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Praxis Instruction And Assessment
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Subjects
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praxis
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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. Where the student's score is in comparison to national or local norm
percentile rank
aptitude tests
content standards
generating and testing hypotheses
2. Students work at thier own pace under the leadership or guidance (good for those who need accomodations)
technology
independent study
diagnostic evaluations
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
3. Mean = average median = midpoint mode= most common
portfolio
Summarizing and Note - taking
standards
mean - median - and mode
4. Carefully planned lessons presented in small - attainable increments with clearly defined goals and objectives (lectures - demonstrations - review of student performance - student examination)
essay
assigning home and practice
Numbered Heads together
direct instruction
5. Essays - short - answer
Essential Nine
differentiated instruction
flexible grouping
analytical scoring
6. Foster inquiry rather than didactic (lecture) methods for learning (asking questions and hypothesize)
technology
discovery learning
behavioral and cognitive objectives
anticipatory set
7. Standardized tests desired to measure ability to develop or acquire skills and knowledge
diagnostic evaluations
whole - group instrcution
aptitude tests
individual and group accontability
8. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties
questioning
mnemonics
Knowledge storage
play
9. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals
think - pair - share
cooperative learning
standard deviation
portfolio
10. 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
interdisciplinary instruction
play
SQ3R
cues - questions - and advance organizers
11. Develop the response
interdisciplinary instruction
anticipatory set
anchored instruction
authentic assessments
12. Set the level of performance expectation for students; set at state level
performance standards
generating and testing hypotheses
school - to - work
mastery learning
13. 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)
grouping practices
percentile rank
discovery learning
demonstrations
14. Combining information from two or more content areas (English and history)
interdisciplinary instruction
anchored instruction
Numbered Heads together
raw score
15. Demonstrate the grade and month of the school year to which a student score can be compared
summative evalutations
grade - level equivalent scores
Numbered Heads together
analytical scoring
16. Helpful for teachers to see that overall student motivation is very high or very low. Based on levels 1-4 (Bell Curve)
direct instruction
portfolio
standard deviation
technology
17. Deciding what to believe or what to do
rubrics
critical thinking
demonstrations
formative evaluations
18. Double - entry page - graphic organziers - and SQ3R
Summarizing and Note - taking
questioning
achievement tests
journals
19. Written work that makes connections between new and previously learned context
double - entry page
lesson planning
anchored instruction
essay
20. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation
simulations
cues - questions - and advance organizers
standards
differentiated instruction
21. 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
performance assessments
think - pair - share
SQ3R
assigning home and practice
22. Four or five students who collaborate on worksheets designed to provide extended practice on instruction given by the teacher
emergent curriculum
direct instruction
discussion
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
23. Objectives - standards - materials - learner/enviornmental factors - opening - middle - closing - assessment
Numbered Heads together
lesson planning
play
performance standards
24. Teacher offers same core content to each student but provides varying levels of support for students
tiered instruction
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
performance assessments
discovery learning
25. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals
Essential Nine
standards - based assessments
Summarizing and Note - taking
cues - questions - and advance organizers
26. Standarized tests (used against peer's scores)
positive interdependence
raw score
norm - referenced tests
responses
27. Provide information about learning in progress and offer the teacher and the student an opportunity to monitor and regulate learning
reciprocal teaching
formative evaluations
essay
reliability
28. Responding to a wide range of abilities present in the classroom
mean - median - and mode
Summarizing and Note - taking
differentiated instruction
reciprocal teaching
29. Story maps - cause and effect maps - sequence diagrams - continuums - matrixes and cycle maps
transfer
individual and group accontability
learning centers
graphic organizer
30. Test is found to be valid if it measures what it was designed to measure
validity
questioning
Numbered Heads together
tiered instruction
31. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning
quartiles
learning centers
behavioral and cognitive objectives
field trips
32. Teacher uses a group - based teacher - centered instructional approach to provide learning conditions for all students to achieve mastery of assigned information
inquiry model
nonlinguistic
graphic organizer
mastery learning
33. Oral - written - or through visual performance
responses
standards
scaled scores
setting objectives and providing feedback
34. 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
Essential Nine
positive interdependence
curriculum compacting
setting objectives and providing feedback
35. Provide information about learning to be used to make judgements about a student's achievement and the teacher's instruction
summative evalutations
curriculum chunking
positive interdependence
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
36. Specific expectations of what a student must know and be able to do
standard deviation
emergent curriculum
setting objectives and providing feedback
standards
37. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives
behavioral and cognitive objectives
positive interaction
rubrics
standards
38. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population
samples
achievement tests
interpersonal skills
school - to - work
39. In original unaltered form
observation
primary source documents
Knowledge storage
Jigsaw
40. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
play
Identifying similarities and differences
think - pair - share
41. Standard deviation of test scores you would have obtained from a single student who took the same test multiple times
performance assessments
curriculum chunking
criterion - referenced tests
standard error of measurment
42. Grade - level expectations or mastery (teacher - made or textbood made exam)
grade - level equivalent scores
criterion - referenced tests
reciprocal teaching
interdisciplinary instruction
43. They can see patters and connections (comparing - contrasting - classifying information - discussion - inquiry - graphic organizers - and examples)
Identifying similarities and differences
service learning
diagnostic evaluations
scaled scores
44. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores
criterion - referenced tests
scaled scores
curriculum compacting
reciprocal teaching
45. Scoring guide used in assessments
Jigsaw
questioning
rubrics
critical thinking
46. Teacher - led or peer - led (literature circles and cooperative learning activities...lectures - recitations - reciprical teaching and Socrative seminars
portfolio
mastery learning
SQ3R
discussion
47. Nonlinguistic and linguistic
anticipatory set
Knowledge storage
lesson planning
percentile rank
48. Students must be taught and learn to use teamwork and positive social skills when working with others
critical thinking
graphic organizer
Hunter's Model
interpersonal skills
49. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce
direct instruction
responses
school - to - work
scaled scores
50. Student draws line down the middle of page; left - hand side used for taking lecture notes - right - hand side used for reflections and connections
Hunter's Model
reliability
rubrics
double - entry page