Praxis PLT Exam Questions With All Correct Answers Graded A+
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Praxis PLT Exam Questions With All Correct Answers Graded A+
ability grouping - Answer-technique of helping students achieve individual goals by placing those of similar ability together, either in groups in the same classroom or in separate classsrooms
/.acceleration - Answer-change in the ...
Praxis PLT Exam Questions With All
Correct Answers Graded A+
ability grouping - Answer-technique of helping students achieve individual goals by
placing those of similar ability together, either in groups in the same classroom or in
separate classsrooms
/.acceleration - Answer-change in the regular school program that permits a gifted
student to complete a program in less time or at an earlier age than usual
/.accomodation - Answer-Piaget's term that refers to a change in cognitive structures
that produces corresponding behavioral changes
/.accountability - Answer-idea of holding schools, districts, educators, and students
responsible for the results
/.achievement test - Answer-measures accomplishments in such specific subjects as
reading, mathematics, etc.
/.adaptation - Answer-Piaget's term for one of the two psychological mechanisms used
to explain cognitive development. The other is organization.
/.adolescent egocentric thinking - Answer-characteristic of adolescent thought in which
adolescent assume that everyone thinks as they do; that everyone is "looking at them."
/.advance organizers - Answer-David Ausubel's term to describe a type of teaching that
explains what is to come. It could be an outline, a list, an introductory paragraph, etc.
/.aesthetics - Answer-referring to the nature of beauty and judgments about it
/.aptitude test - Answer-test that assesses a student's general or specific abilities; it
shows ability, potential, "flair," talent, etc.
/.assessment - Answer-all 50 states now have some statewide testing policies in place.
The logic behind these state assessment systems has been to find a more accurate
way to measure student success as well as to hold schools accountable for results.
While a centerpiece of standards-based reform, state testing policies have caused
considerable controversy. The results debate over assessment is at the heart of the
debate over education reform.
/.assimilation - Answer-Piaget's term to describe how we take new information into our
minds and make sense of it, based on our background knowledge
,/.authentic assessment - Answer-means of securing information about a student's
success of failure on meaningful and significant tasks. There is a performance
component where the student actually shows what he/she can do unlike a paper-and-
pencil objections type of test
/.behavior modification - Answer-deliberate attempt to control behavior. contends that
behavior represents the essence of a person. B.F. Skinner
/.axiology - Answer-Philosophical track that studies values one should live by.
Questions center around things like what is good and what is evil or what is beauty.
/.bilingual education - Answer-program designed to help those with limited English
proficiency (LEP) to acquire English and learn in school by teaching them partly in
English and partly in their own language
/.Brown vs. Board of Education - Answer-case in 1954, which resulted in decision to
provide an equal opportunity for a free and appropriate education for students with
disabilities. No segregation that is deliberate. Separate but equal is unequal.
/.centering - Answer-Piaget's term to describe a child's tendency to concentrate on only
part of an object or activity. This is a characteristic of preoperational children (ages 2-7)
/.charter schools - Answer-allows a group of teachers or other would-be educators to
apply for permission from their local education authority to open a school, operating with
taxpayer dollars, just like a public school. The difference? Free them from the rules and
regulations
/.choice - Answer-school choice initiatives are based on the premise that allowing
parents to choose what schools their children attend is not only the fair thing to do, but
also an important strategy for improving public education
/.cognitive style - Answer-preference to respond to a variety of problems or tasks in a
particular fashion
/.concrete operations - Answer-Piaget's third stage of cognitive development, extending
approximately from ages 7-11; refers to logical operations or principles we use when
solving problems; conservation
/.conservation - Answer-Piaget's term that refers to the realization that the essence of
something remains constant, although surface features may change. Example: Show a
student a ball of clay; in fron of the student, mash the clay flat. Ask, "Is this still the same
amount of lay that we started with?" If the child says, "No," the child is not using this
/.construct validity - Answer-when a test actually measures the knowledge domain or
behavior it claims to measure. For instance, if you give a social studies test and a
, student does poorly because the reading level was too difficult. That test does not have
this, because it is measuring reading ability besides social studies content
/.constructivism - Answer-is a theory of knowledge that argues that humans generate
knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas.
Founded by Piaget.
/.content validity - Answer-a test that measures only the content taught.
/.contingency contracting - Answer-teacher and student decide on a behavioral goal and
what the student will receive when the goal is reached
/.core curriculum - Answer-curriculum design in which one subject or group of subjects
becomes a focal unit around which all other subjects are correlated
/.criterion-referenced testing - Answer-taking student scores on an instrument and
comparing them to a standard. Example being a spelling test, or,"Johnny got 88% of his
math questions correct."
/.cultural pluralism - Answer-set of tenets based upon 3 principles (1) every culture has
its own internal logic; (2) no culture is better or worse than another (3) all persons are to
some extent culture-bound
/.culture - Answer-ways a group of people form beliefs, evaluates ideas and
experiences, the way they behave, and way they perceive the world
/.decoding - Answer-using the sounds and grammar of a language to interpret a
message. Reading and comprehending are included in decoding
/.desists - Answer-a teacher's actions to stop misbehavior
/.desegregation - Answer-in its landmark 1954 decision Brown v. Board of Education,
the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously outlawed segregation and declared that racially
separate schools are inherently unequal. This ruling overturned the high court's
previous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which has allowed state-imposed segregation,
calling such schools "separate but equal."
/.didactic teaching - Answer-is the pedagogy of instruction and immutable facts, of
authority and telling, and of right and wrong answers - it is teacher-centered and values
learners who sit still and listen quietly and attentively, passively accepting the teacher
as the knower and expert, both the source of knowledge and judge-jury of knowing.
/.discovery learning - Answer-Bruner's term for learning that involves the rearrangement
and transformation of material that leads to insight
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