PLT: GRADES K-6 (5622) EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Zone of Proximal Development - ANS Students learn best in a social context in which a
teacher teaches the students something they could not learn on their own. A teacher must
determine what a student can do independently and then provide the student with
opportunities.
Achievement tests - ANS Measure mastery of skills. A teacher can use the results of the test
to determine whether the student is on grade level.
Auditory-Processing problem - ANS Difficulty remembering information and trouble
following directions
Research about bullying consistently shows that boys are more likely to bully others and to use
physical aggression. - ANS Bullying Research
Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov - ANS A learning process that occurs through associations between an
environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.
Explains why some students show a particular dislike of certain subjects that continue
throughout their academic career.
Constructivist Learning - ANS Students build upon prior knowledge to construct new
meaning.
The roles of the teacher are to facilitate interactive, discovery learning and to avoid direct
instruction and passive learning.
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, True - ANS Under copyright laws, teachers may not make copies of music to be performed
outside the classroom by students.
Criterion-referenced tests - ANS Are used for assessing student mastery of specific concepts
or skills.
1. Identify the lesson's objective
2. Develop assessment criteria
3. Choose instructional activities - ANS Teacher Planning Instruction (3 steps)
Analytic scoring rubrics - ANS Used to evaluate specific criteria the students must
incorporate in an assignment.
Mentorship - ANS One-to-One Support between new teachers and the school
Standard Deviation - ANS A measure of how spread out, or bunched together, the numbers
are in some data set.
"Why do you think...?" - ANS Which question best promotes the highest level of student
thinking skills?
Holistic Scoring - ANS Used to give students a single, overall score for an assignment as a
whole.
Subject-specific professional organizations - ANS Best way to improve content knowledge on
a subject?
Percentiles - ANS Rank an individual's score among the scores of a specific population.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Zone of Proximal Development - ANS Students learn best in a social context in which a
teacher teaches the students something they could not learn on their own. A teacher must
determine what a student can do independently and then provide the student with
opportunities.
Achievement tests - ANS Measure mastery of skills. A teacher can use the results of the test
to determine whether the student is on grade level.
Auditory-Processing problem - ANS Difficulty remembering information and trouble
following directions
Research about bullying consistently shows that boys are more likely to bully others and to use
physical aggression. - ANS Bullying Research
Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov - ANS A learning process that occurs through associations between an
environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.
Explains why some students show a particular dislike of certain subjects that continue
throughout their academic career.
Constructivist Learning - ANS Students build upon prior knowledge to construct new
meaning.
The roles of the teacher are to facilitate interactive, discovery learning and to avoid direct
instruction and passive learning.
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, True - ANS Under copyright laws, teachers may not make copies of music to be performed
outside the classroom by students.
Criterion-referenced tests - ANS Are used for assessing student mastery of specific concepts
or skills.
1. Identify the lesson's objective
2. Develop assessment criteria
3. Choose instructional activities - ANS Teacher Planning Instruction (3 steps)
Analytic scoring rubrics - ANS Used to evaluate specific criteria the students must
incorporate in an assignment.
Mentorship - ANS One-to-One Support between new teachers and the school
Standard Deviation - ANS A measure of how spread out, or bunched together, the numbers
are in some data set.
"Why do you think...?" - ANS Which question best promotes the highest level of student
thinking skills?
Holistic Scoring - ANS Used to give students a single, overall score for an assignment as a
whole.
Subject-specific professional organizations - ANS Best way to improve content knowledge on
a subject?
Percentiles - ANS Rank an individual's score among the scores of a specific population.
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