GIFTED PRAXIS 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔process information in complex ways and formulate abstractions - ✔✔The best
indicator that a student may be gifted intellectually is the ability to do this.
✔✔unusual alertness, excellent memory, long attention span, intensity of focus and
over-excitability. - ✔✔Early indications of superior ability include what.
✔✔identify and eliminate potentially biased practices and procedures form the
identification process - ✔✔The most appropriate solution for addressing the under-
representation of minority students in gifted education programs is do what?
✔✔brainstorming - ✔✔This activity, 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.
✔✔guide instruction - ✔✔Student performance and the results of testing should do
what?
✔✔females and minorities - ✔✔Research shows that these two groups are most often
under-identified by gifted education recruitment programs.
✔✔to make unusual associations between remote ideas - ✔✔A commonly identified
characteristic of a gifted child is the ability to do what?
✔✔gifted in all academic areas - ✔✔A common misconception is that academically
gifted learners have a general intellectual power that makes them what?
✔✔variety of assessments - ✔✔Results from what should be used to properly identify
gifted and talented students.
✔✔Gifted Rating Scales - ✔✔To administer this, someone must observe and rate an
activity, behavior, or assignment using descriptions or qualitative statements. All of the
other choices are quantitative assessments that generate numerical data.
✔✔work up to their potential and are easily identified by their good behavior and
exceptional grades - ✔✔One of the commonly held stereotypes about gifted students is
that they do what? Gifted students can also be underachievers, noncompliant students,
procrastinators, and recipients of low grades.
✔✔ moving the student to a fourth grade classroom for reading instruction - ✔✔Which
of the following instructional approaches will best foster the progress of a third-grade
student performing significantly above grade level in reading?
, ✔✔student's individual profile - ✔✔
✔✔offering choice-based learning to increase motivation to learn - ✔✔Which of the
following is the most effective method of addressing underachievement in gifted
students?
✔✔providing curriculum compacting with enrichment activities - ✔✔What strategy is
best for a teacher to use with gifted students in a heterogeneous classroom who have
demonstrated mastery on a pretest?
✔✔partner with the student to take the risk together - ✔✔What is the best advice for a
teacher to give to parents who are trying to convince their profoundly gifted student to
take a risk and try a new hobby?
✔✔it provides all students with opportunities to work at their challenge levels - ✔✔What
is the most important reason for a teacher to use cluster grouping in a middle school
social studies classroom?
✔✔Virtual school program - ✔✔A student wants to take an advanced chemistry class
that is not offered within the school district. What is the best placement option for the
student?
✔✔providing students with more processing time to complete assignments. - ✔✔The
results of a skills assessment indicate that a third-grade gifted student who struggles
frequently in reading class has dyslexia. It is most appropriate for the teacher of the
gifted student to address the limitation by
✔✔To demonstrate student learning through a product - ✔✔What is the primary reason
for a teacher to use a portfolio as an assessment instrument for gifted identification?
✔✔D. Being accelerated to sixth grade and taking appropriate classes with older, more
mature students - ✔✔Jennifer is a profoundly gifted third grader with an IQ of 194 who
is reading at a high school level and is ready for the sixth-grade mathematics and
science curriculum. She prefers the company of adolescents and adults and shares
many interests with them, such as paleontology and ancient history. She is bored and
unhappy at school. Which of the following is the most appropriate educational plan for
Jennifer?
A.Staying in third grade but engaging in individualized assignments for all academic
subjects
B.Staying in third grade but participating in sixth-grade mathematics and reading groups
C.Being moved to fourth grade for homeroom and working with older students in
mathematics and science
D.Being accelerated to sixth grade and taking appropriate classes with older, more
mature students
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔process information in complex ways and formulate abstractions - ✔✔The best
indicator that a student may be gifted intellectually is the ability to do this.
✔✔unusual alertness, excellent memory, long attention span, intensity of focus and
over-excitability. - ✔✔Early indications of superior ability include what.
✔✔identify and eliminate potentially biased practices and procedures form the
identification process - ✔✔The most appropriate solution for addressing the under-
representation of minority students in gifted education programs is do what?
✔✔brainstorming - ✔✔This activity, 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.
✔✔guide instruction - ✔✔Student performance and the results of testing should do
what?
✔✔females and minorities - ✔✔Research shows that these two groups are most often
under-identified by gifted education recruitment programs.
✔✔to make unusual associations between remote ideas - ✔✔A commonly identified
characteristic of a gifted child is the ability to do what?
✔✔gifted in all academic areas - ✔✔A common misconception is that academically
gifted learners have a general intellectual power that makes them what?
✔✔variety of assessments - ✔✔Results from what should be used to properly identify
gifted and talented students.
✔✔Gifted Rating Scales - ✔✔To administer this, someone must observe and rate an
activity, behavior, or assignment using descriptions or qualitative statements. All of the
other choices are quantitative assessments that generate numerical data.
✔✔work up to their potential and are easily identified by their good behavior and
exceptional grades - ✔✔One of the commonly held stereotypes about gifted students is
that they do what? Gifted students can also be underachievers, noncompliant students,
procrastinators, and recipients of low grades.
✔✔ moving the student to a fourth grade classroom for reading instruction - ✔✔Which
of the following instructional approaches will best foster the progress of a third-grade
student performing significantly above grade level in reading?
, ✔✔student's individual profile - ✔✔
✔✔offering choice-based learning to increase motivation to learn - ✔✔Which of the
following is the most effective method of addressing underachievement in gifted
students?
✔✔providing curriculum compacting with enrichment activities - ✔✔What strategy is
best for a teacher to use with gifted students in a heterogeneous classroom who have
demonstrated mastery on a pretest?
✔✔partner with the student to take the risk together - ✔✔What is the best advice for a
teacher to give to parents who are trying to convince their profoundly gifted student to
take a risk and try a new hobby?
✔✔it provides all students with opportunities to work at their challenge levels - ✔✔What
is the most important reason for a teacher to use cluster grouping in a middle school
social studies classroom?
✔✔Virtual school program - ✔✔A student wants to take an advanced chemistry class
that is not offered within the school district. What is the best placement option for the
student?
✔✔providing students with more processing time to complete assignments. - ✔✔The
results of a skills assessment indicate that a third-grade gifted student who struggles
frequently in reading class has dyslexia. It is most appropriate for the teacher of the
gifted student to address the limitation by
✔✔To demonstrate student learning through a product - ✔✔What is the primary reason
for a teacher to use a portfolio as an assessment instrument for gifted identification?
✔✔D. Being accelerated to sixth grade and taking appropriate classes with older, more
mature students - ✔✔Jennifer is a profoundly gifted third grader with an IQ of 194 who
is reading at a high school level and is ready for the sixth-grade mathematics and
science curriculum. She prefers the company of adolescents and adults and shares
many interests with them, such as paleontology and ancient history. She is bored and
unhappy at school. Which of the following is the most appropriate educational plan for
Jennifer?
A.Staying in third grade but engaging in individualized assignments for all academic
subjects
B.Staying in third grade but participating in sixth-grade mathematics and reading groups
C.Being moved to fourth grade for homeroom and working with older students in
mathematics and science
D.Being accelerated to sixth grade and taking appropriate classes with older, more
mature students
