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






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






3. Develop the response






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






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






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






7. 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)






8. Teacher poses a problem and makes students think individually...teacher then suggests pairing and sharing on problem.






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






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






11. 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






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






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






14. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






16. Deciding what to believe or what to do






17. Objectives - standards - materials - learner/enviornmental factors - opening - middle - closing - assessment






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






19. Oral - written - or through visual performance






20. 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






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






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






23. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses






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






25. Effective teaching model of lessons

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






27. In original unaltered form






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






29. 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)






30. Essays - short - answer






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






32. 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






33. Standarized tests (used against peer's scores)






34. Collection of products that reflect progress in a content area






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






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






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






38. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






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






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






41. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






42. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






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






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






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






46. Reading or hearing






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






48. 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






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






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