Praxis II PLT 5-9 Test Prep - Question List

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6. Ms. Moniz teaches a class on study skills to students entering the 9th grade. In her first class she asks students to complete a learning style inventory. The purpose of the learning style inventory is to determine what type of learner each student is - visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. She uses this to tailor instruction. Which of the following type of assessment would a learning style inventory be classified as?
  1. Formative Assessment
  2. Diagnostic Assessment
  3. Summative Assessment
  4. Criterion-based Assessment
7. Mr. Cooper, an 8th grade social studies teacher, attempts to bring both sides of an argument to his students on any controversial material he teaches. When he is teaching about a current debate, he asks students to write a journal response discussing their beliefs on the topic and where their beliefs come from. This sort of written response would utilize which of the following cognitive processes?
  1. Norm-referenced thinking
  2. Metacognitive thinking
  3. Operational thinking
  4. Positive thinking
8. A school modeled in a progressivist tradition would employ which of the following strategies during instruction?
I) Discovery approach
II) Guided approach
III) Lecture-based approach
  1. I and II
  2. I and III
  3. II and III
  4. I, II and III
9. Middle Vale High School works hard to prepare their students for standardized tests like the PSAT and SAT. In the 9th grade year, all students are given a standardized test to determine their current abilities. Once the students have taken the test, the tests are first graded to see the original data that each student has generated. Following the initial grading, the scores are converted to rank, compare or analyze the students’ abilities. Doing this will generate which of the following?
  1. Raw Score
  2. Percentile Score
  3. Achievement Score
  4. Scaled Score
10. Mrs. Boone has been teaching sixth-grade Science for five years. She is very knowledgeable about both the state standards and the content of the course. She has excellent rapport with her colleagues and is active with her school’s extracurricular activities. However, she has noticed some undesirable behaviors occurring during her instructional blocks. Many of the students begin socializing during extended lessons and independent work. Which of the following behavioral strategies would be most helpful to Mrs. Boone in reducing the students’ socializing and time off task?
  1. Cut lengthy assignments into smaller chunks of time, move about the room frequently offering individualized assistance and create incentive systems
  2. Ask the principal to come address the class regarding their behavior
  3. Call all of the students’ parents and tell them that you will be providing after-school detentions to those that get off task
  4. Begin removing classroom privileges with each incident and punish the students as a class if the off-task behaviors remain pervasive

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