FTCE Professional Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
The most effective assessments are those that are aligned directly with curriculum and instruction
and focus on students learning - CORRECT ANSWER - Teachers should use a variety of
assessments approaches
Assessments should reflect state standards. Assessments should reflect information presented in
the classroom. - CORRECT ANSWER - Teachers should provide feeback to inform students
about what they are doing correctly and what they still need to work on
Reliability refers to the consistency of a measurement over time and repeated measures. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Example: if a teacher gives alternate forms of the same test
periodically over several months and the students performance socres remain relatively the same,
the test has reliability.
Validity refers to whether the assessment instrument measures what it is suppose to measure. -
CORRECT ANSWER - If a teacher wants to measure math skills, the test must measure math
skills, not reading skills.
Unbiased test is one that does not unfairly favor a particular group - CORRECT ANSWER -
Example: a test that uses references that are unfamiliar to minority cultural groups might give an
unfair advantage for the dominant group. Thus such test would be Biased.
Norm-referenced test is one that assesses students by comparing their performance to that of a
norm group. - CORRECT ANSWER - The norm group is representative of students of the
same age or grade level as the test takers.
Criterion-referenced test assesses a student by comparing their performance to a predetermined
level of mastery. - CORRECT ANSWER - Criterion-referenced test over norm-referenced test
is their diagnostic, placement, and remediation used.
, Florida teachers are expected to analyze FCAT performance data to address remediation needs of
individual students - CORRECT ANSWER - Disaggregation of the data (that is, separating it)
by subject, gender, race and so on must be used by schools and teachers to identify groups of
students needing remediation.
Mean is determined by adding up all the scores and dividing the sum by the total number of
scores that were added. - CORRECT ANSWER - Example: 30+60+20+90+80+80= 360
360/7 = 51.4
Median is the midpoint in a distribution of scores from the highest to lowest - CORRECT
ANSWER - Example: 4, 12, 32, 45, 98
As there are five numbers in this series, the third number will be considered the median,32
Mode is the score in a distribution that appears most frequent. - CORRECT ANSWER -
Exmple: 3, 3, 8, 9, 15, 15, 15, 17, 17, 27, 40, 44, 44
15 is the mode because it occurs "3" times
Twenty-five percent of data values at or below 1st quartile (25 percentile); fifty percentile at or
below the 2nd quartile (50 percentile); seventy-five percentile at or below the 3rd quartile (75
percentile) - CORRECT ANSWER - A medians score of 75 on a history test in class of 21
means that 11 students scored at or below 75. True or False? TRUE
A grade-equivalent score of 7.6 obtained by a 4th grader on a standardized test means the 4th
grader can do 7th grade math. True or False? FALSE - CORRECT ANSWER - The score does
not mean that the 4th grader can do 7th grade material, the scores match the estimated
performance of an average student in 6th month of 7th grade on the same assessment
Formative assessment occurs before and during instruction. Formative assessment in the form of
a diagnostic assessment can provide the desired information. - CORRECT ANSWER - For
example, a teacher might want to determine each student's reading ability, comprehension, and
skill level
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
The most effective assessments are those that are aligned directly with curriculum and instruction
and focus on students learning - CORRECT ANSWER - Teachers should use a variety of
assessments approaches
Assessments should reflect state standards. Assessments should reflect information presented in
the classroom. - CORRECT ANSWER - Teachers should provide feeback to inform students
about what they are doing correctly and what they still need to work on
Reliability refers to the consistency of a measurement over time and repeated measures. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Example: if a teacher gives alternate forms of the same test
periodically over several months and the students performance socres remain relatively the same,
the test has reliability.
Validity refers to whether the assessment instrument measures what it is suppose to measure. -
CORRECT ANSWER - If a teacher wants to measure math skills, the test must measure math
skills, not reading skills.
Unbiased test is one that does not unfairly favor a particular group - CORRECT ANSWER -
Example: a test that uses references that are unfamiliar to minority cultural groups might give an
unfair advantage for the dominant group. Thus such test would be Biased.
Norm-referenced test is one that assesses students by comparing their performance to that of a
norm group. - CORRECT ANSWER - The norm group is representative of students of the
same age or grade level as the test takers.
Criterion-referenced test assesses a student by comparing their performance to a predetermined
level of mastery. - CORRECT ANSWER - Criterion-referenced test over norm-referenced test
is their diagnostic, placement, and remediation used.
, Florida teachers are expected to analyze FCAT performance data to address remediation needs of
individual students - CORRECT ANSWER - Disaggregation of the data (that is, separating it)
by subject, gender, race and so on must be used by schools and teachers to identify groups of
students needing remediation.
Mean is determined by adding up all the scores and dividing the sum by the total number of
scores that were added. - CORRECT ANSWER - Example: 30+60+20+90+80+80= 360
360/7 = 51.4
Median is the midpoint in a distribution of scores from the highest to lowest - CORRECT
ANSWER - Example: 4, 12, 32, 45, 98
As there are five numbers in this series, the third number will be considered the median,32
Mode is the score in a distribution that appears most frequent. - CORRECT ANSWER -
Exmple: 3, 3, 8, 9, 15, 15, 15, 17, 17, 27, 40, 44, 44
15 is the mode because it occurs "3" times
Twenty-five percent of data values at or below 1st quartile (25 percentile); fifty percentile at or
below the 2nd quartile (50 percentile); seventy-five percentile at or below the 3rd quartile (75
percentile) - CORRECT ANSWER - A medians score of 75 on a history test in class of 21
means that 11 students scored at or below 75. True or False? TRUE
A grade-equivalent score of 7.6 obtained by a 4th grader on a standardized test means the 4th
grader can do 7th grade math. True or False? FALSE - CORRECT ANSWER - The score does
not mean that the 4th grader can do 7th grade material, the scores match the estimated
performance of an average student in 6th month of 7th grade on the same assessment
Formative assessment occurs before and during instruction. Formative assessment in the form of
a diagnostic assessment can provide the desired information. - CORRECT ANSWER - For
example, a teacher might want to determine each student's reading ability, comprehension, and
skill level
