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Glossary

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IHE
Institution of Higher Education
IPT
The IDEA Proficiency Test. A test of language proficiency in English or Spanish. Both the IPT Reading/Writing and Oral Tests are norm-referenced. Separate tests have been developed for different grade level groups. The tests provide non, limited and fluent English and Spanish designations (Ballard & Tighe, 2001).
Immersion
Approach to teaching language in which the target language is used exclusively to provide all instruction.
Immersion Bilingual Program
Schooling where some or most subject content is taught through a second language. Students in immersion bilingual programs are usually native speakers of a majority language. These programs derive from Canadian educational experiments that had as their goal the bilingual/bicultural development of children without loss of academic achievement. Bilingual immersion programs differ in the duration of the program and the amount of time spent on instruction in each language (Baker, 2000).
Implementation and replicability studies
Implementation and replicability studies are designed to explain the conditions in which a program or practice was implemented and/or replicated. Such studies answer the questions: How was the program or practice implemented? In what setting was the program or practice implemented? And, under what conditions was the program or practice implemented?
Incidence
A measure of the number of people (often in a defined
population) who have initiated a behavior- in this case drug, alcohol, or
tobacco use- during a specific period of time. [4]
Independent variable
An independent variable is a variable that precedes, influences, or predicts the dependent variable.
Informed Parent Consent
The permission of a parent to enroll their child in an ELL program, or the refusal to allow their child to enroll in such a program, after the parent is provided effective notice of the educational options and the district's educational recommendation.
Institution of Higher Education
As defined in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001:[3]

The term institution of higher education' has the meaning given that term in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965.


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