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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. Develop the response






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






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






4. Standardized tests desired to measure ability to develop or acquire skills and knowledge






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






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






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






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






9. 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)






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






11. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






12. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






13. Effective teaching model of lessons

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14. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






16. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






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






18. 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)






19. Tool for learning in schools today






20. 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






21. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






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






23. Scoring guide used in assessments






24. 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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






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






35. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






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






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






38. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






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






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






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






43. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






44. Organizing curriculum around large themes






45. 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






46. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses






47. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






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






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






50. Essays - short - answer