Test your basic knowledge |

Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.






2. Recogize separate sounds in words






3. Tends to be more relevant to students and it appears to be the conscious choice of how students want to learn. This approach involves self - instruction - experimenting - inquiry - exploring - and general curiosity. Acquisition accounts for about 20%






4. Convert letters into sound sequences and blend sounds to form words






5. Development of spoken language system






6. Discovery learning and constructivism






7. Learning of governmetn function and following the rulse as set forth. legalistic and assimilationist






8. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






9. Operant Conditioning






10. Large muscle skill development - little formal organization - lifestyle activities






11. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






12. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






13. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






14. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.






15. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


16. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts






17. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials






18. Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness - phonics instruction in context - learn when address reading and writing activities






19. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher






20. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






21. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels






22. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






23. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


24. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language






25. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






26. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






27. Rhyming and alliteration - sentence segmentation - syllable blending and segmentation - onset rime - blending and segmentation - phoneme blending and segmentation






28. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies






29. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






30. Social or observational learning theory






31. Identify and define a problem - identify and define values - predict consequences and outcomes - reach decision - justify decision - if needed alter decision






32. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher. This technique is not recommended because it hampers reading fluency - its borin






33. A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dictated language. This approach allows the reader to read words common to their environment.






34. Writing






35. Found that although environment causes behavior - behavior also causes environment as well. Bandura labeled this concept reciprocal determinism -'both the world the individual's behavior 'cause' affect each other. Bandura is considered a 'father' of






36. Begin working with decimals






37. Congnitively demanding






38. Region/area - length - set






39. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






40. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.






41. Spatial - one and two more - one and two less - anchors - part - part - whole






42. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts






43. Word recognition - comprehension - and fluency






44. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






45. Music






46. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.






47. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






48. Modeling






49. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines






50. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them