Test your basic knowledge |

Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






2. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue






3. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






4. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






5. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel






6. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






7. Assertive discipline






8. Sound games - syllable clapping - rhyming songs - poems - jokes and silly rhythms - pictures in books






9. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






10. Is a metaphoric term used by Vygotsky to show how parents and teachers provide temporary assistance to children/students by modeling appropriate behavior or skills. In the classroom - teachers model or demonstrate specific strategies and gradually sh






11. Congnitively demanding






12. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word






13. Counting to 100






14. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.






15. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






16. Lower level questioning






17. Physical education






18. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials






19. Simple maps to begin - instruct on simple symbols used - students construct a map






20. Modeling






21. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






22. The process of adapting a new culture;the new langage is seen as tied to the way the learners community and the target language community view one another.






23. Stages of cognitive development






24. Operant conditioning






25. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting






26. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words






27. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols






28. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






29. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






30. Recogize separate sounds in words






31. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


32. Follow the child






33. Mapping






34. An approach to reading instruction focusing on reading for meaning and the integration of the four aspects of language reading - writing - listening - and speaking.






35. Tends to be more relevant to students and it appears to be the conscious choice of how students want to learn. This approach involves self - instruction - experimenting - inquiry - exploring - and general curiosity. Acquisition accounts for about 20%






36. Face to face conversation






37. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables






38. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






39. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






40. Art






41. 'with - it - ness'






42. Understand relationships of places to one another - distribution of resources throughout the world - how use of goods influence people who consume them - how decisions people make shape present and future - places change over time






43. What a government is and how governments function - how rules are made and enforced - why government is necessary - democratic values and beleifs of civic life






44. Study of social - political - and cultural values and their impact on scientific research and techological innovation as well as society - politics and culture as a whole






45. Discovery learning and constructivism






46. A minimal sound unit of speech that - when contrasted with another phoneme - affects the naming of words in a language - such as /b/ in book contrasts with /r/ in rook - /l/ in look. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that change the meanings o






47. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines






48. In the classroom the teacher and students take on roles similar to that of the parent and child respectively. Students must respond physically to the words of the teacher. The activity may be a simple game such as Simon Says or may involve more compl






49. Is the subconscious or subliminal - process by which individuals learn important things like language - prejudices - habits - social rules and behaviors. Accretion is a process where individuals are totally unaware that learning is taking place. Accr






50. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.