List of Praxis Tests (2024)
In order to receive a teacher certification in certain states, you must pass the required Praxis tests for your certification area. Praxis exams are accepted in almost all 50 states plus D.C., Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.
Below is a list of the current Praxis tests used for teacher certification. You can use the table of contents on the left to jump to the section of exams you are most interested in.
Core Academic Skills for Educators Test
Principle of Learning and Teaching
- Principles Of Learning And Teaching: Early Childhood (5621)
- Principles Of Learning And Teaching: K-6 (5622)
- Principles Of Learning And Teaching: 5-9 (5623)
- Principles Of Learning And Teaching: 7-12 (5624)
- Principles Of Learning And Teaching: K-12 (5625)
ParaProfessional Assessment
Pre-Kindergarten Education
- Pre-Kindergarten Education (5531)
Early Childhood Education
- Early Childhood Education (5025)
- Early Childhood Assessment (5026)
- Early Childhood Assessment: Reading & Language Arts And Social Studies (2027)
- Early Childhood Assessment: Mathematics & Science (2028)
- Education of Young Children (5024)
- Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education (5023)
Elementary Education
- Elementary Education: Multiple Subjects (5001)
- Elementary Education: Multiple Subjects (7001)
- Elementary Education: Three Subject Bundle—Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science (5901; subtests 5903, 5904, 5905) (5901)
- Elementary Education Content Knowledge for Teaching (CKT) (7811)
- Elementary Education Assessment (5006)
- Elementary Education: Content Knowledge (5018)
- Elementary Education: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (5017)
- Teaching Reading: Elementary (5205)
- Elementary Education: Math Specialist (5037)
- STEM for the Elementary Grades (5036)
Middle School Education
- Middle School English Language Arts (5047)
- Middle School Mathematics (5164)
- Middle School Science (5442)
- Middle School Social Studies (5089)
- Middle School: Content Knowledge (5146)
Secondary Education
- Agriculture (5701)
- Algebra I (5162)
- Art: Content Knowledge (5134)
- Biology (5236)
- Business Education: Content Knowledge (5101)
- Citizenship Education: Content Knowledge (5087)
- Communication and Literacy Combined (5753; subtests 5714, 5724)
- Communication and Literacy: Reading (5714)
- Communication and Literacy: Writing (5724)
- Chemistry (5246)
- Computer Science (5652)
- Earth and Space Sciences (5572)
- Economics (5911)
- English Language Arts: Content Knowledge (5038)
- English Language Arts: Content & Analysis (5039)
- Family and Consumer Sciences (5122)
- Family and Consumer Sciences (5123)
- Fundamental Subjects: Content Knowledge (5511)
- General Science (5436)
- Geography (5921)
- Geometry (5163)
- Gifted Education (5358)
- Government/Political Science (5931)
- Health Education (5551)
- Health Occupations (5052)
- Health and Physical Education: Content Knowledge (5857)
- World and U.S. History: Content Knowledge (5941)
- Journalism (5224)
- Mathematics (5165)
- Marketing Education (5561)
- Music: Content Knowledge (5113)
- Music: Content and Instruction (5114)
- Music: Instrumental and General Knowledge (5115)
- Music: Vocal and General Knowledge (5116)
- Physical Education: Content and Design (5095)
- Physical Education: Content Knowledge (5091)
- Physical Science (5485)
- Physics (5266)
- Psychology (5391)
- Reading Specialist (5302)
- Teaching Reading: K–12 (5206)
- Social Studies: Content Knowledge (5081)
- Social Studies: Content and Interpretation (5086)
- Sociology (5952)
- Speech Communication: Content Knowledge (5221)
- Speech and Theatre (5222)
- Speech-Language Pathology (5331)
- Technology Education (5051)
- Technology and Engineering Education (5053)
- Theatre (5641)
All Grades (K-12)
- Health Occupations (5052)
- Reading Specialist (5302)
- School Counselor (5422)
- School Librarian (5312)
- School Psychologist (5403)
Special Education
- Special Education: Foundational Knowledge (5355)
- Special Education: Core Knowledge and Applications (5354)
- Special Education: Core Knowledge and Mild to Moderate Applications (5543)
- Special Education: Core Knowledge and Severe to Profound Applications (5545)
- Special Education: Severe to Profound (5547)
- Special Education: Early Childhood/Early Intervention (5692)
- Special Education: Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students (5272)
- Special Education: Teaching Speech to Students with Language Impairments (5881)
- Special Education: Teaching Students with Behavioral Disorders and Emotional Disturbances (5372)
- Special Education: Teaching Students with Intellectual Disabilities (5322)
- Special Education: Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities (5383)
- Special Education: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments (5282)
Administrator/School Leader
- School Leaders Licensure Assessment (SLLA) (6990)
- School Superintendent Assessment (SSA) (6991)
- Administration and Supervision (5412)
World Languages
- English to Speakers of Other Languages (5362)
- Braille Proficiency (0633)
- Chinese (Mandarin): World Language (5665)
- French: World Language (5174)
- German: World Language (5183)
- Japanese: World Language (5661)
- Latin (5601)
- Russian: World Language (5671)
- Spanish: World Language (5195)
- World Languages Pedagogy (5841)
