One to One: Practicing Reading with Students

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Glossary of Reading and Testing Terms

apprentice:

see performance standard.

Commonwealth Testing and Accountability System (CATS):

system of testing and accountability used in Kentucky to hold schools accountable for student learning.

Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills/5 (CTBS/5):

a national test used to evaluate an individual student's school achievement by comparing his/her performance to that of a group of students which sets the norm. Now used as part of CATS.

Core Content Tests:

standards-based assessment, created by Kentucky teachers, given to students the counts for school accountability. Tests are given in seven subjects, including reading.

distinguished:

see performance standard.

fluency:

the capacity to read text accurately and quickly.

free and reduced lunch program:

a program, partially funded by the federal government, which provides funding for school lunches. The percentage of students on free and reduced lunch in a school is an indicator of the number of families living on or near the poverty level.

norm-referenced test:

a test with questions that have been standardized or "normed" based on the scores of a control group of students.

novice:

see performance standard.

phonemic awareness:

the ability to hear and identify individual sounds in spoken words.

phonics:

the relationship between the letters of written languages and the sounds of spoken language.

performance standard:

an estimated measure of accomplishment; the results of the Core Contest Tests in Kentucky are reported in one of four performance levels: distinguished, proficient, apprentice, novice.

primary:

part of the elementary school programs in which children are enrolled from the time they begin school until they reach the fourth grade.

proficient:

see performance standard.

text comprehension:

the ability to understand and gain meaning from what has been read.

vocabulary:

the words students must know to communicate effectively.