ABCTE PTK Practice Exam | 100% Correct Answers
What type of question would most likely generate the widest range of answers and discussions
among students? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer:
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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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.
What would provide the BEST introduction for a lesson on writing bibliographic references?
Correct Answer: Demonstrate to students the specific procedure and order expected. Procedures
are best taught through demonstration.
A social studies teacher wants students to consider the role of geography in population patterns.
She asks her class, "What role did geography play in the growth of Chicago as a major U.S.
city?" what should she do next? Correct Answer: Tell students not to call out responses but to
raise their hand when they think of an answer and wait to be called on. Students need various
amounts of time to think through an answer to a question, particularly for complicated questions.
Allowing students to answer right away can stop the thinking process for the other students.
Consider the following two questions a teach might ask a high school social studies class.
I: According to our textbook, what does the public welfare system do to solve the problems of
poverty?
II: What are some ways our country might solve the problems of poverty?
What best describes the differences between these questions? Correct Answer: This question is a
matter of relative convergence and divergence. Question I converges on the textbook; that is
good answers will stick to what the textbook says. Question II allows for answers that may draw
on sources other than the textbook. Both questions are open-ended.
II invites more divergent thinking than I.
What activity would BEST help students in a middle school social studies class understand why
different Native American tribes had different trading practices? Correct Answer: Assign a tribe
to each group of students and give each group handouts that identify needs and oversupply for a
particular tribe. Then stage trading activities among groups and have students identify important
aspects. Students engaged in active participation are more likely to learn and understand complex
interconnections.
A struggling student comes to pick up a paper at your desk during class time. You have
determined that this student needs extra help. What would be BEST to say to the student?
Correct Answer: "I'd like to talk to you about this paper in a little more detail.. Let's set up a
time when we can talk in private." It is important to protect student privacy and avoid
embarrassment. The vital issue is not to share lack of success with the rest of the students.
Consider the following question asked by a first grade teacher: " What do the three stories we
have read by Tomie de Paola have in common?"
What is the main instructional value of asking a question like this? Correct Answer: Analysis of
the separate stories and comparison between them. This question utilizes comparisons, which is
What type of question would most likely generate the widest range of answers and discussions
among students? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer:
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? Correct Answer: 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? Correct Answer: 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.
What would provide the BEST introduction for a lesson on writing bibliographic references?
Correct Answer: Demonstrate to students the specific procedure and order expected. Procedures
are best taught through demonstration.
A social studies teacher wants students to consider the role of geography in population patterns.
She asks her class, "What role did geography play in the growth of Chicago as a major U.S.
city?" what should she do next? Correct Answer: Tell students not to call out responses but to
raise their hand when they think of an answer and wait to be called on. Students need various
amounts of time to think through an answer to a question, particularly for complicated questions.
Allowing students to answer right away can stop the thinking process for the other students.
Consider the following two questions a teach might ask a high school social studies class.
I: According to our textbook, what does the public welfare system do to solve the problems of
poverty?
II: What are some ways our country might solve the problems of poverty?
What best describes the differences between these questions? Correct Answer: This question is a
matter of relative convergence and divergence. Question I converges on the textbook; that is
good answers will stick to what the textbook says. Question II allows for answers that may draw
on sources other than the textbook. Both questions are open-ended.
II invites more divergent thinking than I.
What activity would BEST help students in a middle school social studies class understand why
different Native American tribes had different trading practices? Correct Answer: Assign a tribe
to each group of students and give each group handouts that identify needs and oversupply for a
particular tribe. Then stage trading activities among groups and have students identify important
aspects. Students engaged in active participation are more likely to learn and understand complex
interconnections.
A struggling student comes to pick up a paper at your desk during class time. You have
determined that this student needs extra help. What would be BEST to say to the student?
Correct Answer: "I'd like to talk to you about this paper in a little more detail.. Let's set up a
time when we can talk in private." It is important to protect student privacy and avoid
embarrassment. The vital issue is not to share lack of success with the rest of the students.
Consider the following question asked by a first grade teacher: " What do the three stories we
have read by Tomie de Paola have in common?"
What is the main instructional value of asking a question like this? Correct Answer: Analysis of
the separate stories and comparison between them. This question utilizes comparisons, which is
