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educational placement

the act of matching students with the appropriate educational program or environment for their age, abilities, and needs. Standardized tests, classroom test data, interviews, and past student performance may all be taken into account in arriving at this decision.

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July 27th 2024

distributional redundancy

distributional redundancy

in psychological aesthetics, the development of uncertainty in an artistic pattern by making some elements occur more frequently than others. Distributional redundancy is one of two kinds of internal restraint in pattern variation, the other being correlational redundancy, in which certain combinations of elements are made to occur more frequently than others.