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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Four or five students who collaborate on worksheets designed to provide extended practice on instruction given by the teacher






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






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






4. Measure a student's knowledge or proficiency in something that has been learned






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






6. In original unaltered form






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






8. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






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






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






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






12. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






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






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






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






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






17. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






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






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






27. Organizing curriculum around large themes






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






29. Student draws line down the middle of page; left - hand side used for taking lecture notes - right - hand side used for reflections and connections






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






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






32. Groups that change as the students' learnng needs change






33. Essays - short - answer






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






35. Tool for learning in schools today






36. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






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






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






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






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






41. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






42. Carefully planned lessons presented in small - attainable increments with clearly defined goals and objectives (lectures - demonstrations - review of student performance - student examination)






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






44. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






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






46. 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






47. Oral - written - or through visual performance






48. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






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