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Accountability - Answer-The idea that schools and/or teachers are responsible for educational outcomes and should be evaluated, traditionally through examination of students' test scores Anecdotal Record - Answer-A description of behavior; a reporting of observed behavioral incidents. Assessment - Answer-The act or process of gathering data in order to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of student learning as by observation, testing, interviews, ect. Anticipation Guide - Answer-A comprehension teaching strategy designed to activate students' prior knowledge about a topic before reading, establish a purpose to guide student's thoughts during reading, and provide a basis for discussion after reading. It involves the teacher creating opinionated or controversial statements relating to the text and capitalizing on controversy to motivate student involvement in text. Antonym - Answer-A word opposite in meaning to another word. Brainstorming - Answer-A learning technique involving open group discussion intended to expand upon the range of available ideas, as to solve a problem, clarify a concept, ect. Authentic Assessment - Answer-A type of assessment that seeks to address widespread concerns about standardized, norm-referenced testing by representing "literacy behavior of the community and the workplace" and reflecting "the actual learning and instructional activities of the classroom and out-of-school worlds" (Hiebert et al., 1994), as with the use of portfolios and naturalistic assessment. Central Tendency - Answer-A single central value used to summarize a distribution of scores. Cloze - Answer-1. Any of several ways of measuring a person's ability to restore omitted portions of an oral or written message by reading its remaining context. 2. The completion of incomplete utterances as an instructional strategy to develop reading or listening comprehension with respect to sensitivity to style, attention during extended passages, ect. Criterion Referenced Measurement - Answer-The assessment of performance on a test in terms of the kind of behavior expected of a person with a given score. "During most of the history ofpsychological testing, test specialist have emphasized norms, but criterion reference and norm reference are both useful. The former is useful in judging him as an isolated individual; the latter in judging his ability to compete" (Cronbach, 1970). Curriculum-Based Measurement - Answer-A means of assessing student growth by using materials, content, and procedures from a particular program being used as curriculum. As such, it typically looks more like tasks used during the instructional process than a formal test. Comprehension Strategy - Answer-Strategies that guide the student in the process of constructing knowledge that approximates an author or speaker's intended meanings. Concepts About Print (CAP) - Answer-A phrase coined by Marie Clay (1975) including the concepts of directionality (books go front to back, text reads top to bottom, right to left), words are things we read, letters stand for sounds we say ect. Clay's inventory includes 24 aspects of "concepts about print" that children in the emerging literacy stage develop on their way to being readers. Connotative Meaning - Answer-The emotional associations suggested by the primary meaning of a lexical unit, which affects its interpretations; affective meaning emotive meaning. Comprehension - Answer-1. The reconstruction of the intended meaning of a communication; accurately understanding what is written or said. 2. A process in which the reader constructs meaning [in] interacting with text... through a combination of prior knowledge and previous experience; information available in text; the stance [taken] in relationship to the text; and immediate, remembered or anticipated social interactions and communications. Concept Maps - Answer-Graphic organizers that help students to visualize relationships between concepts and sub-concepts. Timelines, word maps, semantic organizers are all examples of concept maps. Choral Reading - Answer-Reading aloud simultaneously in a group. Partner Reading - Answer-Taking turns reading aloud with a partner who provides decoding support, fluency feedback, and perhaps modeling of fluent reading.