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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. 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






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






3. Organizing curriculum around large themes






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






5. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






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






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






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






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






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






11. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






12. 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






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






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






15. Student draws line down the middle of page; left - hand side used for taking lecture notes - right - hand side used for reflections and connections






16. In original unaltered form






17. Essays - short - answer






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






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






20. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






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






22. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






23. 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






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






25. 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






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






27. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






28. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Students work as a class to read - discuss - or solve problem (don't use all the time)






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






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






40. 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






41. Instructional materials are divided and then studied by individuals or pairs of students. After they become experts on their sections of information they share the information with the group






42. Reading or hearing






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






44. Oral - written - or through visual performance






45. Effective teaching model of lessons

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46. Develop the response






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






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






49. 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






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






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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