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| Active Listening | the practice of paying close attention to a speaker and asking questions to ensure full comprehension |
| Analogy | a comparison between two things that are similar in some way, often used to help explain something or make it easier to understand |
| AP Courses | advanced placement, college courses taken in high school |
| Apprenticeship | One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business |
| ASVAB | is a test developed and maintained by the United States Department of Defense. |
| Advising, Placement, and Retention System | an assessment-advising program designed to identify the basic skill levels of students as they enter two-year institutions. |
| Associate Degree | Achieved after completion of a curriculum meeting the demands of a 2-year community college program. |
| Attainment | the action or fact of achieving a goal toward which one has worked |
| Bachelor's Degree | Achieved after completion of a curriculum meeting the demands of a 4-year college program. |
| Career Cluster | provide students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career, and provide U.S. schools with a structure for organizing or restructuring curriculum offerings and focusing class make-up by a common theme such as interest. |
| Career 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. |
| Certifications | an official document that gives proof and details of something such as personal status, educational achievements, ownership, or authenticity |
| Clear | easy to understand |
| College/University | A postsecondary school where a student might receive a bachelor’s degree, master’s, or doctoral degree in a specific discipline. |
| Community College | Type of college with up to 2-year programs leading to certificates, diplomas, or associate degrees. |
| Comprehension | the action or capability of understanding something |
| Concise | using as few words as possible to give the necessary information, or compressed in order to be brief |
| Convincing | able to persuade somebody to believe that something is true or to act |
| Cooperative Education | a school program that allows students to receive academic credit for career work in the student's field of interest done outside the school |
| Correlation | a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things |
| Dual Enrollment | involves students being enrolled in two separate, academically related institutions. Generally, it refers to high school students taking college courses. |
| Extra-Curricular Activities | fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education, performed by students. Such activities are generally voluntary, mandatory, non-paying, social, philanthropic as opposed to scholastic, and often involve others of the same age. |
| Formal Learning | highly institutionalized, bureaucratic, curriculum driven, and formally recognized with grades, diplomas, or certificates |
| IB Courses | International baccalaureate, offering internationally recognized courses |
| Informal Learning | organized learning outside of the formal education system; tend to be short-term, voluntary, and have few if any prerequisites. |
| Internship | a type of work experience for entry-level job-seekers |
| Interpersonal Skills | concerning or involving relationships between people |
| Job Shadowing | A short-term experience that allows the student to follow an experienced worker and see the day-to-day activities of a particular career. |
| Journey Worker | A certified, experienced, skilled craftsperson that has successfully completed an apprenticeship program. |
| Legible | (of handwriting or print) clear enough to read |
| Master's Degree | An advanced 2-year program completed after attainment of a bachelor’s degree. |
| Post-Secondary | education after high school. |
| Proprietary School | A privately owned school that operates for profit for those seeking vocational training. |
| Proofread | to read the text and mark corrections to be made |
| Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) | appointed by the Secretary of Labor to determine the skills our young people need to succeed in the world of work |
| Transcript | an official document showing the educational work of a student in a school or college |
| 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. |
