Praxis II: Content Knowledge Tests

All students completing their teacher licensure programs after August 2004 are required to pass a content knowledge test as a prerequisite for student teaching. These tests are offered at test centers throughout Wisconsin several times each year. Students must have passed the PPST test or received a PPST waiver before taking the content test. There are no waivers for the content knowledge test.

The required tests for each certification and subject area are listed in the chart below. Students must take a test for each subject area in which they plan to license. Thus a student seeking certification as an early adolescent/adolescence teacher of Spanish and English must take the content tests for English and Spanish. Similarly, a middle childhood/early adolescence teacher who wishes to have History listed as a subject area on their license must take both the Middle School: Content Knowledge test and the content test in History.

Test dates, registration procedures and test information can be accessed at www.ets.org.

* Students seeking certification in Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physical Science or Physics should take this test.
**Students seeking certification in Anthropology, Economics, History, Politics and Government, Psychology, Sociology or Broad Field Social Studies should take this test.

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