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Praxis Instruction And Assessment
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Subjects
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praxis
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teaching
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Students work as a class to read - discuss - or solve problem (don't use all the time)
raw score
positive interdependence
field trips
whole - group instrcution
2. What the student feels is his or her area of weakness or strength
authentic assessments
self - evaluation
performance assessments
differentiated instruction
3. Develop the response
essay
authentic assessments
interdisciplinary instruction
think - pair - share
4. Helpful for teachers to see that overall student motivation is very high or very low. Based on levels 1-4 (Bell Curve)
graphic organizer
standard deviation
standards - based assessments
samples
5. Provide information about learning to be used to make judgements about a student's achievement and the teacher's instruction
percentile rank
summative evalutations
assigning home and practice
reliability
6. Extended practice of lesson that is meaninful (time - limit appropriate)
critical thinking
assigning home and practice
anecdotal records
technology
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
setting objectives and providing feedback
double - entry page
Essential Nine
analytical scoring
8. Extent to which an assessment is consistent with its measures
reliability
portfolio
standards - based assessments
anticipatory set
9. Teacher poses a problem and makes students think individually...teacher then suggests pairing and sharing on problem.
standard deviation
think - pair - share
norm - referenced tests
nonlinguistic
10. Interaction that promotes face - to - face or individual interaction and relationships
lesson planning
emergent curriculum
positive interaction
Jigsaw
11. Story maps - cause and effect maps - sequence diagrams - continuums - matrixes and cycle maps
mean - median - and mode
graphic organizer
transfer
linguistic
12. Child's work...stimulates - rewards - observes - explores - models - hypothesizes - discover
play
generating and testing hypotheses
thematic instruction
cues - questions - and advance organizers
13. Written work that makes connections between new and previously learned context
essay
standards
service learning
group processing
14. Tool for learning in schools today
whole - group instrcution
group processing
observation
technology
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
anecdotal records
cues - questions - and advance organizers
achievement tests
performance assessments
16. Oral - written - or through visual performance
whole - group instrcution
diagnostic evaluations
responses
differentiated instruction
17. Teacher offers same core content to each student but provides varying levels of support for students
anecdotal records
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
tiered instruction
Hunter's Model
18. Four or five students who collaborate on worksheets designed to provide extended practice on instruction given by the teacher
criterion - referenced tests
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
independent study
whole - group instrcution
19. Standardized tests desired to measure ability to develop or acquire skills and knowledge
aptitude tests
summative evalutations
Essential Nine
cooperative learning
20. Measure a student's knowledge or proficiency in something that has been learned
performance assessments
achievement tests
percentile rank
cues - questions - and advance organizers
21. Instructional strategies suggested by researchers that improve achievement across the content area
anticipatory set
Jigsaw
Essential Nine
assigning home and practice
22. Organizing curriculum around large themes
rubrics
curriculum chunking
thematic instruction
interdisciplinary instruction
23. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties
mnemonics
scaled scores
aptitude tests
performance standards
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
discussion
standard deviation
anticipatory set
project - based learning
25. Student must perform a task or generate his or her own response during assessment
project - based learning
quartiles
achievement tests
performance assessments
26. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension
mean - median - and mode
reciprocal teaching
assigning home and practice
percentile rank
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)
questioning
anticipatory set
grade - level equivalent scores
performance assessments
28. Involves students in the process of exploring the natural and/or material world in an effort to help them discover meaning
authentic assessments
inquiry model
interdisciplinary instruction
transfer
29. Groups that change as the students' learnng needs change
cues - questions - and advance organizers
flexible grouping
Jigsaw
technology
30. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals
cooperative learning
nonlinguistic
whole - group instrcution
summative evalutations
31. Teachers must provide an opportunity for feedback - not only on the group's product but also on the group's process
emergent curriculum
formative evaluations
group processing
standard error of measurment
32. In original unaltered form
differentiated instruction
cooperative learning
responses
primary source documents
33. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body
Jigsaw
nonlinguistic
behavioral and cognitive objectives
individual and group accontability
34. When you divide a normal distribution of scores into four equal parts 25% 50% 75%
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
technology
Numbered Heads together
quartiles
35. Deciding what to believe or what to do
critical thinking
Hunter's Model
summative evalutations
primary source documents
36. List the broad goals of a school district - state - or school and provide subject - specific outlines of course content - standards - and performance expectations
cues - questions - and advance organizers
field trips
curriculum frameworks
formative evaluations
37. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning
standard deviation
aptitude tests
field trips
curriculum compacting
38. Essays - short - answer
rubrics
field trips
analytical scoring
critical thinking
39. Provides expectations for the knowlege stduents must demonstrate in specific content areas
scaled scores
discovery learning
Jigsaw
content standards
40. Interests of the children (early childhood - based)
SQ3R
emergent curriculum
positive interaction
discussion
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
nonlinguistic
graphic organizer
SQ3R
standards - based assessments
42. Teacher - led or peer - led (literature circles and cooperative learning activities...lectures - recitations - reciprical teaching and Socrative seminars
demonstrations
lesson planning
discussion
achievement tests
43. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population
curriculum compacting
flexible grouping
group processing
samples
44. Foster inquiry rather than didactic (lecture) methods for learning (asking questions and hypothesize)
performance standards
graphic organizer
discovery learning
emergent curriculum
45. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores
scaled scores
technology
analytical scoring
Essential Nine
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
Numbered Heads together
anticipatory set
questioning
summative evalutations
47. Standarized tests (used against peer's scores)
graphic organizer
setting objectives and providing feedback
simulations
norm - referenced tests
48. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce
observation
content standards
school - to - work
diagnostic evaluations
49. Mean = average median = midpoint mode= most common
transfer
linguistic
emergent curriculum
mean - median - and mode
50. Essays - journals - short - answers used to generate general discriptions of the criteria for success on each question
standards
holistic scoring
analytical scoring
formative evaluations