Practice Test Questions: Praxis 5421 Professional Counselors Questions and Answer
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Practice Test Questions: Praxis 5421
Professional Counselors Questions
and Answers
Which legislative act replaced the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
✓ ~~~Every Student Succeeds Act
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
✓ ~~~Obama's act in 2015 that took over No Child Left Behind
American with Disabilities Act
✓ ~~~A law passed in 1990 that requires employers and public facilities to make
"reasonable accommodations" for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination
against these individuals in employment.
The family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974
✓ ~~~The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR
Part 99) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004
✓ ~~~The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004) is a
United States law that mandates equity, accountability and excellence in education for
children with disabilities.
Which of the following provide the most convincing evidence of program
effectiveness?
✓ ~~~Achievement -related data
,If a professional school counselor makes a judgement about a student to a teacher
and the student finds out, what are the likely outcomes?
✓ ~~~1) The student will no longer trust the school counselor
2) The student will intentionally misrepresent himself or herself in counseling in an
attempt to be judged positively
Where is the best place to store student grade data
✓ ~~~A student information system
Which of the following data would document time devoted to the delivery component
of an effective school counseling program?
✓ ~~~Numbers of consultative service provided to colleagues and parents
In conducting an annual assessment, it is most important to analyze data from which
of the following sources?
✓ ~~~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
✓ ~~~Have the group examine the students behavior in productive and nonthreatening
manner
Which of the following is responsibility of a guidance advisory committee (GAC)
✓ ~~~Reviewing counseling program data and activity outcomes to make recommendation
to the counselor
,which of the following approaches takes into consideration the counseling
components that are shared by cultural groups
✓ ~~~Etic
etic approach
✓ ~~~an approach that is cross-cultural, searching for generalities across cultures
emic approach
✓ ~~~investigates how local people think
egocentric approach
✓ ~~~Is the inability to differentiate between self and other.
Which is an appropriate reason for a school counselor to disclose information that a
student has shared?
✓ ~~~The Counselor is assisting in the the prevention of imminent danger to the student or
others.
According to the National Career Development Association's guidelines,
competencies appropriate for students at all levels include
✓ ~~~Self-knowledge, educational and occupational exploration, and career planning
Ms. Barber, a counselor, is conflicted because she is working with a student, Lucy,
whose lifestyle is not consistent with her own religious values. She occasionally
gives advice to Lucy about ways to improve her lifestyle. According to the American
, School Counseling Association (ASCA), the school counselor is violating which of
the following ethical principles?
✓ ~~~Respecting students' values and beliefs and not imposing one's own values and
beliefs on them
A counselor records time spent in the areas of classroom guidance, individual
planning, system support, and responsive services and compares the use of time to
a state plan. The purpose of the documentation and comparison is
✓ ~~~Accountability
According to the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), which TWO of the
following are true about romantic relationships between school counselors and
students?
✓ ~~~1) Such a relationship is permissible only if the student no longer attends where the
school counselor works and no harm will come to the student.
2) Such a relationship is never appropriate if the student currently attends the school
where the counselor works.
Of the following, which is the most appropriate use of aptitude test?
✓ ~~~Estimating the ability of a high school student for performance in college
Annie is a fourth-grade student in Ms. Garcia's homeroom class. For the past few
days, Ms. Garcia has noticed that Annie has not been as engaged with her
classmates as usual and seems withdrawn. Ms. Garcia asks the school counselor for
help with Annie. The counselor's first step should be to
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