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Uniform Record Locator
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Hypertext Markup Language
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The process of documenting knowledge in measurable terms, ie. collecting data. The ultimate purpose is to make adjustment in goals, improve performance, or demonstrate effectiveness |
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Something that serves as a standard by which others can be measured or judged.
Standard Performance (Standardized tests - TAKS, STAAR)
Testing Checkpoints
Short tests adminstered periodically throughout a year to guage the comprehension of subject matter. |
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A teaching approach and set of techniques utilizing feedback to evaluate student learning and inform lesson planning. Not intended for graded assessment.
(Gathering information as you go along) |
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| Classroom management is a term used by teachers to describe the process of ensuring that classroom lessons run smoothly despite disruptive behavior by students. The term also implies the prevention of disruptive behavior. |
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"how it plays out in practice"
"establish a need, they will learn it quicker"
The rules or practices regarding how things are done in the classroom setting. |
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Consequences are environmental stimuli that increase or decrease the probability that a behavior will occur again. We want to establish consequences that will either reinforce or redirect behavior.
Rewards and Penalties.
Natural and logical consequences. Natural, not planned. Logical, planned. Related, Respectful, Reasonable, not punishment. |
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Training to ensure proper behavior; the practice or methods of teaching and enforcing acceptable patterns of behavior.
Self-control, both teachers and students. Imposed and self-discipline. Do not lost your temper, raise your voice, get other students involved, talk with students at a later time.
Discipline plan, many types of discipline |
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Evaluation is systematic determination of merit, worth, and significance of something or someone using criteria against a set of standards.
Evaluation is the process of making judgments based on criteria and evidence.
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Formative assessment is monitoring student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. |
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The difference between a student's performance on a test and his or her performance on a previous administration of the same or parallel test.
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A sample of students with defined characteristics. The data obtained from testing this group constitutes the norm to which others can be compared. |
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| The numbers in some collection or data set (for example test scores of 100 students) are normally distributed if they are in the shape of a bell-shaped curve. In a normal distribution, the curve is symmetrical in shape, with most values in the center and fewer on either side. In a normal distribution the mean, median, and mode are the same. When data are normally distributed, 68% of numbers will be within one standard deviation of the mean. Ninety-five percent will be plus or minus 2 standard deviations, while 99% will fall within 3 standard deviations |
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Problem-Solving Conference |
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A problem-solving conference is held by teachers to analyze student work and issues and make instructional decisions. |
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| A particular method for performing a task; A series of small tasks or step taken to accomplish an end; The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks |
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Assessment of a newly introduced process subsequent to technology transfer and prior to process validation for the purpose of demonstrating successful operation in the production environment with all normal production factors in place.
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| A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure; A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically; A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine; According to established procedure. |
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Principles or conditions that customarily govern behavior. |
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| A standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner. Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner. |
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periodic analyses of student performance designed to measure student progress in specific areas.
Summative assessment helps to assess a pupil's learning at a particular point or time in the instructional process. This is often achieved through assessments for specific tasks: for example, at the end of a topic or after teaching a specific skill or concept. |
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The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) assessments are criterion-referenced achievement tests designed to measure the extent to which a student has learned and is able to apply the defined knowledge and skills at each tested grade level. It was launched in 2003.
The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) is a standardized test used in Texas primary and secondary schools to assess students' attainment of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies skills required under Texas education standards. |
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(State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness) program beginning in 2011 |
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A form of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills |
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