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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Instructional strategies suggested by researchers that improve achievement across the content area






2. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






3. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






4. Effective teaching model of lessons

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5. Develop the response






6. Reading or hearing






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






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






9. 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)






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






11. Tool for learning in schools today






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






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






14. Involves students in the process of exploring the natural and/or material world in an effort to help them discover meaning






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






21. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






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






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






24. Deciding what to believe or what to do






25. Small groups or pairs to solve a problem or learn more about topic






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






27. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






47. In original unaltered form






48. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






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






50. Collection of products that reflect progress in a content area