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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






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






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






13. Develop the response






14. Combines service to the community with learning inside and outside the classroom






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






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






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






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






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






20. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






21. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






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






23. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






24. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






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






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






28. Organizing curriculum around large themes






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






37. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






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






39. 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)






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






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






42. Tool for learning in schools today






43. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






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






46. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






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






48. 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






49. Deciding what to believe or what to do






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