ULTIMATE PPR UPDATED EXAMS PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔standard deviation - ✔✔A computed measure of how much scores vary around the
mean score (the square root of the variance).
✔✔standardized test - ✔✔A test with uniform procedures for administration and scoring.
Many standardized tests allow a person's performance to be compared with the
performance of other individuals.
✔✔stanine - ✔✔Whole-number scores from 1 to 9, each representing a wide range of
raaw scores. Stanine scores combine some of the properties of percentile ranks with
some of the properties of standard scores.
✔✔student centered (learner centered) - ✔✔Instruction which considers the ability and
needs of the student in the planning process. Instruction focuses on the outcomes or
behaviors expected and desired by the learners.
✔✔summative evaluation - ✔✔Evaluation conducted after instruction to assess
students' final achievement.
✔✔time on task - ✔✔Time spent actively engaged in learning the task at hand.
, ✔✔time out - ✔✔A disciplinary technique in which a child is separated from other
people and removed from social reinforcement and interaction for a specified time
(usually one minute for each year old the child's age).
✔✔tracking - ✔✔The process of monitoring a student's achievement over a period of
time, usually years. This information is often used for placement and instructional
purposes. It can also refer to the process of placing students in specifically focused
educational programs (an "academic track," or a "vocational track") and requiring them
to remain in those programs.
✔✔transfer - ✔✔Occurs when a student connects the new knowledge being presented
to familiar concepts.
✔✔values-centered curriculum - ✔✔Places special emphasis on moral and ethical
issue. More popularly known as character education.
✔✔Portfolio - ✔✔A collection of examples of a person's work. For example, samples of
products indicating an individual's proficiency and skill in performing a certain type of
work.
✔✔Annual Teacher Appraisal - ✔✔In Texas these are required to support and assist
teachers in identifying areas of needed approval in teaching so that they can obtain
appropriate professional development.
✔✔Texas Education Agency (TEA) - ✔✔The state agency in Texas that has
administrative and supervisory authority over the operation of public schools.
Implements laws passed by the legislature and establishes policies and procedures for
implement laws and other legal requirements.
✔✔Workstations - ✔✔An instructional approach that establishes instructional areas
where students work individually or in small groups to work independently on
instructional tasks and projects.
✔✔Rubric - ✔✔An assessment method in which a form is developed specifying the
requirement elements and components of an assignment, along with the points
awarded for meeting various levels of quality for the individual components. It is a way
of evaluating assignments consisting of some type of product (a paper, a project). It also
allows students to know in advance the criteria by which the assignment will be
evaluated.
✔✔Syntax - ✔✔A major component of grammar, it is the rules by which words are put
together in the right form and order to appropriately form sentences, phrases and
clauses.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔standard deviation - ✔✔A computed measure of how much scores vary around the
mean score (the square root of the variance).
✔✔standardized test - ✔✔A test with uniform procedures for administration and scoring.
Many standardized tests allow a person's performance to be compared with the
performance of other individuals.
✔✔stanine - ✔✔Whole-number scores from 1 to 9, each representing a wide range of
raaw scores. Stanine scores combine some of the properties of percentile ranks with
some of the properties of standard scores.
✔✔student centered (learner centered) - ✔✔Instruction which considers the ability and
needs of the student in the planning process. Instruction focuses on the outcomes or
behaviors expected and desired by the learners.
✔✔summative evaluation - ✔✔Evaluation conducted after instruction to assess
students' final achievement.
✔✔time on task - ✔✔Time spent actively engaged in learning the task at hand.
, ✔✔time out - ✔✔A disciplinary technique in which a child is separated from other
people and removed from social reinforcement and interaction for a specified time
(usually one minute for each year old the child's age).
✔✔tracking - ✔✔The process of monitoring a student's achievement over a period of
time, usually years. This information is often used for placement and instructional
purposes. It can also refer to the process of placing students in specifically focused
educational programs (an "academic track," or a "vocational track") and requiring them
to remain in those programs.
✔✔transfer - ✔✔Occurs when a student connects the new knowledge being presented
to familiar concepts.
✔✔values-centered curriculum - ✔✔Places special emphasis on moral and ethical
issue. More popularly known as character education.
✔✔Portfolio - ✔✔A collection of examples of a person's work. For example, samples of
products indicating an individual's proficiency and skill in performing a certain type of
work.
✔✔Annual Teacher Appraisal - ✔✔In Texas these are required to support and assist
teachers in identifying areas of needed approval in teaching so that they can obtain
appropriate professional development.
✔✔Texas Education Agency (TEA) - ✔✔The state agency in Texas that has
administrative and supervisory authority over the operation of public schools.
Implements laws passed by the legislature and establishes policies and procedures for
implement laws and other legal requirements.
✔✔Workstations - ✔✔An instructional approach that establishes instructional areas
where students work individually or in small groups to work independently on
instructional tasks and projects.
✔✔Rubric - ✔✔An assessment method in which a form is developed specifying the
requirement elements and components of an assignment, along with the points
awarded for meeting various levels of quality for the individual components. It is a way
of evaluating assignments consisting of some type of product (a paper, a project). It also
allows students to know in advance the criteria by which the assignment will be
evaluated.
✔✔Syntax - ✔✔A major component of grammar, it is the rules by which words are put
together in the right form and order to appropriately form sentences, phrases and
clauses.
