FTCE NAVA ED EVALUATION EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Piaget - ✔✔(Constructivist)
Stages of Cognitive Development; prior knowledge (schema); discovery learning. He
found that learners use schema to make sense of new experiences.
Examples: Pre-cut letters to form words, give opportunities for ss to participate in age-
appropriate experiments, use small group discussions to brainstorm political issues,
connect previously learned concepts to new concepts.
*Ages 7-12 most cognitive development (problem-solving skills)*
✔✔Vygotsky - ✔✔Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
Examples: Cooperative learning activities, Scaffolded, Peer and teacher support.
✔✔Skinner - ✔✔Behaviorism
Examples: Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement (remove undesirables),
reinforcement of positive behavior is preferred.
✔✔Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of Needs
Example: Meet students' needs before moving on to higher level activities, consider
students' situations at home.
✔✔Objectives - ✔✔A specific statement that includes a description of the behaviors and
skills a student will acquire at the end of instruction (measurable, intended result).
**Teachers can monitor progress and adjust instruction**
1.) Behavior (Bloom's verbs)
2.) Condition (e.g., in 10 minutes, with a calculator, while being monitored).
3.) Criteria (e.g., 4 out of 5 or 80% correct).
✔✔Diversity - ✔✔Literature that reflects different cultures (in educational settings and
the workplace), multicultural celebrations, overcoming socioeconomic barriers, avoid
stereotypes and negative representations.
✔✔Prior Knowledge: Activating - ✔✔Metacognition, concept maps, KWL chart, picture
books, anticipation guides, ABC brainstorming.
✔✔Prior Knowledge: Building - ✔✔Virtual field trips/video clips, field trips, picture books,
visuals, primary source documents/visuals.
✔✔Constructivism - ✔✔Old knowledge is a building block upon which students can
begin to build new knowledge.
**teachers can help students make connections between new material and their prior
experiences**
,✔✔Differentiation - ✔✔Teachers must consider the learner's interest,
strengths/weaknesses, and readiness before planning.
1.) Differentiated Content - Leveled groups, students will analyze poems at varying
difficulty levels.
2.) Differentiated Process: After a short, whole-group lesson on metaphors, students
split up into small groups.
**teacher-led station**
3.) Differentiated Product: Student choice in how they show mastery. Ex: persuasive
essay, brochure, or podcast.
✔✔Types of student data (needs) - ✔✔Standardized test scores (previous year),
running records (reading fluency), formative assessments (observations), survey data
(student interests).
✔✔Qualitative - ✔✔"Quality" useful for studies at the individual level and finds out the
ways in which people think or feel.
Examples: Surveys, observations, conferences, case studies.
✔✔Quantitative - ✔✔Numbers. Information that can be measured and written down with
numbers.
Examples: State test scores, reading scores, words per min.
**target specific literary needs of individual students**
✔✔Erikson - ✔✔Eight Social Stages. Cooperative Learning and establishing Student
Roles.
1.) Trust v. Mistrust
2.) Autonomy v. Shame
3.) Initiative v. Guilt (Purpose)
4.) Industry v. Inferiority (Competence)
5.) Identity v. Identity Diffusion (Fidelity)
6.) Intimacy v. Isolation (Love)
7.) Generativity v. Self-Absorption (Care)
8.) Integrity v. Despair (Wisdom)
✔✔Bruner - ✔✔Learning is an active process, learners construct new ideas or concepts
based on current/past knowledge.
Examples: Socratic Seminar, Curriculum is a spiral (student build upon prior learning).
Problem-solving skills (inquiry/discover), child's way of viewing the world, and mastery
of skills leads to mastery of more powerful ones.
✔✔Stanine Levels - ✔✔Scaling test scores on a 9-point standard scale wth a mean of
5.
Above Average: 7, 8, 9
Average: 4, 5, 6
Below Average: 1, 2, 3
, ✔✔Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) - ✔✔ELA and Math. Levels 1-5 (1 is the
lowest).
✔✔Classroom management issues - ✔✔First, revisit classroom procedures as a class
and practice them numerous times.
✔✔Positive Behavior Support (PBS) - ✔✔A set of research-based strategies used to
increase quality of life and decrease problem behaviors by teaching new skills and
making changes in the student's environment.
- Self-direction: Students sign behavior contract
1.) Observe the behavior
2.) Involve the student in creating a plan
3.) Use behavior contracts
✔✔Proximity control - ✔✔Moving close to a misbehaving student (least disruptive).
✔✔Scaffolding - ✔✔Vygotsky - Zone of Proximal Development. Gradual Release
Method (I do - we do - you do).
Teachers assist and support students in accomplishing complex tasks.
✔✔High expectations - ✔✔Accountability Movement - NCLB.
Regardless of students' abilities, learning preferences, readiness levels, or achievement
scores, effective teachers challenge ALL students.
✔✔Diverse learning environment - ✔✔1.) Celebrate culture (regular and ongoing)
2.) Home language supports (NEVER English only)
3.) Family Involvement (ss personal invitations)
✔✔MTSS/RTI - ✔✔Multi-tiered systems of support to address needs of struggling
students (academic, emotional, and behavioral).
Tier 1: Universal (basic core curriculum)
Tier 2: Modifications/differentiated instruction (some students)
Tier 3: Most intense service for few students (individualized)
✔✔ESE - ✔✔Exceptional Student Education. Services include technology devices,
therapy, special transportation, and other accommodations.
✔✔IDEA 2004 - ✔✔The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Free appropriate
public education to eligible children with disabilities.
✔✔IEP - ✔✔Individual Educational Plan. Services school will provide to help ESE
student meet their educational needs (reviewed and revised every 12 months). Always
consult IEP Team.
Behavior, Conditions, Criteria
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Piaget - ✔✔(Constructivist)
Stages of Cognitive Development; prior knowledge (schema); discovery learning. He
found that learners use schema to make sense of new experiences.
Examples: Pre-cut letters to form words, give opportunities for ss to participate in age-
appropriate experiments, use small group discussions to brainstorm political issues,
connect previously learned concepts to new concepts.
*Ages 7-12 most cognitive development (problem-solving skills)*
✔✔Vygotsky - ✔✔Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
Examples: Cooperative learning activities, Scaffolded, Peer and teacher support.
✔✔Skinner - ✔✔Behaviorism
Examples: Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement (remove undesirables),
reinforcement of positive behavior is preferred.
✔✔Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of Needs
Example: Meet students' needs before moving on to higher level activities, consider
students' situations at home.
✔✔Objectives - ✔✔A specific statement that includes a description of the behaviors and
skills a student will acquire at the end of instruction (measurable, intended result).
**Teachers can monitor progress and adjust instruction**
1.) Behavior (Bloom's verbs)
2.) Condition (e.g., in 10 minutes, with a calculator, while being monitored).
3.) Criteria (e.g., 4 out of 5 or 80% correct).
✔✔Diversity - ✔✔Literature that reflects different cultures (in educational settings and
the workplace), multicultural celebrations, overcoming socioeconomic barriers, avoid
stereotypes and negative representations.
✔✔Prior Knowledge: Activating - ✔✔Metacognition, concept maps, KWL chart, picture
books, anticipation guides, ABC brainstorming.
✔✔Prior Knowledge: Building - ✔✔Virtual field trips/video clips, field trips, picture books,
visuals, primary source documents/visuals.
✔✔Constructivism - ✔✔Old knowledge is a building block upon which students can
begin to build new knowledge.
**teachers can help students make connections between new material and their prior
experiences**
,✔✔Differentiation - ✔✔Teachers must consider the learner's interest,
strengths/weaknesses, and readiness before planning.
1.) Differentiated Content - Leveled groups, students will analyze poems at varying
difficulty levels.
2.) Differentiated Process: After a short, whole-group lesson on metaphors, students
split up into small groups.
**teacher-led station**
3.) Differentiated Product: Student choice in how they show mastery. Ex: persuasive
essay, brochure, or podcast.
✔✔Types of student data (needs) - ✔✔Standardized test scores (previous year),
running records (reading fluency), formative assessments (observations), survey data
(student interests).
✔✔Qualitative - ✔✔"Quality" useful for studies at the individual level and finds out the
ways in which people think or feel.
Examples: Surveys, observations, conferences, case studies.
✔✔Quantitative - ✔✔Numbers. Information that can be measured and written down with
numbers.
Examples: State test scores, reading scores, words per min.
**target specific literary needs of individual students**
✔✔Erikson - ✔✔Eight Social Stages. Cooperative Learning and establishing Student
Roles.
1.) Trust v. Mistrust
2.) Autonomy v. Shame
3.) Initiative v. Guilt (Purpose)
4.) Industry v. Inferiority (Competence)
5.) Identity v. Identity Diffusion (Fidelity)
6.) Intimacy v. Isolation (Love)
7.) Generativity v. Self-Absorption (Care)
8.) Integrity v. Despair (Wisdom)
✔✔Bruner - ✔✔Learning is an active process, learners construct new ideas or concepts
based on current/past knowledge.
Examples: Socratic Seminar, Curriculum is a spiral (student build upon prior learning).
Problem-solving skills (inquiry/discover), child's way of viewing the world, and mastery
of skills leads to mastery of more powerful ones.
✔✔Stanine Levels - ✔✔Scaling test scores on a 9-point standard scale wth a mean of
5.
Above Average: 7, 8, 9
Average: 4, 5, 6
Below Average: 1, 2, 3
, ✔✔Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) - ✔✔ELA and Math. Levels 1-5 (1 is the
lowest).
✔✔Classroom management issues - ✔✔First, revisit classroom procedures as a class
and practice them numerous times.
✔✔Positive Behavior Support (PBS) - ✔✔A set of research-based strategies used to
increase quality of life and decrease problem behaviors by teaching new skills and
making changes in the student's environment.
- Self-direction: Students sign behavior contract
1.) Observe the behavior
2.) Involve the student in creating a plan
3.) Use behavior contracts
✔✔Proximity control - ✔✔Moving close to a misbehaving student (least disruptive).
✔✔Scaffolding - ✔✔Vygotsky - Zone of Proximal Development. Gradual Release
Method (I do - we do - you do).
Teachers assist and support students in accomplishing complex tasks.
✔✔High expectations - ✔✔Accountability Movement - NCLB.
Regardless of students' abilities, learning preferences, readiness levels, or achievement
scores, effective teachers challenge ALL students.
✔✔Diverse learning environment - ✔✔1.) Celebrate culture (regular and ongoing)
2.) Home language supports (NEVER English only)
3.) Family Involvement (ss personal invitations)
✔✔MTSS/RTI - ✔✔Multi-tiered systems of support to address needs of struggling
students (academic, emotional, and behavioral).
Tier 1: Universal (basic core curriculum)
Tier 2: Modifications/differentiated instruction (some students)
Tier 3: Most intense service for few students (individualized)
✔✔ESE - ✔✔Exceptional Student Education. Services include technology devices,
therapy, special transportation, and other accommodations.
✔✔IDEA 2004 - ✔✔The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Free appropriate
public education to eligible children with disabilities.
✔✔IEP - ✔✔Individual Educational Plan. Services school will provide to help ESE
student meet their educational needs (reviewed and revised every 12 months). Always
consult IEP Team.
Behavior, Conditions, Criteria
