Praxis Music Content and Instruction 5114 prep exam help

Praxis Music: Content and Instruction 5114 measures beginning educators' readiness to teach K-12 music across general, instrumental, and vocal music education. ETS describes the exam as reflecting instrumental, vocal, jazz, and general music instruction specialties, with approximately half the assessment focused on teaching music and half on music content knowledge foundational to professional practice.

The current ETS study companion lists a 2-hour computer-delivered exam divided into a 25-minute listening section and a 95-minute non-listening section. The exam includes 84 selected-response questions and 3 constructed-response questions. The content distribution is Music History and Theory at 32 questions or 29%, Performance at 24 questions or 21%, Instruction, Professional Issues, and Technology at 28 questions or 25%, and Instructional Activities constructed response at 3 questions or 25%. ETS suggests about 65 minutes for the 62 selected-response questions in Section 2 and 30 minutes for the three constructed responses.