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| Master’s degree: | An advanced 2-year program completed after attainment of a bachelor’s degree. |
| Military: | Special skills may be developed through educational programs in the armed services. |
| Part-time jobs: | Paid employment that is not supervised by school personnel; may or may not be related to the student’s career choice. |
| Postsecondary: | Education after high school. |
| Proprietary school: | A privately owned school that operates for profit for those seeking vocational training. |
| PSAT: Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test: | A practice test that measures the critical thinking, mathematical reasoning, and writing skills that students need to do college-level work. |
| On-the-job training: | Education and training provided by an employer that usually takes place at a work site. |
| SAT: Scholastic Aptitude Test – | a test that measures the critical thinking mathematical, reasoning, and writing skills students need to do college-level work. |
| Student organizations: (CTSO-Career and Technical Student Organization) | Vocational student organization; nonprofit, national organization with state and local chapters that exist to develop leadership skills and good citizenship among members; each organization is composed of vocational students interested in a specific occupational area. |
| Study habits: | Practices used to prepare for learning and assessment of subject matter. |
| Test-taking skills: | Practices used to prepare for learning and assessment of subject matter. |
| Trade and professional organizations: | Composed of members who have the same or similar occupation. |
| Transcript: | An academic record; an official record of grades earned during a high school career. |
| VOCATS: | Vocational Competency Achievement Tracking System is a competency-based instructional management system that focuses on the individual student and tracks his/her achievement in relation to a predetermined set of core competencies. |
| Volunteer: | A contribution of free labor, usually to a non-profit organization. |
| Volunteer experiences: | Unpaid experiences; students work to get experience, contacts, or help out. The experiences are not necessarily career related and not usually supervised by school personnel. |
| Work-based learning: | Opportunities for students to consider different careers and industries, learn basic workplace behavior, develop specific skills within an industry, and apply academic and occupational skills in the workplace. |
