Library
Technology
Curriculum
Administration
Learning and Measurement
100
A bibliographic description of an item that is readable by a computer.
What is a MARC record. (MAchine-Readable Cataloging record)
100
Initiative to allow students to bring their own technology like smartphones, tablets, and laptops to school for educational use.
What is Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD?
100
A course structure that employs a blend of face-to-face and online learning environments.
What is Blended Learning?
100
Students who are not succeeding in school based on information gathered from test scores, attendance, or discipline problems
What are At Risk students?
100
The process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs
What is assessment?
200
A designated set of letters and/or numbers used to identify a particular item in the collection by subject and location on the shelf.
What is a Call Number?
200
This is a policy set up by the network administrator or other school leaders in conjunction with their technology needs and safety concerns. This policy restricts the manner in which a network may be used, and helps provide guidelines for teachers using technology in the classroom.
What is an Acceptable Use Policy? (AUP)
200
Curriculum that offers several different learning experiences within one lesson to meet students' varied needs or learning styles
What is differentiated or individualized instruction?
200
An individual state's measure of yearly progress toward achieving state academic standards. This progress is determined by a collection of performance measures that a state, its school districts, and subpopulations of students within its schools are supposed to meet if the state receives Title I federal funding.
What is Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP?
200
Tests issued which are the same format for all students who take it. Questions are typically offered in the form of multiple choices with time limits.
What is a Standardized Test?
300
An electronic database holding information which describes the materials contained in the library, indexed by keyword, author, title, and subject
What is an OPAC? (Online Public Access Catalog)
300
What is the most popular 1:1 device used in K-12 schools?
What is a laptop or netbook?
300
A tool that teachers use to assess many different types of assignments including written work, projects, speeches, and more. The teacher creates a set of criteria, a narrative to explain that criteria, and a point value associated with that criteria
What is a rubric?
300
A written plan created for a student with learning disabilities by the student's teachers, parents or guardians, the school administrator, and other interested parties.
What is an Individual Education Program/Plan, or IEP?
300
The interpretation of a wide range of data produced by and gathered on behalf of students in order to assess academic progress, predict future performance, and spot potential issues.
What is Learning Analytics?
400
A search statement expressed in normal language.
What is a natural language search?
400
The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server.
What is cloud computing?
400
Questions that probe for deeper meaning and set the stage for further questioning, ones that foster the development of critical thinking skills and higher order capabilities such as problem-solving and understanding complex systems.
What are Essential Questions?
400
Based on counts taken on predetermined dates during the school year, this is a factor used by state and federal departments of education to determine how much money schools are to receive.
What is Average Daily Attendance, or ADA?
400
A method of academic intervention used in the United States to provide early, systematic assistance to children who are having difficulty learning.
What is Response to Intervention, or RTI?
500
The ability to define problems in terms of information needs, and subsequently locate, evaluate, and apply information effectively and ethically
What is Information Literacy?
500
The standard that distills state-of-the-art practice in online education and training into an easy-to-follow format for creating and sharing digital content.
What is Common Cartridge?
500
Led by the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons, and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, this group has developed a common metadata framework for describing or “tagging” learning resources on the web.
What is the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)?
500
A nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and five U.S. extra-state jurisdictions.
What is The Council of Chief State School Officers?
500
Two multistate consortia awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Education in 2010 to develop an assessment system aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by the 2014-15 school year.
Who are the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC).
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