PRAXIS 5421 Practice Test (Qs & As)
Which legislative act replaced the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) (PL 107-110) ?
A. Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (PL 114-95)
B. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) (PL 101-336)
C. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (...
PRAXIS 5421 Practice Test (Qs & As)
Which legislative act replaced the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) (PL 107-110) ?
A. Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (PL 114-95)
B. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) (PL 101-336)
C. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) (PL 93-380 § 513)
D. Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEIA) (PL 108-446)
Correct answer-Correct Answer: A
Option (A) is correct. In 2015, ESSA replaced the NCLB Act. ESSA allows states more freedom in
setting educational goals and has fewer restrictions on how students are tested than NCLB did.
Which of the following provide the most convincing evidence of program effectiveness?
A. Advisory council feedback reports
B. Achievement-related data
C. Management agreements
D. Parent surveys Correct answer-Correct Answer: B
Option (B) is correct. Achievement-related data are the most direct measures of program
success.
If a professional school counselor makes a judgment about a student to a teacher and the
student finds out, which TWO of the following are likely outcomes?
A. The student will no longer trust the school counselor.
B. The student will gradually confide in the counselor more and more.
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C. The student will intentionally misrepresent himself or herself in counseling in an attempt to
be judged positively.
D. Correct answer-Correct Answer: A,C
Options (A) and (C) are correct. If students feel a school counselor is making judgments about
them, they will not trust the school counselor and will be less open and honest with the
counselor to avoid being judged negatively.
Of the following, where is the best place to store student grade data?
A. A word-processing document located on the principal's personal hard drive
B. A spreadsheet located on the professional school counselor's personal hard drive
C. A student information system
D. On paper in a locked file cabinet Correct answer-Correct Answer: C
Option (C) is correct. Student grades are best housed in an electronic student information
system, where security needs can be met and the files can be backed up. Files on one staff
member's hard drive cannot be accessed by all the authorized persons that need them, and
paper files can easily be destroyed if there is an accident or local disaster.
Which of the following data would document time devoted to the delivery component of an
effective school counseling program?
A. Daily attendance rate of students
B. Percentage of time the counselor spent on administrative duties
C. Number of consultative services provided to colleagues and parents
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D. Mean test scores Correct answer-Correct Answer: C
Option (C) is correct. Whereas the other options list important factors to consider in terms of
the whole school, only (C) is a delivery component in the American School Counselor
Association (ASCA) model.
In conducting an annual needs assessment, it is most important to analyze data from which of
the following sources?
A. College entrance exam databases
B. State testing databases
C. School district administrators
D. Students, parents, teachers, and community stakeholders Correct answer-Correct
Answer: D
Option (D) is correct. A needs assessment should include input from students, parents, teachers,
and community stakeholders.
The best way for a counselor to address the problem of one student monopolizing group
counseling time is to
A. tell the student that his or her participation in the group will be terminated if the behavior
does not change
B. have the group examine the student's behavior in a productive and nonthreatening manner
C. ask the student politely to allow the other group members to speak more frequently
D. discuss the student's monopolizing behavior with the student outside of group time
Correct answer-Correct Answer: B
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Option (B) is correct. The best way for the student and his or her peers to learn from the
experience of the inappropriate interaction is for them to examine the behavior and its
implications in a nonthreatening manner. The other choices either do not take advantage of the
group setting to help all students involved or are offensive and nonproductive to the treatment
of the student who is monopolizing group time.
Which of the following is a responsibility of a guidance advisory committee (GAC) ?
A. Reviewing counseling program data and activity outcomes to make recommendations to the
counselor
B. Evaluating the counselor's professional activities
C. Reporting recommendations about counseling plans to administrators
D. Sharing the work of the committee with the local media Correct answer-Correct
Answer: A
Option (A) is correct. A GAC is commonly charged with the task of reviewing program data and
making recommendations based on its evaluations. GACs typically do not evaluate counselors'
professional activities, report directly to administrators, or disclose counseling work to the
media.
Which of the following approaches takes into consideration the counseling components that are
shared by all cultural groups?
A. Etic
B. Emic
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