A student expectation is directly related to the knowledge and skills statement, is more specific about how students demonstrate their learning, and always begins with a verb. Student expectations are further broken down into their component parts, often referred to as “breakouts.”
Computational thinking--applications. The student, with guidance from an educator, applies the fundamentals of computer science.
A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Demonstrated Proficiency
Ask students to implement a code sequence that includes a variable and indicate the sequence using words like first, next, then, and final. Ask students to explain how the variable impacted their program.
Glossary Support for TA.2.2.A
Glossary terms and definitions are consistent across kindergarten through high school in the TEKS Guide. The definitions are intended to give educators a common understanding of the terms regardless of what grade level they teach. Glossary definitions are not intended for use with students.
instructions for a computer (as within a piece of software); the symbolic arrangement of statements or instructions in a computer program, or the set of instructions in such a program
the following of one thing after another; succession
a quantity or function that may assume any given value or set of values; a unit of storage that can be modified during program execution