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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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1. Foster inquiry rather than didactic (lecture) methods for learning (asking questions and hypothesize)
responses
play
mastery learning
discovery learning
2. Where the student's score is in comparison to national or local norm
percentile rank
think - pair - share
performance assessments
tiered instruction
3. 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
Jigsaw
analytical scoring
curriculum frameworks
holistic scoring
4. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals
standards - based assessments
Essential Nine
Identifying similarities and differences
discovery learning
5. 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
discussion
reciprocal teaching
anecdotal records
SQ3R
6. Written work that makes connections between new and previously learned context
essay
school - to - work
diagnostic evaluations
norm - referenced tests
7. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores
validity
scaled scores
independent study
lesson planning
8. Combining information from two or more content areas (English and history)
portfolio
reliability
interdisciplinary instruction
formative evaluations
9. Written notes teacher maintain based on observations of individual children (file folders - mailing labels - index cards)
mastery learning
anecdotal records
standards
aptitude tests
10. Used after focused lessons...provide alternative to seat work - rewards students - provide enrichment and remediation - fosters collaboration - accomodates individual learning styles
questioning
observation
Knowledge storage
learning centers
11. Nonlinguistic and linguistic
setting objectives and providing feedback
Knowledge storage
samples
lesson planning
12. Child's work...stimulates - rewards - observes - explores - models - hypothesizes - discover
primary source documents
play
tiered instruction
behavioral and cognitive objectives
13. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives
behavioral and cognitive objectives
reliability
setting objectives and providing feedback
cooperative learning
14. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals
inquiry model
setting objectives and providing feedback
simulations
cooperative learning
15. They can see patters and connections (comparing - contrasting - classifying information - discussion - inquiry - graphic organizers - and examples)
Identifying similarities and differences
validity
cues - questions - and advance organizers
anticipatory set
16. Student draws line down the middle of page; left - hand side used for taking lecture notes - right - hand side used for reflections and connections
service learning
Hunter's Model
standards
double - entry page
17. Develop the response
stanines
SQ3R
Identifying similarities and differences
authentic assessments
18. Essays - short - answer
differentiated instruction
mnemonics
nonlinguistic
analytical scoring
19. Extent to which an assessment is consistent with its measures
group processing
observation
anchored instruction
reliability
20. Derived from STANdard NINEs. based on nine - point standard scale with a mean of five
independent study
stanines
responses
tiered instruction
21. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses
portfolio
critical thinking
whole - group instrcution
diagnostic evaluations
22. In original unaltered form
anticipatory set
service learning
self - evaluation
primary source documents
23. Objectives - standards - materials - learner/enviornmental factors - opening - middle - closing - assessment
graphic organizer
lesson planning
scaled scores
anticipatory set
24. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning
positive interaction
field trips
scaled scores
emergent curriculum
25. Teacher poses a problem and makes students think individually...teacher then suggests pairing and sharing on problem.
interdisciplinary instruction
emergent curriculum
think - pair - share
critical thinking
26. Specific expectations of what a student must know and be able to do
grouping practices
critical thinking
generating and testing hypotheses
standards
27. Like authentic assessments/understanding of key concepts or his or her ability to commuicate ideas in writing
holistic scoring
journals
Hunter's Model
curriculum compacting
28. Helpful for teachers to see that overall student motivation is very high or very low. Based on levels 1-4 (Bell Curve)
play
primary source documents
standard deviation
anticipatory set
29. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation
standards
simulations
whole - group instrcution
interdisciplinary instruction
30. Small groups or pairs to solve a problem or learn more about topic
inquiry model
independent study
emergent curriculum
project - based learning
31. Grade - level expectations or mastery (teacher - made or textbood made exam)
curriculum frameworks
whole - group instrcution
criterion - referenced tests
demonstrations
32. Story maps - cause and effect maps - sequence diagrams - continuums - matrixes and cycle maps
Knowledge storage
graphic organizer
anecdotal records
standards - based assessments
33. 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
aptitude tests
cues - questions - and advance organizers
generating and testing hypotheses
assigning home and practice
34. List the broad goals of a school district - state - or school and provide subject - specific outlines of course content - standards - and performance expectations
authentic assessments
mastery learning
scaled scores
curriculum frameworks
35. Teacher offers same core content to each student but provides varying levels of support for students
Essential Nine
Knowledge storage
tiered instruction
quartiles
36. When you divide a normal distribution of scores into four equal parts 25% 50% 75%
quartiles
play
setting objectives and providing feedback
norm - referenced tests
37. Effective teaching model of lessons
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38. 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
behavioral and cognitive objectives
interpersonal skills
flexible grouping
anticipatory set
39. Standard deviation of test scores you would have obtained from a single student who took the same test multiple times
standard error of measurment
setting objectives and providing feedback
mastery learning
portfolio
40. Provides expectations for the knowlege stduents must demonstrate in specific content areas
criterion - referenced tests
discovery learning
content standards
think - pair - share
41. Involves students in the process of exploring the natural and/or material world in an effort to help them discover meaning
raw score
inquiry model
primary source documents
behavioral and cognitive objectives
42. 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)
setting objectives and providing feedback
linguistic
norm - referenced tests
mean - median - and mode
43. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties
mnemonics
questioning
reciprocal teaching
quartiles
44. Scoring guide used in assessments
holistic scoring
percentile rank
rubrics
differentiated instruction
45. Provide information about learning to be used to make judgements about a student's achievement and the teacher's instruction
mean - median - and mode
summative evalutations
emergent curriculum
discussion
46. Four or five students who collaborate on worksheets designed to provide extended practice on instruction given by the teacher
linguistic
Jigsaw
norm - referenced tests
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
47. Standarized tests (used against peer's scores)
anchored instruction
mean - median - and mode
direct instruction
norm - referenced tests
48. Teacher - led or peer - led (literature circles and cooperative learning activities...lectures - recitations - reciprical teaching and Socrative seminars
discussion
formative evaluations
behavioral and cognitive objectives
diagnostic evaluations
49. Helps prepare students' minds for instruction; research has found that learning increases when teachers focus on what is most important - not what students might think is the most interesting
school - to - work
reliability
interdisciplinary instruction
cues - questions - and advance organizers
50. Essays - journals - short - answers used to generate general discriptions of the criteria for success on each question
graphic organizer
norm - referenced tests
reliability
holistic scoring