ABCTE PTK Practice Exam Questions
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What type of question would most likely generate the widest range of answers and discussions
among students? ✔✔Why would the author have ended the book this way? "Why" questions
tend to be the most open-ended.
Why should a teacher always spend time explaining classroom rules during the first few days of
class? ✔✔To establish clear expectations for performance and behavior. Students benefit from
clear, firm guidelines from the outset.
What method will BEST hold students accountable for their full participation in cooperative
learning groups? ✔✔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.
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 the typical
parent? ✔✔Specific areas of academic strength and weakness. When parents know their child's
weaknesses, they can emphasize working to improve them.
Suppose your objective for a lesson is "The student will demonstrate an ability to differentiate
among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks." Which of the following is the BEST
activity for introducing students to the attributes of each type of rock? ✔✔Students examine
rocks belonging to each group and identify the similarities and differences. The activity is
, followed by a group discussion in which the teacher brings out the important characteristics of
each type. Students learn best when they are actively involved.
A group of students wants to produce an electronic magazine that publishes original student
writing and art. Their adviser is planning a unit to train them how to use a word-processing
application to create pages that include features such as images, multi-column layouts, sidebars,
headers, footers, links, and page backgrounds. What would be the BEST culminating activity for
this portion of the training? ✔✔Small teams producing a document under proctored conditions,
using specified features, and within a time limit. The purpose of the raining is to prepare students
to apply what they learn. The team and time limit conditions make the performance more
realistic; the whole activity promotes retaining and transferring what has been leaned.
What is MOST likely to promote effective transfer of knowledge to students? ✔✔Having
students work on their own with specific information related to a topic before giving an
organizing lecture. Studies indicate that topics need to be organized and connected in order to
promote transfer knowledge, but that a large number of topics covered quickly will hinder
student transfer because students have too little time to connect and organize the information.
Students are about to take a paper and pencil test. If there is time for only one activity, what
would be the BEST to prepare the students for the test? ✔✔Students should make a chart of the
important topics with notes on subtopics below each. Organizational structures help students to
connect and remember.
What learning objectives uses a higher order thinking skill? ✔✔Bloom's Taxonomy identifies
thinking skills in increasing order of sophistication as knowledge, comprehension, application,
analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. "Students will create a metaphor to describe an emotion."
requires synthesis in order to complete the task.
and Answers Already Passed
What type of question would most likely generate the widest range of answers and discussions
among students? ✔✔Why would the author have ended the book this way? "Why" questions
tend to be the most open-ended.
Why should a teacher always spend time explaining classroom rules during the first few days of
class? ✔✔To establish clear expectations for performance and behavior. Students benefit from
clear, firm guidelines from the outset.
What method will BEST hold students accountable for their full participation in cooperative
learning groups? ✔✔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.
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 the typical
parent? ✔✔Specific areas of academic strength and weakness. When parents know their child's
weaknesses, they can emphasize working to improve them.
Suppose your objective for a lesson is "The student will demonstrate an ability to differentiate
among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks." Which of the following is the BEST
activity for introducing students to the attributes of each type of rock? ✔✔Students examine
rocks belonging to each group and identify the similarities and differences. The activity is
, followed by a group discussion in which the teacher brings out the important characteristics of
each type. Students learn best when they are actively involved.
A group of students wants to produce an electronic magazine that publishes original student
writing and art. Their adviser is planning a unit to train them how to use a word-processing
application to create pages that include features such as images, multi-column layouts, sidebars,
headers, footers, links, and page backgrounds. What would be the BEST culminating activity for
this portion of the training? ✔✔Small teams producing a document under proctored conditions,
using specified features, and within a time limit. The purpose of the raining is to prepare students
to apply what they learn. The team and time limit conditions make the performance more
realistic; the whole activity promotes retaining and transferring what has been leaned.
What is MOST likely to promote effective transfer of knowledge to students? ✔✔Having
students work on their own with specific information related to a topic before giving an
organizing lecture. Studies indicate that topics need to be organized and connected in order to
promote transfer knowledge, but that a large number of topics covered quickly will hinder
student transfer because students have too little time to connect and organize the information.
Students are about to take a paper and pencil test. If there is time for only one activity, what
would be the BEST to prepare the students for the test? ✔✔Students should make a chart of the
important topics with notes on subtopics below each. Organizational structures help students to
connect and remember.
What learning objectives uses a higher order thinking skill? ✔✔Bloom's Taxonomy identifies
thinking skills in increasing order of sophistication as knowledge, comprehension, application,
analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. "Students will create a metaphor to describe an emotion."
requires synthesis in order to complete the task.
