ABCTE PTK (ASSESSMENT & WRITING) UPDATED
ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question 1.
Business Communication
ANSWER
Use concrete terms instead of abstract terms.
The best you know your audience, the better you can anticipate and incorporate rules on
how, what, and when to use specific words and terms.
Understand the relationship between universal or specific appeal to an audience or context.
Clear and concise communication involves anticipation. Anticipating the language that the
reader is expected to know, unfamiliar terms, enables the writer to communicate.
Promoting understanding and limiting misinterpretations are key goals of an effective
communicator.
Question 2.
Maintains Class Control
ANSWER
Students rely on teachers to establish and maintain a safe and orderly learning environment
that is welcoming, inclusive, and allows each student to achieve his or her maximum
potential. The need for student discipline requires the teacher to develop a set of rules that
establish boundaries for behavior and to enforce them in a fair and consistent manner.
Successful teachers prepare for classroom disruption before they begin to occur.
Alongside creating a list, teacher should include consequences as part of the introductory
events that occur during the first week of school.
A well constructed, student-centered lesson plan is the best tactic that a teacher can employ
to avert student discipline situations.
Question 3.
Classroom Managment
ANSWER
,Question 4.
Productive Writing
ANSWER
Know when you are most productive (mornings, afternoons, evenings...)
If you cannot choose your timing, then dedication and perseverance is required. To be
productive:
1. You need to be alert.
2. Ready to work
3. Accomplish task with relative ease.
4. Write everyday
5. Develop an habit of concentrating while you write.
6. Critical thinking self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking
(attention to detail).
7. Have a positive attitude about writing in general.
Reading and writing from an audience-centered view means acknowledging your
confirmation bias and moving beyond it to consider multiple frames of references, points of
view, perspectives as you read, research, and write.
Break down writing in small manageable steps, that in turn, will provide you with a platform
for success.
Your rough draft as a purpose but its not your final product.
Let go of fear of failure.
Your desire for perfection should come in place when it comes to polishing your finished
product.
To eliminate fear of writing, make the unknown known. If we take out the mystery out of the
product and and process, we can see it for its essential components. We see how our
finished product should look.
Examine successful papers to get a better feel for what you have to produce.
,Question 5.
Planning Checklist
ANSWER
1. Determine your general purpose: are you trying to inform, persuade, entertain, facilitate
interaction, or motivate a reader? (who, what, when, how, and why(optional)) Identifying
"why" something happened or why a certain decision is advantageous will be the essence
of the communication.
2. Determine your specific purpose: the desired outcome.
3. Credibility, Timing, and Audience
Question 6.
Which question below is MOST likely to generate the widest range of answers and discussions among
students?
ANSWER
A: Why would the author have ended the book this way?
This question allows for both a wide range of answers and discussion of those answers. The
discussion is likely to be interesting because there are so many possible answers to the
question.
Why questions tend to be the most open-ended.
Question 7.
Why should a teacher always spend time explaining classroom rules during the first few days of
class?
ANSWER
A: To establish clear expectations for performance and behavior.
Students benefit from clear, firm guidelines from the outset. The rules should be changed
only when necessary, not casually or according to students demands.
, Question 8.
Which of the methods below will BEST hold students accountable for their full participation in
cooperative learning groups?
ANSWER
A: Assign each student in the group a specific role in accomplishing the objectives of the
activity.
If each student has a role in meeting the objectives and the activity is well structured, then
all students will be drawn into participating because they all have something to do.
Grading students' work individually can be appropriate during cooperative learning
activities.
Students evaluating each other should be generally avoided.
Question 9.
When teachers share standardized test results with parents, there is a large amount of information
in the score report to be discussed. Which information will be of
MOST use to a typical parent?
ANSWER
A: Parents will generally benefit most rom specific information about how to help their
children succeed. When parents know their child's weaknesses, they can emphasize working
to improve them. Parents may want to know how their child had done in comparison to other
students locally and nationally, but the information does not help their child improve.
ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question 1.
Business Communication
ANSWER
Use concrete terms instead of abstract terms.
The best you know your audience, the better you can anticipate and incorporate rules on
how, what, and when to use specific words and terms.
Understand the relationship between universal or specific appeal to an audience or context.
Clear and concise communication involves anticipation. Anticipating the language that the
reader is expected to know, unfamiliar terms, enables the writer to communicate.
Promoting understanding and limiting misinterpretations are key goals of an effective
communicator.
Question 2.
Maintains Class Control
ANSWER
Students rely on teachers to establish and maintain a safe and orderly learning environment
that is welcoming, inclusive, and allows each student to achieve his or her maximum
potential. The need for student discipline requires the teacher to develop a set of rules that
establish boundaries for behavior and to enforce them in a fair and consistent manner.
Successful teachers prepare for classroom disruption before they begin to occur.
Alongside creating a list, teacher should include consequences as part of the introductory
events that occur during the first week of school.
A well constructed, student-centered lesson plan is the best tactic that a teacher can employ
to avert student discipline situations.
Question 3.
Classroom Managment
ANSWER
,Question 4.
Productive Writing
ANSWER
Know when you are most productive (mornings, afternoons, evenings...)
If you cannot choose your timing, then dedication and perseverance is required. To be
productive:
1. You need to be alert.
2. Ready to work
3. Accomplish task with relative ease.
4. Write everyday
5. Develop an habit of concentrating while you write.
6. Critical thinking self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking
(attention to detail).
7. Have a positive attitude about writing in general.
Reading and writing from an audience-centered view means acknowledging your
confirmation bias and moving beyond it to consider multiple frames of references, points of
view, perspectives as you read, research, and write.
Break down writing in small manageable steps, that in turn, will provide you with a platform
for success.
Your rough draft as a purpose but its not your final product.
Let go of fear of failure.
Your desire for perfection should come in place when it comes to polishing your finished
product.
To eliminate fear of writing, make the unknown known. If we take out the mystery out of the
product and and process, we can see it for its essential components. We see how our
finished product should look.
Examine successful papers to get a better feel for what you have to produce.
,Question 5.
Planning Checklist
ANSWER
1. Determine your general purpose: are you trying to inform, persuade, entertain, facilitate
interaction, or motivate a reader? (who, what, when, how, and why(optional)) Identifying
"why" something happened or why a certain decision is advantageous will be the essence
of the communication.
2. Determine your specific purpose: the desired outcome.
3. Credibility, Timing, and Audience
Question 6.
Which question below is MOST likely to generate the widest range of answers and discussions among
students?
ANSWER
A: Why would the author have ended the book this way?
This question allows for both a wide range of answers and discussion of those answers. The
discussion is likely to be interesting because there are so many possible answers to the
question.
Why questions tend to be the most open-ended.
Question 7.
Why should a teacher always spend time explaining classroom rules during the first few days of
class?
ANSWER
A: To establish clear expectations for performance and behavior.
Students benefit from clear, firm guidelines from the outset. The rules should be changed
only when necessary, not casually or according to students demands.
, Question 8.
Which of the methods below will BEST hold students accountable for their full participation in
cooperative learning groups?
ANSWER
A: Assign each student in the group a specific role in accomplishing the objectives of the
activity.
If each student has a role in meeting the objectives and the activity is well structured, then
all students will be drawn into participating because they all have something to do.
Grading students' work individually can be appropriate during cooperative learning
activities.
Students evaluating each other should be generally avoided.
Question 9.
When teachers share standardized test results with parents, there is a large amount of information
in the score report to be discussed. Which information will be of
MOST use to a typical parent?
ANSWER
A: Parents will generally benefit most rom specific information about how to help their
children succeed. When parents know their child's weaknesses, they can emphasize working
to improve them. Parents may want to know how their child had done in comparison to other
students locally and nationally, but the information does not help their child improve.
