A program that provides systematic, explicit instruction to help students learn the structure of words and how to sound them out. Fluentreading and comprehension by the end of first grade is a program goal.
Open-ended Question
A question that has many avenues of access and allows students to respond in a variety of ways. Such questions have more than one correct answer.
Open-ended task
A performance task in which students are required to generate a solution or response to a problem when there is no single correct answer.
Open-response task
A performance task in which students are required to generate an answer rather than select an answer from among several possible answers but there is a single correct response.
Outcome-based education
An integrated system of educational programs that aligns specific student outcomes instructional methods and assessment.
