(in assessment) a written or graphic description of someone’s performance
or progress (e.g. of a learner or a student teacher in a teacher training
programme) based on a number of different tests or other information sets
that can be used to provide a broadly based view of someone’s abilities.
For example, a profile of a student teacher may be based on:
ahis/her curriculum vitae
ba personal statement of teaching philosophy
c statements by colleagues and supervisors
da portfolio of assignments
e student evaluations.profile^2 n
(in testing and statistics) a graphic representation of scores or variables^2 of
an individual or group on a number of tests or measures for the purposes of
comparison. For example, the profile below is based on percentilescores
of a student in English, French, and Mathematics.
programprofilingn
see profile
pro-formsn
forms which can serve as replacements for different elements in a sentence.
For example:
aA: I hope you can come.
B: I hope so. (soreplaces that I can come)
bA: Mary is in London.
B: John is theretoo. (therereplaces in London)
c We invited Mary and John to eat with us because we liked them. (them
replaces Mary and John)
dA: I like coffee.
B: We dotoo. (doreplaces like coffee)
see also pronoun, pro-verb
programn
the sequence of instructions and routines designed to make a computer
carry out a given task. The task of writing a computer program involves: