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






2. 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)






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






4. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






5. Standardized tests desired to measure ability to develop or acquire skills and knowledge






6. Mean = average median = midpoint mode= most common






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Standard deviation of test scores you would have obtained from a single student who took the same test multiple times






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Reading or hearing






24. Set clear expectations for lessons (not too narrow); students need to understand big picture and be able to connect what they are leanring to experiences and events (use advance organizers)






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. Combining information from two or more content areas (English and history)






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






32. Essays - short - answer






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






34. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






35. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






36. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






37. Excursions off the main campus to acheive deeper meaning






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






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






40. 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






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






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






43. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle






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






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






46. In original unaltered form






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






48. Oral - written - or through visual performance






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






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