GIFTED PRAXIS TEST PAPER 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔The Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) - ✔✔This model offers a continuum of
services including Type I, II, and III enrichment and is one of the most widely used gifted
education curriculum models.
✔✔The Purdue Three-Stage Model - ✔✔This model consists of five components that
interact to create an appropriate learning environment: program goals, student
identification and grouping, trained teachers, curriculum, and instruction.
✔✔The Integrated Curriculum Model (ICM) - ✔✔This model includes accelerated and
advanced content, thematic units, and complex issues and concepts. The (ICM) is one
of the most extensively researched curriculum models in gifted education.
✔✔Kaplan's Grid Model (KGM) - ✔✔Over 40 curriculum units have been developed and
consist of accelerated and abstract concepts, direct study of higher-order thinking
processes, interdisciplinary themes, and student research. This model differentiates the
curriculum through content, process, and products.
✔✔the ability to process information in complex ways and formulate abstractions. -
✔✔The best indicator that a student may be gifted intellectually is
✔✔unusual alertness, excellent memory, long attention span, intensity of focus, and
over-excitability. - ✔✔Early indications of superior ability include
✔✔to identify and eliminate potentially biased practices and procedures from the
identification process. - ✔✔The most appropriate solution for addressing the
underrepresentation of minority students in gifted education programs is
✔✔ - ✔✔---------------------, which typically employs fluency and flexibility exercises in
order to solve a problem, is a standard early elementary thinking-skills activity that is
often used in gifted education instruction.
✔✔ - ✔✔Student performance and the results of testing should guide ------------------------
-.
✔✔True - ✔✔Advocacy: Identification practices should ensure equal access to gifted
education for all students.
✔✔True - ✔✔Comprehensiveness: Many areas of giftedness should be identified and
served through the gifted-education program.
, ✔✔False - ✔✔Accuracy: Identification of gifted students should be based on a single
test that is highly accurate and definitive.
✔✔ - ✔✔Research shows that --------------- and -------------- are most often under-
identified by gifted education recruitment programs.
✔✔ - ✔✔A commonly identified characteristic of a gifted child is the ability to make -------
------------------------------.
✔✔Taking a leadership role - ✔✔Gifted middle school students are partnered to work
on case studies with alternating roles of problem solver and peer coach. The role of the
peer coach is to guide the other student in using a questioning protocol to solve the
case study. Which of the following nonacademic skills is the peer coach most likely
developing?
A.Taking a leadership role
B.Becoming a risk taker
C.Developing stress-coping skills
D.Self-regulating metacognition
✔✔ - ✔✔------------------------------------ using higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy helps
students meet the goal of increasing the complexity of the novel study for gifted
students.
✔✔ - ✔✔------------------------------------- are an acceptable means of teaching a student to
recognize and manage behavior using deep-breathing exercises when dealing with
stress or anger.
✔✔ - ✔✔A common misconception is that academically gifted learners have a general
intellectual power that makes them gifted in --------------------------------.
✔✔displaying the ability to think and process information quickly; demonstrating a high
level of language development and verbal ability; exhibiting strong curiosity and asking
questions about everything. - ✔✔The three traits that are considered cognitive
characteristics of gifted students are as follows:
✔✔ - ✔✔Results ----------------------------- should be used to properly identify gifted and
talented students.
✔✔ - ✔✔----------------------------- require students to explain what they know using correct
and accurate terminology and to support their knowledge with relevant evidence and
details.
✔✔ - ✔✔To administer the --------------------------, someone must observe and rate an
activity, behavior, or assignment using descriptions or qualitative statements.
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔The Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) - ✔✔This model offers a continuum of
services including Type I, II, and III enrichment and is one of the most widely used gifted
education curriculum models.
✔✔The Purdue Three-Stage Model - ✔✔This model consists of five components that
interact to create an appropriate learning environment: program goals, student
identification and grouping, trained teachers, curriculum, and instruction.
✔✔The Integrated Curriculum Model (ICM) - ✔✔This model includes accelerated and
advanced content, thematic units, and complex issues and concepts. The (ICM) is one
of the most extensively researched curriculum models in gifted education.
✔✔Kaplan's Grid Model (KGM) - ✔✔Over 40 curriculum units have been developed and
consist of accelerated and abstract concepts, direct study of higher-order thinking
processes, interdisciplinary themes, and student research. This model differentiates the
curriculum through content, process, and products.
✔✔the ability to process information in complex ways and formulate abstractions. -
✔✔The best indicator that a student may be gifted intellectually is
✔✔unusual alertness, excellent memory, long attention span, intensity of focus, and
over-excitability. - ✔✔Early indications of superior ability include
✔✔to identify and eliminate potentially biased practices and procedures from the
identification process. - ✔✔The most appropriate solution for addressing the
underrepresentation of minority students in gifted education programs is
✔✔ - ✔✔---------------------, which typically employs fluency and flexibility exercises in
order to solve a problem, is a standard early elementary thinking-skills activity that is
often used in gifted education instruction.
✔✔ - ✔✔Student performance and the results of testing should guide ------------------------
-.
✔✔True - ✔✔Advocacy: Identification practices should ensure equal access to gifted
education for all students.
✔✔True - ✔✔Comprehensiveness: Many areas of giftedness should be identified and
served through the gifted-education program.
, ✔✔False - ✔✔Accuracy: Identification of gifted students should be based on a single
test that is highly accurate and definitive.
✔✔ - ✔✔Research shows that --------------- and -------------- are most often under-
identified by gifted education recruitment programs.
✔✔ - ✔✔A commonly identified characteristic of a gifted child is the ability to make -------
------------------------------.
✔✔Taking a leadership role - ✔✔Gifted middle school students are partnered to work
on case studies with alternating roles of problem solver and peer coach. The role of the
peer coach is to guide the other student in using a questioning protocol to solve the
case study. Which of the following nonacademic skills is the peer coach most likely
developing?
A.Taking a leadership role
B.Becoming a risk taker
C.Developing stress-coping skills
D.Self-regulating metacognition
✔✔ - ✔✔------------------------------------ using higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy helps
students meet the goal of increasing the complexity of the novel study for gifted
students.
✔✔ - ✔✔------------------------------------- are an acceptable means of teaching a student to
recognize and manage behavior using deep-breathing exercises when dealing with
stress or anger.
✔✔ - ✔✔A common misconception is that academically gifted learners have a general
intellectual power that makes them gifted in --------------------------------.
✔✔displaying the ability to think and process information quickly; demonstrating a high
level of language development and verbal ability; exhibiting strong curiosity and asking
questions about everything. - ✔✔The three traits that are considered cognitive
characteristics of gifted students are as follows:
✔✔ - ✔✔Results ----------------------------- should be used to properly identify gifted and
talented students.
✔✔ - ✔✔----------------------------- require students to explain what they know using correct
and accurate terminology and to support their knowledge with relevant evidence and
details.
✔✔ - ✔✔To administer the --------------------------, someone must observe and rate an
activity, behavior, or assignment using descriptions or qualitative statements.
