FTCE TEST Questions and Answers

What do the parathyroids control?

Calcium and phosphate in blood.

Change the fraction 7/8 to a decimal.

0.875

square root of 100

10

Humans have 46 chromosomes in their body cells. How many chromosomes are found in the zygote?

46

An acidic solution can have a PH of...

5

Teachers should provide various experiences and concrete examples for children with reading difficulties because some children...

Come from environments with limited language exposure.

The characteristics of fascism include all of the following except....

Democracy

While the teacher is reading aloud to the class Linda is telling jokes to get her peers to laugh. According to the behavioral theory, what is the possible reason for Linda's Behavior?

Linda tells jokes to make her peers laugh, which may serve to gain attention for Linda or may serve to distract the teacher from the lesson, which allows Linda to escape academic tasks.

Know the map

Location of countries

Teachers can produce a positive environment by

Providing a comfortable physical setting

Two children are fighting, The best approach for the teacher to take first is which of the following?

Seperate the two and attend first to the victim.

Rubrics are used by many teachers in elementary schools for the purposes of assessment. What criteria should be used when creating a rubric?

Set clearly defined criteria for each assessment, include a rating scale.

When a student writes about attempting suicide in a journal, the best way for the teacher to deal with the situation is to...

Take the students threats of suicide seriously and report the situation to the appropriate school authority

The launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 triggered increased emphasis on all of the following areas of study except...

World history

The industrial economy of the nineteenth century was based on all of the following except...

an equitable distribution of profits among those involved in production.

If mastery level for a skill is set at 75 percent, what does the student need to accomplish to exhibit mastery

answer correctly 75 percent of all the questions on that particular skill.

which of the following is considered to be evidence for plate tectonics?

continental coastline "fit" identical fossil evidence at fit locations intense geological activity in mountainous regions.

Goals for individuals students

are developed after considering the students history and motivation

How can a teacher elicit a high order response from a student who provides simple responses?

ask follow up questions

According ro the Socratic method, teachers should...

ask questions to get students to think about universal truths.

Human body temperature regulation through skin involves...

perspiration

seafloor spreading is characterized by...

plate spreading with upwelling magma-forming ridges.

In America government, a system of checks and balances was developed to

regulate the amount of control each branch of government has

According to the operant model in behavioral theory, negative reinforcement is...

removing a stimulus, which causes a behavior to increase.

The ruling of the supreme court in Brown vs. Board of education of Topeka (1954) was that...

seperate educational facilities were inherently unequal and violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.

The education for All handicapped Children Act of 1975 mandates that schools provide free and appropriate education for all of the following except...

socially-emotionally handicapped children.

The most important factor in the earth's seasonal patterns is the...

tilting of the earths axis.

correct chronological order

1. Magna carta is signed in England 2. Columbus sets sail across the Atlantic 3. Protestants reformation begins 4. Puritans arrive in New England

What is the measure of angle y, given the following? Lines a and b are parallel, line c is a line. THe measure of angle x is 50 degrees

130 degrees

7.04 * 2.5

17.6

3/4 * 8/9

2/3

The lunar period is nearest in length to...

24 hours

(2^2)^4

2^8

There are 10 vehicles parked in a parking lot. Each is either a car with four tires or a motorcycle with two tires. (Do not count any spare tires) There are 26 wheels in the lot. Use a one-variable equation to find out how many cars are there in the lot.

3

Which equation could be used to solve the following problem? Here is how the Acme Taxicab Company computes fares for riders: People are charged three dollars for just getting into the cab, then they are charged two dollars more for every mile or fraction of a mile of the ride. What would be the fare for a ride of 10.2 miles?

3+(2 * 11) = y

What is the solution to the equation x/3-9=15?

72

A lesson in which studnets are given tankful of water and various objects are asked to order the objects by weight would be considered

A discovery learning lesson

Which of the following defines a salt?

A reactant product of an acid and a base

The question what is the name of Hamlet father is

A low order question that can be used to begin a discussion.

A student is making top grades in class has recieved a percentile score of 63 on a nationality standardized math test. What is the best explanation of the student's scores?

A percentile score of 63 means that out of a group of 100 students, 37 would score higher and 62 would score lower, showing a big difference between the students performance on the standardized test and in class.

The intensity of an earthquake is measured by...

A seismograph

Which of the following is used to effect the release of a person from improper imprisonment?

A writ of Habeas Corpus

A student presents an analysis of a recent presidential address for the class. The teacher replies " you have provided us with a most interesting way of looking at this issue" the Teacher says

Academic Praise

When working with ESL students, the teacher should be aware that...

An accepting classroom and encouraging lessons will foster learning.

What is one way of incorporating non performers into a discussion

Ask a student to respond to a previous student statement

Effective praise should be

Authentic and low key

Which cellular component is responsible for the regulation of exchanges of substances between a cell and its environment?

Cell membrane

Bloom divided educational objectives into which of the following domains?

Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor

________________ is the ability to do work

Energy

When developing a unit about the erie canal for elementary students, what should you do to assess student performances?

Explain each project in the unit to the students and then describe what they will be asked to do.

The bill of rights

Forbade the federal government from encroaching on the rights of citizens.

Flying buttresses, pointed arches and stained glass windows are characteristics of which historic style of architecture.

Gothic

A teacher who lead choral chants is

Having students repeat basic skills orally

Sequential language acquisition occurs when students...

Learn a second language after mastery of the first

Using students ideas and interest in a lesson

Increases learning and student motivation

Which of following groups did not play a role in settlement of the English colonies in America

Mormons

Dance can be a mirror of culture. Which of the following is not an illustration of this statement.

Movement basics include body, space, time and relationship.

Mr.Drake is using the whole language method in his first grade class. Before reading a story to the students, Mr. Drake tells them what he expects them to learn from the story. What is his reason for doing this?

Mr. Drake is modeling a vital prereading skill he plans to teach the young readers.

What does it mean that multiplication and division are inverse operation?

Multiplication is commutative, whereas division is not.

What is the national professional organization that represents teachers of mathematics? (arithmetic)?

NATM

Where are the adrenals located?

On top of the kidneys

President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty" resulted in all of the following except the...

Peace corps

inductive thinking can be fostered through which activity

Personal discovery activities

If a child is not growing at a normal rate, what glands discussed in the passage might be responsible?

Pituitary

17- 22 missing in textbook, q: 27 and Q: 31

READ THE TEXTBOOK

By requiring that students write about themselves, Mr. O'Brien is ...

Relying on the language experiences approach for instruction.

While waiting for students to formulate responses to a question a student blurts an answer. The teacher should.

Silently acknowledge the student response and then address the response of another student that has answered.

What is not true of education in the Southern colonies?

Slaves were taught to read so they could study a Bible.

The drop in temperature that occurs when sugar is added to coffee is a result of...

Sugar passing from a solid to a liquid state, Sugar absorbing calories from the water, heat becoming latent when it was sensible.

Mr. Drake wants to ensure that the class will have a quality discussion on the needs of house pets. In response to a student who said that her family abandoned their cat in a field because it ate too much, Mr. Drake ask. " what is one way to save pets that are no longer wanted" This exercise involves what level of questioning

Synthesis

If the other students laugh when a first-grade girl says "I want to be a truck-driver when I grow up" and tell her that "Girls can't drive big trucks", what should the teacher do?

Tell the class both woman and men can be truck drivers, depending on their skills

which of the following is most likely to contain the greatest thermal energy.

The pacific ocean, with an avg. temperature of 50 degrees.

The probability of parents' offspring showing particular traits can be predicted by using...

The punnet square

Ms. Borders, a second year third grade teacher is preparing a theme study on water and the related concepts of conservation, ecology, and human needs. One of her instrumental outcomes deals with students' abilities to demonstrate their new learning in a variety of ways. As she plans her unit of study, Ms. Borders first needs to consider

The strengths and needs of the diverse learners in her classroom.

Before working with mathematical word problems, a teacher needs to determine that

The student is at high enough reading level to understand the problem

TEACHERS, researchers and policy makers have indicated the greatest challenge to implementing effective professionals development is the lack of

Time

Mr. O'Brien collects the students' papers at the end of class. As he reads the papers, he decides that the best way to give his students positive feedback is...

To begin with one or two positive comments about the paper and then suggest how students could improve their writing.

Feedback sessions for a test are most effective

When they are delayed by a day or so

Darwins original theory of natural selection asserts that...

all organisms have descended with modification from a common ancestor.

When a member of the House of representatives helps a citizen from his or her district receive federal aid to which that citizen is entitled, the representatives actions is referred as...

casework

Listening is a process students use to extract meaning out of oral speech. Activities teachers can engage in to assist students in becoming more effective listeners include...

clear setting a purpose for listening, asking questions about the selection and encouraging students to forge links between the new information and knowledge already in place.

best practice indicates that effective teachers review

daily weekly monthly

students are presented with the following problem " bill is taller than ann, but ann is taller than Grace . Is ann the tallest child or is bill the tallest? The question requires students to use

deductive thinking

metamorphic rocks are...

derived from igneous rocks.

The intellectual movements that encouraged the use of reason and science and the anticipated human progress was called the

enlightenment

Jim Crow laws were laws that...

established seperate segregated facilities for blacks and whites.

A positive condition depending on the absence of cold is...

heat

A quiet classroom is...

inappropriate for some learning activities.

Why should children be encouraged to figure out the structure and features of the text they are attempting to comprehend and remember.

it helps the students to understand the way the author organized the material to be presented. It helps the students to look at the features of the text. Talking about the structure of the text provides an opportunity for the teacher to point out the most salient features to students. The discussions may help the child make connections between the new material in the chapter and what is already know about the topic.

A material with definite volume but no definite shape is called a...

liquid

igneous rocks are formed by...

magma cooling in underground cells and pockets. Magma ejected above ground as lava, which cools.

If a child in your class suffers from serious emotional disturbances, it is important to...

maintain open communications with the parents

children under the age of 8

process information more slowly than older children

A teacher tells her class that 1 meter equals 39.37 inches of 3.28 feet or 1.09 yards. The teacher has...

provided her class with a stated principle or law.

When a teacher ask students if they agree or disagree with a classmate response, the teacher is using

redirective

A supernova normally occurs when...

the end of a star's lifetime nears, with its nuclear fuel exhausted.

The strength of requiring a cognitive objective and a performance objective is that...

the developmental level in one domain may affect performance in another domain.

Written academic feedback is most productive when it

uniform

which equation could be used to solve the following problem? Three consecutive odd numbers add up to 117. What are they?

x+(x+2)+(x+4)=117

Piaget theory of cognitive development states that

younger children are unable to understand complex language.