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Praxis Instruction And Assessment
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praxis
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teaching
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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. Teacher - led or peer - led (literature circles and cooperative learning activities...lectures - recitations - reciprical teaching and Socrative seminars
discussion
mastery learning
criterion - referenced tests
SQ3R
2. Organizing curriculum around large themes
mastery learning
formative evaluations
anecdotal records
thematic instruction
3. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties
mnemonics
standards
flexible grouping
group processing
4. 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)
technology
questioning
journals
interdisciplinary instruction
5. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body
nonlinguistic
validity
setting objectives and providing feedback
double - entry page
6. Using previously learned material in a new situation or context (often supported in the closing of the lesson)
standards
SQ3R
simulations
transfer
7. 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
positive interdependence
whole - group instrcution
direct instruction
cues - questions - and advance organizers
8. Child's work...stimulates - rewards - observes - explores - models - hypothesizes - discover
double - entry page
play
reciprocal teaching
questioning
9. 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
anticipatory set
think - pair - share
standard deviation
curriculum frameworks
10. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses
achievement tests
diagnostic evaluations
independent study
standard error of measurment
11. Interests of the children (early childhood - based)
achievement tests
emergent curriculum
authentic assessments
curriculum compacting
12. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals
performance assessments
diagnostic evaluations
generating and testing hypotheses
cooperative learning
13. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores
holistic scoring
mean - median - and mode
interdisciplinary instruction
scaled scores
14. Nonlinguistic and linguistic
linguistic
Hunter's Model
think - pair - share
Knowledge storage
15. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly
mastery learning
raw score
summative evalutations
linguistic
16. Measure a student's knowledge or proficiency in something that has been learned
primary source documents
percentile rank
SQ3R
achievement tests
17. Students work as a class to read - discuss - or solve problem (don't use all the time)
whole - group instrcution
demonstrations
independent study
stanines
18. To be assessed as successful - students must contribute to the group's success and complete their portion of the task
responses
Hunter's Model
individual and group accontability
holistic scoring
19. Provide information about learning in progress and offer the teacher and the student an opportunity to monitor and regulate learning
tiered instruction
lesson planning
formative evaluations
differentiated instruction
20. Where the student's score is in comparison to national or local norm
cues - questions - and advance organizers
diagnostic evaluations
lesson planning
percentile rank
21. Specific expectations of what a student must know and be able to do
setting objectives and providing feedback
standards
group processing
generating and testing hypotheses
22. Extent to which an assessment is consistent with its measures
flexible grouping
reliability
group processing
technology
23. Carefully planned lessons presented in small - attainable increments with clearly defined goals and objectives (lectures - demonstrations - review of student performance - student examination)
direct instruction
group processing
discussion
grade - level equivalent scores
24. Effective teaching model of lessons
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25. Extended practice of lesson that is meaninful (time - limit appropriate)
assigning home and practice
rubrics
diagnostic evaluations
primary source documents
26. Teacher poses a problem and makes students think individually...teacher then suggests pairing and sharing on problem.
percentile rank
curriculum compacting
think - pair - share
curriculum frameworks
27. Oral - written - or through visual performance
responses
validity
achievement tests
grade - level equivalent scores
28. Story maps - cause and effect maps - sequence diagrams - continuums - matrixes and cycle maps
linguistic
Identifying similarities and differences
summative evalutations
graphic organizer
29. Standard deviation of test scores you would have obtained from a single student who took the same test multiple times
tiered instruction
standard error of measurment
diagnostic evaluations
flexible grouping
30. Teacher uses a group - based teacher - centered instructional approach to provide learning conditions for all students to achieve mastery of assigned information
mastery learning
Hunter's Model
Essential Nine
observation
31. Responding to a wide range of abilities present in the classroom
reliability
differentiated instruction
transfer
quartiles
32. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle
project - based learning
reinforcing effort/providing recognition
validity
critical thinking
33. Test is found to be valid if it measures what it was designed to measure
Jigsaw
assigning home and practice
norm - referenced tests
validity
34. Like authentic assessments/understanding of key concepts or his or her ability to commuicate ideas in writing
direct instruction
grouping practices
emergent curriculum
journals
35. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors
reliability
observation
think - pair - share
direct instruction
36. Student draws line down the middle of page; left - hand side used for taking lecture notes - right - hand side used for reflections and connections
double - entry page
service learning
positive interaction
performance assessments
37. In original unaltered form
primary source documents
curriculum chunking
mean - median - and mode
self - evaluation
38. 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
technology
percentile rank
Jigsaw
cues - questions - and advance organizers
39. Set the level of performance expectation for students; set at state level
raw score
performance standards
questioning
curriculum frameworks
40. Combining information from two or more content areas (English and history)
setting objectives and providing feedback
responses
tiered instruction
interdisciplinary instruction
41. Essays - journals - short - answers used to generate general discriptions of the criteria for success on each question
learning centers
holistic scoring
quartiles
positive interdependence
42. Deciding what to believe or what to do
learning centers
Jigsaw
diagnostic evaluations
critical thinking
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)
holistic scoring
grouping practices
setting objectives and providing feedback
double - entry page
44. Tool for learning in schools today
technology
mean - median - and mode
emergent curriculum
standard deviation
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
Numbered Heads together
positive interaction
nonlinguistic
responses
46. Mean = average median = midpoint mode= most common
standard deviation
mean - median - and mode
Numbered Heads together
percentile rank
47. 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
thematic instruction
tiered instruction
assigning home and practice
generating and testing hypotheses
48. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals
standards - based assessments
differentiated instruction
generating and testing hypotheses
interpersonal skills
49. Standarized tests (used against peer's scores)
play
essay
norm - referenced tests
group processing
50. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce
demonstrations
play
school - to - work
standards