2.01 KEY TERMS
1. Active listening: the practice of paying close attention to a speaker and asking
questions to ensure full comprehension
2. Analogy: a comparison between two things that are similar in some way, often
used to help explain something or make it easier to understand
3. AP courses: advanced placement, college courses taken in high school
4. 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
5. Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB): is a test developed and
maintained by the United States Department of Defense.
6. Attainment: the action or fact of achieving a goal toward which one has worked
7. 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.
8. Certifications: an official document that gives proof and details of something such
as personal status, educational achievements, ownership, or authenticity
9. Comprehension: the action or capability of understanding something
10. Concise: using as few words as possible to give the necessary information, or
compressed in order to be brief
11. Convincing: able to persuade somebody to believe that something is true or to act
12. 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
13. Correlation: a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things
14. Career Technical Student Organization (CTSO): 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.
15. Dual enrollment: involves students being enrolled in two separate, academically
related institutions. Generally, it refers to high school students taking college
courses.
16. 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.
17. Formal Learning: highly institutionalized, bureaucratic, curriculum driven, and
formally recognized with grades, diplomas, or certificates
18. IB courses: International baccalaureate, offering internationally recognized courses
19. Informal Learning: organized learning outside of the formal education system; tend
to be short-term, voluntary, and have few if any prerequisites.
20. Internship: a type of work experience for entry-level job-seekers
21. Interpersonal Skills: concerning or involving relationships between people
22. Legible: (of handwriting or print) clear enough to read
23. Post-Secondary: education after high school.
24. Proofread: to read the text and mark corrections to be made
25. 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
26. TEACH format:
 Think: What will this chapter be about? What do I need to learn from this
chapter?
 Explain: Decide what you already know about the chapter.
 Ask: Who? What? Where? When? Why?
 Clues: Title, Key words, Headings, Illustrations
 Handwrite chapter highlights: Definitions, formulas and main concepts
27. Transcript: an official document showing the educational work of a student in a
school or college