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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. Collection of products that reflect progress in a content area






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






9. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






10. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






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






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






24. 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






25. Deciding what to believe or what to do






26. Develop the response






27. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






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






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






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






31. Tool for learning in schools today






32. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






33. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Interaction that promotes face - to - face or individual interaction and relationships






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






44. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






45. 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)






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






47. Reading or hearing






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






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






50. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning