ALEGlossary
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Welcome to the ALE Glossary! This is an ALE Wiki-wide glossary made up of smaller glossaries found in ALE Wiki topic areas. The following topic areas have their own glossaries:
- Adult Learners' Self-Study Adult Learners' Self-Study
- Learner Persistence Learner Persistence (See Distance and Persistence)
- Assessment Information Assessment Information
- Adult Literacy Professional Development Adult Literacy Professional Development
- Continuation of The Meeting of the Minds Symposium SymposiumContinued
- Public Policy Public Policy (Definitions from Wikipedia)
- Technology in the Classroom TechGlossary
- Workforce, Workplace and Worker Education AleWorkforceDevelopment and AleWorkplace
- GED Research GED Research
- Numeracy ALENumeracy
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ALE Wiki Glossary
A-E
ADA (Average Daily Attendance)
Alternative assessment (authentic assessment, performance assessment)
Authentic assessment (alternative assessment, performance assessment)
Cloture ALEPublicPolicyGlossary
CMS (Course Management System)
Competency-based assessment (criterion-referenced assessment)
Criterion-referenced assessment (competency-based assessment)
F-J
Filibuster ALEPublicPolicyGlossary
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
Found materials (see Realia)
.gif (graphic interchange format)
http (hyper text transfer protocol)
.jpg or .jpeg (joint photographic experts group)
K-O
Markup ALEPublicPolicyGlossary
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning & Online Teaching)
National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)
National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS)
National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
National Reporting System (NRS)
P-T
Participants in workforce development
Participatory assessment (alternative assessment, authentic assessment, performance-based assessment)
Participatory staff development
Performance assessment (alternative assessment, authentic assessment, participatory assessment)
Practitioner-Researcher Symposium
Program-based professional development
Public policy ALEPublicPolicyGlossary
SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Necessary Skills)
Self-sufficiency (multiple definitions)
Standard Error of Measurement (SEM)
Student Performance Level (SPL)
U-Z
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
WYSIWYG ("What You See is What You Get")
