Doctoral Candidacy Exam

Area: Educational Foundations

Table of Specifications

   

 

TOPIC AREA

 

 

Number of Questions

Learning and Instructional Theory

 

 

Spiral Curriculum (Bruner)

1

 

Expository vs Discovery Learning

3

 

Enhancing retention of new learning

5

 

Phases of Instruction (Gagne)

3

 

Teaching Concepts

1

 

Task Analysis

1

 

Cognitive Taxonomy (Bloom)

1

 

Mastery Learning

1

Educational Interventions

 

 

Class Grouping Procedures

4

 

Classroom Management (Kounin)

4

 

Types of instructional time

2

 

School violence prevention

3

 

Standardized Testing

2

Teaching Learners with Exceptionalities

 

 

Cognitive Disabilities

2

 

Learning Disabilities

4

 

Giftedness

1

 

Low Incidence Disabilities

2

 

Special Education Law

4

 

Teaching strategies

1