ABCTE PTK Exam test preparation Questions and Must have marking scheme Updated version 2024/2025
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ABCTE PTK Exam test preparation Questions and Must have marking scheme Updated version 2024/2025
Bloom's Taxonomy - correct answer A system for categorizing levels of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in educational settings. Includes the following competencies: knowledge, comprehensi...
ABCTE PTK Exam test preparation Questions
and Must have marking scheme Updated
version 2024/2025
Bloom's Taxonomy - correct answer A system for categorizing
levels of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in
educational settings. Includes the following competencies:
knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and
evaluation.
If a school wanted to compare how its students were doing with
respect to students in other schools, what kind of assessment
would be MOST appropriate? - correct answer Norm-
referenced test Answer Explanation: A norm-referenced test is
designed to give a percentile score that places each student on a
continuum of 1 to 99+. The other assessments are difficult to use
to compare large groups of students.
A teacher is planning a lesson for a unit on the portion of the
Seven Years War fought in North America between England and
France, known to Americans as the French and Indian War. The
lesson's main goal is to show the relative strengths and
weaknesses of English and French forces in North America.
Which of the following aids would be MOST useful for reaching
that goal? - correct answer A comparison/contrast chart for
students to fill in as they work through the unit Answer
Explanation: A chart of this type helps students focus on
similarities and differences as they study.
Suppose you want students to learn to distinguish between the
words imply and infer. Which of the following sequences would
be MOST effective? - correct answer Explain the distinction,
,then have students apply the terms to their own examples.
Answer Explanation: Induction is the process of building a
general model. Choice C is deduction.
Which of the following statements BEST illustrates a proven
technique for encouraging student effort? - correct answer
"You're exactly right here and here. Now check this." Answer
Explanation: Choice C gives a student-specific feedback about
successful learning or performance and also points ahead to even
better performance.
A student, usually well-behaved, is being disruptive at the
moment. Which of the following techniques is an effective first
intervention? - correct answer Move closer to the student.
Answer Explanation: Moving closer is a good nonverbal cue that
the teacher has recognized something that needs attention, yet it
gives the student a chance to correct things on the spot.
Given the following set of scores on a standardized test, which
choice most closely approximates the difference between the
mean and median of the set- 89, 65, 77, 93, 80, 87, 79 - correct
answer 1. Answer Explanation: The mean of the data is 81.43
and the median is 80. The difference between them is 1.43,
which is closer to 1.
A fifth-grade student has just finished a three-week unit on the
American Revolution in social studies. Which strategy would be
BEST to use to culminate the unit? - correct answer Give a
free-response test on the "big ideas" of the unit and have
students choose a project from a list of eight projects. Answer
Explanation: In order to know whether the learning objectives of
the unit have been met, the objectives must be measured. A test
,on the major concepts of the American Revolution achieves that
goal. The project, from a limited number of choices that relate to
the objectives, gives students another way to show what they
have learned.
A student comes to you and says, "I just can't do the math. My
dad can't either. I don't have that kind of brain. I just don't get
it." Which of the following is the BEST response to this situation?
- correct answer Offer additional help and explain that you
will pinpoint the areas that are causing problems and work
through them. Answer Explanation: All students should be
accountable. It insults students when the teacher assumes they
cannot learn and gives them an excuse to avoid a challenge.
Which of the following language arts activities requires the
highest order of thinking skills? - correct answer Imagining
and writing a new ending to a novel. Answer Explanation:
Imagining and writing a new ending to a story is an example of
the synthesis level of thinking on Bloom's Taxonomy. The six
levels of thinking skills that Bloom identifies are (1) knowledge,
as in choice D; (2) comprehension, as in choice A; (3) application;
(4) analysis, as in choice B; (5) synthesis; and (6) evaluation.
Two students work together to prepare visual aids that illustrate
the major waves of immigration to the United States. The activity
satisfies which of the following learning objectives? - correct
answer Communicating in suitable ways. Answer Explanation:
Preparing visual aids necessarily engages students in thinking
about what's suitable for the content, purpose, and audience.
Curriculum planning is a major aspect of a teacher's job. Which
teaching practice listed below will BEST help students to achieve
, grade-level outcomes? - correct answer Using the state
curriculum at the beginning of the school year to determine the
learning objectives for the year, which are then incorporated into
units of study. Answer Explanation: A teacher should have a plan
for the school year before the year begins so that he or she is
sure to teach the required learning objectives
A nine-year-old student with diagnosed Attention Deficit Disorder
(ADD) is in a regular education classroom. He has average ability
in math. Which strategy below will MOST effectively help him
memorize his multiplication facts? - correct answer Have him
spend 15 minutes per day using a computer program that
practices multiplication facts. Answer Explanation: A
multiplication fact program on the computer will probably hold
his interest for more time than any of the other strategies, which
means he will practice more.
When planning how students will practice correct spelling of the
words "there," "their," and "they're," which of the following is the
BEST pattern? - correct answer Practice frequently at first,
spread out practice after that. Answer Explanation: Frequent
initial practice helps people to acquire a skill and develop
frequency with it. Further practice aids retention.
A teaching unit should be designed so that key skills are -
correct answer practiced frequently until students retain
them. Answer Explanation: Frequent practice distributed across
the available time period helps students develop fluency. In most
cases, smaller chunks work better than big ones.
A teacher is planning how to explain classroom assessment
practices to a group of parents. Which of the following could be
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