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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 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






2. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






3. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






4. Scoring guide used in assessments






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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)






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






12. Effective teaching model of lessons

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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






20. In original unaltered form






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






22. Instructional strategies suggested by researchers that improve achievement across the content area






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






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






25. Deciding what to believe or what to do






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. 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)






32. 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






33. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






34. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






35. Reading or hearing






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






37. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses






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






39. 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






40. Oral - written - or through visual performance






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






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






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






44. Extended practice of lesson that is meaninful (time - limit appropriate)






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. 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






47. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






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






49. Essays - short - answer






50. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly