Sentences with phrase «used praxis»

Alabama plans to use the Praxis II exams manufactured by the Educational Testing Service, the same tests that are the focus of national class action lawsuits for scoring errors.

For example, both Oregon and Georgia use the Praxis II Mathematics: Content Knowledge exam for the licensure of prospective secondary school math teachers (a test judged to be at the advanced high school level.

Not exact matches

Begin with the thought that human development appears these days driven entirely by scientific and technological advances (knowledge) as influencing and influenced by economic, political, and social uses of that knowledge (praxis).

I use it only to illustrate that the appeal to relevance and praxis can not assure that our goals will truly be for the indivisible salvation of the whole world.

With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).

If I am at all correct on the need for and possibility of public criteria for fundamental theology, then it follows that Christian praxis - theologies should also make use of public criteria.

Only in the contemporary period have reflective men and women begun to see through the perverse uses of reason and to test its deliverances in the light of ideology - critique and transformative praxis.

By technology I mean not only machines or pills or techniques but the central praxis of modernity — the most consistent and self - consciously methodical way of using contemporary science to alter the natural order so that it will serve human desires and needs.

Indeed he seems to have been the first Latin author to use the expression praxis in a philosophical or theological context.)

The concept of liposomal drug delivery has revolutionised the pharmaceutical field and came into praxis some 20 years ago when the first liposomal formulation of the anti-cancer drug doxorubicin was approved for clinical use.

She is currently Principal at The Praxis Department, a consultancy that helps start - ups and non-profits drive positive cultural change in the workplace and community using agile research and participatory processes.

Ohio uses the Educational Testing Service's Praxis III performance assessment to measure the skills of novice teachers through classroom observations, interviews, and examples and descriptions of classroom work.

The Praxis Exam is used by many states to ensure that classroom teachers meet a minimum standard of knowledge.

Many other states choose to use or adapt the Praxis tests administered by ETS.

Shuls has inserted two vertical bars, one representing Arkansas» Praxis passing score as of 2010 (the solid bar on the left), and the other representing a higher passing score used by Louisiana.

«Better» can be defined in multiple ways, but 46 states and the District of Columbia use some form of the Praxis assessments to set a minimum bar for entry into the teaching profession.

Designed by the Princeton, N.J. - based Educational Testing Service, the PRAXIS III in Ohio will use trained assessors to evaluate teachers based on interviews with them...

Bring back Praxis III... it was comprehensive, fair, used an effective rubric scoring model... I know, I was an assessor for all 7 years it was in effect.

The organization takes a holistic approach to selection, rather than «using a blunt instrument like cut scores on Praxis or content exams, which can dramatically impact diversity in a negative way,» says Anne Mahle, who currently serves as senior vice president for public partnerships but led recruitment for many years.149 Although the average GPA of corps members is 3.42, TFA maintains a relatively low cutoff requirement of 2.5 and instead places greater emphasis on candidate evaluations designed to measure characteristics that TFA's research has shown its most effective teachers share.

Years in development, Praxis III is set up so professional evaluators assess a candidate's classroom work and lesson plans using criteria such as «organizing content knowledge for student learning,» «creating an environment for student learning,» and «teacher professionalism.»

On the Praxis II — a series of commonly used licensure tests that are subject - specific — African American test takers are much less likely than white test takers to pass the tests the first time; per Table 3, this finding holds true across various subject and grade level Praxis II tests.83

Most of the questions on the Praxis II and NES examinations used to assess the knowledge of prospective secondary school mathematics teachers can be found on high school level mathematics tests.

By focusing on dialogue, personalization, and praxis, preservice teachers learned that the experience of working virtually with the host school entailed much more than learning how to use technology and committing to memory discrete bits of information.

The book drive illustrated not only the development of critical awareness but also the ways newly formed insights through personalization, dialogue, and praxis can be used to enact changes that benefit others.

Tennessee also requires middle school teachers to pass the Praxis Teaching Reading: Elementary Education test, which, under the heading «reading comprehension strategies across text types,» requires teachers to know «how to select and use a variety of informational, descriptive, and persuasive materials at appropriate reading levels to promote students» comprehension of nonfiction, including content - area texts.»

For Subject Area Competency, the Praxis II: Subject Tests are used.

The Praxis II content test and teaching experience may still be used to add a field, as well as completion of an additional preparation program in the new field.

Informational Texts: The Praxis II Early Childhood Education (5025) test addresses both the use of informational texts and text complexity.

For certification purposes, the Praxis II is the State Board of Education (SBOE)- approved content and performance assessments used in Idaho.

In fact, I found myself with an excess of Praxis Points (the points you use to upgrade Jensen) at times because I'd been spending a lot time trying to explore everywhere and simply didn't have any real interest in putting points into random upgrades that would see little usage with my play style.

However, upgrades can only be made with the use of Praxis points which are in turn earned by getting XP.

Once used to denote «doing», as distinct from thinking and making, today the term can convey associations of political action (praxis), professional activity, discipline or rehearsal, as well as a shift away from the self - enclosed artwork or medium to open - ended actions, series, processes and projects.

The exhibition demonstrates that surrealist praxis informs contemporary artists who use bizarre juxtapositions to blur the line between the real and the imaginary.»

Using visual and textual media of physical, digital, found and fabricated states, his work explores possibilities of an artistic practice that intersects with anarchist ideas of social and political praxis, engaging tensions between autonomy and authority while examining thematics of fiction, imagination, precarity, anxiety, urgency, and counterhegemony.

Once used to denote «doing», as distinct from thinking and making, today the term practice can convey associations of political action (praxis), professional activity, discipline or rehearsal, among many other things.

Artistic praxis today is developing more connections throughout analysing and using different techniques and media.

This work, which invokes humanity's age - old praxis of gathering around a fire, is especially well - placed in this wasteland of industrial debris, used by many different people.

Mendieta used her face and body as a Bataillean challenge, and later developed an articulated decolonial praxis.

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use (London: Earthscan, 1997); Friedrich Schmidt - Bleek et al., Factor 10: Making Sustainability Accountable, Putting Resource Productivity into Praxis (Carnoules, France: Factor 10 Club, 1998), p. 5.

In addition, you can also pick up Praxis kits for use in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on PC and Xbox One (sorry, PS4 players) by completing tasks in the mobile game.

Please use our institution's program code - 5233 when registering for The Praxis Series ™ assessments.