Praxis II Business Education Exam
The Business Education exam is a tool used to measure the basic knowledge of potential high school business teachers that encompasses a range of topics associated with business and business education. This exam is made up of 120 multiple choice questions and is administered over a 2 hour period. There will be seven areas of questioning and the questions are divided as follows:
- 24 questions covering Professional Business Education
- 20 questions covering Processing Information
- 17 questions covering Money Management
- 17 questions covering Office Procedures and Management, Communications, and Employability Skills
- 17 questions covering Accounting and Marketing
- 13 questions covering Business and Its Environment
- 12 questions covering United States Economic Systems
The portion of the exam covering Professional Business Education will include questioning on a wide variety of topics. Some of these topics include the purpose of business education, current methods of teaching, curriculum that is presently taught, lesson planning, ways of managing a classroom, and organizations for students.
A few of the topics that will be on the exam under the category of Processing Information are word processing and keyboarding; spreadsheets; graphics; and information that is typically processed, such as medical transcriptions or statistics.
The questions pertaining to the Money Management category will focus on the math and formulas used specifically in business, such as interest rates; topics associated with the education of consumers, such as consumer rights; and the subject matter of finance.
The Office Procedures and Management, Communications, and Employability Skills category concentrates on procedures and management in an office, such as recordkeeping; areas of communication associated with business, including oral and written, as well as telecommunications; and employment skills, such how to fill out applications and search for jobs.
For the Accounting and Marketing category, the questions regarding marketing will cover topics including buying and distribution, while the accounting questions will cover documents and systems of accounting.
The area of Business and Its Environment includes topics such as ethics, measuring productivity, evaluating workers, as well as questions regarding legal issues such as bankruptcy and insurance.
A few examples of topics that will be questioned in the category of United States Economic Systems are economic principles, government and banking, and free enterprise.
Since most individuals who take this exam have a degree in education, not in business, it is understood that some questions will be answered incorrectly.
