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DESE Educator Certification VIP Practice Exam
DESE — The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) administers educator licensure through the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL), a series of subject-matter and pedagogy assessments required for Initial and Professional educator licenses; passing scores are set at 240 on a 100–300 scale (approximately 70%) and test sessions typically run up to 4 hours.
29
Questions
120m
Time Limit
70.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 29👑 VIP
A third-grade teacher notices that Marcus can solve single-digit multiplication problems independently but struggles when problems involve two-digit numbers. When the teacher works alongside him, modeling each step and prompting with questions, Marcus succeeds. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, the gap between what Marcus can do alone and what he can do with guidance best represents which concept?
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