FTCE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION EXAM
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT 2026 SOLVED
QUESTIONS FULL SOLUTION
◉ A teacher's professional development goals should be Answer:
relevant, measurable, and based on student needs.
◉ Which of the following professional development classes would
be most beneficial to a teacher wanting to focus on general
instructional practices? Answer: Action Research- How to Do It
◉ What type of question elicits a written, pictorial, or graphic
response from a student? Answer: Constructed response
◉ An intermediate science teacher wants to develop a lesson that
would teach her students to categorize items like a scientist while
appealing to students with a naturalistic intelligence. Which plan
would best meet her objective? Answer: Plan an outdoor trip and
have students gather items, then work in groups to sort them based
on their categories.
◉ Learning communities provide educators an opportunity to
Answer: Meet with other educators to discuss and study more
effective instructional practices.
,◉ A high-school English teacher reviewed data from a benchmark
review and determined that the results showed that the students
had not mastered a key concept. The teacher feels that she could
improve her instructional practices and is looking for a scientifically-
based approach to improve her teaching methods. How should she
do this? Answer: Attend a learning community meeting to discuss
her instructional practices with other teachers with the same goal.
◉ A first-grade teacher has students change the beginning letters of
words to make new words (b-at, c-at, v-at), then has them switch the
ending sounds on words (c-at, c-ar, c-ake). The teacher is having the
students manipulate Answer: onset-rimes
◉ What would be the best way for a teacher to prepare her students
for the state mandatory criterion-referenced test that is
administered every year? Answer: Make sure that the students have
been taught the standards and are familiar with the test format.
◉ A 6th grade history classroom is set up with desks facing each
other in clusters of students mixed gender, ability, and cultures.
Students are working on document-based questioning about Valley
Forge. The teacher moves throughout the classroom, ready to offer
guidance if necessary. What type of activity is the class performing?
Answer: A student-centered learning activity
, ◉ The initial stages of language acquisition are: Answer: pre-
production, early production, speech emergent, intermediate
fluency.
◉ If a teacher does not want guessing to have a positive effect on
test scores, she should avoid Answer: true and false questions.
◉ The purpose of asking a divergent question is to Answer: promote
critical thinking
◉ In order to maintain good classroom management, a teacher
should assist students in Answer: self-monitoring their own
behavior.
◉ If a high school literature teacher wants to assess if her students
understand sub-concepts that fall under a larger theme, she could
have students create a Answer: concept map.
◉ Anecdotal records are Answer: useful to compare student
development over a period of time.
◉ A student portfolio is an effective tool because it Answer: provides
a collection of student work over time.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT 2026 SOLVED
QUESTIONS FULL SOLUTION
◉ A teacher's professional development goals should be Answer:
relevant, measurable, and based on student needs.
◉ Which of the following professional development classes would
be most beneficial to a teacher wanting to focus on general
instructional practices? Answer: Action Research- How to Do It
◉ What type of question elicits a written, pictorial, or graphic
response from a student? Answer: Constructed response
◉ An intermediate science teacher wants to develop a lesson that
would teach her students to categorize items like a scientist while
appealing to students with a naturalistic intelligence. Which plan
would best meet her objective? Answer: Plan an outdoor trip and
have students gather items, then work in groups to sort them based
on their categories.
◉ Learning communities provide educators an opportunity to
Answer: Meet with other educators to discuss and study more
effective instructional practices.
,◉ A high-school English teacher reviewed data from a benchmark
review and determined that the results showed that the students
had not mastered a key concept. The teacher feels that she could
improve her instructional practices and is looking for a scientifically-
based approach to improve her teaching methods. How should she
do this? Answer: Attend a learning community meeting to discuss
her instructional practices with other teachers with the same goal.
◉ A first-grade teacher has students change the beginning letters of
words to make new words (b-at, c-at, v-at), then has them switch the
ending sounds on words (c-at, c-ar, c-ake). The teacher is having the
students manipulate Answer: onset-rimes
◉ What would be the best way for a teacher to prepare her students
for the state mandatory criterion-referenced test that is
administered every year? Answer: Make sure that the students have
been taught the standards and are familiar with the test format.
◉ A 6th grade history classroom is set up with desks facing each
other in clusters of students mixed gender, ability, and cultures.
Students are working on document-based questioning about Valley
Forge. The teacher moves throughout the classroom, ready to offer
guidance if necessary. What type of activity is the class performing?
Answer: A student-centered learning activity
, ◉ The initial stages of language acquisition are: Answer: pre-
production, early production, speech emergent, intermediate
fluency.
◉ If a teacher does not want guessing to have a positive effect on
test scores, she should avoid Answer: true and false questions.
◉ The purpose of asking a divergent question is to Answer: promote
critical thinking
◉ In order to maintain good classroom management, a teacher
should assist students in Answer: self-monitoring their own
behavior.
◉ If a high school literature teacher wants to assess if her students
understand sub-concepts that fall under a larger theme, she could
have students create a Answer: concept map.
◉ Anecdotal records are Answer: useful to compare student
development over a period of time.
◉ A student portfolio is an effective tool because it Answer: provides
a collection of student work over time.
