ABCTE PTK Practice Questions (2026) — Free Sample Questions with Answers

Answer: C

Remember: Wrong. Remembering means recalling facts. This task requires breaking information apart and relating the pieces.

Apply: Wrong. Applying means using a procedure in a new situation. Comparing and explaining relationships goes further.

Analyze: Correct. Comparing parts and explaining how they relate to an outcome is analysis.

Create: Wrong. Creating means producing an original product or plan. Students here analyze existing information.

Revised Bloom's levels: remember, understand, apply, analyze (compare, organize, attribute), evaluate (judge, justify), create (design, produce).

Answer: B

Phonics: Wrong. Phonics links sounds to letters (graphemes). This task uses no print at all.

Phonemic awareness: Correct. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words, such as blending /m/ /a/ /p/ into 'map.'

Reading fluency: Wrong. Fluency is reading connected text accurately, at a good rate, and with expression.

Comprehension: Wrong. Comprehension is understanding meaning from text. Blending sounds is a foundational oral skill.

Phonemic awareness works with sounds only (oral). Phonics connects sounds to letters (print).

Answer: A

Guided practice, with students trying it while she gives feedback: Correct. Explicit instruction moves from modeling (I do) to guided practice (we do) to independent practice (you do), with feedback along the way.

Independent practice on a graded worksheet assigned as homework tonight: Wrong. Moving straight to independent work skips guided practice, where errors are caught before they become habits.

A summative unit test covering the main idea strategy: Wrong. A summative test comes after practice and mastery, not right after the first modeling.

A new lesson on a different strategy to keep up the pace: Wrong. Moving on before practice and checking for understanding leaves the skill unlearned.

Gradual release: I do (model), we do (guided practice), you do (independent practice). Check for understanding at each step.

Answer: B

Positive reinforcement: Wrong. Positive reinforcement adds something desirable. Here an unpleasant thing (homework) is taken away.

Negative reinforcement: Correct. Removing an aversive stimulus (homework) after the behavior increases that behavior. That is negative reinforcement.

Positive punishment: Wrong. Punishment decreases behavior. Here the target behavior increases.

Extinction: Wrong. Extinction is withholding a reinforcer that used to maintain a behavior, which reduces it over time.

Reinforcement increases behavior (positive = add, negative = remove). Punishment decreases behavior. 'Negative' does not mean bad.

Answer: C

Overlapping only, since she is attending to two separate things at once: Wrong. She is overlapping, but the key skill here is showing awareness of everything happening in the room.

Group alerting, keeping the whole class ready to respond: Wrong. Group alerting keeps all students engaged during recitation. It is not about catching individual misbehavior early.

Withitness, showing she knows what is going on everywhere: Correct. Kounin's withitness is the teacher's awareness of all classroom activity, shown by catching problems early and targeting the right student.

Momentum, keeping the lesson moving without slowdowns: Wrong. Momentum is about lesson pacing and avoiding slowdowns, not detecting off-task behavior.

Kounin: withitness (eyes in the back of the head), overlapping (handling two things at once), momentum, smoothness, and group alerting.

Answer: C

Reliability, because the scores would vary a great deal on a retest: Wrong. The scores could be quite consistent. The issue is that they measure reading as well as math.

Objectivity, because the scoring is too subjective: Wrong. Nothing suggests subjective scoring. Equation answers can be scored objectively.

Validity, because it measures reading rather than the skill: Correct. Validity is whether a test measures what it is meant to measure. Heavy reading adds construct-irrelevant difficulty.

Practicality, because the test takes too long to grade: Wrong. Practicality concerns time and cost. The scenario describes a measurement problem.

Validity is about measuring the right thing, and reliability is about consistency. A test can be reliable but not valid, but it cannot be valid without being reliable.