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:

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ALE Wiki Glossary

A-E

Action research

ADA (Average Daily Attendance)

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Photoshop

Adult education and literacy

Adult literacy education

Alternative assessment (authentic assessment, performance assessment)

Analytic scoring

Anchor tests

Andragogy

Application

Assessment

Asynchronous

Audio card reader

Audio Conference

Authentic assessment (alternative assessment, performance assessment)

Authentic materials

Benchmark

Benchmark tasks

Benchmarking

Bias

Blended DL

Blended PD

Blog

Bookmark

Boot up Also see Re-boot

Broadband

Broken link

Browser

Cloture ALEPublicPolicyGlossary

CMS (Course Management System)

Competency

Competency-based assessment (criterion-referenced assessment)

Compression

Constructed response item

Constructivist theory

Content standards

Contextualized curriculum

Contextualized term

Countable Outcomes

Creaming

Criteria

Criterion-referenced assessment (competency-based assessment)

Criterion-referenced tests

Curriculum

Curriculum Framework

Cut score

Deficit model

Diagnostic assessment

Dialog box

Differential item functioning

Directory

Distance Education

Distance Learning

Distributed Learning

dots per inch (dpi)

Download

Drop down menu

Edit the HTML source code

English language learning

E-Learning

Electronic discussion

ELL

ELR

Email attachments

Email newsgroups

Equipped for the Future (EFF)

ESL

ESOL

Evaluation

Excel

F-J

Facilitator

Favorites

Fetch

File extension

File size

Filibuster ALEPublicPolicyGlossary

Firewire

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

Formative assessment

Found materials (see Realia)

Generative skills

.gif (graphic interchange format)

Grade Level Equivalent (GLE)

Grade level norms

Habits of Mind

Hardware

High-stakes test

Holistic scoring

Home page

HTML

HTML document

HTML editor

http (hyper text transfer protocol)

Hybrid DL

Hybrid PD

Hyperlink

Icon

Impacts

Indicators

Information Literacy

Interactive Whiteboard

Internet Explorer

Inter-rater reliability

IP Videoconference

Item response theory (IRT)

Iterative

Java

JavaScript

.jpg or .jpeg (joint photographic experts group)

K-O

Learning Management Systems

Learning outcomes

Learning standards

LISTPROC

LISTSERV/listservs

Literacy

LSAL

Lynx

Mailto

Managed Enrollment

Markup ALEPublicPolicyGlossary

Materials-based assessment

Measurement

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning & Online Teaching)

Metacognition

Moderated list

Multimedia

National Education Goal 6

National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)

National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS)

National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)

National Reporting System (NRS)

Navigator

NCSALL

Newsgroups

Norm group

Norm-referenced assessment

Norm-referenced test

Norms

OMS-Online Management System

Online training

Opportunity to Learn (OTL)

OSCC

Outcomes

P-T

Participants in workforce development

Participatory assessment (alternative assessment, authentic assessment, performance-based assessment)

Participatory staff development

Peer observation group

Performance accountability

Performance assessment (alternative assessment, authentic assessment, participatory assessment)

Performance standards

Performance task

Plug-in

Portable keyboard

Portfolio assessment

Practitioner-Researcher Symposium

Pre-literate

Professional development

Professional wisdom

Program-based professional development

Public policy ALEPublicPolicyGlossary

Publishing group

Quality program indicator

Rating scales

Realia

Re-boot Boot up

Reliability

RSS

Rubrics

Scale scores

SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Necessary Skills)

SCORM

Search engine

Self-sufficiency

Self-sufficiency (multiple definitions)

Self study

Selected response item

Server

Software

Standard Error of Measurement (SEM)

Standardization

Standardized testing

standards

Standards-based reform

Streaming

Streaming media

Streaming video

Student Performance Level (SPL)

Study circles

StuffIt Expander

Summative assessment

Supported Distance Learning

Surf the Web

Synchronous

syndication

Teacher inquiry group

Teacher mentor model

Team teaching

Techno-buddy

Telephony

Telnet

Text-to-speech

Threaded email discussions

Thumbnail

Timecode

Trainer

Triangulation

U-Z

Unix

Unmoderated list

Unzip

Upload

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

Usenet

Validity

Ways of knowing

Web-based survey or quiz

Webcast

Web Conference

wiki

wiki wiki

wikify

Wikiteer

WinZip

Word

Workforce development

Worker education

Workplace education

WYSIWYG ("What You See is What You Get")

XML

Zip disks