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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Combining information from two or more content areas (English and history)






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






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






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






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






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






7. Partner check (complete work individually and then check with partner) - group investigation (students are assigned a topic and prepare a report or summary to share with the whole class)






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






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






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






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






12. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






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






14. 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






15. Effective teaching model of lessons

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16. 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






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






18. 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






19. Scoring guide used in assessments






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






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






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






23. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






24. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






25. 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)






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






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






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






29. Deciding what to believe or what to do






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






31. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






32. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






33. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






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






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






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






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






39. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






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






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






49. 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






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