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Praxis Instruction And Assessment
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praxis
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teaching
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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. In original unaltered form
summative evalutations
primary source documents
analytical scoring
Numbered Heads together
2. Small groups or pairs to solve a problem or learn more about topic
samples
validity
curriculum compacting
project - based learning
3. Students must be taught and learn to use teamwork and positive social skills when working with others
double - entry page
flexible grouping
interpersonal skills
performance standards
4. Objectives - standards - materials - learner/enviornmental factors - opening - middle - closing - assessment
lesson planning
service learning
group processing
formative evaluations
5. To be assessed as successful - students must contribute to the group's success and complete their portion of the task
Identifying similarities and differences
performance standards
quartiles
individual and group accontability
6. Organizing curriculum around large themes
thematic instruction
SQ3R
whole - group instrcution
discovery learning
7. 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
holistic scoring
Essential Nine
summative evalutations
generating and testing hypotheses
8. Combining information from two or more content areas (English and history)
interdisciplinary instruction
performance standards
questioning
graphic organizer
9. Teacher - led or peer - led (literature circles and cooperative learning activities...lectures - recitations - reciprical teaching and Socrative seminars
positive interdependence
project - based learning
Essential Nine
discussion
10. Carefully planned lessons presented in small - attainable increments with clearly defined goals and objectives (lectures - demonstrations - review of student performance - student examination)
primary source documents
percentile rank
positive interaction
direct instruction
11. Reading or hearing
mastery learning
mean - median - and mode
mnemonics
linguistic
12. 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
field trips
norm - referenced tests
curriculum chunking
differentiated instruction
13. Teacher offers same core content to each student but provides varying levels of support for students
tiered instruction
anecdotal records
differentiated instruction
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
14. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce
school - to - work
curriculum chunking
direct instruction
double - entry page
15. Provides expectations for the knowlege stduents must demonstrate in specific content areas
independent study
content standards
mnemonics
critical thinking
16. Written notes teacher maintain based on observations of individual children (file folders - mailing labels - index cards)
anecdotal records
field trips
technology
criterion - referenced tests
17. Measure a student's knowledge or proficiency in something that has been learned
double - entry page
curriculum chunking
formative evaluations
achievement tests
18. Student draws line down the middle of page; left - hand side used for taking lecture notes - right - hand side used for reflections and connections
double - entry page
emergent curriculum
Hunter's Model
curriculum compacting
19. Scoring guide used in assessments
think - pair - share
diagnostic evaluations
rubrics
Summarizing and Note - taking
20. Where the student's score is in comparison to national or local norm
percentile rank
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
differentiated instruction
positive interdependence
21. Provide information about learning in progress and offer the teacher and the student an opportunity to monitor and regulate learning
questioning
content standards
anticipatory set
formative evaluations
22. 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
analytical scoring
Numbered Heads together
demonstrations
standard deviation
23. Used after focused lessons...provide alternative to seat work - rewards students - provide enrichment and remediation - fosters collaboration - accomodates individual learning styles
inquiry model
learning centers
nonlinguistic
whole - group instrcution
24. Foster inquiry rather than didactic (lecture) methods for learning (asking questions and hypothesize)
discovery learning
standard deviation
SQ3R
diagnostic evaluations
25. 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
reliability
performance assessments
curriculum compacting
anchored instruction
26. Tool for learning in schools today
mastery learning
play
discussion
technology
27. Standardized tests desired to measure ability to develop or acquire skills and knowledge
achievement tests
aptitude tests
discovery learning
rubrics
28. 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)
achievement tests
standard error of measurment
questioning
Knowledge storage
29. Oral - written - or through visual performance
holistic scoring
responses
service learning
group processing
30. 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
anticipatory set
criterion - referenced tests
standards - based assessments
differentiated instruction
31. Effective teaching model of lessons
32. Provide information about learning to be used to make judgements about a student's achievement and the teacher's instruction
formative evaluations
tiered instruction
validity
summative evalutations
33. Instructional strategies suggested by researchers that improve achievement across the content area
Essential Nine
percentile rank
linguistic
standards - based assessments
34. Teacher uses a group - based teacher - centered instructional approach to provide learning conditions for all students to achieve mastery of assigned information
raw score
mastery learning
curriculum chunking
interpersonal skills
35. Students work at thier own pace under the leadership or guidance (good for those who need accomodations)
quartiles
direct instruction
independent study
portfolio
36. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals
discovery learning
content standards
standards - based assessments
holistic scoring
37. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
demonstrations
technology
discussion
38. Essays - journals - short - answers used to generate general discriptions of the criteria for success on each question
holistic scoring
curriculum frameworks
nonlinguistic
aptitude tests
39. Helpful for teachers to see that overall student motivation is very high or very low. Based on levels 1-4 (Bell Curve)
summative evalutations
standard deviation
diagnostic evaluations
thematic instruction
40. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension
reciprocal teaching
authentic assessments
achievement tests
school - to - work
41. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses
positive interaction
norm - referenced tests
observation
diagnostic evaluations
42. Interaction that promotes face - to - face or individual interaction and relationships
group processing
graphic organizer
transfer
positive interaction
43. Teacher poses a problem and makes students think individually...teacher then suggests pairing and sharing on problem.
self - evaluation
cooperative learning
think - pair - share
learning centers
44. Involves students in the process of exploring the natural and/or material world in an effort to help them discover meaning
positive interdependence
inquiry model
self - evaluation
school - to - work
45. Combines service to the community with learning inside and outside the classroom
linguistic
aptitude tests
service learning
standards
46. Mean = average median = midpoint mode= most common
authentic assessments
responses
mean - median - and mode
observation
47. Child's work...stimulates - rewards - observes - explores - models - hypothesizes - discover
criterion - referenced tests
play
curriculum chunking
service learning
48. When you divide a normal distribution of scores into four equal parts 25% 50% 75%
discovery learning
quartiles
inquiry model
Jigsaw
49. 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)
standard error of measurment
project - based learning
responses
setting objectives and providing feedback
50. Written work that makes connections between new and previously learned context
essay
grouping practices
linguistic
lesson planning