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This term describes people who are interested in and affected by the quality of education, and not those that just have students in the schools?

Community

This describes someone who carries out the responsibility of a caregiver for a child?

Parent

These are terms or acronyms that most likely will not be understood by parents or those outside of education, but are terms or acronyms understood by educators.

Technical Jargon

This is the term used to describe the interactions between school and home that support student achievement.

Family involvement

Term used to describe the diversity of cultural background, differences in family characteristics and structure, and circumstantial or situational differences.

Family diversity

There are six ways parents can participate in school. Term used to describe the six ways.

Types of involvement

Term used to describe the fairness of a test?

Test bias

This term refers to the truthfulness of the assessment information?

Validity

This is a written plan teachers can use to design a test that includes descriptions of the target audience, purpose for the test, the number and type of items, and a description of the scoring of the items and the test procedures?

Test blueprint

This term is used to describe an informal measure of student progress based on the objectives of the curriculum and classroom instruction?

Teacher-made test

This term is used to describe the response given by a teacher after an action has taken place to let the student know if he or she is correct, provide improvement and encourage progress?

Teacher feedback

This describes a moment where a teacher may leave a prepared lesson to discuss a topic that is of interest to students?

Teachable moment

This term is used to describe an outline or statement that tell students exactly how much each part of an assignment or test will be worth?

Rubric

This is a term used to describe when a teacher reteaches a concept in a new or different way after discovering that students "didn't get it."

Reteach

This type of assessment measures student learning toward the goals and objectives at the end of instruction or a specified amount of time?

Summative assessment

This is the term that refers to the data that is collected after instruction has been completed to evaluate students' mastery of the curriculum objectives.

Summative data

This is a type of formal assessment that attempts to standardize conditions, or make all of the test-taking conditions the same for all takers of the test.

Standardized test

This is a term used to describe a statistical score based on the theoretical normal curve with a mean and standard deviation?

Standard score

This term is used to describe the consistency of test results over time; a reliable test is one that yields similar results time after time when administered to the same or a similar group?

Reliability

This in the term used when a teacher searches to find "where students are" in their current knowledge and skill in order to respond with beneficial instruction to match their students needs.

Responsiveness

This is the term that is used to describe the process in which students reflect on their achievement and progress?

Student self-assessment

This is the term that is used to describe the time when students are actually understanding and succeeding at the learning task?

Academic learning time

This is the term that refers to the scores that are based on developmental norms?

age-equivalent scores

This is an assessment which are nontraditional, meaning they are not the typical paper and pencil types of assessment?

Alternative assessment

This is the process used to judge a student's ongoing progress which is developmentally appropriate and dynamic and matched to specific goals and objectives?

Assessment

This is a type of assessment used when demonstrating a specific skill by constructing a product or solving a problem that could be applied to a real life situation?

Authentic assessment

This is a term used to describe a test that is well-constructed, test taker's scores normally are distributed in a bell-shaped curve with most test takers scoring in the average range.

Bell Curve

The term used to describe the whole situation or background relevant to a certain event or creation?

Context

The term is used as an umbrella that describes an area of the curriculum such as basic math skills?

Domain

This is a term that typically refers to all means used in schools to formally measure students performance over time and make judgments based on the results.

Evaluation

This is a term that refers to a teacher who is being open and willing to accept changes and modifications while teaching.

Flexibility

This is the term used to describe when a teacher maintains vigilance on student progress.

Monitor

This refers to a popular method of grading that reports the percentage correctly achieved on a particular assessment item.

Percentage scores

This is an instructional activity used for expository texts... when spelled out stands for: What I know, What I want to Know, and what I learned.

K-W-L

This is an authentic assessment tool that is used to assess student progress and consists of a collection of a student's work chosen for a specific purpose?

Portfolio

This is a term that refers to an informal assessment done by a teacher while watching a student;s academic and or social behavior and records the results.

Observation

This is a type of assessment strategy that requires students to actively solve real-world problems connected to content learning?

Problem-based learning/assessment

This type of assessment is where teachers of young children use observation of play to assess development in a number of skills and knowledge of concepts.

Play-based assessments

This is a teaching strategy used when teaching comprehension and self-monitoring skills, requires the teacher and student to take turns predicting, generating questions, clarifying and summarizing ideas based on text?

Reciprocal teaching

This is the term that refers to the assessment data that shows a students progress or lack or progress toward curricular objectives "along the way" toward reaching goals and objectives.

Formative assessment

This is an alternative assessment method that is based on a student's performance of a skill based on a real-life situation?

Performance-based assessment

This is a type of assessment that uses anecdotal journals, charts, frequency patterns, and use the data collected by the teacher through careful watching and charting of students behaviors.

Observational Assessment

This is a type of data that is collected formatively or summatively with the ultimate purpose of evaluating the appropriateness of a teacher's instructional techniques and the accuracy of students performance?

Informal data

This type of data is information that is collected through closely watching children and noting behaviors and or change?

Observational data

This is a interaction that takes place to discuss assignments, events, creations, or progress in any academic or behavioral area. This may be teacher/student, peer/peer, teacher/caregiver.

Conferences

This refers to a type of test that uses absolute standards to answer specific questions about student mastery or how much a student has learned on the set criteria. Samples of test include TExES and TAKS.

Criterion-referenced test

This type of assessment includes standardized or norm-referenced tests?

Formal assessment

This is the term used to describe assessment data that shows a students progress toward reaching goals and objectives.

Formative data

This is a term that is used when a teacher allows their personal feelings to be influenced by student's past performance, performances by their siblings, membership in peer groups, ethnicity, etc in the grading of a subjective assessment such as an essay question on a test.

Halo Effect

This type of assessment includes items such as work samples, portfolios, observations, checklists etc. as well as other traditional and nontraditional ways of measuring students's understanding and progress.

Informal assessment

This is an assessment that uses the process that determines a student's instructional needs within the classroom curriculum or matches assessment to a set of classroom objectives.

Curriculum-based assessment (CBA)

This is a type of test that reports student performance in relationship to a large number of other test takers of the same age or in the same grade.

Norm-referenced test

This is the term used to describe programs that are designed to perform a specific function directly for the user or, in some cases, for another application program, also includes words processors, development tools, drawing and paint tools, etc.

Application software

This is the term used to describe the meaning of how fast the memory and computer can run.

Bus speed

This is the word that describes a device that allows you to save or "burn" data to a CD-Rom or DVD-Rom in order to make backup copies of CD's or DVD's or other information from the computer.

Burner

What is the term used to describe symbols that represent the player in a virtual reality setting; normally used in video games.

Avatars

This is a method of teaching that involves low-level recall and repetition of skills or knowledge.

Drill and practice

This is the term used to describe the electronic mail equivalent of a pen pal?

E-pals

This describes when students and instruction in various locations can be linked through various technology?

Distance Education

This is the term that refers to the computers control center.

CPU- Central processing unit

This is a technology search that allows one to combine words and phrases using the words, and, or, not and near to limit, widen or define a search.

Boolean search

This term is used to describe the digital editing that refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, center, accentuating, etc.

Cropping

This is the term used when users go to certain Internet sites, that server can attach a tracker to the user's hard drive to monitor Web behavior.

Cookie

This is a hand held device which students enter their responses to questions which are recorded by the computer so that teachers can see that each student responded.

Clickers

This is a voice recognition software program that enables people to control their computer by voice.

Dragon Dictate

This is the term used to describe the virtual forum where students, parents, and or teachers can communicate and share to perhaps gain insight into best practices and to problem solve in specific areas of interest.

Electronic communities

This is a term that is used to describe the measurement used for monitors, printers, and in digital editing software.

DPI- dots per inch

This term is used when describing legal issues regarding what constitutes public domain and what is copyrighted.

Fair use

This type of software is used to limit an internet user from gaining access to certain inappropriate sites.

Filtering software

This is a computer software where a mastery system of software solutions that offers a total package as the computer teacher with lessons, drill, assessment, record keeping, and so forth.

Integrated learning system- ILS

This is a term used to describe a talking word processor ideal for young children, people with learning or visual disabilities, and second language learners.

Intellitalk

This is a type of software package that includes a range of information that can be manipulated easily by users.

Interactive multimedia

This is a technical term that refers to a collection of electronic artifacts collected over time and managed by students or a teacher that can be placed on the web or burned on to a cd.

Electronic portfolio

This describes the process where a sound file can become a part of a powerpoint demonstration and travel with it.

embed or link a narration

This is a device that can store or backup computer information and retain in when the computer is shut down.

External hard drive

This is a computer program that allows playback of audio or video.

media player

This is a computer program that automatically sends electronic messages to students' or parents' phones, etc, to remind them of certain vents or needs on the date or time programmed.

Iping

It is similar to the internet but allows only filtered information to reach students.

Intranet

This is the term that refers to the measurement used for the amount of memory space available, used, requires, etc.

megabytes

This is the term that refers to the filtering system that stops navigation on particular Internet location and can stop most viruses and spam or specifies emails from coming through.

Firewall

This is a device that young children or children with special needs who do not have the physical dexterity to use the keyboard can use to control the computer.

Joystick

This describes the use of several different media to convey information?

Multimedia presentation

This describes a storage system of sets of data contained sequentially within another that divide data between categories and subcategories for easy retrieval.

Nesting

This term is used when refuring to a system of computers linked by telephone wires or wireless connections.

Network

This is the term that is used to describe a card that physically makes the connection between the computer and a network possible.

NIC- Network Interface Card

This is a term used to describe a method of software distribution where a programmer creates a program and makes it available for free.

Open Source

This is the term that refers to increasing the clock speed of the computers CPU past the rate at which it was originally designed to run.

Overclocking

This is a device that can enhance a computers capability, for example a printer, scanner, speaker, etc. when connected.

peripheral

This is a term to describe an electronic scam that tries to get important information out of users on web sites and through emails?

phishing

This is the term that describes a connection or link between two webpages.

hyperlink

This is the term used to describe a collaboratively written website.

wiki

This term is used when compacting information so that less space is taken up in the computer and for sending through email.

zipping

This is the term that refers to a computer software application used for the production of any sort of printable material.

Word processor

This is the term that refers to any video, photo, or audio file that is rapidly shared and spreads among computer users.

Viral media

This is the term used to describe the outlets on a computer that provides connections for a large number of external peripheral devices to a computer.

USB

This term describes the draft standard for specifying the Internet location of an object such as a file or newsgroup.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

This is the term that describes the process of changing settings, adding programs, adding plug-ins, removing system limitations., etc.

tweaking

This is a term used to describe programs that are designed to be teachers to individual learners; students learn new information from the program in small chunks or modules.

tutorials

This is a term that refers to copying or installing software and other programs without a license.

pirating

This is a term that refers to a program that allows an author to create an electronic presentation of information.

Presentation tool

The is the term used to describe to component that holds the computer's recently accessed data for quick access and is much faster than reading from a hard drive.

RAM- Random Access Memory

This is the term used to describe the speed at which the monitor's picture is redrawn or flashed in front of one's eyes.

Refresh rate

This is the term that refers to a device that allows copying hard copy images and or text onto your computer.

scanner

This describes the device used to provide learning in two ways, auditory and visual.

Talk Back

This is a term that refers to a ready-made electronic format complete with margins, fonts, headers, and footers, logos, etc.

template

This is the name of a whiteboard that is interactive with a computer.

SMARTboard

This is the term used to describe a database program that allows keyword searched for information on the internet.

Search engine

This is a tool that allows users to access electronic information outside of the classroom.

telecommunication tools