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






2. Organizing curriculum around large themes






3. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






4. 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)






5. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






6. Using previously learned material in a new situation or context (often supported in the closing of the lesson)






7. 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






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






9. 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






10. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses






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






12. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






13. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






14. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






15. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Effective teaching model of lessons

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






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






27. Oral - written - or through visual performance






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






29. Standard deviation of test scores you would have obtained from a single student who took the same test multiple times






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






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






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






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






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






35. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






37. In original unaltered form






38. 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






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






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






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






42. Deciding what to believe or what to do






43. 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)






44. Tool for learning in schools today






45. 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






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






47. This taps into students' natural curiosity to each student's advantage; it helps students more deeply understand concepts...student must be clear in explaining to apply knowledge to new setting






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






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






50. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce