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






2. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






3. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






4. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






5. Standarized tests (used against peer's scores)






6. 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






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






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






9. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






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






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






12. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






13. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






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






15. Deciding what to believe or what to do






16. Specific expectations of what a student must know and be able to do






17. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






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






19. Tool for learning in schools today






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






21. 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






22. Teacher breaks down unit's content into smaller units and provides support and frequent feedback to the student as he or she demonstrates understanding of each unit






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






24. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Combines service to the community with learning inside and outside the classroom






32. To be assessed as successful - students must contribute to the group's success and complete their portion of the task






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






34. Scoring guide used in assessments






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






36. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






37. Effective teaching model of lessons

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






39. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses






40. Essays - short - answer






41. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






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






43. Oral - written - or through visual performance






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






45. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






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






47. Like authentic assessments/understanding of key concepts or his or her ability to commuicate ideas in writing






48. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






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






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