PRAXIS II: PLT Exam Questions and
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Ability grouping - ✔✔The process of placing students of similar abilities into groups
and attempting to match instruction to the needs of these groups.
Accommodation - ✔✔Responding to a new object or event by either modifying an
existing scheme or forming a new one.
Accountability - ✔✔Mandated obligation of teachers and other school personnel to
accept responsibility for students' performance on high-stakes assessments.
Achievement tests - ✔✔Standardized tests measuring how much students have learned
in a given content area.
Action research - ✔✔Research conducted by teachers and other school personnel to
address issues and problems in their own schools or classrooms.
Active listening - ✔✔A technique in which the listener paraphrases the other person's
message and directly mentions the feelings that underlie the message.
Advance organizer - ✔✔An introduction to a lesson that provides an overall
organizational scheme for the lesson.
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,African American English - ✔✔Dialect of some African American communities
characterized by certain pronunciations, idioms, and grammatical constructions
different from those of Standard English.
Age-equivalent score - ✔✔Test score indicating the age level of students to whom a test
taker performed most similarly.
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, The (ADA) - ✔✔Legislation in the United
States that extends civil rights protection of persons with disabilities to private-sector
employment, all public services, public accommodations, transportation, and
telecommunication including physical accessibility and the removal of barriers to
hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, and parks if that can be accomplished without great
difficulty or expense.
Analytic scoring - ✔✔Scoring a student's performance on an assessment by evaluating
various aspects of it separately.
Anecdotal records - ✔✔Narrative accounts of observed student behavior or
performance.
Antecedent stimulus - ✔✔Stimulus that increases the likelihood that a particular
response will follow.
Antecedents - ✔✔Stimuli that precede and induce behaviors.
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,Applied behavior analysis (ABA) - ✔✔Systematic application of stimulus-response
principles to address a chronic behavior problem.
Apprenticeship - ✔✔Mentorship in which a learner works intensively with an
experienced adult to learn how to perform complex new skills.
Aptitude tests - ✔✔Standardized tests designed to predict the potential for future
learning and measure general abilities developed over long periods of time.
Assertive discipline - ✔✔An approach to classroom management that promotes a clear
and firm response style with students.
Assessment - ✔✔Process of observing a sample of a student's behavior and drawing
inferences about the student's knowledge and abilities.
Assimilation - ✔✔Responding to and possibly interpreting a new event in a way that is
consistent with an existing scheme.
Attention - ✔✔Focusing of mental processes on particular stimuli.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - ✔✔Disorder marked by inattention,
inability to inhibit inappropriate thoughts and behaviors, or both.
Attributions - ✔✔Personally constructed causal explanations for a success or failure.
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, Attribution theory - ✔✔Theoretical perspective focusing on people's explanations
(attributions) concerning the causes of events that befall them, as well as on the
behaviors that result from such explanations.
Authentic activity - ✔✔An approach to instruction similar to one students might
encounter in the outside world.
Authentic assessment - ✔✔Assessment of students' knowledge and skills in a "real-life"
context.
Autism spectrum disorders - ✔✔Disorders marked by impaired social cognition, social
skills, and social interaction, presumably due to a brain abnormality; extreme forms
often associated with significant cognitive and linguistic delays and highly unusual
behaviors.
Autonomy - ✔✔Basic need to control the course of one's own life.
Backward design - ✔✔An approach to instructional planning in which a teacher first
determines the desired end result (i.e., what knowledge and skills students should
acquire) and then identifies appropriate assessments and instructional strategies.
Behaviorism - ✔✔Theoretical perspective in which learning and behavior are described
and explained in terms of stimulus-response relationships, and motivation is often the
result of deficit-based drives. Adherents to this perspective are called behaviorists.
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Ability grouping - ✔✔The process of placing students of similar abilities into groups
and attempting to match instruction to the needs of these groups.
Accommodation - ✔✔Responding to a new object or event by either modifying an
existing scheme or forming a new one.
Accountability - ✔✔Mandated obligation of teachers and other school personnel to
accept responsibility for students' performance on high-stakes assessments.
Achievement tests - ✔✔Standardized tests measuring how much students have learned
in a given content area.
Action research - ✔✔Research conducted by teachers and other school personnel to
address issues and problems in their own schools or classrooms.
Active listening - ✔✔A technique in which the listener paraphrases the other person's
message and directly mentions the feelings that underlie the message.
Advance organizer - ✔✔An introduction to a lesson that provides an overall
organizational scheme for the lesson.
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,African American English - ✔✔Dialect of some African American communities
characterized by certain pronunciations, idioms, and grammatical constructions
different from those of Standard English.
Age-equivalent score - ✔✔Test score indicating the age level of students to whom a test
taker performed most similarly.
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, The (ADA) - ✔✔Legislation in the United
States that extends civil rights protection of persons with disabilities to private-sector
employment, all public services, public accommodations, transportation, and
telecommunication including physical accessibility and the removal of barriers to
hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, and parks if that can be accomplished without great
difficulty or expense.
Analytic scoring - ✔✔Scoring a student's performance on an assessment by evaluating
various aspects of it separately.
Anecdotal records - ✔✔Narrative accounts of observed student behavior or
performance.
Antecedent stimulus - ✔✔Stimulus that increases the likelihood that a particular
response will follow.
Antecedents - ✔✔Stimuli that precede and induce behaviors.
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,Applied behavior analysis (ABA) - ✔✔Systematic application of stimulus-response
principles to address a chronic behavior problem.
Apprenticeship - ✔✔Mentorship in which a learner works intensively with an
experienced adult to learn how to perform complex new skills.
Aptitude tests - ✔✔Standardized tests designed to predict the potential for future
learning and measure general abilities developed over long periods of time.
Assertive discipline - ✔✔An approach to classroom management that promotes a clear
and firm response style with students.
Assessment - ✔✔Process of observing a sample of a student's behavior and drawing
inferences about the student's knowledge and abilities.
Assimilation - ✔✔Responding to and possibly interpreting a new event in a way that is
consistent with an existing scheme.
Attention - ✔✔Focusing of mental processes on particular stimuli.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - ✔✔Disorder marked by inattention,
inability to inhibit inappropriate thoughts and behaviors, or both.
Attributions - ✔✔Personally constructed causal explanations for a success or failure.
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, Attribution theory - ✔✔Theoretical perspective focusing on people's explanations
(attributions) concerning the causes of events that befall them, as well as on the
behaviors that result from such explanations.
Authentic activity - ✔✔An approach to instruction similar to one students might
encounter in the outside world.
Authentic assessment - ✔✔Assessment of students' knowledge and skills in a "real-life"
context.
Autism spectrum disorders - ✔✔Disorders marked by impaired social cognition, social
skills, and social interaction, presumably due to a brain abnormality; extreme forms
often associated with significant cognitive and linguistic delays and highly unusual
behaviors.
Autonomy - ✔✔Basic need to control the course of one's own life.
Backward design - ✔✔An approach to instructional planning in which a teacher first
determines the desired end result (i.e., what knowledge and skills students should
acquire) and then identifies appropriate assessments and instructional strategies.
Behaviorism - ✔✔Theoretical perspective in which learning and behavior are described
and explained in terms of stimulus-response relationships, and motivation is often the
result of deficit-based drives. Adherents to this perspective are called behaviorists.
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