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MTEL Adult Basic Education Test Breakdown

There are 14 to 16 English Language Arts questions that count as 15 percent of the content portion of the final score. Questions include:

The process of writing a composition.
Grammar, parts of speech, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.
Formal and informal styles.
Literary genres, elements of fiction, and literary devices.
Theories, practices and strategies of how adult learners develop reading skills.
Methods to facilitate and encourage development of reading skills.

There are 24 to 26 questions in the subarea of English For Speakers Of Other Languages that count as 25 percent of the content portion of the final score. Questions include:

Knowledge of general language acquisition.
Stages of learning and how long each lasts.
Difference between interpersonal communication and academic proficiency.
Cognitive processes and how knowledge of one language affects learning a second.
How family mores, cultural influences and personal factors affect learning.
Linguistics.

There are 24 to 26 questions in the Math subarea that count as 25 percent of the content area of the final score. Questions include understanding and practical applications of:

Number sense and basic mathematical operations.
Place value, prime and composite numbers, integers, fractions, ratios.
Scientific notation is integrated with operational functions.
Basic algebraic concepts, symbols, expressions, equations.
Real-world applications of basic algebraic functions.
Geometric shapes and measurements.
Determining area and volume.
Analyzing data, statistics and probability.

There are 9 to 10 questions in the History And Social Science subarea that count as 10 percent of the content areas of the final score. Questions include:

Chronology, characteristics and contributions of Massachusetts, United States, and world civilizations.
Major developments such as the agriculture, scientific, industrial, and information revolutions and how they affected the human population.
Politics, economics, internal and external conflicts, and societal changes.
Specific people who significantly impacted their particular time in history.
The basic concepts upon which the United States was founded.
How various government institutions operate.
Basic understanding of geography and the physical features of the earth.
How geography influenced the growth and death of various civilizations.

There are 9 to 11 questions in the Science subarea that count as 10 percent of the content area of the final score. Questions cover:

Basic principles and concepts of the physical and life sciences.
How physical and life sciences interact with and against each other.
How science impacts human life.
How humans affect the earth and her ecosystems.
Biology, chemistry and physics and several of their specialized categories.
Understanding scientific inquiry and the ability to explain each step in the process.

The two open-response questions comprise 15 percent of the final score. Responses to these questions require understanding of How To Apply The Content Knowledge to real world situations. The candidate is asked to prepare a well organized, detailed analysis of some aspect of the content shown above for presentation.

MTEL Adult Basic Education Test Practice Questions