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- 13:03, 5 September 2023 Thanatosis (hist) [221 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A state that in some respects resembles shock, is characterized by cessation of all voluntary activity and usually by assumption of a posture suggestive of death, and occurs i...")
- 13:38, 25 August 2023 Monosodium glutamate (hist) [383 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also known as sodium glutamate, is the sodium salt of glutamic acid. MSG is found naturally in some foods including tomatoes and cheese in this glu...")
- 13:35, 25 August 2023 Chinese restaurant syndrome (hist) [155 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An illness marked by short attacks of weakness, numbness, palpitations, and headaches, often attributed to overconsumption of monosodium glutamate.")
- 19:42, 15 August 2023 Vegetable (hist) [766 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In botanical terms, vegetables encompass various edible parts of plants that aren't necessarily fruits. However, in the culinary and cultural context, the term "vegetable" is...")
- 21:07, 12 July 2023 Water mold (hist) [65 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Heterotrophic protist that grows as nutrient-absorbing filaments.")
- 21:07, 12 July 2023 Trypanosome (hist) [82 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Parasitic flagellate with a single mitochondrion and a membrane-encased flagellum.")
- 21:07, 12 July 2023 Stramenopiles (hist) [165 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Protist lineage that includes the photosynthetic diatoms and brown algae, as well as the heterotrophic water molds. Some members of the group have a hairy flagellum.")
- 21:07, 12 July 2023 Radiolarians (hist) [96 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Heterotrophic single-celled protists with a porous silica shell and long cytoplasmic extensions.")
- 21:06, 12 July 2023 Plasmodial slime mold (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Soil-dwelling protist that feeds as a multinucleated mass. Develops into a fruiting body under adverse conditions.")
- 21:06, 12 July 2023 Pellicle (hist) [76 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Layer of proteins that gives shape to many unwalled, single-celled protists.")
- 21:06, 12 July 2023 Foraminifera (hist) [107 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Heterotrophic single-celled protists with a porous calcium carbonate shell and long cytoplasmic extensions.")
- 21:05, 12 July 2023 Flagellated protozoan (hist) [108 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Protist belonging to an entirely or mostly heterotrophic lineage with no cell wall and one or more flagella.")
- 21:05, 12 July 2023 Euglenoid (hist) [113 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Flagellated protozoan with multiple mitochondria; may be heterotrophic or have chloroplasts descended from algae.")
- 21:04, 12 July 2023 Chlorophyte algae (hist) [104 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Heterotrophic protists thought to be the sister group of animals; collared cells strain food from water.")
- 21:04, 12 July 2023 Charophyte algae (hist) [80 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Green algal group that includes the lineage most closely related to land plants.")
- 21:01, 12 July 2023 Cellular slime mold (hist) [151 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Soil-dwelling protist that feeds as solitary cells but congregates under adverse conditions to form a cohesive unit that develops into a fruiting body.")
- 21:01, 12 July 2023 Brown alga (hist) [92 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Multicelled marine protist with a brown accessory pigment (fucoxanthin) in its chloroplasts.")
- 21:01, 12 July 2023 Apicomplexan (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Single-celled alveolate protist that lives as a parasite inside animal cells; some cause malaria or toxoplasmosis.")
- 21:01, 12 July 2023 Amoebozoan (hist) [106 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lineage of heterotrophic, unwalled protists that live in soils and water; include amoebas and slime molds.")
- 21:00, 12 July 2023 Alveolate (hist) [116 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Member of a protist lineage having small sacs beneath the plasma membrane; dinoflagellate, ciliate, or apicomplexan.")
- 00:25, 29 June 2023 Parasitoidism (hist) [379 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Parasitoidism is a specific type of symbiotic relationship in which an organism, known as a parasitoid, relies on a host organism during a particular stage of its life cycle....")
- 14:55, 16 May 2023 Self-serving attributions (hist) [368 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Self-serving attributions are when we are more likely to assign an internal attribute to our behavior when it is good and an external attribute to our behavior when it is bad....")
- 14:55, 16 May 2023 Fundamental attribution error (hist) [280 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''fundamental attribution error''' is the tendency to make internal attributions and ignore external, situational factors when explaining the behavior of other people. '...")
- 14:54, 16 May 2023 Impression formation (hist) [179 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Impression formation is creating an overall impression of a person based on many pieces of information. '''Example:''' Asch’s studies on impressions using warm and cold tra...")
- 14:35, 16 May 2023 That’s Not All (hist) [195 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The that’s-not-all tactic involves adding extras or bonuses before asking for a commitment. Example: An infomercial selling a set of knives throws in a cutting board and c...")
- 14:35, 16 May 2023 Low-ball tactic (hist) [211 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The low-ball tactic involves getting someone to commit to a request and then changing the deal. Example: A car salesman who comes back and says that the car is available but...")
- 14:35, 16 May 2023 Door-in-the-face (hist) [257 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The door-in-the-face tactic is when an unreasonable request is followed by a smaller, more reasonable one. Example: A teenager asks for $100 to go out on the weekend. After...")
- 14:34, 16 May 2023 Foot-in-the-door (hist) [345 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The foot-in-the-door tactic involves getting someone to agree to a small request so that they are more likely to agree when you follow up later with a big request (the goal)....")
- 11:34, 8 May 2023 Wnt protein (hist) [185 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Member of a family of extracellular signal molecules that regulates cell proliferation and migration during embryonic development and that maintains stem cells in a proliferat...")
- 11:34, 8 May 2023 Bcl2 family (hist) [124 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Related group of intracellular proteins that regulates apoptosis; some family members promote cell death, others inhibit it.")
- 11:33, 8 May 2023 Bacteriorhodopsin (hist) [166 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Pigmented protein found in abundance in the plasma membrane of the salt-loving archaeon Halobacterium halobium; pumps protons out of the cell, fueled by light energy.")
- 11:33, 8 May 2023 Aster (hist) [98 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Star-shaped array of microtubules emanating from a centrosome or from a pole of a mitotic spindle.")
- 22:11, 8 February 2023 Temporomandibular joint (hist) [116 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The temporomandibular joint is a hinge joint that connects the jawbone (mandible) to the skull at the temporal bone.")
- 21:42, 31 January 2023 Postpartum psychosis (hist) [255 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Refers to severe symptoms including hallucinations, delusions, manic episode(s), loss of inhibitions, feeling suspicious, restlessness, confusion and behaving in ways which ar...")
- 10:38, 16 December 2022 Cnidaria (hist) [366 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Cnidarians, also known as coelenterates, diverse group of aquatic, invertebrate animals armed with microscopic stinging structures. Cnidarians make up the phylum Cnidaria, whi...")
- 14:25, 3 December 2022 Lauric acid (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lauric acid is a fatty acid, esters of which occur in natural substances such as coconut milk and palm kernel oil.")
- 01:06, 5 August 2022 Pyromania (hist) [573 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "This impulse control disorder refers to the compelling and intense desire to prepare, start, or watch fires. It is a relatively rare disorder; even among fire starters, only 2...")
- 10:34, 28 June 2022 Librations (hist) [249 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In lunar astronomy, '''libration''' is the wagging or wavering of the Moon perceived by Earth-bound observers and caused by changes in their perspective. It permits an observe...")
- 12:59, 24 May 2022 Stargardt disease (hist) [317 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Stargardt disease is a rare genetic eye disease that happens when fatty material builds up on the macula — the small part of the retina needed for sharp, central vis...")
- 01:30, 2 March 2022 Equivalence point (hist) [316 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The equivalence point, or stoichiometric point, of a chemical reaction is the point at which chemically equivalent quantities of reactants have been mixed. For an acid-base re...")
- 20:19, 27 February 2022 Great Circle (hist) [97 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A circle drawn on a sphere is a '''great circle''' if it divides the sphere into two equal parts.")
- 21:10, 19 February 2022 Zygomycota (hist) [335 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Terrestrial fungi. Most dwell in soil and decompose dead plants and animals. The group also includes black bread mold and some animal parasites. Reproduce sexually using thick...")
- 21:10, 19 February 2022 Deuteromycota (hist) [389 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Large and diverse fungi in which the sexual stage either does not exist or is not known. One soil-dwelling species is the source of cyclosporine, an immune-suppressant drug th...")
- 21:08, 19 February 2022 Chytridiomycota (hist) [403 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Smallest and simplest fungi. Found in oceans, streams, lakes, and moist soil. They feed on decaying or living organisms and are important decomposers in aquatic ecosystems....")
- 21:08, 19 February 2022 Basidiomycota (hist) [318 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Includes edible and poisonous mushrooms. Many species are plant parasites and cause extensive crop damage. Form sexual spores in club-shaped structures called basidia. '''Com...")
- 21:05, 19 February 2022 Ascomycota (hist) [371 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Largest group of fungi; includes yeasts, lichens, morels, truffles, and cup fungi. Responsible for many plant diseases such as powdery mildew and Dutch elm disease. Reproduce...")
- 12:56, 14 February 2022 Bacteremia (hist) [71 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Bacteremia is the presence of viable bacteria in the circulating blood.")
- 19:26, 23 January 2022 Hereditarianism (hist) [127 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The mistaken idea that human traits are determined solely by genetic inheritance, ignoring the contribution of the environment.")
- 15:35, 1 January 2022 Water beetle (hist) [2,162 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "<gallery> https://biology-forums.com/gallery/43/6_01_01_22_2_33_12.jpeg|Source: https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=43944 </gallery> '''Water Beetl...")
- 15:18, 1 January 2022 Whirligig Beetle (hist) [1,367 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Whirligig Beetle''', common name for a type of water beetle that swims in irregular but graceful curves on the surface of the water when it is disturbed. Found in tempe...")
- 14:48, 27 December 2021 Kinetoplast (hist) [155 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The kinetoplast is a specialized region of the mitochondria of trypanosomatids that harbors the most complex and unusual mitochondrial DNA found in nature.")
- 14:35, 27 December 2021 Myopathy (hist) [268 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Myopathy is a general term referring to any disease that affects the muscles that control voluntary movement in the body. Patients experience muscle weakness due to a dysfunct...")
- 15:20, 6 December 2021 Stab cultures (hist) [127 bytes] Duddy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A culture produced by inserting an inoculating needle with inoculum down the centre of a solid medium contained in a test tube.")
- 13:41, 29 October 2021 Transitivity of Divisibility (hist) [298 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "If one number divides a second and the second number divides a third, then the first number divides the third. This is one of the most useful properties of divisibility is th...")
- 18:57, 17 October 2021 Goldbach's conjecture (hist) [172 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "One of the oldest and best-known unsolved problems in mathematics. It states that "Every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes."")
- 10:23, 16 October 2021 Fallacy (hist) [199 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves" in the construction of an argument. A fallacious argument may be deceptive by appearing to be b...")
- 16:26, 3 October 2021 Adsorptivity (hist) [142 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Adsorptivity is the ability to adsorb. The greater the adsorptivity of a substrate, the more readily and strongly a substance will bind to it.")
- 20:11, 26 August 2021 Right triangular prism (hist) [150 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A right triangular prism is a prism with two parallel and congruent triangular faces and three rectangular faces perpendicular to the triangular ones.")
- 20:03, 26 August 2021 Lateral surface (hist) [119 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''lateral surface''' of an object is all of the sides of the object, excluding its base and top (when they exist).")
- 21:28, 30 June 2021 Carboxyhemoglobin (hist) [136 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Carboxyhemoglobin is a stable complex of carbon monoxide and hemoglobin that forms in red blood cells upon contact with carbon monoxide.")
- 21:28, 30 June 2021 Carboxyhemoglobinemia (hist) [266 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The presence of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood. '''Carboxyhemoglobin''', hemoglobin that has carbon monoxide bound to it, is formed in carbon monoxide poisoning, as from e...")
- 21:15, 29 June 2021 Quantitative trait loci (hist) [55 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Two or more genes that act on a single polygenic trait.")
- 21:15, 29 June 2021 General cognitive ability (hist) [102 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Characteristics that include verbal and spatial abilities, memory, speed of perception, and reasoning.")
- 21:13, 29 June 2021 Familial hypercholesterolemia (hist) [138 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Autosomal dominant disorder with defective or absent LDL receptors. Affected individuals are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease.")
- 21:13, 29 June 2021 Essential hypertension (hist) [56 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Elevated blood pressure, consistently above 140/90mm Hg.")
- 21:13, 29 June 2021 Concordance (hist) [49 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Agreement between traits exhibited by both twins.")
- 21:11, 29 June 2021 Dermatoglyphics (hist) [64 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The study of the skin ridges on fingers, palms, toes, and soles.")
- 21:11, 29 June 2021 Correlation coefficient (hist) [56 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Measures of the degree to which variables vary together.")
- 21:11, 29 June 2021 Genetic variance (hist) [95 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The phenotypic variance of a trait in a population that is attributed to genotypic differences.")
- 21:11, 29 June 2021 Environmental variance (hist) [104 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The phenotypic variance of a trait in a population that is attributed to differences in the environment.")
- 21:10, 29 June 2021 Regression to the mean (hist) [159 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In a polygenic system, the tendency of offspring of parents with one of the extreme phenotypes to exhibit phenotypes that are closer to the population average.")
- 21:10, 29 June 2021 Complex trait (hist) [143 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Traits controlled by multiple genes and the interaction of environmental factors where the contribution of genes and environment are undefined.")
- 21:09, 29 June 2021 Continuous variation (hist) [127 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A distribution of phenotypic characters that is distributed from one extreme to another in overlapping, or continuous, fashion.")
- 21:09, 29 June 2021 Discontinuous variation (hist) [71 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Phenotypes that fall into two or more distinct, nonoverlapping classes.")
- 22:25, 12 June 2021 Mitochondrial Eve (hist) [777 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In the field of human genetics, the name Mitochondrial Eve refers to the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all currently living anatomically modern humans, who...")
- 21:23, 29 May 2021 Pedigree construction (hist) [110 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Use of family history to determine how a trait is inherited, and to determine risk factors for family members.")
- 21:23, 29 May 2021 Segregation (hist) [81 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The separation of members of a gene pair from each other during gamete formation.")
- 21:22, 29 May 2021 Dominant trait (hist) [58 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The trait expressed in the F1 (or heterozygous) condition.")
- 21:22, 29 May 2021 Recessive trait (hist) [96 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The trait unexpressed in the F1, but which is re-expressed in some members of the F2 generation.")
- 21:13, 29 May 2021 Camptodactyly (hist) [82 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A dominant human genetic trait that is expressed as immobile bent, little fingers.")
- 21:12, 29 May 2021 Expressivity (hist) [56 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The range of phenotypes resulting from a given genotype.")
- 21:11, 29 May 2021 Muscular dystrophy (hist) [187 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A group of genetic diseases associated with progressive degeneration of muscles. Two of these, Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, are inherited as X-linked, allelic, rece...")
- 21:09, 29 May 2021 Marfan syndrome (hist) [113 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An autosomal dominant genetic disorder that affects the skeletal system, the cardiovascular system, and the eyes.")
- 21:08, 29 May 2021 Exocrine gland (hist) [211 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Exocrine glands are glands that secrete substances onto an epithelial surface by way of a duct. Examples of exocrine glands include sweat, salivary, mammary, ceruminous, lacri...")
- 13:16, 2 April 2021 Nocturnality (hist) [110 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.")
- 13:16, 2 April 2021 Camouflage (hist) [307 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as s...")
- 13:15, 2 April 2021 Crypsis (hist) [521 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In ecology, '''crypsis''' is the ability of an animal to avoid observation or detection by other animals. It may be a predation strategy or an antipredator adaptation. Met...")
- 19:58, 22 March 2021 Erucic acid (hist) [288 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Erucic acid is a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid, which is present in the oil-rich seeds of the Brassicaceae family of plants, particularly rapeseed and mustard. It mainly...")
- 19:58, 22 March 2021 Glycosinolate (hist) [416 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Glucosinolates are natural components of many pungent plants such as mustard, cabbage, and horseradish. The pungency of those plants is due to mustard oils produced from gluco...")
- 21:11, 4 March 2021 Equinox (hist) [254 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Time of equal day and night:''' either of the two annual crossings of the equator by the Sun, once in each direction, when the length of day and night are approximately equ...")
- 11:39, 1 March 2021 Arthritis (hist) [799 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Arthritis is a form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints. There are over 100 different forms of arthritis.[ The most common form of arthritis is...")
- 23:29, 28 February 2021 Gastroesophageal reflux (hist) [271 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) occurs when stomach acid frequently flows back into the tube connecting your mouth and stomach (esophagus). This backwash (acid reflux)...")
- 16:39, 3 December 2020 Closed mortgage (hist) [170 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A closed mortgage has a limit towards any additional payments made towards your mortgage, any additional payments over this limit occurs a penalty. Category:Business")
- 16:38, 3 December 2020 Open mortgage (hist) [129 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An open mortgage allows you to make additional payments towards your mortgage at any time without penalty. Category:Business")
- 21:17, 20 November 2020 Antineoplastic drug (hist) [290 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Antineoplastic drugs are medications used to treat cancer. Antineoplastic drugs are also called anticancer, chemotherapy, ''chemo'', cytotoxic, or hazardous drugs. These d...")
- 23:33, 12 November 2020 Argyria (hist) [203 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Argyria is a rare skin condition associated with chronic exposure to products containing silver. The silver is typically deposited diffusely in skin, fingernails, oral mucosa,...")
- 23:11, 10 November 2020 Frustum (hist) [273 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In geometry, a frustum is the portion of a solid (normally a cone or pyramid) that lies between one or two parallel planes cutting it. A right frustum is a parallel truncation...")
- 10:31, 2 November 2020 Bacterial conjunctivitis (hist) [307 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Bacterial conjunctivitis''' is a common type of ''pink eye'', caused by bacteria that infect the eye through various sources of contamination. The bacteria can be spread th...")
- 22:30, 30 October 2020 Human Advisor (hist) [214 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A person you meet with in person, or by video chat or phone, who receives a salary or commission for providing you with financial advice or service for your investment and ins...")
- 22:29, 30 October 2020 Direct Investing/Online Discount Brokerage Platform (hist) [150 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A platform allows you buy or sell stocks, bonds, mutual funds or other investment products directly online or on the telephone. Category:Business")
- 22:29, 30 October 2020 Robo Advisor (hist) [200 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A platform through which a financial institution invests your funds based on your goals and risk preferences, and your portfolio would be automatically rebalanced as necessary...")
- 10:58, 25 October 2020 Phanerozoic Eon (hist) [309 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Phanerozoic Eon''' is the current geologic eon in the geologic time scale, and the one during which abundant animal and plant life has existed. It covers 541 million ye...")
- 10:54, 25 October 2020 Ambidextrous (hist) [318 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ambidexterity is the ability to use both the right and left hand equally well. When referring to objects, the term indicates that the object is equally suitable for right-hand...")
- 20:07, 17 September 2020 Machine learning (hist) [149 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Machine learning is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience. It is seen as a subset of artificial intelligence")
- 17:48, 1 September 2020 Kimchi (hist) [283 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Fermented food that is a staple in Korean cuisine that is made by salting Napa cabbage, radish, cucumber or Kimchi other types of vegetables and washing it before seasoning it...")
- 22:36, 24 July 2020 High-density lipoprotein (hist) [1,237 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "High-density lipoproteins (HDL) form a class of lipoproteins, varying somewhat in their size and contents, that carry cholesterol from the body's tissues to the liver. Becaus...")
- 17:38, 18 May 2020 Numeral (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A numeral is a symbol that represents a number. In comparison, a number tells us how many objects we are counting.")
- 20:52, 9 May 2020 Cardinal number (hist) [200 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The number of elements in set A is called the cardinal number of set A and is denoted n(A). A set is '''finite''' if its cardinal number is a whole number. An infinite set i...")
- 16:08, 9 May 2020 Antecedent (hist) [107 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An environmental event or behavior that precedes a specific behavior and sets the occasion for it to occur.")
- 16:06, 9 May 2020 Eliciting stimulus (hist) [119 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An eliciting stimulus is a change in the environment that is highly correlated with the occurrence of a later response.")
- 12:34, 7 May 2020 AP site (hist) [194 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In biochemistry and molecular genetics, an AP site, also known as an abasic site, is a location in DNA that has neither a purine nor a pyrimidine base, either spontaneously or...")
- 17:54, 16 April 2020 Indulgence (hist) [87 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Treating myself to things that give me pleasure, comfort, or joy. Category:Others")
- 17:49, 16 April 2020 Escapism (hist) [73 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Taking breaks to get away from my everyday worries . Category:Others")
- 23:22, 17 March 2020 Dynamic equilibrium (hist) [96 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The maintenance of the body’s position in response to sudden movements. Category:Biology")
- 22:49, 17 March 2020 Sensation (hist) [117 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Is the conscious or subconscious awareness of changes in the external or internal environment. Category:Biology")
- 12:51, 4 March 2020 Subclinical deficiency (hist) [73 bytes] Biolove (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A deficiency in the early stages, before the outward signs have appeared.")
- 12:50, 4 March 2020 Secondary deficiency (hist) [208 bytes] Biolove (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A nutrient deficiency caused by something other than an inadequate intake such as a disease condition or drug interaction that reduces absorption, accelerates use, hastens exc...")
- 11:01, 26 February 2020 Endochondral ossification (hist) [498 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Endochondral ossification''' is one of the two essential processes during fetal development of the mammalian skeletal system by which bone tissue is created. Unlike intrame...")
- 23:24, 25 February 2020 Amphiphile (hist) [267 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An amphiphile is a chemical compound possessing both hydrophilic and lipophilic properties. Such a compound is called amphiphilic or amphipathic. This forms the basis for a nu...")
- 10:07, 20 February 2020 Blanketing effect (hist) [1,235 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The blanketing effect (also referred to as line blanketing or the line-blanketing effect) is the enhancement of the red or infrared regions of a stellar spectrum at the expens...")
- 12:50, 19 February 2020 Power of Attorney (POA) (hist) [307 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Is a legal document you can create in which you would choose another person to act and make decisions on your behalf - decisions about your finances or your personal care - in...")
- 23:08, 14 February 2020 Inter-Quartile Range (hist) [210 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The IQR is not dependent on extreme scores and gives the range for the middle 50% of the distribution. It is calculated by finding the distance betwee...")
- 13:38, 17 January 2020 Internet of Things (hist) [286 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Internet of Things is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and...")
- 01:09, 10 January 2020 Trisomy (hist) [198 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''trisomy''' is a type of polysomy in which there are three instances of a particular chromosome, instead of the normal two. A trisomy is a type of aneuploidy (an abnormal...")
- 18:53, 3 January 2020 Insurance (hist) [81 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The types of insurance offered as part of the credit card. Category:Business")
- 18:53, 3 January 2020 Grocery Features (hist) [88 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Earn money back on all purchases made at specific grocery stores. Category:Business")
- 18:52, 3 January 2020 Travel Related Benefits (hist) [80 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Non-insurance benefits available through the credit card. Category:Business")
- 18:51, 3 January 2020 Anniversary Bonus (hist) [83 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with " A thank you gift after each year of having the credit card. Category:Business")
- 18:51, 3 January 2020 Value of Points (hist) [85 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with " The dollar value of the points, and how they can be redeemed. Category:Business")
- 18:50, 3 January 2020 Bonus Earn Rate on Purchases (hist) [94 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ways to earn extra points for every dollar spent on everyday purchases. Category:Business")
- 18:50, 3 January 2020 Bonus Earn Rate on Travel (hist) [82 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ways to earn extra points for every dollar spent on travel. Category:Business")
- 18:48, 3 January 2020 Base Earn Rate (hist) [83 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The points earned for every dollar spent on the credit card. Category:Business")
- 18:48, 3 January 2020 Welcome Offer (hist) [79 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A limited time bonus for signing up for the credit card. Category:Business")
- 18:47, 3 January 2020 Interest Rate (hist) [97 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The ongoing annual interest rate you would be charged on this credit card. Category:Business")
- 18:46, 3 January 2020 Annual Fee (hist) [104 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The amount you would need to pay each month OR each year to have the credit card. Category:Business")
- 16:44, 29 December 2019 Paranasal Sinuses (hist) [0 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Are mucous membrane-lined cavities in the frontal, maxillary, sphenoid and ethmoid bones. Category:Biology")
- 21:59, 9 December 2019 Ceruminous glands (hist) [73 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Are modified sweat glands located in the ear canal. Category:Biology")
- 14:22, 3 December 2019 Cardiac Output (hist) [132 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Is the volume of blood ejected from the left or right ventricle into the aorta or pulmonary trunk each minute. Category:Biology")
- 16:06, 15 November 2019 Action Potentials (hist) [205 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Is a sequence of rapidly occurring events that decrease and eventually reverse the membrane potential (depolarization) and eventually restore it to the resting state (repolari...")
- 19:18, 12 November 2019 Azoospermia (hist) [200 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Azoospermia is when there are zero sperm in the ejaculate. Also referred to as having “no sperm count,” this is a severe form of male infertility. The semen may appear com...")
- 19:18, 12 November 2019 Oligozoospermia (hist) [87 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Oligozoospermia is the presence of an abnormally low number of sperm in a semen sample. According to the criteria in the 5th edition of the World Health Organisation (WHO) man...")
- 11:23, 11 November 2019 Signal peptide (hist) [701 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A signal peptide is a short peptide (usually 16-30 amino acids long) present at the N-terminus of the majority of newly synthesized proteins that are destined towards the secr...")
- 15:55, 5 November 2019 Rational Expression (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A rational expression is an algebraic expression of the form P/Q, where P and Q are polynomials such that Q ≠ 0.")
- 14:36, 22 October 2019 Vitamins (hist) [213 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Are nutrients required in small amounts to maintain growth and normal metabolism. Most cannot be synthesized by the body and must be consumed in foods. Category:Biology [...")
- 22:14, 20 October 2019 ATPases (hist) [91 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Are enzymes that use the energy from the breakdown of KIP molecules. Category:Biology")
- 22:13, 20 October 2019 Enzymes (hist) [68 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Enzymes are proteins that catalyze reactions. Category:Biology")
- 11:53, 18 October 2019 ICAM-1 (hist) [385 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "ICAM-1 (Intercellular Adhesion Molecule 1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''ICAM1'' gene. This gene encodes a cell surface glycoprotein which is typically expre...")
- 23:01, 11 October 2019 Autoregulation (hist) [181 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Is the ability of a tissue to automatically adjust its own blood flow to match its metabolic demand for delivery of oxygen and nutrients and removal of wastes. Category:Bio...")
- 11:26, 8 October 2019 Perpendicular (hist) [123 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The position of straight lines relative to one another—two lines are said to be perpendicular if they form a right angle.")
- 11:26, 8 October 2019 Orthogonal (hist) [34 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Synonymous with perpendicular.")
- 10:31, 7 October 2019 Congenital (hist) [109 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A birth defect, also known as a congenital disorder, is a condition present at birth regardless of its cause.")
- 19:41, 6 October 2019 Neural adaptation (hist) [301 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Neural adaptation or ''sensory adaptation'' is a gradual decrease over time in the responsiveness of the sensory system to a constant stimulus. It is usually experienced as a...")
- 19:41, 6 October 2019 Interlocutor (hist) [54 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.")
- 22:19, 1 October 2019 Inheritance (hist) [91 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Is the passage of hereditary traits from one generation to the next. Category:Biology")
- 22:12, 1 October 2019 Geyser (hist) [112 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Is a jet of hot water and steam that escapes from a hole in the ground. Category:Geography & Earth Sciences")
- 22:10, 1 October 2019 Childbirth Labor (hist) [94 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Is the process that expels the fetus from the uterus through the vagina. Category:Biology")
- 14:34, 29 September 2019 Complement method (hist) [92 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Method of computing the net price directly, using the complement of the trade discount rate.")
- 14:33, 29 September 2019 Complement rate (hist) [117 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A rate equal to 100% minus the discount rate; used with the complement method in determining trade or cash discounts.")
- 23:17, 24 September 2019 Latent period (hist) [278 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A brief period immediately following the stimulation where no contraction is observed. During the latent period, calcium ions are flowing out of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, cr...")
- 22:24, 22 September 2019 Sodium nitrate (hist) [156 bytes] Duddy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Sodium nitrate (NaNO3) is the inorganic nitrate salt of sodium. It has a role as a fertilizer. It is an inorganic sodium salt and an inorganic nitrate salt.")
- 12:09, 19 September 2019 Multimeter (hist) [329 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''multimeter''' or a ''multitester'', also known as a VOM (volt-ohm-milliammeter), is an electronic measuring instrument that combines several measurement functions in one...")
- 12:03, 18 September 2019 Steeping (hist) [272 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Steeping''' is the soaking in liquid (usually water) of a solid, usually so as to extract flavours or to soften it. The specific process of teas being prepared for drinking...")
- 13:45, 17 September 2019 Archaeology (hist) [306 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture...")
- 12:00, 16 September 2019 Very low frequency (hist) [850 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Very low frequency or VLF is the ''International Telecommunication Union'' designation for radio frequencies (RF) in the range of 3 to 30 kilohertz (kHz), corresponding to wav...")
- 11:59, 16 September 2019 Whistler wave (hist) [229 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''whistler''' is a very low frequency or very low frequency electromagnetic (radio) wave generated by lightning. Frequencies of terrestrial whistlers are 1 kHz to 30 kH...")
- 11:47, 16 September 2019 Telescope (hist) [287 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Usually a light-collecting instrument that makes distant objects appear nearer through the use of lenses or a combination of curved mirrors and lenses. Some, however, collect...")
- 11:47, 16 September 2019 Venus (hist) [542 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The second planet out from the sun, it has a rocky core, just as Earth does. However, Venus lost most of its water long ago. The sun’s ultraviolet radiation broke apart thos...")
- 13:53, 12 September 2019 Coprophagic (hist) [35 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Animal that consumes its own feces.")
- 11:26, 9 September 2019 Alkane (hist) [99 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Any of the series of saturated hydrocarbons including methane, ethane, propane, and higher members.")
- 11:25, 9 September 2019 Natural gas (hist) [548 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and s...")
- 23:26, 4 September 2019 Electrical gradient (hist) [119 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Is the difference in concentration of ions between one side of the plasma membrane and the other. Category:Biology")
- 11:07, 2 September 2019 Reptile (hist) [299 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Reptiles''' are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The...")
- 11:06, 2 September 2019 Caecilian (hist) [279 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Caecilians''' (pronounced seh-SILL-yens) are tropical amphibians that look like large worms or slick snakes. They have no arms or legs, and sometimes it's hard to tell whic...")
- 11:01, 2 September 2019 Newt (hist) [248 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''newt''' is a salamander in the subfamily '''Pleurodelinae'''. The terrestrial juvenile phase is called an '''eft'''. Unlike other members of the family Salamandridae, new...")
- 02:44, 2 September 2019 Salamander (hist) [319 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Salamanders''' are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to t...")
- 02:42, 2 September 2019 Herpetology (hist) [445 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and...")
- 12:54, 23 August 2019 Crossbite (hist) [315 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Crossbite is a form of malocclusion where a tooth (or teeth) has a more buccal or lingual position (that is, the tooth is either closer to the cheek or to the tongue) than its...")
- 12:53, 23 August 2019 Open bite (hist) [86 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An open bite is when your upper and lower teeth don't touch when your mouth is closed.")
- 11:18, 20 August 2019 Dihydrotestosterone (hist) [145 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Dihydrotestosterone''' (DHT, 5α-dihydrotestosterone, 5α-DHT, androstanolone or stanolone) is an endogenous androgen sex steroid and hormone.")
- 13:12, 16 August 2019 Arid (hist) [89 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "(of land or a climate) having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation.")
- 10:18, 9 August 2019 Nocturnal (hist) [19 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Occurring at night.")
- 09:36, 9 August 2019 Primate (hist) [236 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the latter category i...")
- 09:36, 9 August 2019 Lorisoidea (hist) [137 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lorisoidea is a superfamily of nocturnal primates found throughout Africa and Asia. Members include the galagos and the lorisids.")
- 00:50, 3 August 2019 Venules (hist) [141 bytes] Ryann (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Are small vessels that are formed by the union of several capillaries. Venules drain blood from capillaries into veins. Category:Biology")
- 15:28, 1 August 2019 Arteries (hist) [78 bytes] Ryann (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Arteries carry blood away from the heart to the tissues. Category:Biology")
- 15:27, 1 August 2019 Anastomoses (hist) [126 bytes] Ryann (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An anastomoses is the union of the branches of 2 or more arteries supplying the same region of the body. Category:Biology")
- 08:39, 15 July 2019 Natron (hist) [570 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Natron is a naturally occurring mixture of sodium carbonate decahydrate (Na2CO3·10H2O, a kind of soda ash) and around 17% sodium bicarbonate (also called baking soda, NaHCO3)...")
- 15:03, 11 July 2019 Oncophage (hist) [422 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A vaccine made from a patient’s tumor cells that may help the body’s immune system kill cancer cells. This vaccine is used to treat kidney cancer, a type of brain cancer c...")
- 14:43, 2 July 2019 Propaganda (hist) [291 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Is a mode of communication used to manipulate or influence the opinion of groups to support a particular cause or belief. Over the centuries, propaganda has taken the form of...")
- 20:57, 13 June 2019 Cumulonimbus cloud (hist) [498 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Cumulonimbus clouds''' are dense, towering vertical clouds, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents. If observed during a storm, these clouds may b...")
- 16:43, 5 June 2019 Pericarditis (hist) [1,365 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Pericarditis''' is inflammation of the pericardium . Symptoms typically include sudden onset of sharp chest pain. The pain may also be felt in the shoulders, neck, or back....")
- 18:23, 4 June 2019 Thixotropy (hist) [1,079 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Thixotropy is a time-dependent shear thinning property. Certain gels or fluids that are thick or viscous under static conditions will flow (become thin, less viscous) over tim...")
- 00:10, 26 May 2019 Archipelago (hist) [178 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.")
- 11:58, 20 April 2019 Phantom pain (hist) [111 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Phantom Pain is when there's a body part missing but you still feel pain in this particular part of body place.")
- 11:31, 10 April 2019 Learning management system (hist) [201 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "software tools that enable teachers to organize and manage various types of information and data related to their teaching — students’ test scores, individual le...")
- 11:31, 10 April 2019 WebQuests (hist) [96 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "online inquiry research projects for students that require them to gather material from the Web.")
- 11:30, 10 April 2019 Wiki (hist) [86 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a website created, edited, and maintained by a group of people with a common interest.")
- 11:30, 10 April 2019 YouTube (hist) [82 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an online video clearinghouse where people watch, upload, and share videos online.")
- 11:30, 10 April 2019 Twitter (hist) [87 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a real-time information network that connects users to information that interests them.")
- 11:30, 10 April 2019 Tumbler (hist) [70 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A network for sharing photos, videos, and text in a collaborative way.")
- 11:30, 10 April 2019 3-D virtual reality worlds (hist) [182 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "computer-based simulated environments that a user inhabits through use of an avatar, a user’s representation of him- or herself; a popular 3-D virtual reality world is Secon...")
- 11:30, 10 April 2019 Podcast (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "delivery of digital-media files over the Internet that can be played back on portable media players such as iPods.")
- 11:30, 10 April 2019 Open source materials (hist) [102 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "software, learning materials, and other digital resources that are available for free on the Internet.")
- 11:29, 10 April 2019 Online social networking (hist) [160 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an online community of people who share common interests and use methods such as e-mail, chat rooms, blogging, voice chat, and discussion groups to communicate.")
- 11:29, 10 April 2019 Learning objects (hist) [208 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "digital resources containing a small amount of information that can be reused to support learning — for example, learning objects stored at the National Science Di...")
- 11:29, 10 April 2019 Facebook (hist) [126 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a popular form of online social networking that people use to communicate with a network of friends who have common interests.")
- 11:29, 10 April 2019 E-portfolio (hist) [108 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an online site where an individual can place products that represent accomplishments in an area of interest.")
- 11:29, 10 April 2019 Blog (hist) [110 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an online journal constructed by an individual and reacted to by those who visit the blog (short for web log).")
- 11:29, 10 April 2019 Virtual schools (hist) [168 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "educational institutions that offer K–12 courses through the Internet or by means of web-based methods; an online learning space where teachers and students interact.")
- 11:28, 10 April 2019 Online learning (hist) [45 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "education that is delivered via the Internet.")
- 11:28, 10 April 2019 Flipped classroom (hist) [161 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a form of blended learning where students learn new content at home either online or through other media and return to the classroom to apply their new learning.")
- 11:28, 10 April 2019 Blended learning (hist) [56 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a “blending” of online and face-to-face instruction.")
- 11:28, 10 April 2019 Validity (hist) [74 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the extent to which assessments measure what they are supposed to measure.")
- 11:28, 10 April 2019 Scoring rubrics (hist) [67 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "rating scales that consist of pre-established performance criteria.")
- 11:27, 10 April 2019 Holistic rubric (hist) [173 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "requires the teacher to score the overall process or product as a whole, without judging the component parts separately (Brookhart & Nitko, 2015; Stiggins & Chappuis, 2012).")
- 11:27, 10 April 2019 Analytic rubric (hist) [235 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "requires the teacher to score separate, individual parts of the product or performance according to prespecified criteria and then add the individual scores to obtain a total...")
- 11:26, 10 April 2019 Self-assessment (hist) [65 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "interpreting information from the assessment of one’s own work.")
- 11:26, 10 April 2019 Project-based learning (hist) [111 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "students work in teams to explore real-world problems and create presentations to share what they have learned.")
- 11:26, 10 April 2019 Portfolio assessment (hist) [215 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "based on a collection of student work that “tell[s] a story of a learner’s growth in proficiency, long-term achievement, and significant accomplishments in a given academi...")
- 11:25, 10 April 2019 Performance-based assessment (hist) [178 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "based on observation and judgment - teachers may observe and then evaluate an actual performance or application of a skill, or they may evaluate a product created by the student.")
- 11:24, 10 April 2019 Peer assessment (hist) [94 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "occurs when students assess one another’s work, typically informally during a class session.")
- 11:24, 10 April 2019 Alternative assessments (hist) [145 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "forms of assessment that require the active construction of meaning rather than the passive regurgitation of isolated facts (McMillan, 2001, 14).")
- 11:24, 10 April 2019 Alternate assessments (hist) [152 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "designed to measure the performance of students who are unable to participate in “traditional” large-scale assessments used by districts and states.")
- 11:23, 10 April 2019 Work habits (hist) [373 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a term used to identify various dispositions important for effective thinking and learning, including reading with curiosity; reflecting critically on one’s own work; develo...")
- 11:23, 10 April 2019 Summative evaluation (hist) [180 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "when teachers use measurements to determine grades at the end of a unit, semester, or year and to decide whether students are ready to proceed to the next phase of their educa...")
- 11:23, 10 April 2019 Quantitative assessments (hist) [117 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "yield numerical scores that teachers use to evaluate student learning as well as the effectiveness of their teaching.")
- 11:23, 10 April 2019 Qualitative assessments (hist) [199 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "assessments based on qualities that are more subjective than quantitative assessments. However, quantitative assessments are also subjective because teachers must interpret th...")
- 11:23, 10 April 2019 Informal assessments (hist) [42 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "occur during teaching, made spontaneously.")
- 11:23, 10 April 2019 Formative evaluation (hist) [126 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "when teachers measure students’ attainment of knowledge and skills for the purpose of making decisions about their teaching.")
- 11:22, 10 April 2019 Formal assessments (hist) [128 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "include final exams, tests, and quizzes on subject matter studied; in-class seatwork and homework; and critiques of performances")
- 11:22, 10 April 2019 Evaluation (hist) [69 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "involves making judgments about or assigning a value to measurements.")
- 11:22, 10 April 2019 High-stakes tests (hist) [105 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "state-mandated tests that often have high-stakes consequences for students, teachers, and administrators.")
- 11:22, 10 April 2019 Standardized assessments (hist) [97 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "pencil-and-paper tests that are taken by large groups of students and scored in a uniform manner.")
- 11:21, 10 April 2019 Norm-referenced assessments (hist) [123 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "tests that compare the student’s performance to the typical performance of other students at the same age and grade level")
- 11:21, 10 April 2019 International Assessment of Educational Progress (hist) [242 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "first administered in 1991, the achievement of U.S. students was compared to that of students in more than 30 nations. The results indicated that the achievement levels of U.S...")
- 11:21, 10 April 2019 Criterion-referenced assessments (hist) [70 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "indicate what students know and can do within a specific subject area.")
- 11:21, 10 April 2019 Assessment (hist) [158 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a process that “provides teachers with information to make decisions about teaching and provides students with information to make decisions about learning")
- 11:20, 10 April 2019 Standards-based curriculum (hist) [90 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "curricula, teaching, and assessment of student learning on rigorous world-class standards.")
- 11:20, 10 April 2019 Standard (hist) [64 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "level of knowledge or skill that is necessary to perform a task.")
- 11:20, 10 April 2019 Performance standard (hist) [102 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "used to assess the degree to which students have attained standards reflecting a level of proficiency.")
- 11:20, 10 April 2019 Content standards (hist) [88 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "content or knowledge and skills students should acquire in various academic disciplines.")
- 11:20, 10 April 2019 Benchmarks (Indicators) (hist) [105 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "specific statements of what students should be able to do at specific grade levels or development stages.")
- 11:19, 10 April 2019 Tyler rationale (hist) [121 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the four fundamental questions that Ralph Tyler developed to bring order and focus to the curriculum development process.")
- 11:19, 10 April 2019 Subject-centered curriculum (hist) [89 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "places primary emphasis on the logical order of the discipline the students are to study.")
- 11:19, 10 April 2019 Student-centered curriculum (hist) [82 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "emphasizes the growth and development of the students while also teaching content.")
- 11:19, 10 April 2019 Integrated curriculum (hist) [109 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "draws from several different subject areas and focuses on a theme or concept rather than on a single subject.")
- 11:18, 10 April 2019 Hidden curriculum (hist) [104 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge that the culture of the school unintentionally teaches students.")
- 11:18, 10 April 2019 Extracurricular/Co-curricular programs (hist) [203 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "extracurricular activities are perceived as additions to the academic curriculum; co-curricular activities have important educational goals and are not considered extras added...")
- 11:18, 10 April 2019 Explicit curriculum (hist) [204 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the goal, aim, learning objectives the school has for students; the actual courses that make up the students’ study; the specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes that teach...")
- 11:17, 10 April 2019 Team teaching (hist) [137 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "teachers sharing the responsibility for two or more classes where lesion preparation and instructional delivery are divided between them.")
- 11:17, 10 April 2019 Co-Teaching (hist) [61 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "two or more teachers who teach together in the same classroom")
- 11:16, 10 April 2019 Collaboration (hist) [64 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "working together, sharing decision making, and solving problems.")
- 11:16, 10 April 2019 Peer-tutoring (hist) [103 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an arrangement in which students tutor other students in the same classroom or at the same grade level.")
- 11:16, 10 April 2019 Peer-mediated instruction (hist) [157 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "approaches to teaching, such as cooperative learning and group investigation, that utilize the social relationships among students to promote their learning.")
- 11:15, 10 April 2019 Modeling (hist) [131 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the process of “thinking out loud” that teachers use to make students aware of the reasoning involved in learning new material.")
- 11:15, 10 April 2019 Mastery learning (hist) [230 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach to instruction based on the assumptions that (1) virtually all students can learn material if given enough time and taught appropriately, and (2) learning is enhan...")
- 11:15, 10 April 2019 Inquiry learning (hist) [157 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach to teaching that gives students opportunities to explore, or inquire into, subjects so that they develop their own answers to problem situations.")
- 11:15, 10 April 2019 Information processing (hist) [135 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a branch of cognitive science concerned with how individuals use long- and short-term memory to acquire information and solve problems.")
- 11:15, 10 April 2019 Group Investigation (hist) [156 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach to teaching in which the teacher facilitates learning by creating an environment that allows students to determine what they will study and how.")
- 11:15, 10 April 2019 Discovery learning (hist) [136 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach to teaching that gives students opportunities to inquire into subjects so that they “discover” knowledge for themselves.")
- 11:14, 10 April 2019 Direct instruction (hist) [120 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a systematic instructional method focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills from the teacher to the students.")
- 11:14, 10 April 2019 Cross-age tutoring (hist) [187 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a tutoring arrangement in which older students tutor younger students; evidence indicates that cross-age tutoring has positive effects on the attitudes and achievement of tute...")
- 11:14, 10 April 2019 Constructivist teaching (hist) [119 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a method of teaching based on students’ prior knowledge of the topic and the processes they use to construct meaning.")
- 11:14, 10 April 2019 Democratic classroom (hist) [131 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a classroom in which the teacher’s leadership style encourages students to take more power and responsibility for their learning.")
- 11:13, 10 April 2019 Classroom management (hist) [82 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "day-to-day teacher control of student behavior and learning, including discipline.")
- 11:13, 10 April 2019 Choice theory (hist) [265 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach to classroom management, developed by psychiatrist William Glasser, based on a belief that students will usually make good choices (i.e., behave in an acceptable m...")
- 11:13, 10 April 2019 Assertive discipline (hist) [167 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach to classroom discipline requiring that teachers establish firm, clear guidelines for student behavior and follow through with consequences for misbehavior.")
- 20:51, 9 April 2019 Contact hypothesis (hist) [588 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The contact hypothesis states that a person's prejudices and stereotypes about a group should be reduced with repeated friendly exposure (contact) to members of equal standing...")
- 22:47, 8 April 2019 Within-class ability grouping (hist) [180 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the practice of creating small, homogeneous groups of students within a single classroom for the purpose of instruction, usually in reading or mathematics, at the elementary l...")
- 22:47, 8 April 2019 Time on task (hist) [80 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the amount of time students are actively and directly engaged in learning tasks.")
- 22:47, 8 April 2019 Opportunity to learn (hist) [138 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the time during which a teacher provides students with challenging content and appropriate instructional strategies to learn that content.")
- 22:47, 8 April 2019 Cooperative learning (hist) [137 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach to education in which students work in small groups, or teams, sharing the work and helping one another complete assignments.")
- 22:46, 8 April 2019 Classroom organization (hist) [106 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "how teachers and students in a school are grouped for instruction and how time is allocated in classrooms.")
- 22:46, 8 April 2019 Caring classroom (hist) [132 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a classroom in which the teacher communicates clearly an attitude of caring about students’ learning and their overall well-being.")
- 22:46, 8 April 2019 Block scheduling (hist) [124 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a high school scheduling arrangement that provides longer blocks of time for each class period, with fewer periods each day.")
- 22:46, 8 April 2019 Between-class ability grouping (hist) [149 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the practice of grouping students at the middle and high school levels for instruction on the basis of ability or achievement, often called tracking.")
- 22:46, 8 April 2019 Authentic learning tasks (hist) [126 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "learning activities that enable students to see the connections between classroom learning and the world beyond the classroom.")
- 22:46, 8 April 2019 Allocated time (hist) [78 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the time teachers allocate for instruction in various areas of the curriculum.")
- 22:45, 8 April 2019 Academic learning time (hist) [112 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the amount of time students spend working on academic tasks with a high level of success (80 percent or higher).")
- 22:45, 8 April 2019 Classroom Climate (hist) [106 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the atmosphere or quality of life in a classroom, determined by how individuals interact with one another.")
- 22:45, 8 April 2019 Collaborative consultation (hist) [210 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach in which a classroom teacher meets with one or more other professionals (such as a special educator, school psychologist, or resource teacher) to focus on the lear...")
- 22:45, 8 April 2019 Special education (hist) [87 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a teaching specialty for meeting the special educational needs of exceptional learners.")
- 22:43, 8 April 2019 Individualized education plan (hist) [144 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a plan for meeting an exceptional learner’s educational needs, specifying goals, objectives, services, and procedures for evaluating progress.")
- 22:43, 8 April 2019 Inclusion (hist) [90 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the practice of integrating all students with disabilities into general education classes.")
- 22:43, 8 April 2019 Full inclusion (hist) [89 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the policy and process of including exceptional learners in general education classrooms.")
- 22:43, 8 April 2019 Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142) (hist) [162 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a 1975 federal act that guarantees a free and appropriate education to all handicapped children (often referred to as the mainstreaming law or Public Law 94-142).")
- 22:43, 8 April 2019 Assistive technology (hist) [101 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "technological advances (usually computer-based) that help exceptional students learn and communicate.")
- 22:42, 8 April 2019 Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 97) (hist) [262 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "amendments to IDEA that emphasize educational outcomes for students with disabilities and provide greater access through changes in eligibility requirements, IEP guidelines, p...")
- 22:42, 8 April 2019 Students with disabilities (hist) [309 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "students who need special education services because they possess one or more of the following disabilities: learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, mental reta...")
- 22:42, 8 April 2019 Learning disability (hist) [88 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a limitation in one’s ability to take in, organize, remember, and express information.")
- 22:42, 8 April 2019 Gifted and talented (hist) [112 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "exceptional learners who demonstrate high intelligence, high creativity, high achievement, or special talent(s).")
- 22:42, 8 April 2019 Exceptional learners (hist) [181 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "students whose growth and development deviate from the norm to the extent that their educational needs can be met more effectively through a modification of regular school pro...")
- 22:41, 8 April 2019 Attention deficit disorder (hist) [79 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a learning disability characterized by difficulty in concentrating on learning.")
- 22:41, 8 April 2019 Multiple intelligences (hist) [134 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a perspective on intellectual ability proposed by Howard Gardner suggesting that there are at least eight types of human intelligence.")
- 22:41, 8 April 2019 Learning styles (hist) [174 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "cognitive, affective, and physiological behaviors through which an individual learns most effectively; determined by a combination of hereditary and environmental influences.")
- 22:41, 8 April 2019 Intelligence (hist) [58 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the ability to learn; the cognitive capacity for thinking.")
- 22:40, 8 April 2019 Stages of development (hist) [80 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "predictable stages through which individuals pass as they progress through life.")
- 22:40, 8 April 2019 Psychosocial development (hist) [96 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the progression of an individual through various stages of psychological and social development.")
- 22:40, 8 April 2019 Psychosocial crisis (hist) [175 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a life crisis at one of eight different stages of growth and development. According to psychologist Erik Erikson, individuals must resolve each crisis to reach the next stage.")
- 22:40, 8 April 2019 Preoperational stage (hist) [220 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the stage of cognitive development (two to seven years of age) proposed by Jean Piaget in which language and rapid conceptual development are evident and the use of symbols an...")
- 22:40, 8 April 2019 Moral reasoning (hist) [69 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the reasoning process people follow to decide what is right or wrong.")
- 22:39, 8 April 2019 Hierarchy of needs (hist) [132 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a set of seven needs, from the basic needs for survival and safety to the need for self-actualization, that motivate human behavior.")
- 22:39, 8 April 2019 Formal operations stage (hist) [162 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the stage of cognitive development (eleven to fifteen years of age) proposed by Jean Piaget in which cognitive abilities reach their highest level of development.")
- 22:39, 8 April 2019 Concrete operations stage (hist) [185 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the stage of cognitive development (seven to eleven years of age) proposed by Jean Piaget in which the individual develops the ability to use logical thought to solve concrete...")
- 22:39, 8 April 2019 Cognitive development (hist) [101 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the process of acquiring the intellectual ability to learn from interaction with one’s environment.")
- 22:39, 8 April 2019 Character education (hist) [126 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach to education that emphasizes the teaching of values, moral reasoning, and the development of “good” character.")
- 22:38, 8 April 2019 Women's Educational Equity Act (hist) [77 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a 1974 federal law that guarantees equal educational opportunity for females.")
- 22:38, 8 April 2019 Sex role stereotyping (hist) [125 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "beliefs that subtly encourage males and females to conform to certain behavioral norms regardless of abilities and interests.")
- 22:38, 8 April 2019 Sex role socialization (hist) [83 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "socially expected behavior patterns conveyed to individuals on the basis of gender.")
- 22:38, 8 April 2019 Gender-fair classroom (hist) [72 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "education that is free of bias or discrimination on the basis of gender.")
- 22:38, 8 April 2019 Gender bias (hist) [164 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "subtle bias or discrimination on the basis of gender; reduces the likelihood that the target of the bias will develop to the full extent of his or her capabilities.")
- 22:38, 8 April 2019 Multicultural education (hist) [254 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "education that provides equal educational opportunities to all students - regardless of socioeconomic status; gender; or ethnic, racial, or cultural backgrounds - and is dedic...")
- 22:37, 8 April 2019 Multicultural curriculum (hist) [232 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a school curriculum that addresses the needs and backgrounds of all students, regardless of their cultural identity, and includes the cultural perspectives, or “voices,” o...")
- 15:30, 8 April 2019 Indian Education Act of 1972 and 1974 Amendments (hist) [127 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a federal law and subsequent amendment designed to provide direct educational assistance to Native-American tribes and nations.")
- 15:30, 8 April 2019 Afrocentric schools (hist) [88 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "schools that focus on African-American history and cultures for African-American pupils.")
- 15:29, 8 April 2019 Race (hist) [110 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a concept of human variation used to distinguish people on the basis of biological traits and characteristics.")
- 15:29, 8 April 2019 Minorities (hist) [111 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "groups of people who share certain characteristics and are smaller in number than the majority of a population.")
- 15:28, 8 April 2019 Limited English proficient (hist) [135 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a designation for students with limited ability to understand, read, or speak English and who have a first language other than English.")
- 15:28, 8 April 2019 Institutional racism (hist) [91 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "institutional policies and practices, intentional or not, that result in racial inequities.")
- 15:28, 8 April 2019 Individualistic cultures (hist) [213 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "cultures that tend to emphasize the individual, his/her success and achievement, and a sense of “I” — in contrast to collectivistic cultures that emphasize gro...")
- 15:28, 8 April 2019 Individual racism (hist) [81 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the prejudicial belief that one’s ethnic or racial group is superior to others.")
- 15:28, 8 April 2019 Ethnicity (hist) [121 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a shared feeling of common identity that derives, in part, from a common ancestry, common values, and common experiences.")
- 15:28, 8 April 2019 Ethnic group (hist) [190 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "individuals within a larger culture who share a racial or cultural identity and a set of beliefs, values, and attitudes and who consider themselves members of a distinct group...")
- 15:27, 8 April 2019 Diversity (hist) [97 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "differences among people in regard to gender, race, ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomic status.")
- 15:27, 8 April 2019 Cultural pluralism (hist) [187 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the preservation of cultural differences among groups of people within one society. This view is in contrast to the melting-pot theory that says that ethnic cultures should me...")
- 15:27, 8 April 2019 Cultural identity (hist) [134 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an overall sense of oneself, derived from the extent of one’s participation in various subcultures within the national macroculture.")
- 15:27, 8 April 2019 Collectivistic cultures (hist) [210 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "cultures that tend to emphasize group membership and a sense of “we” rather than “I — in contrast to individualistic cultures that emphasize the individual a...")
- 15:26, 8 April 2019 Bilingual education (hist) [148 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a curriculum for non-English-speaking and English-speaking students in which two languages are used for instruction and biculturalism is emphasized.")
- 15:26, 8 April 2019 Achievement gap (hist) [141 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the continuing gap in academic achievement between White students and Hispanic, African-American, and American Indian/Alaska Native students.")
- 15:26, 8 April 2019 Sexual harassment (hist) [111 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "unwanted and unwelcome sexual behavior directed toward another person, whether of the same or the opposite sex.")
- 15:26, 8 April 2019 Lemon test (hist) [137 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a three-part test, based on Lemon v. Kurtzman, to determine whether a state has violated the principle of separation of church and state.")
- 15:26, 8 April 2019 Corporal punishment (hist) [88 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "physical punishment applied to a student by a school employee as a disciplinary measure.")
- 15:25, 8 April 2019 Search and seizure (hist) [184 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the process of searching an individual and/or his or her property if that person is suspected of an illegal act; reasonable or probable cause to suspect the individual must be...")
- 15:25, 8 April 2019 Freedom of expression (hist) [88 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "freedom, granted by the First Amendment to the Constitution, to express one’s beliefs.")
- 15:25, 8 April 2019 Censorship (hist) [96 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the act of removing from circulation printed material judged to be libelous, vulgar, or obscene.")
- 15:25, 8 April 2019 Buckley Amendment (hist) [172 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a 1974 law, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, granting parents of students under eighteen and students over eighteen the right to examine their school records.")
- 15:24, 8 April 2019 Tort liability (hist) [137 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "conditions that would permit the filing of legal charges against a professional for breach of duty and/or behaving in a negligent manner.")
- 15:24, 8 April 2019 Negligence (hist) [83 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "failure to exercise reasonable, prudent care in providing for the safety of others.")
- 15:24, 8 April 2019 Fair use (hist) [161 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the right of an individual to use copyrighted material in a reasonable manner without the copyright holder’s consent, provided that use meets certain criteria.")
- 15:24, 8 April 2019 Educational malpractice (hist) [181 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "liability for injury that results from the failure of a teacher, school, or school district to provide a student with adequate instruction, guidance, counseling, and/or superv...")
- 15:24, 8 April 2019 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (hist) [284 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "makes it illegal to circumvent copy-blocking measures that control access to copyrighted works but permits circumventing access control measures “solely for the purpose of m...")
- 15:23, 8 April 2019 Teaching contract (hist) [161 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an agreement between a teacher and a board of education that the teacher will provide specific services in return for a certain salary, benefits, and privileges.")
- 15:23, 8 April 2019 Nondiscrimination (hist) [216 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "conditions characterized by the absence of discrimination; for example, employees receive compensation, privileges, and opportunities for advancement without regard for race,...")
- 15:23, 8 April 2019 Grievance (hist) [82 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a formal complaint filed by an employee against his or her employer or supervisor.")
- 15:23, 8 April 2019 Due process (hist) [133 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a set of specific guidelines that must be followed to protect individuals from arbitrary, capricious treatment by those in authority.")
- 15:23, 8 April 2019 Dismissal (hist) [149 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the involuntary termination of a teacher’s employment; termination must be made for a legally defensible reason with the protection of due process.")
- 15:23, 8 April 2019 Collective bargaining (hist) [166 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a process followed by employers and employees in negotiating salaries and working conditions; in most states, school boards must negotiate with teacher organizations.")
- 15:22, 8 April 2019 Academic freedom (hist) [97 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A teacher’s right to use teaching methods and materials to which school officials might object.")
- 19:47, 7 April 2019 Ethical dilemmas (hist) [144 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "problem situations in which an ethical response is difficult to determine; that is, no single response can be called “right” or “wrong.”")
- 19:47, 7 April 2019 Code of ethics (hist) [72 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a set of guidelines that defines appropriate behavior for professionals.")
- 19:46, 7 April 2019 Copyright laws (hist) [81 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "laws limiting the use of photocopies, videotapes, and computer software programs.")
- 19:46, 7 April 2019 Voucher system (hist) [131 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "funds allocated to parents that they might use to purchase education for their children from public or private schools in the area.")
- 19:46, 7 April 2019 Vertical equity (hist) [155 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an effort to provide equal educational opportunity within a state by providing different levels of funding based on economic needs within school districts.")
- 19:46, 7 April 2019 School choice (hist) [87 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "various proposals that would allow parents to choose the schools their children attend.")
- 19:46, 7 April 2019 Redistricting (hist) [169 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the practice of redrawing district boundaries to equalize educational funding by reducing the range of variation in the ability of school districts to finance education.")
- 19:45, 7 April 2019 Privatization movement (hist) [145 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "includes the development of charter schools and for-profit schools to provide an alternative to the perceived inadequacies of the public schools.")
- 19:45, 7 April 2019 Full-funding programs (hist) [130 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "state programs to ensure statewide financial equity by setting the same per-pupil expenditure level for all schools and districts.")
- 19:45, 7 April 2019 Categorical aid (hist) [85 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "state-appropriated funds to cover the costs of educating students with special needs.")
- 00:59, 7 April 2019 State aid (hist) [120 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "money given by a state to its cities and towns to provide essential services, including the operation of public schools.")
- 00:59, 7 April 2019 Property taxes (hist) [165 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "local taxes assessed against real estate and, in some areas, against personal property in the form of cars, household furniture and appliances, and stocks and bonds.")
- 00:58, 7 April 2019 Expenditure per pupil (hist) [143 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the amount of money spent on each pupil in a school, school district, state, or nation; usually computed according to average daily attendance.")
- 00:58, 7 April 2019 Entitlements (hist) [70 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "federal programs to meet the educational needs of special populations.")
- 00:58, 7 April 2019 Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (hist) [100 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a 1981 federal law giving the states a broad range of choices for spending federal aid to education.")
- 00:58, 7 April 2019 Teacherpreneur (hist) [196 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a teacher who is always engaged with students, while also investing know-how and energy into important projects, including those supported by the district, the state, or a par...")
- 00:57, 7 April 2019 Teacher Leader (hist) [107 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a term describing teachers who have taken on leadership roles and additional professional responsibilities.")
- 00:57, 7 April 2019 Hybrid Teacher (hist) [98 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a teacher who combines part-time classroom teaching with leadership roles in a school or district.")
- 00:57, 7 April 2019 Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (hist) [470 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Released by the Obama administration and the U.S. Department of Education in March, 2010. Emphasized four areas: (1) improving teacher and principal effectiveness, (2) provid...")
- 00:51, 7 April 2019 G. I. Bill of Rights (hist) [189 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a 1944 federal law that provides veterans with payments for tuition and room and board at colleges, universities, and special schools, formally known as the Servicemen’s Rea...")
- 14:54, 6 April 2019 State department of education (hist) [135 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the branch of state government, headed by the chief state school officer, charged with implementing the state’s educational policies.")
- 14:53, 6 April 2019 State board of education (hist) [101 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the highest educational agency in a state, charged with regulating the state’s system of education.")
- 14:53, 6 April 2019 National Governor’s Association (hist) [123 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an association of state governors that influences policies in several areas, including teacher education and school reform.")
- 14:53, 6 April 2019 Kentucky Education Reform Act (hist) [159 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "comprehensive school-reform legislation requiring all Kentucky schools to form school-based management councils, with authority to set policies in eight areas.")
- 14:53, 6 April 2019 Chief state school officer (hist) [184 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the chief administrator of a state department of education and head of the state board of education, often called the commissioner of education or superintendent of public ins...")
- 14:53, 6 April 2019 Superintendent (hist) [45 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the chief administrator of a school district.")
- 14:52, 6 April 2019 School board (hist) [54 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the primary governing body of a local school district.")
- 14:52, 6 April 2019 School-Based Management (hist) [182 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "various approaches to school improvement in which teachers, principals, students, parents, and community members manage individual schools and share in the decision-making pro...")
- 14:52, 6 April 2019 Restructuring (hist) [143 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "reorganizing how schools are controlled at the local level so that teachers, principals, parents, and community members have greater authority.")
- 14:52, 6 April 2019 Local school district (hist) [87 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an agency at the local level that has the authority to operate schools in the district.")
- 14:52, 6 April 2019 Educational Politics (hist) [129 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "how people use power, influence, and authority to affect instructional and curricular practices within a school or school system.")
- 14:51, 6 April 2019 Achievement Gap (hist) [184 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the observed disparity on a number of educational measures between the performance of groups of students, especially groups defined by gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomi...")
- 14:51, 6 April 2019 Title IX (hist) [104 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a provision of the 1972 Education Amendments Act prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs.")
- 14:51, 6 April 2019 National Defense Education Act (hist) [134 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a 1958 federally sponsored program to promote research and innovation in science, mathematics, modern foreign languages, and guidance.")
- 14:51, 6 April 2019 Mainstreaming (hist) [256 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the policy and process of integrating disabled or otherwise exceptional learners into regular classrooms with nonexceptional students.")
- 14:51, 6 April 2019 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (hist) [320 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society Program, this act allocated federal funds on the basis of the number of poor children in school districts. In 1968, it wa...")
- 14:50, 6 April 2019 Education for All Handicapped Children Act (hist) [162 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a 1975 federal act that guarantees a free and appropriate education to all handicapped children (often referred to as the mainstreaming law or Public Law 94-142).")
- 14:50, 6 April 2019 Desegregation (hist) [88 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the process of eliminating schooling practices based on the separation of racial groups.")
- 14:50, 6 April 2019 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (hist) [144 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a 1954 landmark court case rejecting the “separate but equal” doctrine used to prevent African Americans from attending schools with whites.")
- 14:50, 6 April 2019 Back to basics (hist) [154 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a movement begun in the mid-1970s to establish the “basic skills” of reading, writing, speaking, and computation as the core of the school curriculum.")
- 14:49, 6 April 2019 Progressive movement (hist) [169 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a movement during the 1920s and 1930s to create schools that emphasized democracy, children’s interests and needs, and closer connections between school and community.")
- 14:49, 6 April 2019 Montessori Method (hist) [160 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a method of teaching, developed by Maria Montessori, based on a prescribed set of materials and physical exercises to develop children’s knowledge and skills.")
- 14:49, 6 April 2019 Scientific management (hist) [116 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the application of management principles and techniques to the operation of big business and large school districts.")
- 14:49, 6 April 2019 Kindergarten (hist) [191 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a school for children before they begin formal schooling at the elementary level; based on the ideas of German educator Friedrick Froebel, kindergarten means “garden where c...")
- 14:49, 6 April 2019 Normal schools (hist) [50 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "schools that focus on the preparation of teachers.")
- 14:49, 6 April 2019 Morrill Land-Grant Act (hist) [142 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an 1862 act that provided federal land that states could sell or rent to raise funds to establish colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts.")
- 14:48, 6 April 2019 McGuffey readers (hist) [142 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an immensely popular series of reading books for students in grades one through six, written in the 1830s by Reverend William Holmes McGuffey.")
- 14:48, 6 April 2019 Common schools (hist) [69 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "free state-supported schools that provide education for all students.")
- 14:48, 6 April 2019 Female seminaries (hist) [124 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "schools established in the early nineteenth century to train women for higher education and public service outside the home.")
- 14:48, 6 April 2019 Academies (hist) [122 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "early secondary schools with broader and more practical curricula than those found in grammar schools of the previous era.")
- 14:48, 6 April 2019 Reading and writing schools (hist) [192 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "colonial schools, supported by public funds and fees paid by parents, that used a religiously oriented curriculum to teach boys reading and writing skills and, to a lesser deg...")
- 14:47, 6 April 2019 Primer (hist) [137 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a book with very explicit religious and moral messages about the proper conduct of life that colonial children used to learn how to read.")
- 14:47, 6 April 2019 Parochial schools (hist) [37 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "schools founded on religious beliefs.")
- 14:47, 6 April 2019 Massachusetts Act of 1647 (hist) [186 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a law mandating the establishment and support of schools; often referred to as the Old Deluder Satan Act because education was seen as the best protection against the wiles of...")
- 14:47, 6 April 2019 Massachusetts Act of 1642 (hist) [85 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a law requiring each town to determine whether its young people could read and write.")
- 14:47, 6 April 2019 Latin grammar school (hist) [115 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "colonial schools established to provide male students a precollege education; comparable to today’s high schools.")
- 14:47, 6 April 2019 Horn book (hist) [84 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a copy of the alphabet covered by a thin transparent sheet made from a cow’s horn.")
- 14:46, 6 April 2019 Dame schools (hist) [139 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "colonial schools, usually held in the homes of widows or housewives, for teaching children basic reading, writing, and mathematical skills.")
- 14:46, 6 April 2019 School Traditions (hist) [78 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "those elements of a school’s culture that are handed down from year to year.")
- 14:46, 6 April 2019 Professionalism of Teaching (hist) [293 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the steadily increasing political influence and status of teaching as a profession: increased political influence and status reflect changes such as expanding leadership oppor...")
- 14:46, 6 April 2019 Humanistic psychology (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An orientation to human behavior that emphasizes personal freedom, choice, awareness, and personal responsibility.")
- 14:46, 6 April 2019 Humanism (hist) [137 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A philosophy based on the belief that individuals control their own destinies through the application of their intelligence and learning.")
- 14:45, 6 April 2019 Behaviorism (hist) [129 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "based on behavioristic psychology, this philosophical orientation maintains that environmental factors shape people’s behavior.")
- 14:45, 6 April 2019 Social reconstructionism (hist) [123 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a philosophical orientation based on the belief that social problems can be solved by changing, or reconstructing, society.")
- 14:45, 6 April 2019 Progressivism (hist) [229 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a philosophical orientation based on the belief that life is evolving in a positive direction, that people may be trusted to act in their own best interests, and that educatio...")
- 14:45, 6 April 2019 Perennialism (hist) [196 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a philosophical orientation that emphasizes the ideas contained in the Great Books and maintains that the true purpose of education is the discovery of the universal, or peren...")
- 14:45, 6 April 2019 Existentialism (hist) [161 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a philosophical orientation that emphasizes the individual’s experiences and maintains that each individual must determine his or her own meaning of existence.")
- 14:44, 6 April 2019 Essentialism (hist) [208 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "formulated in part as a response to progressivism, this philosophical orientation holds that a core of common knowledge about the real world should be transmitted to students...")
- 14:44, 6 April 2019 Socratic questioning (hist) [150 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Method of questioning designed to lead students to see errors and inconsistencies in their thinking, based on questioning strategies used by Socrates.")
- 14:44, 6 April 2019 Metaphysic (hist) [60 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of reality.")
- 14:44, 6 April 2019 Logic (hist) [145 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A branch of philosophy concerned with the processes of reasoning and the identification of rules that enable thinkers to reach valid conclusions.")
- 14:43, 6 April 2019 Axiology (hist) [95 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the study of values, including the identification of criteria for determining what is valuable.")
- 14:43, 6 April 2019 Aesthetics (hist) [71 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the branch of axiology concerned with values related to beauty and art.")
- 14:43, 6 April 2019 Educational philosophy (hist) [94 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a set of ideas and beliefs about education that guides the professional behavior of educators.")
- 14:43, 6 April 2019 Mentor (hist) [84 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "a wise, knowledgeable individual who provides guidance and encouragement to someone.")
- 14:42, 6 April 2019 School-within-a-school (hist) [95 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an alternative school (within a regular school) designed to meet the needs of students at risk.")
- 14:42, 6 April 2019 School-based interprofessional case management (hist) [214 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach to education in which professionally trained case managers work directly with teachers, the community, and families to coordinate and deliver appropriate services...")
- 14:42, 6 April 2019 Peer mediation (hist) [158 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "is focused on cultivating a classroom climate in which students influence one another to be more accepting of differences, instead of solving problems per se.")
- 14:42, 6 April 2019 Peer counseling (hist) [192 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an arrangement whereby students, monitored by a school counselor or teacher, counsel one another in such areas as low achievement, interpersonal problems, substance abuse, and...")
- 12:22, 6 April 2019 Out-of-school time activities (hist) [47 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "involve youth in activities out of school time.")
- 12:22, 6 April 2019 Full-service community schools (hist) [141 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "schools that provide students and their families with medical, social, and human services, in addition to their regular educational programs.")
- 12:21, 6 April 2019 Compensatory education programs (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "federally funded educational programs designed to meet the needs of low-ability students from low-income families.")
- 12:21, 6 April 2019 Students at risk (hist) [95 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "students whose living conditions and backgrounds place them at risk for dropping out of school.")
- 12:21, 6 April 2019 Latchkey children (hist) [112 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "children who, because of family circumstances, must spend part of each day unsupervised by a parent or guardian.")
- 12:21, 6 April 2019 Cyberbully (hist) [97 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "using information and/or communication technologies to harass or threaten an individual or group.")
- 12:21, 6 April 2019 Classroom climate (hist) [106 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the atmosphere or quality of life in a classroom, determined by how individuals interact with one another.")
- 12:20, 6 April 2019 Self-contained classroom (hist) [143 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an organizational structure for schools in which one teacher instructs a group of students (typically, twenty to thirty) in a single classroom.")
- 12:20, 6 April 2019 School traditions (hist) [78 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "those elements of a school’s culture that are handed down from year to year.")
- 12:20, 6 April 2019 School culture (hist) [172 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the collective “way of life” characteristic of a school; a set of beliefs, values, traditions, and ways of thinking and behaving that distinguish it from other schools.")
- 12:20, 6 April 2019 Open-space schools (hist) [107 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "schools that have large instructional areas with movable walls and furniture that can be rearranged easily.")
- 12:19, 6 April 2019 Institution (hist) [79 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "any organization a society establishes to maintain and improve its way of life.")
- 12:19, 6 April 2019 Departmentalization (hist) [136 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an organizational arrangement for schools in which students move from classroom to classroom for instruction in different subject areas.")
- 12:18, 6 April 2019 Classroom culture (hist) [163 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the “way of life” characteristic of a classroom group that is determined by the social dimensions of the group and the physical characteristics of the setting.")
- 12:18, 6 April 2019 Magnet schools (hist) [308 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "schools offering a curriculum that focuses on a specific area such as the performing arts, mathematics, science, international studies, or technology. Magnet schools, which of...")
- 12:18, 6 April 2019 Curriculum (hist) [505 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "the school experiences, both planned and unplanned, that enhance (and sometimes impede) the education and growth of students.")
- 12:17, 6 April 2019 Alternative schools (hist) [115 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "small, highly individualized schools separate from regular schools; designed to meet the needs of students at risk.")
- 12:17, 6 April 2019 Service learning (hist) [145 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "an approach to teaching in which students participate in community-based service activities and then reflect on the meaning of those experiences.")
- 12:17, 6 April 2019 Prosocial values (hist) [100 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "values such as honesty, patriotism, fairness, and civility that promote the well-being of a society.")
- 12:15, 6 April 2019 Collegiality (hist) [188 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The practice of getting along with colleagues and contributing to a spirit of professional cooperation.")
- 12:14, 6 April 2019 Phi Delta Kappa (hist) [90 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A professional and honorary fraternity of educators with 650 chapters and 130,000 members.")
- 12:14, 6 April 2019 NEAFT partnership (hist) [257 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The merger of the NEA and the AFT organizations in 2001, with the purpose of endorsing the goals of building relationships, making collaboration work, creating value, and demo...")
- 12:14, 6 April 2019 National Education Association (hist) [80 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The oldest and largest professional association for teachers and administrators.")
- 12:13, 6 April 2019 ASCD (hist) [89 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A professional organization for educators interested in school improvement at all levels.")
- 12:12, 6 April 2019 American Federation of Teachers (hist) [78 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A national professional association for teachers, affiliated with the AFL-CIO.")
- 12:12, 6 April 2019 Professionalization of teaching (hist) [294 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The steadily increasing political influence and status of teaching as a profession: increased political influence and status reflect changes such as expanding leadership oppo...")
- 12:12, 6 April 2019 Profession (hist) [185 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An occupation that requires a high level of expertise, including advanced study in a specialized field, adherence to a code of ethics, and the ability to work without close su...")
- 12:12, 6 April 2019 Emergency certification (hist) [103 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Temporary, substandard certification requirements set by a state in response to a shortage of teachers.")
- 12:11, 6 April 2019 Teachers' craft knowledge (hist) [180 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The knowledge teachers develop about teaching that derives from their experiences in the classroom, particularly the actions they have taken to solve specific problems of prac...")
- 12:11, 6 April 2019 Pedagogical content knowledge (hist) [220 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The knowledge that accomplished teachers possess regarding how to present subject matter to students though the use of analogies, metaphors, experiments, demonstrations, illus...")
- 12:11, 6 April 2019 Reflection-in-action (hist) [139 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The process of engaging in serious, reflective thought about improving one’s professional practice while one is engaged in that practice.")
- 12:10, 6 April 2019 Problem-solving orientation (hist) [116 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An approach to teaching that places primary emphasis on the teacher’s role as a decision maker and problem solver.")
- 12:10, 6 April 2019 Pre-K education (hist) [93 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Educational programs for children from birth to age 8, also termed early childhood education.")
- 12:10, 6 April 2019 Multi-age classrooms (hist) [64 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Elementary classrooms with students from different grade levels.")
- 12:10, 6 April 2019 Magnet school (hist) [294 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A school offering a curriculum that focuses on a specific area such as a performing arts, mathematics, science, international student, or technology. They often draw students...")
- 12:10, 6 April 2019 English-language learners (hist) [45 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Students whose first language is not English.")
- 12:09, 6 April 2019 Charter schools (hist) [225 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Independent schools, often founded by teachers, that are given a charter to operate by a school district, a state, or a national government, with the provision that students m...")
- 12:09, 6 April 2019 Alternative school (hist) [117 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A small, highly individualized school separate from a regular school; designed to meet the needs of students at risk.")
- 12:08, 6 April 2019 Teaching certificate (hist) [70 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A license to teach issued by a state or, in a few cases, a large city.")
- 12:08, 6 April 2019 Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers (hist) [187 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A battery of tests available to states for the initial certification of teachers. Consists of assessments in three areas: academic skills, knowledge of subject, and classroom...")
- 12:07, 6 April 2019 Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (hist) [204 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) consolidated and launched in July 2013 to accredit,...")
- 12:07, 6 April 2019 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (hist) [188 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A board established in 1987 that began issuing professional certificates in 1994–1995 to teachers who possess extensive professional knowledge and the ability to perform at...")
- 12:06, 6 April 2019 National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certifications Interstate Agreement (hist) [95 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A reciprocity agreement whereby a certificate obtained in one state will be honored in another.")
- 12:06, 6 April 2019 Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (hist) [143 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An organization of states established in 1987 to develop performance-based standards for what beginning teachers should know and be able to do.")
- 12:06, 6 April 2019 Highly-qualified teachers (hist) [191 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Teachers who have the following qualifications as contained in the No Child Left Behind legislation: bachelor’s degree, full state certification, and knowledge of the subjec...")
- 12:05, 6 April 2019 Alternative certification (hist) [120 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A provision allowing people who have completed college but not a teacher education program to become certified teachers.")
- 12:05, 6 April 2019 Teacher supply and demand (hist) [154 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The number of school-age students compared to the number of available teachers; may also be projected based on estimated numbers of students and teachers.")
- 12:05, 6 April 2019 Tenure (hist) [259 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Job security granted to teachers usually after 2 – 5 years of satisfactory work.")
- 12:04, 6 April 2019 High-stakes testing (hist) [258 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tests are called "high-stakes" when they are used to make major decisions about a student, such as high school graduation or grade promotion. To be high stakes, a test has to...")
- 12:04, 6 April 2019 Adequate Yearly Progress (hist) [738 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Under the accountability provisions in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, all public school campuses, school districts, and the state are evaluated for '''Adequate Yearly Pr...")
- 12:03, 6 April 2019 Fringe benefits (hist) [103 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Benefits provided to workers in addition to base salary such as medical insurance and retirement plans.")
- 12:03, 6 April 2019 Teach for America (hist) [279 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A program that enables recent college graduates without a teaching certificate to teach in districts with critical shortages of teachers and, after taking professional develop...")
- 12:03, 6 April 2019 Student diversity (hist) [99 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Differences among students in regard to gender, race, ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomic status.")
- 12:02, 6 April 2019 Student variability (hist) [106 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Differences among students in regard to their developmental needs, interests, abilities, and disabilities.")
- 12:55, 3 April 2019 Pessaries (hist) [275 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A pessary is a prosthetic device inserted into the vagina to reduce the protrusion of pelvic structures into the vagina. It can be a route of administration of medication and...")
- 12:55, 3 April 2019 Dung (hist) [33 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The excrement of animals; manure.")
- 12:55, 3 April 2019 Contraceptive (hist) [81 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A contraceptive is a device or drug that prevents a woman from becoming pregnant.")
- 12:05, 14 March 2019 Naked seed (hist) [56 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A gymnosperm seed which isn't enclosed in a plant ovary.")
- 12:05, 14 March 2019 Pseudobulb (hist) [90 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A bulbous enlargement of the stem in many orchids, especially tropical and epiphytic ones.")
- 23:15, 20 February 2019 Metabolome (hist) [234 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The metabolome refers to the complete set of small-molecule chemicals found within a biological sample. The biological sample can be a cell, a cellular organelle, an organ, a...")
- 23:54, 30 January 2019 Young's rule (hist) [256 bytes] Ryann (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A rule for calculating the dose of medicine correct for a child by adding 12 to the child's age, dividing the sum by the child's age, then dividing the adult dose by the figur...")
- 13:30, 9 January 2019 Climate change (hist) [171 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A controversial despite widespread scientific agreement on the issue. Category:Geography & Earth Sciences")