FTCE Professional Education Practice
Test 2 Questions And Correct Answers
\Q\.Which of the following would require inductive thinking?
(A) Students are presented with the question, "How does competition for resources affect
population growth in an ecosystem?" then are asked to research the topic to find possible
answers.
(B) Students are taught about similarities in plant and animal cells, and must make a Venn
diagram to show what they learned.
(C) Students hear a story and must paraphrase it.
(D) The teacher gives a short lecture on the causes of the American Revolution and then has the
students develop a graphic organizer to show cause and effect. - ANSWERS✔-(A) Inductive
thinking starts with a question, then students must find the answer through experimentation or
research. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes was famous for his inductive reasoning.
\Q\.A student is doing a cold read, and the teacher documents that the student is reading at a
75 percent accuracy level. After reading the selection, the student takes a multiple-choice quiz
on the material and scores 60 percent correct. What does this mean?
(A) The student is reading at a frustration level and the teacher needs to select a more level-
appropriate text.
(B) The student is reading at an instructional level and needs some support to comprehend the
text.
(C) The student is distracted and needs to reread the text several times before taking the
assessment.
(D) The student is bored with the text and needs more challenging material. - ANSWERS✔-(A)
Since the student cannot successfully read 90 percent of the words in a given text and is
showing a low comprehension level, it verifies that the student in the scenario is reading well
below instructional level.
,\Q\.Who elects parents to the school advisory council?
(A) School board members
(B) School instructional staff
(C) Other parents
(D) The principal and vice-principal - ANSWERS✔-(C) Parents are elected to the school advisory
council by other parents.
\Q\.According to the Code of Ethics of the Education Profession in Florida, what is a professional
educator's primary concern?
(A) The educator's primary concern will be to be a lifelong learner, pursuing excellence in the
profession.
(B) The educator's primary concern will be the pursuit of truth, devotion to excellence, and
acquisition of knowledge.
(C) The educator's primary concern is to maintain the respect and confidence of colleagues,
students, parents, and other members of the community.
(D) The educator's primary concern will always be for the student and for the development of
the student's potential. - ANSWERS✔-(D) The educator's primary concerns will always be for the
student and for the development of the student's potential.
\Q\.If a high-school science teacher wants to ensure that guessing has a minimal effect on the
students' grades, what type of test question should be avoided?
(A) Multiple choice
(B) Cloze assessments
(C) True/false questions
(D) Essay questions - ANSWERS✔-(C) Standard true/false questions give students a 50 percent
chance of guessing correctly. This can be remedied by using modified true/false questions that
require students to rewrite false statements to make them true.
,\Q\.A classroom teacher is frustrated when an English language learner refuses to make eye
contact when speaking to adults. What is the teacher failing to take into account?
(A) Respect is earned, not demanded.
(B) Making eye contact with adults is considered disrespectful in some cultures.
(C) The student is likely distracted with something else in the room.(D) None of the above -
ANSWERS✔-(B) In many cultures, making eye contact with a superior adult is a sign of
disrespect. Teachers should be aware of the cultural backgrounds of their students and not
expect students to behave in a way that is unacceptable in their native culture.
\Q\.A history teacher begins the unit on the Civil War by asking his students to brainstorm a
detailed list of what they think motivated the southern states to secede. Why would the teacher
start the lesson this way?
(A) To conduct a formative assessment.
(B) To conduct a summative assessment.
(C) To activate and assess prior knowledge in his students.
(D) To see if the students are capable of higher-order thinking skills. - ANSWERS✔-(C) Activating
prior knowledge is an important key to having coherence between lessons. Graphic organizers
such as KWL charts give students an opportunity to record what they already know (K), what
they want to know (W), and eventually what they learned (L).
\Q\.At the end of a lesson, an elementary math teacher has students complete an exit ticket
that includes one thing that they learned and one thing that still confuses them. The exit ticket
is used?
(A) as a classroom management technique.
(B) to assess students' ability to follow directions.
(C) as a tool to document learning gains.
(D) to gather data that can be used to assess the effectiveness of instruction. - ANSWERS✔-(D)
Exit tickets are an effective tool for assessing what students learned during a lesson and what
parts of the new material still needs to be addressed.
, \Q\.A student is having difficulty sounding out words then immediately comprehending the
meaning of the words. The teacher develops a variety of letter-sound recognition activities to
help the student improve their reading skills. On what skill is the teacher focusing?
(A) Encoding
(B) Decoding
(C) Semantics
(D) Flu - ANSWERS✔-(B) When a student decodes words, he or she must sound the words, then
immediately comprehend the meaning. Letter-sound recognition activities help students learn
to decode words.
\Q\.A middle-school math teacher has been documenting student performance on progressive
skills tests throughout the semester. Currently none of the students are on an individualized
education program. After analyzing the following data table, what should be the teacher's first
step?
(A) The teacher should recommend that student D be moved to a higher-level math class since
that student's scores are so much higher than the mean scores of the class.
(B) Student C is not showing significant progress and needs instructional support.
(C) Student B is not responding to classroom instruction and needs to begin an intervention
program in the classroom.
(D) The teacher needs to contact student B's parents to develop an individualized education
program (IEP) for the student. - ANSWERS✔-(C) Student B has shown little improvement (22
percent, 38 percent, 24 percent, and 28 percent) as a result of regular classroom instruction.
After reviewing the data, the teacher should implement an intervention program, beginning
with small-group instruction and increased teacher support. If after that the student still
showed no progress, the teacher should also include one-on-one intervention outside of the
whole-class instruction. Only after the teacher provided a systematic, documented intervention
over a significant period of time (9-18 weeks) would the need for an individualized education
program (IEP) be addressed.
\Q\.Why would a classroom teacher use fishbone diagrams?
(A) To show a timeline of events
Test 2 Questions And Correct Answers
\Q\.Which of the following would require inductive thinking?
(A) Students are presented with the question, "How does competition for resources affect
population growth in an ecosystem?" then are asked to research the topic to find possible
answers.
(B) Students are taught about similarities in plant and animal cells, and must make a Venn
diagram to show what they learned.
(C) Students hear a story and must paraphrase it.
(D) The teacher gives a short lecture on the causes of the American Revolution and then has the
students develop a graphic organizer to show cause and effect. - ANSWERS✔-(A) Inductive
thinking starts with a question, then students must find the answer through experimentation or
research. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes was famous for his inductive reasoning.
\Q\.A student is doing a cold read, and the teacher documents that the student is reading at a
75 percent accuracy level. After reading the selection, the student takes a multiple-choice quiz
on the material and scores 60 percent correct. What does this mean?
(A) The student is reading at a frustration level and the teacher needs to select a more level-
appropriate text.
(B) The student is reading at an instructional level and needs some support to comprehend the
text.
(C) The student is distracted and needs to reread the text several times before taking the
assessment.
(D) The student is bored with the text and needs more challenging material. - ANSWERS✔-(A)
Since the student cannot successfully read 90 percent of the words in a given text and is
showing a low comprehension level, it verifies that the student in the scenario is reading well
below instructional level.
,\Q\.Who elects parents to the school advisory council?
(A) School board members
(B) School instructional staff
(C) Other parents
(D) The principal and vice-principal - ANSWERS✔-(C) Parents are elected to the school advisory
council by other parents.
\Q\.According to the Code of Ethics of the Education Profession in Florida, what is a professional
educator's primary concern?
(A) The educator's primary concern will be to be a lifelong learner, pursuing excellence in the
profession.
(B) The educator's primary concern will be the pursuit of truth, devotion to excellence, and
acquisition of knowledge.
(C) The educator's primary concern is to maintain the respect and confidence of colleagues,
students, parents, and other members of the community.
(D) The educator's primary concern will always be for the student and for the development of
the student's potential. - ANSWERS✔-(D) The educator's primary concerns will always be for the
student and for the development of the student's potential.
\Q\.If a high-school science teacher wants to ensure that guessing has a minimal effect on the
students' grades, what type of test question should be avoided?
(A) Multiple choice
(B) Cloze assessments
(C) True/false questions
(D) Essay questions - ANSWERS✔-(C) Standard true/false questions give students a 50 percent
chance of guessing correctly. This can be remedied by using modified true/false questions that
require students to rewrite false statements to make them true.
,\Q\.A classroom teacher is frustrated when an English language learner refuses to make eye
contact when speaking to adults. What is the teacher failing to take into account?
(A) Respect is earned, not demanded.
(B) Making eye contact with adults is considered disrespectful in some cultures.
(C) The student is likely distracted with something else in the room.(D) None of the above -
ANSWERS✔-(B) In many cultures, making eye contact with a superior adult is a sign of
disrespect. Teachers should be aware of the cultural backgrounds of their students and not
expect students to behave in a way that is unacceptable in their native culture.
\Q\.A history teacher begins the unit on the Civil War by asking his students to brainstorm a
detailed list of what they think motivated the southern states to secede. Why would the teacher
start the lesson this way?
(A) To conduct a formative assessment.
(B) To conduct a summative assessment.
(C) To activate and assess prior knowledge in his students.
(D) To see if the students are capable of higher-order thinking skills. - ANSWERS✔-(C) Activating
prior knowledge is an important key to having coherence between lessons. Graphic organizers
such as KWL charts give students an opportunity to record what they already know (K), what
they want to know (W), and eventually what they learned (L).
\Q\.At the end of a lesson, an elementary math teacher has students complete an exit ticket
that includes one thing that they learned and one thing that still confuses them. The exit ticket
is used?
(A) as a classroom management technique.
(B) to assess students' ability to follow directions.
(C) as a tool to document learning gains.
(D) to gather data that can be used to assess the effectiveness of instruction. - ANSWERS✔-(D)
Exit tickets are an effective tool for assessing what students learned during a lesson and what
parts of the new material still needs to be addressed.
, \Q\.A student is having difficulty sounding out words then immediately comprehending the
meaning of the words. The teacher develops a variety of letter-sound recognition activities to
help the student improve their reading skills. On what skill is the teacher focusing?
(A) Encoding
(B) Decoding
(C) Semantics
(D) Flu - ANSWERS✔-(B) When a student decodes words, he or she must sound the words, then
immediately comprehend the meaning. Letter-sound recognition activities help students learn
to decode words.
\Q\.A middle-school math teacher has been documenting student performance on progressive
skills tests throughout the semester. Currently none of the students are on an individualized
education program. After analyzing the following data table, what should be the teacher's first
step?
(A) The teacher should recommend that student D be moved to a higher-level math class since
that student's scores are so much higher than the mean scores of the class.
(B) Student C is not showing significant progress and needs instructional support.
(C) Student B is not responding to classroom instruction and needs to begin an intervention
program in the classroom.
(D) The teacher needs to contact student B's parents to develop an individualized education
program (IEP) for the student. - ANSWERS✔-(C) Student B has shown little improvement (22
percent, 38 percent, 24 percent, and 28 percent) as a result of regular classroom instruction.
After reviewing the data, the teacher should implement an intervention program, beginning
with small-group instruction and increased teacher support. If after that the student still
showed no progress, the teacher should also include one-on-one intervention outside of the
whole-class instruction. Only after the teacher provided a systematic, documented intervention
over a significant period of time (9-18 weeks) would the need for an individualized education
program (IEP) be addressed.
\Q\.Why would a classroom teacher use fishbone diagrams?
(A) To show a timeline of events
