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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • 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. What the student feels is his or her area of weakness or strength






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






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






4. Develop the response






5. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






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






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






8. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






10. 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






11. 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)






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






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






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






15. Scoring guide used in assessments






16. 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)






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






18. Oral - written - or through visual performance






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






20. Written notes teacher maintain based on observations of individual children (file folders - mailing labels - index cards)






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






22. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






23. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






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






25. 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






26. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






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






28. Standard deviation of test scores you would have obtained from a single student who took the same test multiple times






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






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






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






32. They can see patters and connections (comparing - contrasting - classifying information - discussion - inquiry - graphic organizers - and examples)






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






34. 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






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






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






37. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






38. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






39. Deciding what to believe or what to do






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






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






42. Essays - short - answer






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






44. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






45. 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






46. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






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






48. Interests of the children (early childhood - based)






49. To be assessed as successful - students must contribute to the group's success and complete their portion of the task






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