GIFTED PRAXIS FINAL EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Allowing the student to use voice-recognition software for writing assignments -
✔✔A student has been identified as gifted and as having an autism spectrum disorder
and difficulties with fine-motor coordination. Which instructional adjustments is most
appropriate for the student?
✔✔self-efficacy - ✔✔This is the strength of one's belief in one's own ability. The best
way for a teacher to help gifted students develop self-efficacy is by providing them with
challenging learning opportunities that promote academic engagement.
✔✔rubric - ✔✔Gifted students need to reflect on their personal performance and
progress to experience an authentic learning experience. This is a valuable tool for self-
assessment that allow students to monitor and evaluate their progress during an
assessment task or activity.
✔✔cognitive - ✔✔Students who are gifted in this ability often exhibit an unusual
capacity for processing information.
✔✔differentiating learning and curriculum - ✔✔Grouping gifted students and providing
them with advanced content based on ability rather than grade level is known as what
and is the most appropriate approach to instruction for the students.
✔✔scaffolding complex concepts - ✔✔This best facilitates transfer of knowledge and
generalization skills is the most effective strategy for gifted students. Through this, the
complexity of content is broken down into simpler blocks of learning materials.
✔✔student evaluation of their own work represents the best means of assessment -
✔✔Which instruction by a mathematics teacher represents the best use of assessment
to promote learning among gifted students?
✔✔The Gagne's Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent - ✔✔The model includes
four domains of giftedness of natural abilities. The four domains are intellectual,
socioeffective, creative, and sensorimotor, and all four domains of giftedness need not
be present for a student to be considered gifted.
✔✔Munich Model of Giftedness - ✔✔The model is based on four interdependent
multifactorial dimensions: talent factors (relatively independent), resulting performance
areas, personality factors, and environmental factors; the latter two moderating the
transition from talent (gifts) to performance.
, ✔✔Gardner's Multiple Intelligences - ✔✔This model seeks the benefit of working from
and developing a child's areas of strength. This philosophy aligns well with principles for
gifted and
talented education. It is not suggested that students need to master all eight
intelligences or focus on gaps in their learning
✔✔Actiotope Model of Giftedness - ✔✔Ziegler considers giftedness as a characteristic
which changes over time within a environmental context and is the result of various
interactions between the individual and the environment. This model is named for this
concept.
✔✔metacognition - ✔✔This is an awareness of one's own learning.
✔✔rights and responsibilities - ✔✔The first step to self-advocacy is for students to
understand this.
✔✔National Association for Gifted Children - ✔✔The mission of this organization is to
support the classroom teacher as well as involve parents and administrators.
✔✔Hoagies' Gifted Education - ✔✔A website that supports parents, teachers and
students of Gifted with over 1500 pages of documents and activites.
✔✔Naeg Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development - ✔✔An organization
hosted by the University of Connecticut focusing on the needs of gifted and talented
youth by asserting answers to the common questions creativity, assessment,
identification, programing and evaluation.
✔✔positive reasons - ✔✔Presenting this to teachers about how the gifted program can
improve delivery of specialized instruction is the best action to take when eliciting their
cooperation and support to proposed changes to the pull-out gifted program.
✔✔successful - ✔✔Gifted students who are this are typically those who have been
placed in programs for the gifted. They learn well and are able to score high on
achievement tests and tests of intelligence.
✔✔analyzing - ✔✔These words are associated with what activity on Bloom's
Taxonomy: analyzes, breaks down, compares, contrasts, diagrams, deconstructs,
differentiates, discriminates, distinguishes, identifies, illustrates, infers, outlines, relates,
selects, separates
✔✔evaluating - ✔✔These words are associated with what activity on Bloom's
Taxonomy: appraises, compares, concludes, contrasts, criticizes, critiques, debates,
defends, describes, discriminates, evaluates, explains, interprets, justifies, relates,
summarizes, supports
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Allowing the student to use voice-recognition software for writing assignments -
✔✔A student has been identified as gifted and as having an autism spectrum disorder
and difficulties with fine-motor coordination. Which instructional adjustments is most
appropriate for the student?
✔✔self-efficacy - ✔✔This is the strength of one's belief in one's own ability. The best
way for a teacher to help gifted students develop self-efficacy is by providing them with
challenging learning opportunities that promote academic engagement.
✔✔rubric - ✔✔Gifted students need to reflect on their personal performance and
progress to experience an authentic learning experience. This is a valuable tool for self-
assessment that allow students to monitor and evaluate their progress during an
assessment task or activity.
✔✔cognitive - ✔✔Students who are gifted in this ability often exhibit an unusual
capacity for processing information.
✔✔differentiating learning and curriculum - ✔✔Grouping gifted students and providing
them with advanced content based on ability rather than grade level is known as what
and is the most appropriate approach to instruction for the students.
✔✔scaffolding complex concepts - ✔✔This best facilitates transfer of knowledge and
generalization skills is the most effective strategy for gifted students. Through this, the
complexity of content is broken down into simpler blocks of learning materials.
✔✔student evaluation of their own work represents the best means of assessment -
✔✔Which instruction by a mathematics teacher represents the best use of assessment
to promote learning among gifted students?
✔✔The Gagne's Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent - ✔✔The model includes
four domains of giftedness of natural abilities. The four domains are intellectual,
socioeffective, creative, and sensorimotor, and all four domains of giftedness need not
be present for a student to be considered gifted.
✔✔Munich Model of Giftedness - ✔✔The model is based on four interdependent
multifactorial dimensions: talent factors (relatively independent), resulting performance
areas, personality factors, and environmental factors; the latter two moderating the
transition from talent (gifts) to performance.
, ✔✔Gardner's Multiple Intelligences - ✔✔This model seeks the benefit of working from
and developing a child's areas of strength. This philosophy aligns well with principles for
gifted and
talented education. It is not suggested that students need to master all eight
intelligences or focus on gaps in their learning
✔✔Actiotope Model of Giftedness - ✔✔Ziegler considers giftedness as a characteristic
which changes over time within a environmental context and is the result of various
interactions between the individual and the environment. This model is named for this
concept.
✔✔metacognition - ✔✔This is an awareness of one's own learning.
✔✔rights and responsibilities - ✔✔The first step to self-advocacy is for students to
understand this.
✔✔National Association for Gifted Children - ✔✔The mission of this organization is to
support the classroom teacher as well as involve parents and administrators.
✔✔Hoagies' Gifted Education - ✔✔A website that supports parents, teachers and
students of Gifted with over 1500 pages of documents and activites.
✔✔Naeg Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development - ✔✔An organization
hosted by the University of Connecticut focusing on the needs of gifted and talented
youth by asserting answers to the common questions creativity, assessment,
identification, programing and evaluation.
✔✔positive reasons - ✔✔Presenting this to teachers about how the gifted program can
improve delivery of specialized instruction is the best action to take when eliciting their
cooperation and support to proposed changes to the pull-out gifted program.
✔✔successful - ✔✔Gifted students who are this are typically those who have been
placed in programs for the gifted. They learn well and are able to score high on
achievement tests and tests of intelligence.
✔✔analyzing - ✔✔These words are associated with what activity on Bloom's
Taxonomy: analyzes, breaks down, compares, contrasts, diagrams, deconstructs,
differentiates, discriminates, distinguishes, identifies, illustrates, infers, outlines, relates,
selects, separates
✔✔evaluating - ✔✔These words are associated with what activity on Bloom's
Taxonomy: appraises, compares, concludes, contrasts, criticizes, critiques, debates,
defends, describes, discriminates, evaluates, explains, interprets, justifies, relates,
summarizes, supports
