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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Develop the response






2. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






3. 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)






4. 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






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






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






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






8. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






9. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






10. Effective teaching model of lessons

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11. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






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






15. 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)






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






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






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






19. 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






20. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






21. 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)






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






23. Four or five students who collaborate on worksheets designed to provide extended practice on instruction given by the teacher






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






25. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






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






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






29. Essays - short - answer






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Tool for learning in schools today






39. 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






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






41. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






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






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






44. Scoring guide used in assessments






45. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






46. Deciding what to believe or what to do






47. Used after focused lessons...provide alternative to seat work - rewards students - provide enrichment and remediation - fosters collaboration - accomodates individual learning styles






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






49. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






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







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