PRAXIS 5311 LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST EXAMS SCRIPT
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Bloom's Taxonomy for Library Media Teachers - ✔✔I. KNOWLEDGE
• What is the setting of the story?
• Identify the Washington Monument and show its location on a map.
• What is a tsunami?
II. COMPREHENSION
• Put the events of this story in the correct order.
• Summarize this magazine article.
• Compare and contrast two versions of a folktale.
III. APPLICATION
• Demonstrate using the OPAC and your knowledge of library organization to find a
book about turtles.
• Match these book covers to the correct area in the Dewey Decimal System.
• Use the thesaurus to improve your paragraph.
IV. ANALYSIS
• How would this story be different if it had happened in a different country?
• How was life different in your town 100 years ago?
• What three ways is the main character like you? What three ways is the main
character different than you?
V. SYNTHESIS
• Create a map of the library. Be sure to show what types of books are shelved in each
area.
• Predict what would happen next if the story had continued.
• Rewrite this short story from one of the character's point of view.
VI. EVALUATION
• How could the author have made this book better? Give evidence for your decision.
• Evaluate two Internet sources of information about the Egyptians. Which would be a
better choice for your purpose and why?
• After using three Internet search directories, which one do you feel is the best for
school research?
✔✔Boolean Search - ✔✔An internet search that allows you to combine words and
phrases using the words AND, OR, NOT and NEAR to limit, widen, or define your
search.
✔✔*and - ✔✔This Boolean search operator is equal to the "+" symbol.
✔✔*not - ✔✔This Boolean search operator is equal to the "-" symbol.
✔✔*or - ✔✔This Boolean search operator is the default setting of any search engine;
meaning, all search engines will return all the words you type in, automatically.
, ✔✔*near - ✔✔This Boolean search operator is equal to putting a search query in
quotes, i.e., "sponge bob squarepants". You're essentially telling the search engine that
you want all of these words, in this specific order, or this specific phrase.
✔✔Pathways to Inquiry - ✔✔An information process model that provides stages and
strategies for anyone interested in gathering, using, and evaluating information.
✔✔Appreciation, Presearch, Search, Interpretation, Communication, Evaluation -
✔✔The six stages of Pathways to Inquiry are:
(All Purple Sprinkles Improve Cookie Eating)
✔✔The Big 6 - ✔✔Developed by Bob Berkowitz and Mike Eisenberg based on Piaget's
research. It is a set of information literacy skills which provides students with a problem
solving strategy they can apply at all grade levels and across all curriculum content
areas. It is an approach that accommodates differences in teaching and learning styles.
✔✔Task Definition, Information-seeking strategies, Location and Access, Use of
Information, Synthesis, Evaluation - ✔✔The Big 6 Skills for information literacy are:
(ToDay, ISiS Learned-About Uranus, Saturn and Earth)
✔✔Dewey Decimal System - ✔✔a system of classifying books and other publications
whereby main classes are designated by a 3-digit number and subdivisions are shown
by numbers after a decimal point.
✔✔General Information, Philosophy & Psychology, Religion, Sociology, Language,
Science and Math, Technology, Arts and Recreation, Literature, Geography and History
- ✔✔Classifications of the Dewey Decimal System are:
(Gross Pigs Really Smell Like Stinky Tuna And Liver Gravy)
✔✔SuDocs (Superintendent of Documents) - ✔✔A specialized classification system that
organizes U.S. government documents according to government author. The U.S.
Government Printing Office provides these documents free to depository libraries
throughout the United States.
✔✔GPO Access (Government Printing Office) - ✔✔Offers free electronic access to a
digital library of government publications is available to librarians at depository libraries
throughout the United States.
✔✔LCC (Library of Congress Classification system) - ✔✔This system is typically used
in large academic libraries to organize all subjects using 21 basic classes, each
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Bloom's Taxonomy for Library Media Teachers - ✔✔I. KNOWLEDGE
• What is the setting of the story?
• Identify the Washington Monument and show its location on a map.
• What is a tsunami?
II. COMPREHENSION
• Put the events of this story in the correct order.
• Summarize this magazine article.
• Compare and contrast two versions of a folktale.
III. APPLICATION
• Demonstrate using the OPAC and your knowledge of library organization to find a
book about turtles.
• Match these book covers to the correct area in the Dewey Decimal System.
• Use the thesaurus to improve your paragraph.
IV. ANALYSIS
• How would this story be different if it had happened in a different country?
• How was life different in your town 100 years ago?
• What three ways is the main character like you? What three ways is the main
character different than you?
V. SYNTHESIS
• Create a map of the library. Be sure to show what types of books are shelved in each
area.
• Predict what would happen next if the story had continued.
• Rewrite this short story from one of the character's point of view.
VI. EVALUATION
• How could the author have made this book better? Give evidence for your decision.
• Evaluate two Internet sources of information about the Egyptians. Which would be a
better choice for your purpose and why?
• After using three Internet search directories, which one do you feel is the best for
school research?
✔✔Boolean Search - ✔✔An internet search that allows you to combine words and
phrases using the words AND, OR, NOT and NEAR to limit, widen, or define your
search.
✔✔*and - ✔✔This Boolean search operator is equal to the "+" symbol.
✔✔*not - ✔✔This Boolean search operator is equal to the "-" symbol.
✔✔*or - ✔✔This Boolean search operator is the default setting of any search engine;
meaning, all search engines will return all the words you type in, automatically.
, ✔✔*near - ✔✔This Boolean search operator is equal to putting a search query in
quotes, i.e., "sponge bob squarepants". You're essentially telling the search engine that
you want all of these words, in this specific order, or this specific phrase.
✔✔Pathways to Inquiry - ✔✔An information process model that provides stages and
strategies for anyone interested in gathering, using, and evaluating information.
✔✔Appreciation, Presearch, Search, Interpretation, Communication, Evaluation -
✔✔The six stages of Pathways to Inquiry are:
(All Purple Sprinkles Improve Cookie Eating)
✔✔The Big 6 - ✔✔Developed by Bob Berkowitz and Mike Eisenberg based on Piaget's
research. It is a set of information literacy skills which provides students with a problem
solving strategy they can apply at all grade levels and across all curriculum content
areas. It is an approach that accommodates differences in teaching and learning styles.
✔✔Task Definition, Information-seeking strategies, Location and Access, Use of
Information, Synthesis, Evaluation - ✔✔The Big 6 Skills for information literacy are:
(ToDay, ISiS Learned-About Uranus, Saturn and Earth)
✔✔Dewey Decimal System - ✔✔a system of classifying books and other publications
whereby main classes are designated by a 3-digit number and subdivisions are shown
by numbers after a decimal point.
✔✔General Information, Philosophy & Psychology, Religion, Sociology, Language,
Science and Math, Technology, Arts and Recreation, Literature, Geography and History
- ✔✔Classifications of the Dewey Decimal System are:
(Gross Pigs Really Smell Like Stinky Tuna And Liver Gravy)
✔✔SuDocs (Superintendent of Documents) - ✔✔A specialized classification system that
organizes U.S. government documents according to government author. The U.S.
Government Printing Office provides these documents free to depository libraries
throughout the United States.
✔✔GPO Access (Government Printing Office) - ✔✔Offers free electronic access to a
digital library of government publications is available to librarians at depository libraries
throughout the United States.
✔✔LCC (Library of Congress Classification system) - ✔✔This system is typically used
in large academic libraries to organize all subjects using 21 basic classes, each
