PRAXIS Study Questions

Which of the following actions best aligns with the Define component of the ASCA National Model?

• Examining ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors for Student Success is a foundational piece of the Define component.

• Scheduling classroom guidance lessons for the school year.

• Analyzing student attendance data to identify trends.

• Facilitating small group counseling sessions for at-risk students.

Which of the following theorists proposed that individuals can be classified into three personality groups: compliant, aggressive, and detached?

• Karen Horney

• Sigmund Freud

• Carl Jung

• Alfred Adler

A few high school students hang posters to protest a new school policy. The policy states that the school cannot plan field trips until standardized test scores improve. The principal hears about the posters and decides that the students who hung the posters will receive in-school suspension because “they have no right to protest a school policy.” The school counselor advocates that the students do have the constitutional right to free speech at school. The counselor can argue this based on which of the following court cases?

• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

A school counselor has created a SMART goal to increase retention rates by five percent in the next academic year. The counselor is using which of the following types of data to achieve the goal?

• Process data

• Outcome data

• Input data

• Contextual data

Lev Vygotsky explained that there is a gap between children’s ability to solve problems on their own and their potential knowledge if taught through adult instruction. Which of the following terms best describes this gap?

• Zone of Proximal Development

• Cognitive Development

• Social Development

• Moral Development