FTC Professional Education Practice Test

Which of the following measures is a type of summative assessment?

• an End-of-Course assessment

• a homework assignment

• a learning styles inventory

• a whole-class question and answer session

Students in a social studies class are having a whole-class discussion about the preservation of historical landmarks in their community. What are students likely to learn from the class discussion?

• Historical landmarks have little economic value

• Accurate information is critical for effective communication

• Community problems can be solved through thoughtful discussion.

• Working with others can lead to better and quicker solutions to problems.

A new teacher is using innovative instructional methods in his English class. To best ensure a supportive attitude from the principal, the teacher should

• Invite the principal to visit his class to observe his teaching methods and their effects.

• Present the principal with copies of scientifically based research that supports the teacher's instructional methods.

• Send weekly reports to the principal to keep the principal apprised of the progress of the teacher's students.

• . Organize parents to send e-mails to the principal supporting the teacher's instructional methods.

After a science experiment, a high school teacher asks students to respond to the following two prompts:

1. Justify the results of your experiment.

2. Formulate a theory based on the results of your experiment.

• helps them recall facts and basic concepts

• allows them to apply their learning in a new context

• provides a means for the teacher to assess their learning.

• promotes their critical and creative thinking skills

With regard to administration of the mandatory statewide assessments, which of the following actions by a teacher would be considered unethical?

• To present lessons in advance that focus on the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards

• To use a seating chart to plan and record student seat assignments in the testing room

• To remain in the testing room when the students are taking the assessment.

• To question students on test content or test items after the days set aside for state testing have passed.

To become successful readers, which of the following skills is most important for students to have upon entering first grade?

• the ability to recognize letters by name

• the ability to recite the alphabet

• the ability to recognize short, high-frequency sight words

• the ability to use picture clues to aid in decoding text.

A student who scores at the 80th percentile on a standardized achievement test has

• Scored the same as or better than 80 percent of a norm group

• Scored better than 20 percent of a norm group

• Correctly answered 80 percent of the test questions.

• Correctly answered 20 percent of the test questions.

As students in a social studies class watch a video about the importance of recycling, the teacher periodically stops the video and poses questions about the ideas presented. This strategy is most probably motivated by the teacher's understanding that

• teachers should demonstrate and model the use of higher-order thinking skills.

• teachers' efforts to maintain and reinforce student involvement correlate with students' cognitive engagement.

• students stay on task when they are aware that they are being monitored.

• students need structured, well-managed environments.

The most appropriate way for a teacher to share an innovative instructional strategy with school colleagues is to

• send an email to all teachers describing the strategy and offering to demonstrate it in their classrooms.

• speak with the principal about demonstrating the strategy as part of a workshop for all interested teachers

• speak with the superintendent about ways the strategy could be implemented throughout the school district.

• explain the strategy at the next school board meeting.

Which of the following is most likely to promote the creative thinking skills of high school students?

• in algebra, recognizing an equivalent representation of a numerical quantity

• in economics, locating details on a graph, chart, or diagram

• in science, predicting the logical next step

• in English, writing an original short story