1. An ELL teacher is working on improving the writing skills and confidence of her ELL students. Which would be the best method for providing feedback to her students on a written assignment?

2. A senior in high school notices that a classmate, Karis, whom she has known for years, has become quiet and withdrawn from school. The original student approaches her math teacher to let her teacher know her concern. The teacher tells the student that Karis’ mother has just died, and Karis is struggling to adjust. Which statement gives a correct assessment of the teacher’s response to the student?

3. A nineth-grade life science teacher wants to see if her students are following proper safety procedures in a lab setting. What is the best way to assess if they are correctly following procedures?

4. Which of the following is the best reason for using technology in a lesson?

5. In her sociology unit on race and ethnicity, a teacher struggles to maintain respectful conversations among students regarding controversial subjects. Which of the following steps should she implement to address this problem?

6. In an inclusion classroom, a student with profound hearing loss is regularly mocked by students when she speaks. How should the classroom teacher and resource teacher work to solve this issue?

7. A ninth-grade teacher is planning to assign a major research paper to his students. What strategy could he implement that would be most helpful to help his students be aware of the teacher’s expectations of this research paper?

8. What is the best reasoning for using collaborative groups in the learning process?

9. A first-year high school science teacher has assigned her first group project of the year. What is the best way that she could monitor how well students are understanding and working on the intricate details of this project?

10. Upon receiving a quiz back from earlier in the week, a high school student puts his head down on his desk and will not lift it back up. What should the teacher try first to help the student?

11. In a high school classroom, there are multiple English-language learners (ELLs) of differing English proficiencies. How can a teacher best support these students in the classroom?

12. Of the following terms, which one means thinking and learning about one’s own thought and learning processes?

13. A teacher is trying to help students understand and appreciate the diversity among her students at an extremely diverse school. Which of the following strategies could this teacher implement to meet this goal?

14. A teacher is assigning students a group science project to create a plan for keeping water clean in their community. She plans to have students work in groups of four. What would be the benefit to using homogeneous groups for this project?

15. In the middle of the school year, a high school teacher learns that a new student with moderate vision loss will be joining her classroom. What can the teacher do to help the student feel comfortable and safe in her classroom?

16. What is the relationship between project-based learning and technology?

17. An educational researcher gives the same test to two groups of students, then delivers an instructional intervention to one group, and then gives both groups the same test again. The intervention/treatment group scores much higher this time; the control (non-treatment) group scores essentially the same as the first time. The researcher concludes that barring other factors, the intervention was what raised one group’s scores. What type of validity does this illustrate?

18. A tenth-grade teacher wants to help her students develop critical thinking skills. Which assignment would best help students develop this skill while in her social studies class?

19. A ninth-grade language arts teacher tries to incorporate diagrams, music recordings, pictures, and artwork into their instruction as much as possible. How could this help to develop learning in students with various needs?

20. Which of the following scenarios is the most probable indicator that a 4-year-old might have a developmental disability?

21. A science teacher wants to allow the students to investigate which parts of the school have the most bacteria. He splits the students into groups to have them brainstorm where they should test for bacteria and how they should report their findings. Which of the following is the most important reason for having students brainstorm how to do this investigation?

22. The day before a unit test over the Civil War, a teacher builds in a day to allow her students to review. She wants her students to work together to review the material. Which of the following would be the best way to have her students prepare for the test?

23. A tenth-grade teacher wants to assign a writing assignment to her class that has a real-world connection. Which of the following writing assignments should she assign?

24. A teacher in a high school is preparing to teach about the Doppler effect, but lacks confidence in her ability to teach the material well. Instead, she shows an educational video about the Doppler effect to demonstrate the concept to her students. Which of the following would be best for the teacher to also do as preparation for this topic?

25. What is the definition of scaffolding with regards to education?