Praxis PLT Grades: 7-12 Exam
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Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Associated with 5 Hierarchy of needs:
1. Physiological
2. Safety
3. Love and belongingness
4. Esteem
5. Self-Actualization: Peace, Self-fulfillment
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Lower level needs must be satisfied before individuals can
progress to higher levels of achievement.
Achievement Tests - ✔✔Designed to measure a student's knowledge or profiency in
something that has been taught or learned; used in a variety of subjects and levels.
Americans with Disabilities Act - ADA - ✔✔Federal law that prohibits discrimination
on the basis of a person's disability for all services, programs, and activities provided or
made available by the state or local governments. Passed in 1990.
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,Albert Bandura - ✔✔"Social Learning Theory" - Behavior can be learned through the
observations of others.
Social Learning Theory - ✔✔Behavior of children can be learned through the
observations of others.
Albert Bandura - ✔✔Found that observational learning requires attention, retention,
reproduction, and motivation; "Modeling".
Attribution - ✔✔The process of explaining people's behavior, including our own.
Accidental of Critical Thinking - ✔✔Done by choice encounter.
Attention Deficit Disorder - ADD - ✔✔Disability in which children consistently show
one or more characteristics over a period of time; inattention, hyperactivity, and
impulsivity.
May have difficulty focusing, following directions, organizing, making transitions, and
completing tasks.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ADHD - ✔✔Disability in which children
consistently show one or more characteristics over a period of time; inattention,
hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
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, May have impulsivity, sitting still, and taking turns.
Adolescence - ✔✔Time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood in
which a child negotiates identity vs. role confusion with key event of a sense identity.
Analysis Questions - ✔✔What are the features of?
How does this compare with?
Alternative Assessment - ✔✔Offer students more choices than they would have in
taking a test or writing an essay.
Affective - ✔✔A term which refers to emotions and attitudes.
Analytical Scoring - ✔✔Scoring method which separate scores are given for specific
aspects of the essay. A scoring procedure in which a student's work is evaluated for
selected characteristics, with EACH CHARACTERISTIC receiving a separate score
Anecdotal Notes - ✔✔Informal assessment where teacher makes small notes based of
observations of student behavior or performance.
Aptitude - ✔✔One's capability for performing a particular skill or task.
Aptitude Test - ✔✔Used to predict a student's ability to learn a skill or accomplish
something with further education and training.
Ability - ✔✔What one has learned over a period of time from both school and non-
school sources; one's general capability for performing tasks.
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Associated with 5 Hierarchy of needs:
1. Physiological
2. Safety
3. Love and belongingness
4. Esteem
5. Self-Actualization: Peace, Self-fulfillment
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Lower level needs must be satisfied before individuals can
progress to higher levels of achievement.
Achievement Tests - ✔✔Designed to measure a student's knowledge or profiency in
something that has been taught or learned; used in a variety of subjects and levels.
Americans with Disabilities Act - ADA - ✔✔Federal law that prohibits discrimination
on the basis of a person's disability for all services, programs, and activities provided or
made available by the state or local governments. Passed in 1990.
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,Albert Bandura - ✔✔"Social Learning Theory" - Behavior can be learned through the
observations of others.
Social Learning Theory - ✔✔Behavior of children can be learned through the
observations of others.
Albert Bandura - ✔✔Found that observational learning requires attention, retention,
reproduction, and motivation; "Modeling".
Attribution - ✔✔The process of explaining people's behavior, including our own.
Accidental of Critical Thinking - ✔✔Done by choice encounter.
Attention Deficit Disorder - ADD - ✔✔Disability in which children consistently show
one or more characteristics over a period of time; inattention, hyperactivity, and
impulsivity.
May have difficulty focusing, following directions, organizing, making transitions, and
completing tasks.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ADHD - ✔✔Disability in which children
consistently show one or more characteristics over a period of time; inattention,
hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
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, May have impulsivity, sitting still, and taking turns.
Adolescence - ✔✔Time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood in
which a child negotiates identity vs. role confusion with key event of a sense identity.
Analysis Questions - ✔✔What are the features of?
How does this compare with?
Alternative Assessment - ✔✔Offer students more choices than they would have in
taking a test or writing an essay.
Affective - ✔✔A term which refers to emotions and attitudes.
Analytical Scoring - ✔✔Scoring method which separate scores are given for specific
aspects of the essay. A scoring procedure in which a student's work is evaluated for
selected characteristics, with EACH CHARACTERISTIC receiving a separate score
Anecdotal Notes - ✔✔Informal assessment where teacher makes small notes based of
observations of student behavior or performance.
Aptitude - ✔✔One's capability for performing a particular skill or task.
Aptitude Test - ✔✔Used to predict a student's ability to learn a skill or accomplish
something with further education and training.
Ability - ✔✔What one has learned over a period of time from both school and non-
school sources; one's general capability for performing tasks.
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