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DSST Educational Terms Vocab
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1. 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
differentiated instruction
Head Start
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
teaching to the test
2. Activities - exercises - or problems that require students to show what they can do.
criterion-referenced tests
classroom management
performance tasks
vocational education
3. A certificate issued to parents that can be used as full or partial payment of tuition for any nonpublic school.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
performance tasks
voucher
alignment
4. A phrase used in the Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA) to describe the type of setting schools should provide for students with disabilities.
low-performance schools
Bloom's taxonomy
ability grouping
least restrictive environment
5. 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
teaching to the test
low-performance schools
charter school
alignment
6. Differences in the way students learn more readily.
Title I
learning styles
least restrictive environment
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
7. Tests designed to measure how thoroughly a student has learned a particular body of knowledge without regard to how well other students have learned it..
hidden curriculum (latent curriculum)
criterion-referenced tests
English language learner (ELL)
teaching to the test
8. Intended results of schooling: What students are supposed to know and be able to do.
outcomes
accountability
alternative assessment
portfolio
9. Tests created by a school district or state that students must pass before graduating
special education
criterion-referenced tests
minimum competency tests
school choice
10. 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 low-performing schools.
Title I
failing schools
behavior modification
multiple intelligences
11. Intelligence quotient
IQ
teaching to the test
norm-referenced tests
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
12. Standardized tests designed to measure how a student's performance compares with that of other students.
higher-order thinking
norm-referenced tests
curriculum
assessment
13. 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
multicultural education
Title I
special-needs students
Pygmalion effect
14. 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.
vocational education
holistic learning
low-performance schools
alignment
15. Use of assessment strategies - such as performance assessment - constructed response items - and portfolios - to replace or supplement assessment by machine-scored multiple-choice tests.
mainstreaming
charter school
alternative assessment
holistic learning
16. 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
limited-English-proficient (LEP) students
high-stakes tests
reliability
behavior modification
17. 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
reliability
assessment
at-risk students
higher-order thinking
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
multicultural education
high-stakes tests
achievement gap
summative test
19. 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
accountability
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
behavior modification
multicultural education
20. The effect of teacher expectations on student performance. The term refers to a Greek myth that was the forerunner of the musical My Fair Lady - in which a teacher transforms an uneducated person into a proper lady. Extensive research has documented
alignment
portfolio
Pygmalion effect
higher-order thinking
21. Preparing students for a test by concentrating on the particular things the test contains rather than on the broader body of knowledge the test is intended to measure. An extreme example would be drilling students on the 20 words the teacher knows wi
teaching to the test
mastery learning
behavior modification
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
22. 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.
special-needs students
Title I
low-performance schools
equity
23. 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
General Educational Development (GED) exam
magnet schools
accountability
teaching to the test
24. Use of an approach based on behavioral science to change a person's way of doing things
Annual tests
behavior modification
cultural literacy
alignment
25. 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
alternative schools
high-stakes tests
at-risk students
vocational education
26. In current usage - the term usually refers to specific criteria for what students are expected to learn and be able to do. These standards usually take two forms in the curriculum:
behavior modification
Brown vs. Board of Education
standards
alternative schools
27. An informal term for assigning students to the same teacher for more than one school year.
looping
high-stakes tests
Annual tests
multicultural education
28. A way of organizing instruction that tries to ensure that students have mastered each increment of a subject before going on to the next. A system that recognizes teachers or principals who are thought to be especially capable by paying them higher
outcomes
vocational education
IQ
mastery learning
29. Schooling that helps students understand and relate to cultural - ethnic - and other diversity - including religion - language - gender - age - and socioeconomic - mental - and physical differences.
multicultural education
assessment
alternative schools
learning styles
30. 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
alternative schools
teaching to the test
accountability
at-risk students
31. 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).
PTA
competency tests
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
English language learner (ELL)
32. Although this term has many possible meanings - it usually refers to a written plan outlining what students will be taught (a course of study).
holistic learning
alternative schools
curriculum
equity
33. 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.
curriculum
Brown vs. Board of Education
limited-English-proficient (LEP) students
holistic learning
34. The practice of placing students with disabilities into regular classrooms.
holistic learning
reliability
alignment
mainstreaming
35. 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
mastery learning
IQ
vocational education
summative test
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.
minimum competency tests
magnet schools
norm-referenced tests
Pygmalion effect
37. 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).
Bloom's taxonomy
Pygmalion effect
reliability
Head Start
38. Assigning students to classes based on their past achievement or presumed ability to learn (also known as homogenous grouping)
curriculum
teaching to the test
data-based decision making
ability grouping
39. 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
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
equity
assessment
higher-order thinking
40. 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.
alternative schools
multiple intelligences
differentiated instruction
rubric
41. Tests created by a school district or state that students must pass before graduating
at-risk students
competency tests
curriculum
English language learner (ELL)
42. 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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43. 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
tracking
inclusion
portfolio
cultural literacy
44. 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
multiple intelligences
gender bias
low-performance schools
mastery learning
45. 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.
curriculum
charter school
hidden curriculum (latent curriculum)
norm-referenced tests
46. 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
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
special education
equity
ability grouping
47. 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
at-risk students
multiple intelligences
outcomes
charter school
48. 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
rubric
high-stakes tests
learning styles
tracking
49. 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.
minimum competency tests
limited-English-proficient (LEP) students
cultural literacy
alignment
50. 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
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
ability grouping
voucher
Title I