GIFTED PRAXIS COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔self-assessing their understanding with a rubric describing criteria for success -
✔✔Gifted students can monitor their performance levels during a unit by
✔✔Exhibits an unusual capacity for processing information - ✔✔Which of the following
characteristics best describes a gifted student in terms of cognitive ability?
✔✔Sam is stressed by his parents' expectations, and the stress is interfering with his
ability to use his talents effectively. - ✔✔Sam, a highly gifted child, was a high achiever
in elementary school. However, in his sixth-grade year he seemed to have no interest in
his accelerated curriculum and developed an indifferent attitude toward school in
general. His parents, successful professionals who are ambitious for Sam, made an
appointment to discuss Sam's underachievement with the director of gifted education.
Which of the following is the most plausible cause for the changes in Sam's behavior?
✔✔Grouping gifted students and providing them with advanced content based on ability
rather than grade level - ✔✔Of the following, which is the most appropriate approach for
instructing gifted students?
✔✔Scaffolding complex concepts during instruction - ✔✔Which of the following
strategies is most effective for facilitating transfer of knowledge and generalization of
skills for gifted youth?
✔✔"Identify two problems you have answered correctly, and explain to a partner why
each is correct." - ✔✔Which of the following instructions by a mathematics teacher
represents the best use of assessment to promote learning among gifted students?
✔✔Gagné's Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent - ✔✔Which of the following
theories supports the idea that there are four domains of natural abilities, including
intellectual, socioaffective, creative, and sensorimotor?
✔✔leadership qualities - ✔✔A teacher of gifted students engages the class in a
sequence of activities. The students read a biography of three famous figures whose
actions inspired others to achieve great accomplishments. Students then identify the
characteristics the figures possessed that were instrumental to their success and that of
others. As a culminating activity, the students participate in a seminar to compare and
contrast their findings. By engaging the students in the sequence of activities, the
teacher is primarily helping them to better understand
✔✔"What do you think about your work so far?" - ✔✔Which of the following questions
by a gifted educator will best develop students' metacognitive skills?
, ✔✔Helping them understand their rights and responsibilities as learners - ✔✔Which of
the following is the first step to teaching gifted students to self-advocate for their
educational needs?
✔✔Building paper airplanes to study engineering principles - ✔✔Which of the following
lesson ideas is most appropriate for students gifted in the field of physics?
✔✔The National Association for Gifted Children's - ✔✔--------------------------------------------
---- mission is to support the classroom teacher as well as involve parents and
administrators. It provides research articles, teaching ideas, and links to various other
publications helpful to teachers, parents, and administrators.
✔✔Presenting positive reasons to teachers about how the program can improve
delivery of specialized instruction - ✔✔Ms. Sharp, a teacher of gifted students, believes
that a pull-out program in the school would best meet the needs of gifted students.
When discussing the proposed change with peers, she encounters strong resistance.
Which of the following actions is most appropriate for the teacher to take?
✔✔Scoring high on tests of intelligence - ✔✔Which of the following behaviors is the
most common identifying characteristic of a successful self-confident gifted student?
✔✔Evaluation - ✔✔A teacher asks gifted students to use researched facts and
historical speeches to debate the decision of the United States to enter the First World
War. Which of the following levels of Bloom's taxonomy most applies to the lesson?
✔✔The parallel curriculum model - ✔✔Using assessment data, historical information
about students' rate of learning, and previous learning outcomes, a classroom teacher
forms a homogeneous group of high-performing students. The students are excused
from classroom activities that address the skills they have mastered and are allowed to
work on more advanced, complex learning activities that are concept-based and support
discovery and growth toward expertise. The teacher is using which of the following
models?
✔✔Involving the student in decision making on what to learn and how the learning will
be evaluated - ✔✔Which of the following teacher actions will best support self-directed
learning for a gifted student?
✔✔read a chapter book independently - ✔✔A 5-year-old student may be considered
cognitively gifted when the student can
✔✔Assessing students before beginning instruction
Compiling data from students' learning inventories
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔self-assessing their understanding with a rubric describing criteria for success -
✔✔Gifted students can monitor their performance levels during a unit by
✔✔Exhibits an unusual capacity for processing information - ✔✔Which of the following
characteristics best describes a gifted student in terms of cognitive ability?
✔✔Sam is stressed by his parents' expectations, and the stress is interfering with his
ability to use his talents effectively. - ✔✔Sam, a highly gifted child, was a high achiever
in elementary school. However, in his sixth-grade year he seemed to have no interest in
his accelerated curriculum and developed an indifferent attitude toward school in
general. His parents, successful professionals who are ambitious for Sam, made an
appointment to discuss Sam's underachievement with the director of gifted education.
Which of the following is the most plausible cause for the changes in Sam's behavior?
✔✔Grouping gifted students and providing them with advanced content based on ability
rather than grade level - ✔✔Of the following, which is the most appropriate approach for
instructing gifted students?
✔✔Scaffolding complex concepts during instruction - ✔✔Which of the following
strategies is most effective for facilitating transfer of knowledge and generalization of
skills for gifted youth?
✔✔"Identify two problems you have answered correctly, and explain to a partner why
each is correct." - ✔✔Which of the following instructions by a mathematics teacher
represents the best use of assessment to promote learning among gifted students?
✔✔Gagné's Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent - ✔✔Which of the following
theories supports the idea that there are four domains of natural abilities, including
intellectual, socioaffective, creative, and sensorimotor?
✔✔leadership qualities - ✔✔A teacher of gifted students engages the class in a
sequence of activities. The students read a biography of three famous figures whose
actions inspired others to achieve great accomplishments. Students then identify the
characteristics the figures possessed that were instrumental to their success and that of
others. As a culminating activity, the students participate in a seminar to compare and
contrast their findings. By engaging the students in the sequence of activities, the
teacher is primarily helping them to better understand
✔✔"What do you think about your work so far?" - ✔✔Which of the following questions
by a gifted educator will best develop students' metacognitive skills?
, ✔✔Helping them understand their rights and responsibilities as learners - ✔✔Which of
the following is the first step to teaching gifted students to self-advocate for their
educational needs?
✔✔Building paper airplanes to study engineering principles - ✔✔Which of the following
lesson ideas is most appropriate for students gifted in the field of physics?
✔✔The National Association for Gifted Children's - ✔✔--------------------------------------------
---- mission is to support the classroom teacher as well as involve parents and
administrators. It provides research articles, teaching ideas, and links to various other
publications helpful to teachers, parents, and administrators.
✔✔Presenting positive reasons to teachers about how the program can improve
delivery of specialized instruction - ✔✔Ms. Sharp, a teacher of gifted students, believes
that a pull-out program in the school would best meet the needs of gifted students.
When discussing the proposed change with peers, she encounters strong resistance.
Which of the following actions is most appropriate for the teacher to take?
✔✔Scoring high on tests of intelligence - ✔✔Which of the following behaviors is the
most common identifying characteristic of a successful self-confident gifted student?
✔✔Evaluation - ✔✔A teacher asks gifted students to use researched facts and
historical speeches to debate the decision of the United States to enter the First World
War. Which of the following levels of Bloom's taxonomy most applies to the lesson?
✔✔The parallel curriculum model - ✔✔Using assessment data, historical information
about students' rate of learning, and previous learning outcomes, a classroom teacher
forms a homogeneous group of high-performing students. The students are excused
from classroom activities that address the skills they have mastered and are allowed to
work on more advanced, complex learning activities that are concept-based and support
discovery and growth toward expertise. The teacher is using which of the following
models?
✔✔Involving the student in decision making on what to learn and how the learning will
be evaluated - ✔✔Which of the following teacher actions will best support self-directed
learning for a gifted student?
✔✔read a chapter book independently - ✔✔A 5-year-old student may be considered
cognitively gifted when the student can
✔✔Assessing students before beginning instruction
Compiling data from students' learning inventories
