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






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






3. Develop the response






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






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






6. Extended practice of lesson that is meaninful (time - limit appropriate)






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






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






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






10. Interaction that promotes face - to - face or individual interaction and relationships






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






12. Child's work...stimulates - rewards - observes - explores - models - hypothesizes - discover






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






14. Tool for learning in schools today






15. 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






16. Oral - written - or through visual performance






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






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






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






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






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






22. Organizing curriculum around large themes






23. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






24. 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






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






26. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






27. 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)






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






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






30. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






31. Teachers must provide an opportunity for feedback - not only on the group's product but also on the group's process






32. In original unaltered form






33. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






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






35. Deciding what to believe or what to do






36. List the broad goals of a school district - state - or school and provide subject - specific outlines of course content - standards - and performance expectations






37. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






38. Essays - short - answer






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






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






41. 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






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






43. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






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






45. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






46. 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






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






48. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






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






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