A 2-year-old watches an older child zip a jacket and then tries the zipper herself, though nobody has taught or rewarded her. Which theory best explains this?Wikipedia, Social learning theory. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0003
A 3-year-old calls every round fruit an apple until an orange tastes wrong to her, and she begins to say orange. Which of Piaget's processes changed her schema?Wikipedia, Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0003
A 4-year-old insists on planning her own block structure and starting each task "by myself". Which of Erikson's stages covers the play age of three to six?Wikipedia, Erikson's stages of psychosocial development. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0003
A child's fifth birthday falls on September 15. By A.R.S. 15-821, who decides whether she may start kindergarten in an Arizona district this school year?Arizona Revised Statutes 15-821. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0001
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Foundations of early childhood education, continued
A director proposes cutting free play to make room for worksheets. Which statement about learning through play argues against the change?Wikipedia, Learning through play. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0003
A new center in Tucson plans to care for twenty unrelated children for pay. Under Arizona law, which agency must license it before it receives a child?Arizona Revised Statutes 36-882 and 36-881. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0001
A preschool teacher in Arizona sees bruises on a 4-year-old that do not fit the explanation given and reasonably believes the child was abused. What does A.R.S. 13-3620 require of her?Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3620. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0002
An early intervention team wrote a family's service plan in March. Under 34 CFR 303.342, which month is the latest for its periodic review if nothing calls for one sooner?34 CFR 303.342. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0002
In Arizona, which body exercises general supervision over the public school system and adopts its rules, and which officer executes the policies that body decides on?Arizona Revised Statutes 15-203 and 15-251. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0002
The Perry Preschool study of 1962 is noted for effects on schooling, income and crime that lasted well into adulthood. Which early childhood approach is based on its methods?Wikipedia, HighScope. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0001
Under A.R.S. 15-802, between which ages must every child in Arizona attend a school, and who chooses the school?Arizona Revised Statutes 15-802. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0002
Which nineteenth-century German educator created the concept of the kindergarten, coined the word and designed the play materials known as gifts?Wikipedia, Friedrich Fröbel. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0001
Promoting child development and learning 16
A classroom has child-sized tables, materials on child-height shelves, children of mixed ages and long blocks of uninterrupted work time. To which approach does this prepared environment belong?Wikipedia, Montessori education. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0004
A first grade team plans a unit on water in which children measure rainfall, read river stories and paint waves. What is planning around one topic across subjects called?Wikipedia, Thematic learning. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0005
A kindergarten teacher sets up block, library, art and writing centers and lets children pick where to work. What are learning centers typically set up to do?Wikipedia, Learning centers in American elementary schools. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0004
A kindergarten team first writes what children should be able to do with patterns by May, then decides how it will know, and only then picks activities. Which planning model is this?Wikipedia, Backward design. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0005
A kindergartner's result is reported as higher than 60 of every 100 children in a national sample. Which kind of test places a child within a population in this way?Wikipedia, Norm-referenced test. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0007
A preschool rebuilds its rooms around natural light, plants and a central piazza because it holds that the space is a teacher in its own right. Which approach calls the environment the "third teacher"?Wikipedia, Reggio Emilia approach. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0004
A screening tool gives nearly the same score every time a child takes it, yet the score reflects vocabulary and not the motor skill the tool claims to measure. How is the tool best described?Wikipedia, Validity (statistics). Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0007
A teacher plans a science corner where children can learn about seeds from picture books, from real seeds to handle and from a short video. Which principle of Universal Design for Learning is this?Wikipedia, Universal Design for Learning. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0004
A teacher wants children to explain their thinking about a block tower. Which of these is an open-ended question?Wikipedia, Open-ended question. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0006
After a rainstorm the children crowd around worms on the playground, and the teacher plans the next two weeks around soil and worms. What is this way of planning called?Wikipedia, Emergent curriculum. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0005
An Arizona district sets up a full-day kindergarten. Under A.R.S. 15-703, what must it still allow each parent of a kindergarten pupil?Arizona Revised Statutes 15-703. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0005
Arizona law defines developmental delay for a child aged three to nine by scores on a norm-referenced test. What else does A.R.S. 15-761 require before those scores stand?Arizona Revised Statutes 15-761. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0007
Kindergartners join two groups of counters long before they write 2 + 3 = 5. In the usual sequence for teaching a mathematical concept, which step do manipulatives serve?Wikipedia, Manipulative (mathematics education). Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0006
Second graders spend three weeks finding out why the school garden floods and then present a fix to the principal. Which teaching method is this?Wikipedia, Project-based learning. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0006
Three children are learning to write their names: one traces, one copies from a card and one writes from memory. What is the teacher doing?Wikipedia, Differentiated instruction. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0006
Under the plan A.R.S. 15-704 calls for, every Arizona public school student in kindergarten or grade one is screened for indicators of dyslexia. Within how long after the school year begins?Arizona Revised Statutes 15-704. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0007
Child guidance and learning communities for all 8
A 5-year-old with a disability can succeed in the regular kindergarten with a picture schedule and an aide. What does the federal least restrictive environment rule require?34 CFR 300.114. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0009
A child knocks over a classmate's block tower on purpose. Which response fits the model called positive discipline?Wikipedia, Positive discipline. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0008
A child says "I can't do puzzles." The teacher offers a puzzle just within reach and names each piece the child fits. Which belief, first proposed by Albert Bandura, is the teacher building?Wikipedia, Self-efficacy. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0008
A child screams at every clean-up time and is then allowed to keep playing. In positive behavior support, what does the team work out first?Wikipedia, Positive behavior support. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0008
A kindergarten teacher asks each family what its members know how to do, then plans a unit that a grandfather who repairs bicycles and a mother who bakes for a market help teach. Which model treats such household resources as strengths children can draw on in school?Wikipedia, Funds of knowledge. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0009
A teacher shows 4-year-olds how to take three slow breaths and name the feeling before they act. Which ability is she building?Wikipedia, Emotional self-regulation. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0008
Arizona places English learners in sheltered English immersion for a temporary transition period. By A.R.S. 15-752, that period is not normally intended to exceed how long?Arizona Revised Statutes 15-752. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0009
Under A.R.S. 15-771, from what age must an Arizona school district make an educational program available to a preschool child with a disability who lives in the district?Arizona Revised Statutes 15-771. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0009
Family and community relationships 8
A father's new night shift leaves him too tired to read with his daughter, and her interest in books fades at preschool. His workplace, a setting she never enters, belongs to which of Bronfenbrenner's systems?Wikipedia, Ecological systems theory. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0010
A mother sets a firm bedtime, gives her reasons and hears her son out. Which parenting style in Baumrind's typology balances control and autonomy in this way?Wikipedia, Parenting styles. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0010
A preschool teacher finds a 4-year-old's speech very hard to understand. Under the federal list of related services, which professional identifies and appraises speech or language impairments?34 CFR 300.34. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0011
An Arizona parent reviews next week's learning materials and objects to one activity as harmful. What does A.R.S. 15-113 let the parent request?Arizona Revised Statutes 15-113. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0010
Arizona law sets up regional partnership councils for early childhood development and health programs. What does A.R.S. 8-1161 have each council identify for its region?Arizona Revised Statutes 8-1161. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0011
Arizona's parents' bill of rights reserves a list of rights to the parent of a minor child. Which of these does A.R.S. 1-602 name?Arizona Revised Statutes 1-602. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0010
Early intervention ends at age three. For a toddler who may be eligible for preschool services under Part B, how far ahead of the third birthday do the Part C rules set the notice to the school system?34 CFR 303.209. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0011
Under Part C, each infant or toddler with a disability and the family are given one person who coordinates services across agency lines and is their single point of contact. Who is it?34 CFR 303.34. Written to the AEPA Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (field 93) test objectives, objective 0011
How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the test design and test objectives of field 93, Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood, in the study guide on the Arizona Educator Proficiency Assessments website (https://www.aepa.nesinc.com/Content/STUDYGUIDE/AZ_SG_obj_93.htm, copyright 2018 Pearson Education, Inc.; test page https://www.aepa.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/AZ093_TestPage.html, read 2026-10-13): 100 selected-response questions and 3 written performance assignments in 3 hours 30 minutes, passing score 240; Foundations of Early Childhood Education (objectives 0001 to 0003, 28%), Promoting Child Development and Learning (0004 to 0007, 36%), Child Guidance and Learning Communities for All (0008 and 0009, 18%) and Family and Community Relationships (0010 and 0011, 18%). The bank holds 44, four for each objective: 12, 16, 8 and 8. Every fact was read on the public page named under its question: the Arizona Revised Statutes on the Arizona Legislature's website, 34 CFR Parts 300 and 303 in the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations and the named Wikipedia articles. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.
How it works
This free AEPA Professional Knowledge Early Childhood practice test holds 44 questions of our own on field 93. It is unofficial and not affiliated with the Arizona Department of Education or Pearson.
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What AEPA field 93 covers
By the test design on the AEPA site, read October 13, 2026, Foundations of Early Childhood Education is 28% of the test, Promoting Child Development and Learning 36%, Child Guidance and Learning Communities for All 18%, and Family and Community Relationships 18%. Each of the eleven objectives gets four questions here: 12, 16, 8 and 8.
Arizona law in the answers
Thirteen questions rest on the Arizona Revised Statutes as they read today: child care licensing, the September 1 kindergarten cutoff, reporting suspected abuse, school attendance from six to sixteen, half-day kindergarten, dyslexia screening, preschool for children with disabilities from age three, and a parent's right to review learning materials. Five more cite the federal early intervention and special education rules.
With an online proctor the 100 questions come first, in 2 hours 15 minutes, and after the break you cannot go back to them.
Questions and answers
Is this AEPA Professional Knowledge Early Childhood practice test free?
Yes. There is no account and no fee. Each explanation names the statute, regulation or public page behind the answer, and no question is taken from the official study guide's samples.
How many questions are on the AEPA Professional Knowledge Early Childhood test?
100 selected-response questions and 3 written performance assignments, by the test page read October 13, 2026. A test center allows 3 hours 30 minutes of testing time after a 15-minute tutorial.
What is the passing score for AEPA field 93?
240, by the test page. Because the three written assignments feed that score, a count of right answers here says nothing about passing, so this page gives a count and no verdict.
Is Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood the same test as AEPA Early Childhood Education?
No. The AEPA test list shows Early Childhood Education (AZ036) under subject knowledge tests and Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (AZ093) under professional knowledge tests. This page practices field 93 only.