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DSST Educational Terms Vocab
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1. Intended results of schooling: What students are supposed to know and be able to do.
whole language
outcomes
standards
multiple intelligences
2. An informal term for assigning students to the same teacher for more than one school year.
looping
rubric
outcomes
problem-based learning
3. The habits and values taught in schools that are not specified in the official written curriculum. May refer to what critics see as an overemphasis on obedience - dependence - and conformity.
hidden curriculum (latent curriculum)
Title I
Brown vs. Board of Education
magnet schools
4. The responsibility of an agency to its sponsors and clientele for accomplishing its mission with prudent use of resources. In education - accountability is currently thought to require measurable proof that teachers - schools - districts - and states
accountability
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
standards
holistic learning
5. A form of instruction that seeks to 'maximize each student's growth by meeting each student where she is and helping the student to progress.
learning styles
differentiated instruction
high-stakes tests
data-based decision making
6. The way a teacher organizes and administers routines to make classroom life as productive and satisfying as possible. What some people might describe narrowly as 'discipline.'
high-stakes tests
accountability
classroom management
alternative assessment
7. Specific descriptions of performance of a given task at several different levels of quality. Teachers use rubrics to evaluate student performance on performance tasks. The way a teacher provides support to make sure students succeed at complex tasks
norm-referenced tests
problem-based learning
rubric
charter school
8. Although this term has many possible meanings - it usually refers to a written plan outlining what students will be taught (a course of study).
curriculum
multiple intelligences
charter school
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
9. Measuring the learning and performance of students or teachers. Different types of assessment instruments include achievement tests - minimum competency tests - developmental screening tests - aptitude tests - observation instruments - performance ta
hidden curriculum (latent curriculum)
assessment
classroom management
Brown vs. Board of Education
10. The idea of E. D. Hirsch - professor of English at the University of Virginia - that there is a certain body of knowledge (core knowledge) that people must know to be well-educated - well-rounded American citizens.
ability grouping
behavior modification
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
cultural literacy
11. The idea that one gender or the other is short-changed by school practices and expectations. The term may refer to the difficulties boys tend to have in conforming to classroom routines and learning to read and write - or it may refer to lower averag
competency tests
gender bias
portfolio
General Educational Development (GED) exam
12. Activities - exercises - or problems that require students to show what they can do.
Head Start
accountability
gender bias
performance tasks
13. Standardized tests designed to measure how a student's performance compares with that of other students.
norm-referenced tests
low-performance schools
alternative schools
standards
14. A collection of student work chosen to exemplify and document a student's learning progress over time.
alternative assessment
achievement gap
alignment
portfolio
15. Refers to Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 - which is intended to improve education in high-poverty communities by targeting extra resources to schools and school districts with the highest concentrations of povert
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
gender bias
Title I
voucher
16. A theory of intelligence developed in the 1980s by Howard Gardner - professor of education at Harvard University. Gardner defines intelligence broadly as 'the capacity to solve problems or fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural sett
multiple intelligences
outcomes
alternative assessment
alignment
17. Analyzing existing sources of information (class and school attendance - grades - test scores) and other data (portfolios - surveys - interviews) to make decisions about the school. The process involves organizing and interpreting the data and creati
data-based decision making
hidden curriculum (latent curriculum)
mainstreaming
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
18. Persistent differences in achievement among different types of students as indicated by scores on standardized tests - teacher grades - and other data. The gaps most frequently referred to are those between whites and minority groups - especially Afr
Bloom's taxonomy
achievement gap
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
manipulatives
19. Students with certain special needs - as specified by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - have a legal right to a special plan written by a multidisciplinary team. After a series of tests and observations determine the child's ne
mastery learning
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
teaching to the test
higher-order thinking
20. With a membership of nearly 6.5 million - National PTA (also known as Parent Teacher Association) is a nonprofit organization of parents - teachers - students - and others that encourages parental and public involvement in the schools - advocates for
data-based decision making
classroom management
PTA
reliability
21. In testing - an estimate of how closely the results of a test would match if the test were given repeatedly to the same student under the same conditions (and there was no practice effect).
minimum competency tests
voucher
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
reliability
22. A standard for judging a performance..
special-needs students
benchmark
Pygmalion effect
manipulatives
23. Use of assessment strategies - such as performance assessment - constructed response items - and portfolios - to replace or supplement assessment by machine-scored multiple-choice tests.
General Educational Development (GED) exam
alignment
special-needs students
alternative assessment
24. The practice of dividing students for instruction according to their perceived abilities. Students are placed on a particular track (college-bound - general - vocational - and remedial) and given a curriculum that varies according to their perceived
norm-referenced tests
alternative schools
tracking
ability grouping
25. Educational programs for students who - because they have a disability of some kind - require special instructional help to reach their potential. This may include specially trained teachers - innovative technology or instructional materials - access
alternative schools
special education
ability grouping
voucher
26. Schooling that helps students understand and relate to cultural - ethnic - and other diversity - including religion - language - gender - age - and socioeconomic - mental - and physical differences.
summative test
mainstreaming
alternative assessment
multicultural education
27. Differences in the way students learn more readily.
curriculum
multiple intelligences
English language learner (ELL)
learning styles
28. Intelligence quotient
accountability
curriculum
IQ
multicultural education
29. Tests used to determine which individual students get rewards - honors - or sanctions. Low-stakes tests are used primarily to improve student learning. Tests with high stakes attached include college entrance examinations and tests students must pass
looping
Brown vs. Board of Education
accountability
high-stakes tests
30. Use of an approach based on behavioral science to change a person's way of doing things
alternative schools
data-based decision making
rubric
behavior modification
31. U.S. legislation passed in 1965 that provided large amounts of federal aid to states and local districts as part of the larger War on Poverty. ESEA must be reauthorized periodically by the Congress. The most well-known provision of ESEA is Title I -
IQ
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Bloom's taxonomy
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
32. NAEP (pronounced 'nape') - is also known as The Nation's Report Card. It is a federally funded program (currently contracted to Educational Testing Service in Princeton - N.J.) that provides information about the achievement of students nationally an
Title I
competency tests
achievement gap
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
33. A test given to evaluate and document what students have learned. The term is used to distinguish such tests from formative tests - which are used primarily to diagnose what students have learned in order to plan further instruction
equity
summative test
standards
English language learner (ELL)
34. Schools that differ in one or more ways from conventional public schools. Alternative schools may reflect a particular teaching philosophy - such as individualization - or a specific focus - such as science and technology. Alternative schools may als
magnet schools
alternative schools
charter school
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
35. The effort to ensure that what teachers teach is in accord with what the curriculum says will be taught and what is assessed on official tests.
limited-English-proficient (LEP) students
higher-order thinking
magnet schools
alignment
36. Alternative public schools - most of which focus on a particular area of study - such as performing arts or science and technology but also offer regular school subjects.
magnet schools
voucher
accountability
gender bias
37. A student whose first language is other than English and who is in a special program for learning English (which may be bilingual education or English as a second language).
English language learner (ELL)
ability grouping
rubric
competency tests
38. Schools - almost always located in urban or low-income rural areas - in which an unacceptably low proportion of students meet established standards - as indicated by test scores. Also called failing schools.
low-performance schools
performance tasks
alignment
benchmark
39. Researcher Lauren Resnick has defined higher-order thinking as the kind of thinking needed when the path to finding a solution is not specified - and that yields multiple solutions rather than one. Higher-order thinking requires mental effort because
English language learner (ELL)
higher-order thinking
PTA
portfolio
40. A classification of educational objectives developed in the 1950s by a group of researchers headed by Benjamin Bloom of the University of Chicago. Commonly refers to the objectives for the cognitive domain - which range from knowledge and comprehensi
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41. A theory of education that places importance on the complete experience of learning and the ways in which the separate parts of the learning experience are interrelated.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
holistic learning
criterion-referenced tests
behavior modification
42. Students who - because of physical - developmental - behavioral - or emotional disabilities - require special instructional help to reach their potential. This may include specially trained teachers - innovative technology or instructional materials
learning styles
classroom management
Annual tests
special-needs students
43. Students who have a higher than average probability of dropping out or failing school. Broad categories usually include inner-city - low-income - and homeless children; those not fluent in English; and special-needs students with emotional disabiliti
hidden curriculum (latent curriculum)
manipulatives
special-needs students
at-risk students
44. Established in 1965 - Head Start is intended to foster healthy development of low-income children to help them succeed in school. Head Start and Early Head Start are federally sponsored - comprehensive child development programs that serve children f
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
special-needs students
Head Start
gender bias
45. The practice of educating all children in the same classroom - including children with physical - mental - and developmental disabilities. Inclusion classes often require a special assistant to the classroom teacher. In a fully inclusive school or cl
alternative assessment
failing schools
inclusion
magnet schools
46. A self-governing educational facility that operates under contract between the school's organizers and the sponsors (often local school boards but sometimes other agencies - such as state boards of education). The organizers are often teachers - pare
benchmark
alignment
charter school
least restrictive environment
47. An approach to curriculum and teaching that involves students in solution of real-life problems rather than conventional study of terms and information.
high-stakes tests
portfolio
problem-based learning
competency tests
48. The case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954 in which racial segregation in public schools was held to be unconstitutional.
mainstreaming
benchmark
Brown vs. Board of Education
holistic learning
49. The GED exam is a high school equivalency test that was first developed in 1942. Each year - approximately 800 -000 adults receive a GED diploma
learning styles
special-needs students
General Educational Development (GED) exam
alternative schools
50. The goal of equity is to achieve a high-quality education for all students - regardless of gender - race - ethnicity - socioeconomic status - disabilities - or special needs. Studies show widespread inequities in financial support - classroom expecta
benchmark
equity
gender bias
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)