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PRAXIS II: PLT Exam Questions and
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Ability grouping - Answers -The process of placing students of similar abilities into
groups and attempting to match instruction to the needs of these groups.

Accommodation - Answers -Responding to a new object or event by either modifying an
existing scheme or forming a new one.

Accountability - Answers -Mandated obligation of teachers and other school personnel
to accept responsibility for students' performance on high-stakes assessments.

Achievement tests - Answers -Standardized tests measuring how much students have
learned in a given content area.

Action research - Answers -Research conducted by teachers and other school
personnel to address issues and problems in their own schools or classrooms.

Active listening - Answers -A technique in which the listener paraphrases the other
person's message and directly mentions the feelings that underlie the message.

Advance organizer - Answers -An introduction to a lesson that provides an overall
organizational scheme for the lesson.

African American English - Answers -Dialect of some African American communities
characterized by certain pronunciations, idioms, and grammatical constructions different
from those of Standard English.

Age-equivalent score - Answers -Test score indicating the age level of students to
whom a test taker performed most similarly.

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, The (ADA) - Answers -Legislation in the United
States that extends civil rights protection of persons with disabilities to private-sector
employment, all public services, public accommodations, transportation, and
telecommunication including physical accessibility and the removal of barriers to hotels,
restaurants, grocery stores, and parks if that can be accomplished without great
difficulty or expense.

Analytic scoring - Answers -Scoring a student's performance on an assessment by
evaluating various aspects of it separately.

,Anecdotal records - Answers -Narrative accounts of observed student behavior or
performance.

Antecedent stimulus - Answers -Stimulus that increases the likelihood that a particular
response will follow.

Antecedents - Answers -Stimuli that precede and induce behaviors.

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) - Answers -Systematic application of stimulus-
response principles to address a chronic behavior problem.

Apprenticeship - Answers -Mentorship in which a learner works intensively with an
experienced adult to learn how to perform complex new skills.

Aptitude tests - Answers -Standardized tests designed to predict the potential for future
learning and measure general abilities developed over long periods of time.

Assertive discipline - Answers -An approach to classroom management that promotes a
clear and firm response style with students.

Assessment - Answers -Process of observing a sample of a student's behavior and
drawing inferences about the student's knowledge and abilities.

Assimilation - Answers -Responding to and possibly interpreting a new event in a way
that is consistent with an existing scheme.

Attention - Answers -Focusing of mental processes on particular stimuli.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - Answers -Disorder marked by
inattention, inability to inhibit inappropriate thoughts and behaviors, or both.

Attributions - Answers -Personally constructed causal explanations for a success or
failure.

Attribution theory - Answers -Theoretical perspective focusing on people's explanations
(attributions) concerning the causes of events that befall them, as well as on the
behaviors that result from such explanations.

Authentic activity - Answers -An approach to instruction similar to one students might
encounter in the outside world.

Authentic assessment - Answers -Assessment of students' knowledge and skills in a
"real-life" context.

Autism spectrum disorders - Answers -Disorders marked by impaired social cognition,
social skills, and social interaction, presumably due to a brain abnormality; extreme

, forms often associated with significant cognitive and linguistic delays and highly unusual
behaviors.

Autonomy - Answers -Basic need to control the course of one's own life.

Backward design - Answers -An approach to instructional planning in which a teacher
first determines the desired end result (i.e., what knowledge and skills students should
acquire) and then identifies appropriate assessments and instructional strategies.

Behaviorism - Answers -Theoretical perspective in which learning and behavior are
described and explained in terms of stimulus-response relationships, and motivation is
often the result of deficit-based drives. Adherents to this perspective are called
behaviorists.

Belongingness - Answers -General sense that one is an important and valued member
of the classroom.

Bloom's taxonomy - Answers -A taxonomy of six cognitive processes, varying in
complexity, that lessons might be designed to foster.

Central tendency - Answers -Typical score for a group of scores.

Checklist - Answers -Assessment tool with which a teacher evaluates student
performance by indicating whether specific behaviors or qualities are present or absent.

Classical conditioning - Answers -Form of learning in which a new, involuntary response
is acquired as a result of two stimuli being presented at the same time.

Classroom climate - Answers -Overall psychological atmosphere of the classroom.

Classroom management - Answers -Establishment and maintenance of a classroom
environment conducive to learning and achievement.

Co-teaching - Answers -In co-teaching arrangements, two or more teachers teach
together in the same classroom where students benefit from each teacher's specialty
(e.g., a regular and a special education teacher working with regular students and
students with a specific disability such as hearing impairments).

Code of ethics - Answers -Set of professional standards for behavior of members of a
profession.

Cognitive apprenticeship - Answers -Mentorship in which a teacher and a student work
together on a challenging task and the teacher gives guidance about how to think about
the task.

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