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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Helpful for teachers to see that overall student motivation is very high or very low. Based on levels 1-4 (Bell Curve)






2. Students must be taught and learn to use teamwork and positive social skills when working with others






3. Foster inquiry rather than didactic (lecture) methods for learning (asking questions and hypothesize)






4. Scoring guide used in assessments






5. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






6. Set the level of performance expectation for students; set at state level






7. Responding to a wide range of abilities present in the classroom






8. Provide information about learning to be used to make judgements about a student's achievement and the teacher's instruction






9. To be assessed as successful - students must contribute to the group's success and complete their portion of the task






10. Involves students in the process of exploring the natural and/or material world in an effort to help them discover meaning






11. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals






12. Survey (preview of chapter) - question (scans headings and subheadings and rephrases them into questions) - read (read one section of chapter) - recite (answers questions in his/her own words and writes notes) - review (immediately reviews what has b






13. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






14. Essays - short - answer






15. Provide information about learning in progress and offer the teacher and the student an opportunity to monitor and regulate learning






16. Combines service to the community with learning inside and outside the classroom






17. In original unaltered form






18. Instructional strategies suggested by researchers that improve achievement across the content area






19. Story maps - cause and effect maps - sequence diagrams - continuums - matrixes and cycle maps






20. Used after focused lessons...provide alternative to seat work - rewards students - provide enrichment and remediation - fosters collaboration - accomodates individual learning styles






21. Showing a student what something is or how to do something






22. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






23. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






24. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






25. Organizing curriculum around large themes






26. Teacher breaks down unit's content into smaller units and provides support and frequent feedback to the student as he or she demonstrates understanding of each unit






27. Essays - journals - short - answers used to generate general discriptions of the criteria for success on each question






28. Provides expectations for the knowlege stduents must demonstrate in specific content areas






29. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






30. This taps into students' natural curiosity to each student's advantage; it helps students more deeply understand concepts...student must be clear in explaining to apply knowledge to new setting






31. Deciding what to believe or what to do






32. Extent to which an assessment is consistent with its measures






33. Four or five students who collaborate on worksheets designed to provide extended practice on instruction given by the teacher






34. Combining information from two or more content areas (English and history)






35. List the broad goals of a school district - state - or school and provide subject - specific outlines of course content - standards - and performance expectations






36. Develop the response






37. Student draws line down the middle of page; left - hand side used for taking lecture notes - right - hand side used for reflections and connections






38. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






39. Like authentic assessments/understanding of key concepts or his or her ability to commuicate ideas in writing






40. Standardized tests desired to measure ability to develop or acquire skills and knowledge






41. Knowledge (who - what - where) - comprehension (interpret - retell - organize) - application (subdividing info and putting it back together) - synthesis (infer an idea) - evaluation (making a value decision)






42. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






43. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






44. Effective teaching model of lessons

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45. Where the student's score is in comparison to national or local norm






46. Teacher poses a problem and makes students think individually...teacher then suggests pairing and sharing on problem.






47. Standarized tests (used against peer's scores)






48. Teacher - led or peer - led (literature circles and cooperative learning activities...lectures - recitations - reciprical teaching and Socrative seminars






49. Home team - each student is then given a number - each student joins others with same number to become expert - home team comes together to teach others the lesson he/she learned






50. Objectives - standards - materials - learner/enviornmental factors - opening - middle - closing - assessment