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- Phonemic awareness
- The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words; it is purely oral and strongly predicts later reading success.
- Formative assessment
- Ongoing checks for understanding conducted during instruction and used to adjust teaching, in contrast to summative assessment given at the end of learning.
- Test reliability
- The consistency of scores across occasions, parallel forms, or raters; it is necessary but not sufficient for a test to be valid.
- Zone of proximal development
- Vygotsky's term for the gap between what a learner can accomplish independently and what the learner can accomplish with adult or peer guidance.
- Criterion-referenced test
- An assessment that measures performance against a fixed standard or set of learning objectives rather than against the scores of other students.
- Bloom's revised taxonomy
- The hierarchy of cognitive objectives ordered as Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create, used to align objectives and assessment items.
- Least restrictive environment
- The IDEA requirement that students with disabilities be educated alongside nondisabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate to their needs.
- Response to Intervention tiers
- A three-tier framework: universal core instruction, targeted small-group support with progress monitoring, and intensive individualized intervention.
- Section 504 plan
- An accommodation plan under the Rehabilitation Act that prohibits disability discrimination; eligibility is broader than under IDEA's disability categories.
- Behavior intervention plan
- A plan developed after a functional behavioral assessment that teaches replacement behaviors and specifies antecedents, consequences, and supports.
- SLPA scope of practice
- An assistant who implements therapy activities and documentation under speech-language pathologist supervision and cannot diagnose or design treatment plans.
- Free appropriate public education
- The IDEA guarantee of specially designed instruction and related services at public expense that provide meaningful educational benefit.
- Newton's second law
- F = ma: the net force on an object equals its mass times its acceleration, so acceleration increases with force and decreases with mass.
- Photosynthesis equation
- 6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy yields C6H12O6 + 6O2, converting light energy into stored chemical energy inside chloroplasts.
- Mitochondria function
- Organelles that carry out cellular respiration, producing ATP as the cell's usable energy currency from glucose and oxygen.
- pH scale
- A logarithmic measure of hydrogen ion concentration in which values below 7 are acidic, above 7 are basic, and exactly 7 is neutral.
- Binary number system
- A base-2 system using only the digits 0 and 1, where each place value is a power of two and one byte equals eight bits.
- Six traits of writing
- Ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions, a framework used to teach and assess written composition.
- Metaphor versus simile
- Both make comparisons; a simile uses the words 'like' or 'as', while a metaphor states that one thing is another.
- Narrative arc
- The structural pattern of most stories: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
- Active voice
- A sentence construction in which the subject performs the action; it is generally more direct and preferred in academic writing.
- Expository text structures
- Organizational patterns readers use to comprehend informational text: chronological, compare-contrast, cause-effect, problem-solution, and description.
- Oklahoma statehood
- Oklahoma became the forty-sixth state on November 16, 1907, combining Oklahoma Territory with Indian Territory.
- Checks and balances
- Constitutional provisions letting each branch limit the others, including veto and override, judicial review, Senate confirmation, and impeachment.
- Opportunity cost
- The value of the next best alternative given up when a choice is made; it is central to scarcity-based economic reasoning.
- Ser versus estar
- Spanish verbs meaning 'to be': ser expresses identity, origin, and inherent traits; estar expresses location, condition, and temporary states.
- Latin noun cases
- The five main functions of Latin nouns: nominative subject, genitive possession, dative indirect object, accusative direct object, ablative with prepositions.
- Elements of art
- Line, shape, form, value, texture, space, and color, the basic visual components used to build and analyze compositions.
- FITT principle
- Frequency, intensity, time, and type, the variables teachers adjust to design and progressively overload exercise programs.
- Accounting equation
- Assets = Liabilities + Equity, the balance sheet identity that underlies double-entry bookkeeping and every recorded transaction.
- Fair use factors
- The four-part test for educational copying: purpose of use, nature of the work, amount used, and effect on the market.
- Superintendent role
- The district's chief executive, hired by and accountable to the elected school board for implementing policy and managing operations.
- Health-related fitness components
- Cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition, the five dimensions targeted in fitness education.