type of questions are theoretical questions with hypothetical answers? Usually
contain more than one answer
Answer: Open-ended questions
Question 7: Asking questions to obtain information
Answer: Inquiry
Question 8: Why do students benefit from rule relationships?
Answer: Rule relationships organize and categorize individual units of knowledge
Question 9: a successful teacher views discipline as a ___________________ and a
________________________
Answer: process; product
Question 10: When is a cause and effect chart most useful?
Answer: When showing the relationship between events
Page 1
,Question 11: students retain information better when they
Answer: use it, especially in an analytical way
Question 12: Which statement BEST completes the following behavioral objective? The student will
demonstrate the ability to
Answer: Compare communication methods in the American Civil War
Question 13: What learning objectives uses a higher order thinking skill?
Answer: Bloom's Taxonomy identifies thinking skills in increasing order of sophistication as knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. "Students will create a metaphor to describe
an emotion." requires synthesis in order to complete the task.
Question 14: What does it mean if a student scores in the 25th percentile at a score of 39?
Answer: This means 25% of scores were at or below a score of 39
Question 15: What is the best way to aid retention of learning?
Answer: Get the students actively involved in their learning
Question 16: A baseline of data usually grade and/or subject specific
Answer: Benchmark
Question 17: What can you determine about a class's performance if the range is high? What if it is
low?
Answer: If it is high, then achievement is highly variedIf it is low, then the class performed at about the same
level
Question 18: Every lesson has 3 things
Answer: 1. a beginning2. a middle3. an end
Question 19: How much repetition is enough?
Answer: as much as possible until mastery is acheived
Question 20: Which type of correlational relationship would the following statement indicate? As
one variable increases, so does the other
Answer: Positive correlation
Question 21: asking students a series of questions designed to guide them toward understanding of a
concept
Answer: socratic approach
Page 2
,Question 22: A condition that not only inhibits the ability to concentrate but also causes the learner
to be impulsive, easily distracted, and overly active
Answer: ADHD
Question 23: Which of the following statements would BEST help students to understand the
distributive property of multiplication over addition?
Answer: Show students that 3(a + b) = (a + b) + (a + b) + (a + b)
Question 24: What is classical conditioning?
Answer: A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate eventsPavlov
Question 25: What should a teacher do to focus on reading material?
Answer: Establish a purpose for the reading
Question 26: What does curriculum contain?
Answer: objectives, sample lessons, assessments, procedures, materials/equipment needed, activities, samples
of student work
Question 27: New teachers can learn a lot from __________________ teachers
Answer: Successful
Question 28: Thought and reasoning usually divided into two categories- knowledge or factual, and
processes
Answer: Cognitive development
Question 29: an instructional approach in which students learn to ask teacher-type probing
questions
Answer: reciprocal teaching
Question 30: why do students benefit from rule relationships?
Answer: rule relationships organize and categorize individual units of knowledge
Question 31: what does curriculum contain?
Answer: objectives, sample lessons, assessments, procedures, materials/equipment needed, activities, samples
of student work
Question 32: what is the best descriptor of central tendency of a data set?
Answer: the medianit is not affected by extreme data points
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, Question 33: the rate at which progress is made through curriculum or at which the teacher
conducts individual lessons
Answer: pacing
Question 34: What is the mode of a data set?
Answer: the most frequently occuring score
Question 35: A teacher should position themselves so that they can see as many __________________
as possible
Answer: Students
Question 36: The gathering of data, during the time the program is being developed, to guide the
development process
Answer: Formative evaluation
Question 37: The learning, idea, or processes becomes a part of the learner so that it is second nature
Answer: Internalization
Question 38: A middle level in Bloom's Taxonomy. Includes verbs such as compare, analyze, classify,
distinguish, categorize, differentiate, infer, survey, select, prioritize
Answer: Analysis & Application
Question 39: How can a teacher tell when classroom rules are working?
Answer: When students recognize their violations and correct their behavior on their own
Question 40: The mood of the classroom including teacher-student interactions, student-student
interactions, and the belief system in the classroom
Answer: Classroom climate
Question 41: In class work time allows the teacher to provide the students with what?
Answer: Feedback
Question 42: what is practical knowledge?
Answer: learning from others
Question 43: the gathering of data, during the time the program is being developed, to guide the
development process
Answer: formative evaluation
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