Glossary of Terms

Annotated bibliography	A bibliography with critical and /or explanatory notes about each source.
Assessment	The process of quantifying, describing, or gathering information about performance.
Authentic assessment	Assessment tasks that elicit demonstrations of knowledge and skills in way that resemble “real life” as closely as possible.
Benchmark	More specific definitions that teachers can follow to assess and measure a student’s performance at various stages in his or her school career.
Bibliography	A list of all the books, magazine and newspaper articles, and other material used in researching a topic.
Cite, citing, citation	To quote as an authority or example
Endnotes	Documentation located at the end of the paper.
Indicators	The actual learning behavior teachers will look for in the classroom.
Integration	Starts with standards and identifies areas that overlap in unit development.
Keywords	Terms related to a topic, usually naming important places, people, and subjects.
Objective	Uninfluenced by emotion, surmise, or prejudice-based on observable phenomena-presented factually.
Paraphrase	To put another’s idea, opinion, or argument into you own words.
Performance assessment	Direct observation of student performance or student work and professional judgement of the quality of that performance.
Periodicals	Publications published at regular intervals, e.g. magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Plagiarism	The stealing of another’s style, ideas, or phrasing; to avoid plagiarism, everything not documented must consist of your ideas and word choices.

Primary source	The work, manuscript, journal, government document as originally written.
Proficiency levels	Categories of relative proficiency that help teachers, building and districts determine “How good is good enough?” with respect to a given assessment. For example, the four proficiency levels used by the State of Colorado in its testing program are: unsatisfactory, partially proficient, proficient and advanced.
Rubric	An established set of criteria for scoring or rating student performance on tasks. A single rubric may be used to score multiple, similar tasks. For example, the same rubric might be used to score several different science experiments.
Scoring guide	Rubric that distinguishes major concepts, skills, and/or knowledge by separate scores.
Standard	The information or skills that must be learned and demonstrated for expertise in a given discipline or content domain. Also, refers to standards of practice, performance standards, etc.
Title page	The cover sheet for a research paper, which should include the title, author, course name, teacher, and the date(Not recommended by MLA)
WWW	World Wide Web Internet source