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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






2. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






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






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






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






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






7. 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)






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






9. Organizing curriculum around large themes






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






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






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






13. Written work that makes connections between new and previously learned context






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






15. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






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






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






18. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






19. 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






20. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






21. Develop the response






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






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






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






25. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






26. Tool for learning in schools today






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






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






29. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






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






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






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






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






34. Effective teaching model of lessons

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






36. Deciding what to believe or what to do






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






50. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores