AEPA Professional Knowledge
Question With Correct Answers 2023 Update
1. To help students develop their decoding
skills, a first-grade teacher
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lesson about short vowels using the
concept of word families. The teacher
writes "_at" on the board, and asks
students to suggest letters to put in the
blank. Each time the students suggest a
letter, the teacher fills in the blank to form
a new word and asks the class to read the
word aloud. Which of the following
additional activities is most likely to
address the developmental levels of all
students in the class?
A. letting students take turns making
sentences using the new words
B. asking students to spell the new
words aloud several times
C. having students copy the list of new
words into their writing journals
D. providing students with cut-out
letters to build more new words - Correct Answer-D
2. Which of the following teacher strategies
is likely to have the most positive influence on the social development of nineyear-old students?
A. offering encouragement to students
during challenging or frustrating
activities
B. balancing student-led and teacherled class activities
C. providing opportunities for students
to express their feelings freely
during class activities
D. emphasizing cooperative rather than
competitive student activities - Correct Answer-D
A teacher wants to incorporate art projects
into the content areas for first-grade
students, who exhibit a wide range of finemotor skills. Which of the following
approaches is most likely to meet the
developmental needs of all students in
the class?
A. allowing students to self-select from
a variety of art media for each
lesson
B. giving individual students access to
specific art media based on their
demonstrated skill levels
C. using teacher-assigned art media for
each individual lesson
D. providing students with direct
instruction in skills needed for
proper use of various art media - Correct Answer-A
It is during the concrete operational stage
of cognitive development that children are
most likely to begin demonstrating the
ability to:
A. analyze their own thought
processes.
B. use specific observations to develop
general principles.
C. think through a series of steps
logically.
D. generate many different possible
solutions for a given problem. - Correct Answer-C
In a kindergarten class, the teacher can
best advance students' language comprehension and production by engaging them
in which of the following activities?
A. learning the meaning and pronunciation of several unfamiliar words
each week
B. having conversations and shared
experiences with the teacher about
picture books
C. choosing formal or informal language that is appropriate to given
contexts
D. learning nursery rhymes and
practicing writing them - Correct Answer-B
A fourth-grade teacher wants students to
understand that being persistent with a
task can lead to the pleasure of seeing a
job completed. Which of the following
actions would likely be most helpful
in promoting students' development in
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