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achievement  

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  • In education, achievement is the construct of understanding student learning and educational effectiveness. Because what a student knows and can do cannotbe measured directly but must be inferred, determining the nature and level of a student's achievement—identifying achievement in real-life cases—is necessarilyproblematic. [Source: Encyclopedia of Evaluation; Achievement]

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