World Knowledge Complexity
What is incrementality?
Children come to the classroom with different NoKs.
What are Networks of Knowledge?
Do something again
What is re-?
The smaller of the two
What is expressive vocabulary?
This, or the knowledge that students have in their backgrounds, impacts them as they learn vocabulary
What is background knowledge?
What is heterogeneity?
A T3 word is highly specialized vocabulary.
What is Tier 3?
God
Reading and listening vocabularies
What are receptive vocabularies?
The extent to which students can comprehend reading material (also called this) is related to their vocabularies
What is reading comprehension?
The idea that no one learns words in a vacuum--words are related
What is interrelatedness?
In a VRT, students circle words that have something to do with a studied unit.
Vocabulary Recognition Task
Water
What is hydr-?
Orally describing a concept or word
What is expressive vocabulary?
These tests assume that all children should have mastered a standard set of vocabulary
What is a standardized test?
As people learn more about words, knowledge about the word expands.
What is multidimensionality?
A WWC helps teachers count the number of times children use a word in a discussion.
What is a Word Wizard Chart?
People
What is dem-?
Matching definitions to words
What is receptive vocabulary?
An academic tests vocabulary that can be categorized as general and discipline-specific
What is academic vocabulary?
Many words have multiple meanings
What is polysemy?
The VKS assesses children's knowledge of words before a unit.
Time
What is chron-?
Most normed assessments only assess this.
What is receptive vocabulary
A test based on a select set of explicitly taught words
What is a selective test?