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Praxis Instruction And Assessment
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praxis
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teaching
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Demonstrate the grade and month of the school year to which a student score can be compared
observation
validity
inquiry model
grade - level equivalent scores
2. Specific expectations of what a student must know and be able to do
critical thinking
responses
reciprocal teaching
standards
3. 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)
stanines
questioning
individual and group accontability
authentic assessments
4. Develop the response
transfer
individual and group accontability
Identifying similarities and differences
authentic assessments
5. Interests of the children (early childhood - based)
criterion - referenced tests
emergent curriculum
scaled scores
think - pair - share
6. Child's work...stimulates - rewards - observes - explores - models - hypothesizes - discover
primary source documents
differentiated instruction
Essential Nine
play
7. 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
flexible grouping
aptitude tests
Numbered Heads together
performance standards
8. Essays - journals - short - answers used to generate general discriptions of the criteria for success on each question
SQ3R
tiered instruction
cooperative learning
holistic scoring
9. 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
generating and testing hypotheses
discovery learning
technology
raw score
10. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals
norm - referenced tests
standard deviation
standards - based assessments
setting objectives and providing feedback
11. Reading or hearing
linguistic
reciprocal teaching
grade - level equivalent scores
validity
12. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors
Numbered Heads together
criterion - referenced tests
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
observation
13. Extent to which an assessment is consistent with its measures
Numbered Heads together
reliability
thematic instruction
responses
14. Carefully planned lessons presented in small - attainable increments with clearly defined goals and objectives (lectures - demonstrations - review of student performance - student examination)
graphic organizer
individual and group accontability
achievement tests
direct instruction
15. Small groups or pairs to solve a problem or learn more about topic
Summarizing and Note - taking
nonlinguistic
project - based learning
school - to - work
16. Combines service to the community with learning inside and outside the classroom
essay
nonlinguistic
service learning
Hunter's Model
17. Used after focused lessons...provide alternative to seat work - rewards students - provide enrichment and remediation - fosters collaboration - accomodates individual learning styles
learning centers
interpersonal skills
double - entry page
project - based learning
18. Responding to a wide range of abilities present in the classroom
rubrics
differentiated instruction
mnemonics
setting objectives and providing feedback
19. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives
behavioral and cognitive objectives
nonlinguistic
discussion
standard error of measurment
20. Teacher poses a problem and makes students think individually...teacher then suggests pairing and sharing on problem.
Numbered Heads together
play
think - pair - share
direct instruction
21. Standarized tests (used against peer's scores)
raw score
samples
norm - referenced tests
simulations
22. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals
performance assessments
cooperative learning
school - to - work
behavioral and cognitive objectives
23. Teacher uses a group - based teacher - centered instructional approach to provide learning conditions for all students to achieve mastery of assigned information
service learning
setting objectives and providing feedback
mastery learning
positive interaction
24. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle
standard deviation
quartiles
school - to - work
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
25. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores
summative evalutations
samples
graphic organizer
scaled scores
26. Essays - short - answer
project - based learning
SQ3R
analytical scoring
mnemonics
27. They can see patters and connections (comparing - contrasting - classifying information - discussion - inquiry - graphic organizers - and examples)
Identifying similarities and differences
curriculum compacting
diagnostic evaluations
curriculum chunking
28. Like authentic assessments/understanding of key concepts or his or her ability to commuicate ideas in writing
journals
behavioral and cognitive objectives
curriculum compacting
discovery learning
29. 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
aptitude tests
cues - questions - and advance organizers
curriculum compacting
primary source documents
30. What the student feels is his or her area of weakness or strength
performance standards
mnemonics
self - evaluation
simulations
31. Instructional strategies suggested by researchers that improve achievement across the content area
generating and testing hypotheses
standard deviation
curriculum chunking
Essential Nine
32. Provides expectations for the knowlege stduents must demonstrate in specific content areas
anecdotal records
observation
content standards
double - entry page
33. Four or five students who collaborate on worksheets designed to provide extended practice on instruction given by the teacher
positive interdependence
interdisciplinary instruction
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
individual and group accontability
34. Nonlinguistic and linguistic
achievement tests
mean - median - and mode
Knowledge storage
diagnostic evaluations
35. Derived from STANdard NINEs. based on nine - point standard scale with a mean of five
essay
formative evaluations
stanines
Summarizing and Note - taking
36. Organizing curriculum around large themes
quartiles
anticipatory set
thematic instruction
analytical scoring
37. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation
inquiry model
critical thinking
Hunter's Model
simulations
38. Deciding what to believe or what to do
assigning home and practice
reliability
critical thinking
generating and testing hypotheses
39. 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
anchored instruction
summative evalutations
analytical scoring
standards - based assessments
40. Showing a student what something is or how to do something
transfer
differentiated instruction
standards
demonstrations
41. 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
direct instruction
lesson planning
school - to - work
Jigsaw
42. Scoring guide used in assessments
standard error of measurment
aptitude tests
thematic instruction
rubrics
43. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body
nonlinguistic
flexible grouping
inquiry model
independent study
44. Involves students in the process of exploring the natural and/or material world in an effort to help them discover meaning
generating and testing hypotheses
percentile rank
field trips
inquiry model
45. Measure a student's knowledge or proficiency in something that has been learned
achievement tests
technology
formative evaluations
inquiry model
46. 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
criterion - referenced tests
whole - group instrcution
anticipatory set
curriculum compacting
47. Collection of products that reflect progress in a content area
curriculum compacting
transfer
portfolio
reliability
48. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties
standard error of measurment
mnemonics
simulations
transfer
49. Where the student's score is in comparison to national or local norm
percentile rank
standards
independent study
diagnostic evaluations
50. Set the level of performance expectation for students; set at state level
setting objectives and providing feedback
performance standards
standards
emergent curriculum