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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Teacher - led or peer - led (literature circles and cooperative learning activities...lectures - recitations - reciprical teaching and Socrative seminars






2. Collection of products that reflect progress in a content area






3. 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)






4. Helpful for teachers to see that overall student motivation is very high or very low. Based on levels 1-4 (Bell Curve)






5. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






6. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle






7. Mean = average median = midpoint mode= most common






8. Student must perform a task or generate his or her own response during assessment






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






10. 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)






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






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






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






14. Essays - short - answer






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






16. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






18. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






19. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






20. Scoring guide used in assessments






21. When you divide a normal distribution of scores into four equal parts 25% 50% 75%






22. Interaction that promotes face - to - face or individual interaction and relationships






23. 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






24. Using previously learned material in a new situation or context (often supported in the closing of the lesson)






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






26. Double - entry page - graphic organziers - and SQ3R






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






28. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






29. Effective teaching model of lessons

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30. Demonstrate the grade and month of the school year to which a student score can be compared






31. Develop the response






32. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






33. Students work as a class to read - discuss - or solve problem (don't use all the time)






34. Organizing curriculum around large themes






35. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses






36. What the student feels is his or her area of weakness or strength






37. Groups that change as the students' learnng needs change






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






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






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






41. Instructional apporach that ties information to an anchor; student uses concrete applications of the concept being taught (anchor) to connect what he or she is learning to a concrete experience






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






43. Child's work...stimulates - rewards - observes - explores - models - hypothesizes - discover






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






45. Carefully planned lessons presented in small - attainable increments with clearly defined goals and objectives (lectures - demonstrations - review of student performance - student examination)






46. Teachers must provide an opportunity for feedback - not only on the group's product but also on the group's process






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






48. Deciding what to believe or what to do






49. 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






50. 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