PRAXIS: Principles K-12 (5625) Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

PRAXIS: Principles K-12 (5625) Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Theoretical Foundations on how students learn - 1. know how knowledge is constructed 2. know a variety of means by which skills are acquired 3. Understand a variety of cognitive processes and how they are developed Bandura - Social Learning Theory - emphasizes modeling or observational learning as a powerful source of development and behavior modification Four meditational processes 1. attention 2. retention 3. reproduction 4. motivation 2Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. what are the four sources of influence according to bandura? - 1. mastery experiences- solving problems on your own in game based creative learning 2. Vicarious experiences- observing others to successfully complete a task 3. Social persuasion 4. emotional states Bruner - Constructivist theory- learning is an active process where learners construct new ideas or concepts based on their current or past knowledge The process of learning should go from concrete to abstract and should follow three steps 1. Hands on 2. Learning with images 3. Transform to language What are the four major aspects instruction should cover according to bruner? - 1. Predisposition towards learning 2. Ways in which a body of knowledge can be structured so that it can be most readily grasped by the learner 3. The most effective sequences to present material 3Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. 4. The nature and pacing of rewards and punishments According to Bruner, what is a Spiral Curriculum? - 1. Revisit topics at regular intervals 2. Complexity increases with each visit 3. Learning has a relationship with previous topics covered Dewey - PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION: education should be experiential and relevant What is experiential learning according to Dewey? - children do better by doing because they are in the present, not in distant future What are Deweys four principals? - 1. Doing 2. Discussing 3. Interacting 4. Interdisciplinary/ connecting Piaget - Established the theories of cognitive development According to Piaget, what are the theories in education? - Active exploration Inquiry learning Discovery learning 4Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. Developmentally appropriate instruction Maximize curiosity and minimize frustration Play is valuable way to learn Social interaction According to Piaget, what are Schema? - Structured cluster of concepts, can be used to represent objects scenarios or sequences of events or relations What is assimilation? - make new information fit in with the students existing understanding of the world What is accommodation? - use if they don