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






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






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






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






5. Oral - written - or through visual performance






6. Teacher uses a group - based teacher - centered instructional approach to provide learning conditions for all students to achieve mastery of assigned information






7. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






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






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






11. Tool for learning in schools today






12. Organizing curriculum around large themes






13. 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






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






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






16. Develop the response






17. 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






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






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






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






21. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






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






23. Measure a student's knowledge or proficiency in something that has been learned






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






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






26. 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)






27. 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)






28. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






29. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






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






31. Specific expectations of what a student must know and be able to do






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






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






34. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






35. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






36. 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






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






38. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






39. Effective teaching model of lessons

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






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






42. Test is found to be valid if it measures what it was designed to measure






43. Derived from STANdard NINEs. based on nine - point standard scale with a mean of five






44. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






45. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






47. Scoring guide used in assessments






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






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






50. Small groups or pairs to solve a problem or learn more about topic