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






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






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






4. 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






5. Develop the response






6. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






8. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






9. In original unaltered form






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






11. Tool for learning in schools today






12. 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






13. Teacher offers same core content to each student but provides varying levels of support for students






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






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






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






17. Written work that makes connections between new and previously learned context






18. 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






19. Grade - level expectations or mastery (teacher - made or textbood made exam)






20. 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






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






22. Extended practice of lesson that is meaninful (time - limit appropriate)






23. 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)






24. 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)






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






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






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






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






29. Deciding what to believe or what to do






30. Students work at thier own pace under the leadership or guidance (good for those who need accomodations)






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






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






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






34. Organizing curriculum around large themes






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






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






37. Oral - written - or through visual performance






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






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






40. Essays - short - answer






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






43. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






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






45. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






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






47. 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






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






49. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






50. Nonlinguistic and linguistic