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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. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






2. Tool for learning in schools today






3. Reading or hearing






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






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






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






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






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






17. Oral - written - or through visual performance






18. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






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






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






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






22. 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)






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






24. 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






25. Written notes teacher maintain based on observations of individual children (file folders - mailing labels - index cards)






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






27. Scoring guide used in assessments






28. They can see patters and connections (comparing - contrasting - classifying information - discussion - inquiry - graphic organizers - and examples)






29. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






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






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






32. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






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






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






35. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






37. Carefully planned lessons presented in small - attainable increments with clearly defined goals and objectives (lectures - demonstrations - review of student performance - student examination)






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. 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






40. Effective teaching model of lessons


41. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






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






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






44. 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






45. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle






46. Organizing curriculum around large themes






47. Students must be taught and learn to use teamwork and positive social skills when working with others






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






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






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