Praxis PLT 5-9 Exam Questions and
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Albert Bandura - ✔✔Social or Observational Learning Theory
Jerome Bruner - ✔✔Discovery Learning and Constructivism
John Dewey - ✔✔Learning through experience; PBL
Erik Erikson - ✔✔8 Stages of Human Development
Carol Gilligan - ✔✔Stages of the Ethic of Care
Lawrence Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of Moral Development
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of Needs
Maria Montessori - ✔✔Follow the child
Jean PIaget - ✔✔Stages of Cognitive Development
B.F. Skinner - ✔✔Operant Conditioning
Lev Vygotsky - ✔✔Social Development Theory; ZPD; Scaffolding
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, Cooperative learning - ✔✔small teams, each with students of different levels of ability
use a variety of learning activities to learn; each member is responsible for learning and
helping teammates learn; creates atmosphere of achievement; students work through
the assignment until all group members successfully understand and complete it.
Direct instruction - ✔✔explicit teaching of a skill-set using lectures of demonstrations of
the material, rather than exploratory models such as inquiry-based learning
Discovery Learning (definition) - ✔✔Free exploration of data and experience; method of
IB instruction; states that is best for learners to discover facts and relationships for
themselves. Students may be more likely to remember concepts an knowledge
discovered on their own. Models based on DL: guided discovery, problem-based,
simulation-based, case-based, and incidental learning; takes place in problem solving
situations where the learner draws on his or her own past experience and existing
knowledge to discover facts and relationships and new truths to be learned
Whole Group Discussion - ✔✔a modified form of classroom lecture where the focus is
shared between the instructor and the students for information transfer.
Independent Study - ✔✔students set own mode of study goals
Interdisciplinary instruction - ✔✔method used to teach a unit across different curricular
disciplines; integrated instruction also allows for authentic assessment.
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Answers 100% Pass
Albert Bandura - ✔✔Social or Observational Learning Theory
Jerome Bruner - ✔✔Discovery Learning and Constructivism
John Dewey - ✔✔Learning through experience; PBL
Erik Erikson - ✔✔8 Stages of Human Development
Carol Gilligan - ✔✔Stages of the Ethic of Care
Lawrence Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of Moral Development
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of Needs
Maria Montessori - ✔✔Follow the child
Jean PIaget - ✔✔Stages of Cognitive Development
B.F. Skinner - ✔✔Operant Conditioning
Lev Vygotsky - ✔✔Social Development Theory; ZPD; Scaffolding
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, Cooperative learning - ✔✔small teams, each with students of different levels of ability
use a variety of learning activities to learn; each member is responsible for learning and
helping teammates learn; creates atmosphere of achievement; students work through
the assignment until all group members successfully understand and complete it.
Direct instruction - ✔✔explicit teaching of a skill-set using lectures of demonstrations of
the material, rather than exploratory models such as inquiry-based learning
Discovery Learning (definition) - ✔✔Free exploration of data and experience; method of
IB instruction; states that is best for learners to discover facts and relationships for
themselves. Students may be more likely to remember concepts an knowledge
discovered on their own. Models based on DL: guided discovery, problem-based,
simulation-based, case-based, and incidental learning; takes place in problem solving
situations where the learner draws on his or her own past experience and existing
knowledge to discover facts and relationships and new truths to be learned
Whole Group Discussion - ✔✔a modified form of classroom lecture where the focus is
shared between the instructor and the students for information transfer.
Independent Study - ✔✔students set own mode of study goals
Interdisciplinary instruction - ✔✔method used to teach a unit across different curricular
disciplines; integrated instruction also allows for authentic assessment.
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