Glossary S

Glossary S

Statistically significant referring to a correlation, or a difference between two (2) groups, that is larger than would be

Statutory Assessment refers to a detailed assessment based on parental, educational, psychological and medical advice and also the advice of any other professional involved with your child.

STD is the abbreviations of Sexually transmitted disease, an illness that is transmitted primarily through sexual contact.

A Steady state describes the tendency of a control system to achieve a balance between an environmental demand and the response of a physiological system

A Stem is the part of a multiple-choice item that states the question to be answered.

These are the 63 Steps to survive Pain in Life

  • Step 1: Slap yourself in the face. Hard, preferably. Because if a slap in the face seems too painful to consider, then whatever problem you’re dealing with right now is really not that big of a problem.

Stereotype refers to a generalization about a group of people in which identical characteristics are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members.

Stereotype Threat refers to the theory that an individual's sense of self and personal performance can be affected when the individual is reminded of a negative or positive stereotype of him or herself, including gender, race, or religion.

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