Maintenance programs: Term sometimes used to refer to ESY programs. Maintenance programs also are to help
bilingual students continue developing their nativelanguage after becoming fluent in English. The goal is for
students to be fully literate in both languages.
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Manual expression: using the hands and/or other body parts to show theuse of an object.
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Mastery: Competence in a subject area; an ability to demonstrate an attained skill independently under a variety of
conditions.
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Mean: the mathematical average of a set of numbers; the sum of a set of scores divided by the number of testor
sub-test scores.
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Measure of central tendency:statistical ways of stating where the middle pointor average score is located in a
group of scores or numbers.
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Measures of variability: the way scores are grouped around the mean (or median or mode). Two of the common
kinds are:
•Range:numerical difference between high and low scores
•Standard deviation:statistical way of indicating variation within a set of scores.
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