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  • Parallel Form
  • See equivalent form.
  • Percentile
  • Within a distribution of values, a point below which a certain percentage of the values fall. See also percentile rank.

  • Phonemic Awareness
  • The ability to hear and identify individual sounds in spoken words.
  • Practice Effect
  • The beneficial influence of previous experience with a test on a later administration of the same or similar test.
  • Prinicipal User
  • An AIMSweb School User type.  The Principal User can view AIMSweb data for every student and classroom within the designated school.
  • Proctor
  • Someone assigned to supervise students during the administration of an examination. A proctors duties may include the distribution and collection of test materials, providing instructions to the examinees, and observing student behavior during the test. Also called a test administrator.
  • Progress Monitor Teacher
  • An AIMSweb School User type; the Progress Monitor Teacher User is a teacher, already added to the account, who has access to the Progress Monitor software.
  • Prompt
  • A spoken or printed statement or question to which a user responds, e.g., a reading passage, picture, chart, or other form of information and instructions. Prompts generally require the user to provide a constructed response.

  • PSF
  • Phoneme Segmentation Fluency