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Praxis Instruction And Assessment
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praxis
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teaching
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Scoring guide used in assessments
formative evaluations
samples
lesson planning
rubrics
2. Carefully planned lessons presented in small - attainable increments with clearly defined goals and objectives (lectures - demonstrations - review of student performance - student examination)
Hunter's Model
questioning
direct instruction
differentiated instruction
3. Collection of products that reflect progress in a content area
self - evaluation
portfolio
differentiated instruction
discussion
4. Grade - level expectations or mastery (teacher - made or textbood made exam)
flexible grouping
mnemonics
criterion - referenced tests
achievement tests
5. 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
samples
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
cooperative learning
Numbered Heads together
6. Reading or hearing
linguistic
mean - median - and mode
stanines
graphic organizer
7. Using previously learned material in a new situation or context (often supported in the closing of the lesson)
transfer
interpersonal skills
discussion
Numbered Heads together
8. Showing a student what something is or how to do something
individual and group accontability
diagnostic evaluations
behavioral and cognitive objectives
demonstrations
9. In original unaltered form
reliability
primary source documents
standard deviation
SQ3R
10. Set clear expectations for lessons (not too narrow); students need to understand big picture and be able to connect what they are leanring to experiences and events (use advance organizers)
assigning home and practice
setting objectives and providing feedback
achievement tests
positive interaction
11. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population
samples
assigning home and practice
stanines
simulations
12. Oral - written - or through visual performance
anticipatory set
responses
demonstrations
curriculum chunking
13. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce
school - to - work
generating and testing hypotheses
play
graphic organizer
14. Deciding what to believe or what to do
independent study
diagnostic evaluations
critical thinking
validity
15. Test is found to be valid if it measures what it was designed to measure
grade - level equivalent scores
anchored instruction
project - based learning
validity
16. Derived from STANdard NINEs. based on nine - point standard scale with a mean of five
stanines
journals
nonlinguistic
critical thinking
17. Develop the response
technology
primary source documents
tiered instruction
authentic assessments
18. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives
portfolio
standards
behavioral and cognitive objectives
curriculum compacting
19. To be assessed as successful - students must contribute to the group's success and complete their portion of the task
individual and group accontability
journals
transfer
grade - level equivalent scores
20. Child's work...stimulates - rewards - observes - explores - models - hypothesizes - discover
responses
individual and group accontability
play
stanines
21. Four or five students who collaborate on worksheets designed to provide extended practice on instruction given by the teacher
direct instruction
anecdotal records
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
differentiated instruction
22. Teacher poses a problem and makes students think individually...teacher then suggests pairing and sharing on problem.
graphic organizer
learning centers
mastery learning
think - pair - share
23. Tool for learning in schools today
criterion - referenced tests
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
grade - level equivalent scores
technology
24. Where the student's score is in comparison to national or local norm
percentile rank
direct instruction
service learning
flexible grouping
25. Teacher finds key content that must be mastered and reduces the number of examples - activities - or lessons so that a student who is advanced can move forward and one who is lower can work for a while longer
emergent curriculum
curriculum compacting
primary source documents
discussion
26. Mean = average median = midpoint mode= most common
cooperative learning
mean - median - and mode
essay
validity
27. Combines service to the community with learning inside and outside the classroom
service learning
self - evaluation
thematic instruction
standard error of measurment
28. Like authentic assessments/understanding of key concepts or his or her ability to commuicate ideas in writing
thematic instruction
journals
norm - referenced tests
think - pair - share
29. Provide information about learning to be used to make judgements about a student's achievement and the teacher's instruction
Jigsaw
Hunter's Model
observation
summative evalutations
30. Instructional materials are divided and then studied by individuals or pairs of students. After they become experts on their sections of information they share the information with the group
stanines
Jigsaw
raw score
differentiated instruction
31. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle
curriculum compacting
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
journals
differentiated instruction
32. Interests of the children (early childhood - based)
Essential Nine
positive interdependence
emergent curriculum
norm - referenced tests
33. Specific expectations of what a student must know and be able to do
standards
double - entry page
direct instruction
standard deviation
34. Set induction as an activity at the start of a lesson used to set the stage for learning in order to help motivate students and activate prior knowledge
Jigsaw
Numbered Heads together
anticipatory set
portfolio
35. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals
standards - based assessments
content standards
performance assessments
anecdotal records
36. Essays - journals - short - answers used to generate general discriptions of the criteria for success on each question
setting objectives and providing feedback
school - to - work
questioning
holistic scoring
37. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties
graphic organizer
mnemonics
project - based learning
interdisciplinary instruction
38. Responding to a wide range of abilities present in the classroom
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
performance standards
thematic instruction
differentiated instruction
39. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning
field trips
double - entry page
aptitude tests
essay
40. Story maps - cause and effect maps - sequence diagrams - continuums - matrixes and cycle maps
performance assessments
standard error of measurment
standards
graphic organizer
41. Teacher uses a group - based teacher - centered instructional approach to provide learning conditions for all students to achieve mastery of assigned information
portfolio
validity
mastery learning
group processing
42. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors
standards - based assessments
primary source documents
think - pair - share
observation
43. Students work as a class to read - discuss - or solve problem (don't use all the time)
whole - group instrcution
direct instruction
Essential Nine
technology
44. Teacher offers same core content to each student but provides varying levels of support for students
tiered instruction
journals
inquiry model
grouping practices
45. Involves students in the process of exploring the natural and/or material world in an effort to help them discover meaning
inquiry model
standard error of measurment
demonstrations
learning centers
46. Essays - short - answer
demonstrations
analytical scoring
grouping practices
criterion - referenced tests
47. They can see patters and connections (comparing - contrasting - classifying information - discussion - inquiry - graphic organizers - and examples)
Identifying similarities and differences
curriculum chunking
mastery learning
questioning
48. Partner check (complete work individually and then check with partner) - group investigation (students are assigned a topic and prepare a report or summary to share with the whole class)
validity
grouping practices
lesson planning
positive interaction
49. Students must be taught and learn to use teamwork and positive social skills when working with others
self - evaluation
project - based learning
formative evaluations
interpersonal skills
50. Nonlinguistic and linguistic
play
anchored instruction
setting objectives and providing feedback
Knowledge storage