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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. Reading or hearing
technology
mean - median - and mode
reliability
linguistic
2. Objectives - standards - materials - learner/enviornmental factors - opening - middle - closing - assessment
whole - group instrcution
mean - median - and mode
lesson planning
inquiry model
3. Provides expectations for the knowlege stduents must demonstrate in specific content areas
play
interpersonal skills
raw score
content standards
4. Students must be taught and learn to use teamwork and positive social skills when working with others
summative evalutations
interpersonal skills
transfer
Knowledge storage
5. 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
summative evalutations
positive interaction
flexible grouping
Numbered Heads together
6. Provide information about learning to be used to make judgements about a student's achievement and the teacher's instruction
group processing
summative evalutations
school - to - work
reliability
7. Demonstrate the grade and month of the school year to which a student score can be compared
portfolio
demonstrations
think - pair - share
grade - level equivalent scores
8. Groups that change as the students' learnng needs change
positive interdependence
scaled scores
flexible grouping
curriculum chunking
9. In original unaltered form
primary source documents
lesson planning
content standards
observation
10. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses
graphic organizer
diagnostic evaluations
demonstrations
differentiated instruction
11. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task
self - evaluation
positive interdependence
SQ3R
primary source documents
12. Standarized tests (used against peer's scores)
differentiated instruction
interdisciplinary instruction
norm - referenced tests
cooperative learning
13. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors
observation
quartiles
anticipatory set
positive interaction
14. Using previously learned material in a new situation or context (often supported in the closing of the lesson)
discovery learning
transfer
diagnostic evaluations
curriculum chunking
15. Nonlinguistic and linguistic
Knowledge storage
differentiated instruction
inquiry model
achievement tests
16. 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)
play
questioning
aptitude tests
rubrics
17. Derived from STANdard NINEs. based on nine - point standard scale with a mean of five
grade - level equivalent scores
performance assessments
simulations
stanines
18. 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
curriculum compacting
authentic assessments
generating and testing hypotheses
responses
19. Showing a student what something is or how to do something
mastery learning
individual and group accontability
interdisciplinary instruction
demonstrations
20. Teacher - led or peer - led (literature circles and cooperative learning activities...lectures - recitations - reciprical teaching and Socrative seminars
grouping practices
Summarizing and Note - taking
criterion - referenced tests
discussion
21. 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
rubrics
emergent curriculum
primary source documents
Jigsaw
22. 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
quartiles
Identifying similarities and differences
SQ3R
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
23. Student must perform a task or generate his or her own response during assessment
standard error of measurment
performance assessments
thematic instruction
interdisciplinary instruction
24. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals
cooperative learning
SQ3R
Hunter's Model
portfolio
25. Teachers must provide an opportunity for feedback - not only on the group's product but also on the group's process
mnemonics
curriculum compacting
group processing
anticipatory set
26. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly
raw score
diagnostic evaluations
emergent curriculum
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
27. Organizing curriculum around large themes
journals
thematic instruction
transfer
assigning home and practice
28. Involves students in the process of exploring the natural and/or material world in an effort to help them discover meaning
group processing
authentic assessments
inquiry model
achievement tests
29. Essays - short - answer
criterion - referenced tests
grouping practices
grade - level equivalent scores
analytical scoring
30. What the student feels is his or her area of weakness or strength
project - based learning
graphic organizer
self - evaluation
simulations
31. Child's work...stimulates - rewards - observes - explores - models - hypothesizes - discover
simulations
thematic instruction
play
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
32. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body
nonlinguistic
anticipatory set
performance standards
tiered instruction
33. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle
questioning
grade - level equivalent scores
standard deviation
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
34. List the broad goals of a school district - state - or school and provide subject - specific outlines of course content - standards - and performance expectations
curriculum frameworks
essay
service learning
curriculum compacting
35. 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
self - evaluation
journals
rubrics
curriculum chunking
36. Oral - written - or through visual performance
primary source documents
SQ3R
responses
standards
37. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation
authentic assessments
simulations
transfer
samples
38. 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)
discovery learning
grouping practices
standard error of measurment
anchored instruction
39. Combining information from two or more content areas (English and history)
interdisciplinary instruction
standard deviation
questioning
raw score
40. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties
mnemonics
Identifying similarities and differences
Essential Nine
authentic assessments
41. 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
standard error of measurment
Jigsaw
anchored instruction
differentiated instruction
42. Standard deviation of test scores you would have obtained from a single student who took the same test multiple times
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
primary source documents
aptitude tests
standard error of measurment
43. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores
emergent curriculum
scaled scores
authentic assessments
Essential Nine
44. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals
critical thinking
standards - based assessments
mastery learning
journals
45. Teacher offers same core content to each student but provides varying levels of support for students
mnemonics
quartiles
tiered instruction
anecdotal records
46. Where the student's score is in comparison to national or local norm
nonlinguistic
percentile rank
Identifying similarities and differences
lesson planning
47. Provide information about learning in progress and offer the teacher and the student an opportunity to monitor and regulate learning
emergent curriculum
samples
lesson planning
formative evaluations
48. Used after focused lessons...provide alternative to seat work - rewards students - provide enrichment and remediation - fosters collaboration - accomodates individual learning styles
learning centers
formative evaluations
criterion - referenced tests
think - pair - share
49. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension
reciprocal teaching
grade - level equivalent scores
inquiry model
curriculum compacting
50. Story maps - cause and effect maps - sequence diagrams - continuums - matrixes and cycle maps
formative evaluations
percentile rank
graphic organizer
holistic scoring