Praxis II Technology Education Exam
This exam is designed for individuals who would like to teach technology to middle and high school students. You will be given 2 hours to complete this 120 multiple choice question exam. There will be 24 questions regarding transportation and energy technologies, 22 questions regarding manufacturing technologies, 14 questions regarding construction technologies, 24 questions regarding communication and information technology and, 36 questions regarding professional and educational studies.
Transportation and Energy Technologies
This section of the exam will cover transportation outputs, impacts, and transportation systems, technical systems, energy sources, control systems, and design. The transportation impact and output questions will cover environmental, cultural and social impacts; transportation forecasting, and relocated goods. Questions regarding transportation systems will cover space, air, water and land transportation systems, the history of transportation, and models of transportations systems. The technical system questions will cover control, guidance, propulsion, suspension, structure, and servicing. Questions regarding energy sources will cover external and internal combustion, distribution of power, control and measurement, electric and solar energy, energy conversion and storage systems, power distribution and, heat flow. Design questions will cover aesthetic, control, structural and mechanical design principals, and transport systems for the movement of people and products.
Manufacturing Technologies
This section of the exam will cover manufacturing systems, managerial processes, manufacturing resources and, design. The questions regarding manufacturing systems will cover historical perspectives and various types of manufacturing systems. Questions regarding managerial processes will cover managing production activities, designing production systems, and manufacturing products. The manufacturing resources questions will cover finance, human resources and materials. Design questions will cover aesthetic and human factors in the design process and prototypes from structural, electrical, mechanical and industrial designers.
Construction Technologies
This section of the exam will cover construction outputs and impacts, production resources, design, construction systems, and managerial processes. Questions regarding construction outputs and impacts will cover forecasting in construction technology, and environmental impacts. Civil, commercial, residential, social, and cultural impacts will also be covered in this section of the exam. The production questions will cover site preparation, structure building, utility instillation, structure enclosure, and finishing the structure. Resources questions will cover finance, capital, human resources and, building materials. Design questions will cover technological, aesthetic, and architectural design principals, and prototypes from interior designers, landscape artists, architects and civil engineers. Construction system questions will cover construction models, systems and, historical perspectives.
Communication and Information Technologies
This section of the exam will cover communication outputs and impacts, processes, systems and design. The communication output and impact questions will cover forecasting communication technology, environmental, social, and cultural influences on communication. The processes questions will cover communication devices, light acoustics, telecommunications, computers, servicing for graphic communication systems and, communications equipment and processes. Systems questions will cover system resources, models, and historical perspectives. Design questions will cover the social and historical perspective of multimedia, video, audio and web materials, along with product effectiveness. Questions regarding technological, visual and aesthetic design principals will also be covered in this section of the exam.
Professional and Educational Studies
This section of the exam will cover professionalism, evaluation, implementation, development and philosophy. Questions regarding professionalism will cover technical and professional literature, professional associations, and continuing education. The evaluation questions will cover modification of instruction, data collection, data interpretation, program evaluation and, student progress evaluation. The program implementation questions will cover public relations, instructional strategies, student population, facility organization and, resource management. The program development questions will cover interdisciplinary approaches, external advisory boards, mission statements and development of program objectives. The philosophy questions will cover the philosophy and nature of technology education.
