PLT PRAXIS 5623 - SAMPLE EXAM (LATEST UPDATE) REAL
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS |100% CORRECT |
ALREADY GRADED A
Michael, a middle school student diagnosed with an emotional
disturbance, has difficulty controlling behaviors that interfere with his
academic growth and development. Which of the following is the most
effective teacher strategy for helping Michael focus on academics?
A. Offering the student a wide variety of alternate assignments and
projects
B. Limiting rules to a few general guidelines to assist the student with
developing positive social relationships
C. Minimizing visual and auditory stimuli for the student and clearly
outlining areas where specific behaviors are expected
D. Accepting the student's behaviors with minimal acknowledgement
unless the student poses a safety threat Ans✓✓✓ C. Minimizing visual
and auditory stimuli for the student and clearly outlining areas where
specific behaviors are expected
Minimal distractions are beneficial for a student with a behavioral
disorder. Defining behavioral expectations for specific areas in the
classroom will help the student stay focused and understand what is
appropriate and acceptable behavior.
A teacher wants to learn how to implement an instructional strategy for
the upcoming school year. Which of the following professional
development practices will best help the teacher?
A.Taking a graduate course
B.Joining a learning community
,C.Obtaining an internship
D.Attending a workshop Ans✓✓✓ D.Attending a workshop
Attending a workshop, which usually lasts a day or two, will allow the
teacher to learn about the instructional strategy in a short amount of time
to prepare for the school year.
Which of the following best explains why grade-equivalent scores are
useful?
A.They determine whether a student can handle advanced content and
should be accelerated to a higher grade.
B.They compare a student's performance with the average performance
of students at other grade levels.
C.They provide a reliable way to interpret a student's growth in skills
and concepts over a school year.
D.They give parents an accurate picture of a student's class ranking in a
content area. Ans✓✓✓ B.They compare a student's performance with
the average performance of students at other grade levels.
Grade-equivalent scores are subject to misinterpretation, but the scores
can help teachers see where a student falls along a continuum of learning
across grade levels. For example, a fifth-grade student who earns a score
of 7.3 on a normed mathematics test has earned a score similar to the
average score of students in the third month of seventh grade.
Which of the following is the most reasonable statement based on the
self-determination theory?
,A.Teachers should enable students to be successful either through
extrinsic motivation or intrinsic motivation, but never both.
B.Students who are prodded and able to accept help from others will
display the most self-determination in school.
C.Self-determination is achieved when students transfer intrinsic
motivation to extrinsic motivation regarding academics.
D.Students who are academically competent, independent, and able to
relate to others will be intrinsically motivated. Ans✓✓✓ D.Students
who are academically competent, independent, and able to relate to
others will be intrinsically motivated.
Intrinsic motivation comes from a fulfillment of a person's needs to feel
competent and able to function in the school environment.
Mr. Burgess is creating a lesson for his eighth-grade English class to
introduce a new novel. The novel has vivid descriptions of a historical
event that some students have no prior knowledge of. He needs to
establish the historical background to engage students in a preliminary
dialogue about the event before they read the novel. Which of the
following strategies uses the most appropriate resource for introducing
the new content?
A.Creating research groups to access information about the event on the
Internet
B.Showing an educational video on the event to the class
C.Providing a textbook in which students can look up content
vocabulary
, D.Reviewing surveys of student content knowledge Ans✓✓✓
B.Showing an educational video on the event to the class
Screening an educational video to introduce the content uses a resource
that provides background knowledge and sets up the discussion on the
topic.
Which of the following best describes the type of scoring that applies
many criteria at the same time to evaluate an end-of-course project and
results in a single grade?
A.Task-specific scoring
B.Analytic scoring
C.Developmental scoring
D.Holistic scoring Ans✓✓✓ D.Holistic scoring
Holistic scoring is used for judging the overall quality of the work on a
project without assigning a score for each criterion as in analytic
scoring. It is most commonly used for end-of-course assessments for
which the student receives a final grade and does not receive detailed
feedback.
A seventh-grade language arts teacher plans an instructional unit based
on a novel that students will read in class. Which of the following
activities is most appropriate to include in the unit if the students are in
the formal operational stage of cognitive development?
A.Writing an explanation about the symbolism found in the novel
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS |100% CORRECT |
ALREADY GRADED A
Michael, a middle school student diagnosed with an emotional
disturbance, has difficulty controlling behaviors that interfere with his
academic growth and development. Which of the following is the most
effective teacher strategy for helping Michael focus on academics?
A. Offering the student a wide variety of alternate assignments and
projects
B. Limiting rules to a few general guidelines to assist the student with
developing positive social relationships
C. Minimizing visual and auditory stimuli for the student and clearly
outlining areas where specific behaviors are expected
D. Accepting the student's behaviors with minimal acknowledgement
unless the student poses a safety threat Ans✓✓✓ C. Minimizing visual
and auditory stimuli for the student and clearly outlining areas where
specific behaviors are expected
Minimal distractions are beneficial for a student with a behavioral
disorder. Defining behavioral expectations for specific areas in the
classroom will help the student stay focused and understand what is
appropriate and acceptable behavior.
A teacher wants to learn how to implement an instructional strategy for
the upcoming school year. Which of the following professional
development practices will best help the teacher?
A.Taking a graduate course
B.Joining a learning community
,C.Obtaining an internship
D.Attending a workshop Ans✓✓✓ D.Attending a workshop
Attending a workshop, which usually lasts a day or two, will allow the
teacher to learn about the instructional strategy in a short amount of time
to prepare for the school year.
Which of the following best explains why grade-equivalent scores are
useful?
A.They determine whether a student can handle advanced content and
should be accelerated to a higher grade.
B.They compare a student's performance with the average performance
of students at other grade levels.
C.They provide a reliable way to interpret a student's growth in skills
and concepts over a school year.
D.They give parents an accurate picture of a student's class ranking in a
content area. Ans✓✓✓ B.They compare a student's performance with
the average performance of students at other grade levels.
Grade-equivalent scores are subject to misinterpretation, but the scores
can help teachers see where a student falls along a continuum of learning
across grade levels. For example, a fifth-grade student who earns a score
of 7.3 on a normed mathematics test has earned a score similar to the
average score of students in the third month of seventh grade.
Which of the following is the most reasonable statement based on the
self-determination theory?
,A.Teachers should enable students to be successful either through
extrinsic motivation or intrinsic motivation, but never both.
B.Students who are prodded and able to accept help from others will
display the most self-determination in school.
C.Self-determination is achieved when students transfer intrinsic
motivation to extrinsic motivation regarding academics.
D.Students who are academically competent, independent, and able to
relate to others will be intrinsically motivated. Ans✓✓✓ D.Students
who are academically competent, independent, and able to relate to
others will be intrinsically motivated.
Intrinsic motivation comes from a fulfillment of a person's needs to feel
competent and able to function in the school environment.
Mr. Burgess is creating a lesson for his eighth-grade English class to
introduce a new novel. The novel has vivid descriptions of a historical
event that some students have no prior knowledge of. He needs to
establish the historical background to engage students in a preliminary
dialogue about the event before they read the novel. Which of the
following strategies uses the most appropriate resource for introducing
the new content?
A.Creating research groups to access information about the event on the
Internet
B.Showing an educational video on the event to the class
C.Providing a textbook in which students can look up content
vocabulary
, D.Reviewing surveys of student content knowledge Ans✓✓✓
B.Showing an educational video on the event to the class
Screening an educational video to introduce the content uses a resource
that provides background knowledge and sets up the discussion on the
topic.
Which of the following best describes the type of scoring that applies
many criteria at the same time to evaluate an end-of-course project and
results in a single grade?
A.Task-specific scoring
B.Analytic scoring
C.Developmental scoring
D.Holistic scoring Ans✓✓✓ D.Holistic scoring
Holistic scoring is used for judging the overall quality of the work on a
project without assigning a score for each criterion as in analytic
scoring. It is most commonly used for end-of-course assessments for
which the student receives a final grade and does not receive detailed
feedback.
A seventh-grade language arts teacher plans an instructional unit based
on a novel that students will read in class. Which of the following
activities is most appropriate to include in the unit if the students are in
the formal operational stage of cognitive development?
A.Writing an explanation about the symbolism found in the novel
