Praxis pedagogy Questions and
Answers 2025
Accommodation - ANSWER-a change that helps a student overcome or work around
the disability.
According to Piaget, the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are
modified to adapt to new experiences
Achievement vs aptitude vs ability tests - ANSWER-
Active listening - ANSWER-
Adaptation - ANSWER-Modifications and accommodations
Adolescent intellectual development - ANSWER-the ability to think beyond concrete,
current situations to what might or could be; the ability to cognitively manage a variety of
abstract possibilities; the ability to see issues in relative, as opposed to absolute, terms
Adolescent moral and ethical development - ANSWER-Decline in ego, improved role
taking, support from environment
moral judgement is based on earlier learned principles of right and wrong. Parents
directly and indirectly influence
Adolescent physical development - ANSWER-Transition from childhood to adulthood
Adolescent psychological development - ANSWER-Look largely at how puberty affects
a range of developmental phenomena from relationships with peers and parents to the
search for personal identity.
Adolescent social development - ANSWER-identity vs role confusion, independence vs.
acceptance. attempt to find an identity.
not ahead of physical and intellectual
Goal: to define identity, independently from parental authorit
• Most important : self-concept & development of new attachments (away from parent
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - ANSWER-A wide-ranging civil rights law that
prohibits discrimination based on disability; covers employment, transportation, building
accessibility, transportation, etc. 1991
Analytic scoringterm-96 - ANSWER-Scoring a student's performance on an assessment
by evaluating various aspects of it separately. Different skills are marked separately and
each skill is divided into components (listening: spelling, comprehension etc)
, Aptitude assessment - ANSWER-Measures students collective knowledge and learning
potential
Areas of exceptionality - ANSWER-visual and perceptual difficulties; special physical or
sensory challenges; learning disabilities; ADD, ADHD; functional mental retardation
Assertive discipline - ANSWER-Canter's theory in which teachers clearly communicate
expectations and class rules and follow through with expectations. If students don't
follow rules they face consequences, if they do they get positive recognition.
Assimilation - ANSWER-According to Piaget, the process by which new ideas and
experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and
behaviors
Attribution - ANSWER-
Behavior assessment - ANSWER-used when creating IEP to identify reasons for a
specific student behavior or to address provlem behavior
Behaviorism - ANSWER-
Benchmarks - ANSWER-
Bloom - ANSWER-levels of cognition
categorized learning into domains
Blooms taxonomy - ANSWER-divides leaning objectives into levels according to type
and complexity.
six levels within the cognitive domain for learning. They are: Knowledge,
Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, & Evaluation
Bruner - ANSWER-Cognitivism
His theory said learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or
concepts based upon their current/past knowledge. The learner selects and transforms
information, constructs hypotheses, and makes decisions, relying on a cognitive
structures
Characteristics of developmentally responsive middle level schools - ANSWER-
Cognitive dissonance - ANSWER-
Cognitivism - ANSWER-
Concept learning - ANSWER-
Answers 2025
Accommodation - ANSWER-a change that helps a student overcome or work around
the disability.
According to Piaget, the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are
modified to adapt to new experiences
Achievement vs aptitude vs ability tests - ANSWER-
Active listening - ANSWER-
Adaptation - ANSWER-Modifications and accommodations
Adolescent intellectual development - ANSWER-the ability to think beyond concrete,
current situations to what might or could be; the ability to cognitively manage a variety of
abstract possibilities; the ability to see issues in relative, as opposed to absolute, terms
Adolescent moral and ethical development - ANSWER-Decline in ego, improved role
taking, support from environment
moral judgement is based on earlier learned principles of right and wrong. Parents
directly and indirectly influence
Adolescent physical development - ANSWER-Transition from childhood to adulthood
Adolescent psychological development - ANSWER-Look largely at how puberty affects
a range of developmental phenomena from relationships with peers and parents to the
search for personal identity.
Adolescent social development - ANSWER-identity vs role confusion, independence vs.
acceptance. attempt to find an identity.
not ahead of physical and intellectual
Goal: to define identity, independently from parental authorit
• Most important : self-concept & development of new attachments (away from parent
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - ANSWER-A wide-ranging civil rights law that
prohibits discrimination based on disability; covers employment, transportation, building
accessibility, transportation, etc. 1991
Analytic scoringterm-96 - ANSWER-Scoring a student's performance on an assessment
by evaluating various aspects of it separately. Different skills are marked separately and
each skill is divided into components (listening: spelling, comprehension etc)
, Aptitude assessment - ANSWER-Measures students collective knowledge and learning
potential
Areas of exceptionality - ANSWER-visual and perceptual difficulties; special physical or
sensory challenges; learning disabilities; ADD, ADHD; functional mental retardation
Assertive discipline - ANSWER-Canter's theory in which teachers clearly communicate
expectations and class rules and follow through with expectations. If students don't
follow rules they face consequences, if they do they get positive recognition.
Assimilation - ANSWER-According to Piaget, the process by which new ideas and
experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and
behaviors
Attribution - ANSWER-
Behavior assessment - ANSWER-used when creating IEP to identify reasons for a
specific student behavior or to address provlem behavior
Behaviorism - ANSWER-
Benchmarks - ANSWER-
Bloom - ANSWER-levels of cognition
categorized learning into domains
Blooms taxonomy - ANSWER-divides leaning objectives into levels according to type
and complexity.
six levels within the cognitive domain for learning. They are: Knowledge,
Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, & Evaluation
Bruner - ANSWER-Cognitivism
His theory said learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or
concepts based upon their current/past knowledge. The learner selects and transforms
information, constructs hypotheses, and makes decisions, relying on a cognitive
structures
Characteristics of developmentally responsive middle level schools - ANSWER-
Cognitive dissonance - ANSWER-
Cognitivism - ANSWER-
Concept learning - ANSWER-
