The purpose of this test is to assess whether the prospective elementary teacher has the content knowledge needed at the time of entry to the profession in the areas of reading and language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. It is designed for teacher candidates seeking a generalist elementary school license.

The content covered in each of the four subtests is described in the following pages. All four subtests—Reading and Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies—are CKT assessments. CKT stands for “Content Knowledge for Teaching.”

The questions in these subtests reflect a new approach to identifying and measuring the content knowledge that teachers need.

While assessing knowledge of the content that elementary students will learn, the CKT subtests focus on the kind of specialized knowledge of content that a teacher will apply to specific tasks of teaching, such as selecting an appropriate graphic organizer to support students in a particular reading task or interpreting a student’s mathematical misunderstanding based on a pattern of errors.

This test may contain some questions that will not count toward your score.