Praxis II: PLT K-6 Exam Prep - Question List

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31. Mr. McMullin has assigned an essay to be written on the causes of the Revolutionary War between the American colonists and Great Britain. He will score the students on several dimensions, including their use of prior knowledge, their application of principals, their use of original source material to support their point of view and the actual composition. This type of scoring is commonly referred to as
  1. Holistic scoring
  2. Raw scoring
  3. Scaled scoring
  4. Analytical scoring
32. When students demonstrate that they are capable of using previously acquired knowledge in either a new situation or context, they are said to demonstrate:
  1. Transference
  2. Reciprocity
  3. Expansion
  4. Alternate application
33. One of the core purposes of providing direct instruction oncurrent technologies is to:
  1. Prepare students to function in the real world and to access higher paying jobs.
  2. Teach students shortcuts so that they can achieve more in less time.
  3. Increase the students’ self- esteem
  4. Create competiveness among the student body.
34. As a culminating activity on a unit on the drafting of the United States Bill of Rights, Mr. Conden’s class works as a single group to create a Student Bill of Rights. At which level of Bloom’s taxonomy would this activity be categorized?
  1. Application
  2. Analysis
  3. Evaluation
  4. Synthesis
35. Which of the following assessment types isused prior to instruction in order to identify students’ areas of strength and difficulty so that teacherscan make informed decisions as they plan instruction or form educational judgments?
  1. Diagnostic evaluations
  2. Self-evaluations
  3. Formative evaluations
  4. Summative evaluations

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