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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • 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. Teacher poses a problem and makes students think individually...teacher then suggests pairing and sharing on problem.






2. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






3. 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






4. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






5. Essays - short - answer






6. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






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






8. 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)






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Scoring guide used in assessments






14. 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






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






16. Teacher uses a group - based teacher - centered instructional approach to provide learning conditions for all students to achieve mastery of assigned information






17. 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






18. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






19. Organizing curriculum around large themes






20. Combines service to the community with learning inside and outside the classroom






21. 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






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






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






24. Combining information from two or more content areas (English and history)






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






26. Like authentic assessments/understanding of key concepts or his or her ability to commuicate ideas in writing






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






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






29. Oral - written - or through visual performance






30. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






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






33. When you divide a normal distribution of scores into four equal parts 25% 50% 75%






34. Standardized tests desired to measure ability to develop or acquire skills and knowledge






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






36. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






43. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






44. In original unaltered form






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






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






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






48. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






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






50. Grade - level expectations or mastery (teacher - made or textbood made exam)