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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. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






2. Organizing curriculum around large themes






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






4. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses






5. Students work at thier own pace under the leadership or guidance (good for those who need accomodations)






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






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






8. 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






9. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






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






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






12. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






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






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






15. 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)






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






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






23. Tool for learning in schools today






24. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






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






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






30. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






31. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






32. Scoring guide used in assessments






33. Set clear expectations for lessons (not too narrow); students need to understand big picture and be able to connect what they are leanring to experiences and events (use advance organizers)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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