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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Instructional strategies suggested by researchers that improve achievement across the content area






2. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals






3. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






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






6. Deciding what to believe or what to do






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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)






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






22. Develop the response






23. 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






24. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






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






26. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






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






28. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






29. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






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






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






33. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






34. Oral - written - or through visual performance






35. Essays - short - answer






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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. Responding to a wide range of abilities present in the classroom






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






43. 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)






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






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






46. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






47. 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






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






49. 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






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