SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Praxis Instruction And Assessment
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
praxis
,
teaching
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Collection of products that reflect progress in a content area
anecdotal records
critical thinking
diagnostic evaluations
portfolio
2. When you divide a normal distribution of scores into four equal parts 25% 50% 75%
portfolio
summative evalutations
quartiles
anecdotal records
3. Essays - short - answer
primary source documents
anticipatory set
analytical scoring
quartiles
4. Effective teaching model of lessons
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
5. Students work at thier own pace under the leadership or guidance (good for those who need accomodations)
interdisciplinary instruction
mean - median - and mode
cooperative learning
independent study
6. List the broad goals of a school district - state - or school and provide subject - specific outlines of course content - standards - and performance expectations
achievement tests
discovery learning
demonstrations
curriculum frameworks
7. Like authentic assessments/understanding of key concepts or his or her ability to commuicate ideas in writing
thematic instruction
journals
grouping practices
curriculum compacting
8. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning
graphic organizer
Hunter's Model
field trips
whole - group instrcution
9. Oral - written - or through visual performance
anticipatory set
responses
standards - based assessments
Essential Nine
10. 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
curriculum chunking
play
content standards
mean - median - and mode
11. Teacher - led or peer - led (literature circles and cooperative learning activities...lectures - recitations - reciprical teaching and Socrative seminars
discussion
questioning
norm - referenced tests
holistic scoring
12. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task
mastery learning
think - pair - share
nonlinguistic
positive interdependence
13. Teacher uses a group - based teacher - centered instructional approach to provide learning conditions for all students to achieve mastery of assigned information
anchored instruction
performance standards
learning centers
mastery learning
14. Foster inquiry rather than didactic (lecture) methods for learning (asking questions and hypothesize)
discovery learning
Jigsaw
flexible grouping
inquiry model
15. Helpful for teachers to see that overall student motivation is very high or very low. Based on levels 1-4 (Bell Curve)
standard deviation
mean - median - and mode
diagnostic evaluations
positive interdependence
16. They can see patters and connections (comparing - contrasting - classifying information - discussion - inquiry - graphic organizers - and examples)
performance assessments
behavioral and cognitive objectives
responses
Identifying similarities and differences
17. Grade - level expectations or mastery (teacher - made or textbood made exam)
criterion - referenced tests
critical thinking
reciprocal teaching
performance standards
18. Responding to a wide range of abilities present in the classroom
cues - questions - and advance organizers
differentiated instruction
play
standards
19. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals
achievement tests
standards - based assessments
critical thinking
independent study
20. Objectives - standards - materials - learner/enviornmental factors - opening - middle - closing - assessment
generating and testing hypotheses
raw score
anticipatory set
lesson planning
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)
performance standards
questioning
individual and group accontability
inquiry model
22. Measure a student's knowledge or proficiency in something that has been learned
primary source documents
achievement tests
Hunter's Model
independent study
23. Nonlinguistic and linguistic
demonstrations
Knowledge storage
observation
reliability
24. Double - entry page - graphic organziers - and SQ3R
Summarizing and Note - taking
differentiated instruction
validity
discussion
25. Demonstrate the grade and month of the school year to which a student score can be compared
grade - level equivalent scores
standards
self - evaluation
cooperative learning
26. Combines service to the community with learning inside and outside the classroom
school - to - work
service learning
performance assessments
analytical scoring
27. Specific expectations of what a student must know and be able to do
standard error of measurment
positive interdependence
standards
curriculum chunking
28. Showing a student what something is or how to do something
observation
demonstrations
Jigsaw
Knowledge storage
29. Teachers must provide an opportunity for feedback - not only on the group's product but also on the group's process
group processing
flexible grouping
play
whole - group instrcution
30. Provides expectations for the knowlege stduents must demonstrate in specific content areas
aptitude tests
content standards
authentic assessments
simulations
31. Four or five students who collaborate on worksheets designed to provide extended practice on instruction given by the teacher
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
whole - group instrcution
mastery learning
primary source documents
32. 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
curriculum compacting
SQ3R
differentiated instruction
tiered instruction
33. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation
anchored instruction
grade - level equivalent scores
scaled scores
simulations
34. Carefully planned lessons presented in small - attainable increments with clearly defined goals and objectives (lectures - demonstrations - review of student performance - student examination)
SQ3R
anchored instruction
direct instruction
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
35. Provide information about learning to be used to make judgements about a student's achievement and the teacher's instruction
service learning
grouping practices
standards
summative evalutations
36. Tool for learning in schools today
double - entry page
technology
anchored instruction
individual and group accontability
37. Student must perform a task or generate his or her own response during assessment
performance assessments
raw score
anchored instruction
Knowledge storage
38. Test is found to be valid if it measures what it was designed to measure
school - to - work
curriculum chunking
learning centers
validity
39. Interests of the children (early childhood - based)
Identifying similarities and differences
mean - median - and mode
standards
emergent curriculum
40. To be assessed as successful - students must contribute to the group's success and complete their portion of the task
anchored instruction
standards - based assessments
individual and group accontability
thematic instruction
41. Interaction that promotes face - to - face or individual interaction and relationships
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
Numbered Heads together
positive interaction
curriculum compacting
42. Story maps - cause and effect maps - sequence diagrams - continuums - matrixes and cycle maps
validity
graphic organizer
tiered instruction
independent study
43. Small groups or pairs to solve a problem or learn more about topic
technology
project - based learning
transfer
school - to - work
44. Develop the response
curriculum compacting
standard error of measurment
authentic assessments
cues - questions - and advance organizers
45. Involves students in the process of exploring the natural and/or material world in an effort to help them discover meaning
independent study
inquiry model
standard error of measurment
journals
46. 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
cues - questions - and advance organizers
journals
technology
interpersonal skills
47. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle
school - to - work
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
differentiated instruction
formative evaluations
48. 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
quartiles
grade - level equivalent scores
differentiated instruction
generating and testing hypotheses
49. Derived from STANdard NINEs. based on nine - point standard scale with a mean of five
positive interaction
stanines
self - evaluation
generating and testing hypotheses
50. Student draws line down the middle of page; left - hand side used for taking lecture notes - right - hand side used for reflections and connections
formative evaluations
double - entry page
differentiated instruction
responses