ABCTE PTK MAIN EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What is the MOST appropriate procedure for monitoring students' progress during
independent work time? - ✔✔Look over students' shoulders to check their work,
assisting where necessary.
✔✔a collection of work created over time, so it allows students the ability to show others
how much they have learned and progressed - ✔✔Portfolio
✔✔helps ensure that all students are participating in group work - ✔✔checklist
✔✔What is the purpose for teaching routines the first week of school? - ✔✔It saves time
later
✔✔In order to improve the classroom conduct of a student who misbehaves, it is MOST
effective to be - ✔✔Specific and consistent
✔✔The students have little choice or control over their level of participation would
require more or less guidance from a teacher - ✔✔more
✔✔A teacher has decided to use a signal to tell students, "Please pay attention to the
work now" and "Please check your behavior now because it needs to be corrected."
What BEST summarizes the qualities this signal should have? - ✔✔Maintains
classroom momentum, nonverbal
✔✔A middle school student turns in a homework assignment—a worksheet with
vocabulary matching and several open-ended questions. When you are grading this
student's paper, you notice he has just written the letters in alphabetical order and wrote
"I don't know" for his answers to the questions. What approach will BEST help the
student with his homework? - ✔✔Determine if the student does not understand the work
or simply refuses to complete the assignment and contact his parents to discuss your
findings.
✔✔How can a teacher show that he or she has high expectations for students' learning?
- ✔✔Encourage all students to work for improvement.
✔✔The four major steps to planning a lesson are: task analysis, determining objectives,
determining goals, and identifying necessary prerequisite knowledge. In what order
should those steps occur? - ✔✔Goals, objectives, task analysis, prerequisite knowledge
✔✔The most effective group discussion questions - ✔✔are open-ended to allow for
students to explore a range of possible correct answers.
, ✔✔What would be the MOST effective introduction to a lesson on quadrilaterals? -
✔✔Give students examples and non-examples of a quadrilateral.
✔✔requires recall and frequently includes information that must be memorized. An
example would be to state the definition of a planet. It is the easiest to memorize. -
✔✔Knowledge-based
✔✔While in science lab, a student who is repeatedly off task and disruptive is
pretending to make pancake batter by mixing chemicals together. The appropriate
response is to - ✔✔Get the student out of the room under direct supervision of another
adult.
✔✔What technique BEST promotes student comprehension? - ✔✔Dividing major
objectives into small learning units, each with objectives and assessment
✔✔A teacher should use metaphors during a lesson in order to - ✔✔explain new
concepts by identifying the similarities they share with known concepts.
✔✔A reliable test yields _______ results - ✔✔Consistent
✔✔What teaching plan is the BEST way to begin a mathematics class - ✔✔Begin a
simple activity
✔✔Correctly listing all 50 states of the United States of America and their capitals
involves which type of thinking skill? - ✔✔Knowledge
✔✔What kind of information can be gathered using a formative student assessment? -
✔✔A ranking of students based on learning
✔✔On a standardized history achievement test, a student scored at +2 standard
deviations. From this, the teacher can determine that the student - ✔✔has learned a
great deal of history.
✔✔MOST relevant homework assignment for a lesson on the structure of a rain forest -
✔✔Create a cluster diagram in class labeled "Layers of the rain forest" in the center and
with the four rainforest layers as main ideas.
✔✔Under what circumstance might it be appropriate to ignore a classroom behavior
that violates the rules? - ✔✔The student acknowledges and changes the behavior.
✔✔Which of the following instructional methods MOST effectively conveys information
to an entire group of students at once? - ✔✔Lecture
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What is the MOST appropriate procedure for monitoring students' progress during
independent work time? - ✔✔Look over students' shoulders to check their work,
assisting where necessary.
✔✔a collection of work created over time, so it allows students the ability to show others
how much they have learned and progressed - ✔✔Portfolio
✔✔helps ensure that all students are participating in group work - ✔✔checklist
✔✔What is the purpose for teaching routines the first week of school? - ✔✔It saves time
later
✔✔In order to improve the classroom conduct of a student who misbehaves, it is MOST
effective to be - ✔✔Specific and consistent
✔✔The students have little choice or control over their level of participation would
require more or less guidance from a teacher - ✔✔more
✔✔A teacher has decided to use a signal to tell students, "Please pay attention to the
work now" and "Please check your behavior now because it needs to be corrected."
What BEST summarizes the qualities this signal should have? - ✔✔Maintains
classroom momentum, nonverbal
✔✔A middle school student turns in a homework assignment—a worksheet with
vocabulary matching and several open-ended questions. When you are grading this
student's paper, you notice he has just written the letters in alphabetical order and wrote
"I don't know" for his answers to the questions. What approach will BEST help the
student with his homework? - ✔✔Determine if the student does not understand the work
or simply refuses to complete the assignment and contact his parents to discuss your
findings.
✔✔How can a teacher show that he or she has high expectations for students' learning?
- ✔✔Encourage all students to work for improvement.
✔✔The four major steps to planning a lesson are: task analysis, determining objectives,
determining goals, and identifying necessary prerequisite knowledge. In what order
should those steps occur? - ✔✔Goals, objectives, task analysis, prerequisite knowledge
✔✔The most effective group discussion questions - ✔✔are open-ended to allow for
students to explore a range of possible correct answers.
, ✔✔What would be the MOST effective introduction to a lesson on quadrilaterals? -
✔✔Give students examples and non-examples of a quadrilateral.
✔✔requires recall and frequently includes information that must be memorized. An
example would be to state the definition of a planet. It is the easiest to memorize. -
✔✔Knowledge-based
✔✔While in science lab, a student who is repeatedly off task and disruptive is
pretending to make pancake batter by mixing chemicals together. The appropriate
response is to - ✔✔Get the student out of the room under direct supervision of another
adult.
✔✔What technique BEST promotes student comprehension? - ✔✔Dividing major
objectives into small learning units, each with objectives and assessment
✔✔A teacher should use metaphors during a lesson in order to - ✔✔explain new
concepts by identifying the similarities they share with known concepts.
✔✔A reliable test yields _______ results - ✔✔Consistent
✔✔What teaching plan is the BEST way to begin a mathematics class - ✔✔Begin a
simple activity
✔✔Correctly listing all 50 states of the United States of America and their capitals
involves which type of thinking skill? - ✔✔Knowledge
✔✔What kind of information can be gathered using a formative student assessment? -
✔✔A ranking of students based on learning
✔✔On a standardized history achievement test, a student scored at +2 standard
deviations. From this, the teacher can determine that the student - ✔✔has learned a
great deal of history.
✔✔MOST relevant homework assignment for a lesson on the structure of a rain forest -
✔✔Create a cluster diagram in class labeled "Layers of the rain forest" in the center and
with the four rainforest layers as main ideas.
✔✔Under what circumstance might it be appropriate to ignore a classroom behavior
that violates the rules? - ✔✔The student acknowledges and changes the behavior.
✔✔Which of the following instructional methods MOST effectively conveys information
to an entire group of students at once? - ✔✔Lecture
