Praxis PLT 7-12 study guide
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Ability Grouping - ✔✔The process of placing students of similar abilities into groups
Accomodation - ✔✔Responding to a new object or event by either modifying an
existing scheme or forming a new one
Accountability - ✔✔Mandated obligation of teacher to accept responsibility for
students' performance on high-stakes assessment
Achievement Tests - ✔✔Tests measuring how much students have learned in a given
content area
Action Research - ✔✔Research conducted by teachers to address issues in their own
school and classroom
Active Listening - ✔✔The listener paraphrases the other persons message and directly
mentions feelings that underlie that message
Advance Organizer - ✔✔An introduction to a lesson that provides an overall
organizational scheme for the lesson
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,Age-equivalent score - ✔✔Test Score indicating the age level of students to whom a test
taker performed most similarly
Analytic Scoring - ✔✔Scoring a students performance by evaluating various aspects of
it separately
Anecdotal Records - ✔✔Narrative accounts of observed student behavior or
performance
Antecedent Stimulus - ✔✔Stimulus that increases the likelihood that a particular
response will follow
Antecedents - ✔✔Stimuli that precede and induce behaviors
Applied Behavior analysis - ✔✔Systematic application of stimulus-response principles
to address a chronic behavior problem
Apprenticeship - ✔✔Mentorship in which a learner works intensively with an
experience adult to learn new skills
Aptitude Test - ✔✔Tests that predict the potential for future learning and measure
general abilities
Assertive Discipline - ✔✔An approach to classroom management that promotes a clear
and firm response style with students
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, Assessment - ✔✔Process of observing a sample of students's behavior and drawing
inferences about their knowledge and abilities
Assimilation - ✔✔Responding to and interpreting a new event in a way that is
consistent with an existing scheme
Attention - ✔✔Focusing on mental processes on particular stimuli
ADHD - ✔✔Disorder marked by inattention, inability to inhibit inappropriate thoughts
and behaviors or both
Attributions - ✔✔Personally constructed casual explanations for a success or failure
Attribution Theory - ✔✔Theoretical perspective focusing on people's explanations
concerning the causes of events that befall them and how they respond
Authentic Activity - ✔✔An approach to instruction similar to one students might
encounter in the outside world
Authentic Assessment - ✔✔Assessment of students' knowledge and skills in a "real-life"
context
Autism Spectrum Disorders - ✔✔disorders marked by impaired social cognition, social
skills, and social interaction,presumably due to a brain abnormality; extreme forms
often associated with significant cognitive and linguistic delays and highly unusual
behaviors
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Ability Grouping - ✔✔The process of placing students of similar abilities into groups
Accomodation - ✔✔Responding to a new object or event by either modifying an
existing scheme or forming a new one
Accountability - ✔✔Mandated obligation of teacher to accept responsibility for
students' performance on high-stakes assessment
Achievement Tests - ✔✔Tests measuring how much students have learned in a given
content area
Action Research - ✔✔Research conducted by teachers to address issues in their own
school and classroom
Active Listening - ✔✔The listener paraphrases the other persons message and directly
mentions feelings that underlie that message
Advance Organizer - ✔✔An introduction to a lesson that provides an overall
organizational scheme for the lesson
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,Age-equivalent score - ✔✔Test Score indicating the age level of students to whom a test
taker performed most similarly
Analytic Scoring - ✔✔Scoring a students performance by evaluating various aspects of
it separately
Anecdotal Records - ✔✔Narrative accounts of observed student behavior or
performance
Antecedent Stimulus - ✔✔Stimulus that increases the likelihood that a particular
response will follow
Antecedents - ✔✔Stimuli that precede and induce behaviors
Applied Behavior analysis - ✔✔Systematic application of stimulus-response principles
to address a chronic behavior problem
Apprenticeship - ✔✔Mentorship in which a learner works intensively with an
experience adult to learn new skills
Aptitude Test - ✔✔Tests that predict the potential for future learning and measure
general abilities
Assertive Discipline - ✔✔An approach to classroom management that promotes a clear
and firm response style with students
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, Assessment - ✔✔Process of observing a sample of students's behavior and drawing
inferences about their knowledge and abilities
Assimilation - ✔✔Responding to and interpreting a new event in a way that is
consistent with an existing scheme
Attention - ✔✔Focusing on mental processes on particular stimuli
ADHD - ✔✔Disorder marked by inattention, inability to inhibit inappropriate thoughts
and behaviors or both
Attributions - ✔✔Personally constructed casual explanations for a success or failure
Attribution Theory - ✔✔Theoretical perspective focusing on people's explanations
concerning the causes of events that befall them and how they respond
Authentic Activity - ✔✔An approach to instruction similar to one students might
encounter in the outside world
Authentic Assessment - ✔✔Assessment of students' knowledge and skills in a "real-life"
context
Autism Spectrum Disorders - ✔✔disorders marked by impaired social cognition, social
skills, and social interaction,presumably due to a brain abnormality; extreme forms
often associated with significant cognitive and linguistic delays and highly unusual
behaviors
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