Pedagogy, Testing & Learning Methods

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Abstractions about teaching methods and educational assessment, spanning instructional approaches (dialogic pedagogy, synthetic phonics, slow education), assessment and testing design (anchor test, automatic item generation, standard-setting study), and learning-context effects (acculturation gap, the Scarr-Rowe effect, family literacy).

18 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Acculturation gap — The acculturation gap refers to the differences in the changing sets of values and culture between generations in a family, such as a child and a parent.
• Anchor test — In psychometrics, an anchor test is a common set of test items administered in combination with two or more alternative forms of the test with the aim of establishing the equivalence of the test scores on the alternative forms.
• Automatic item generation — Automatic item generation (AIG), or automated item generation, is a process linking test construction with computer programming.
• Conductive pedagogy — Conductive pedagogy is pedagogy especially useful for disabled pupils like those with cerebral palsy.
• Dialogic pedagogy — There are a number of types of dialogic pedagogy, that is, where the form and the content is recognized as "dialogic".
• Family literacy — Relatively new, family literacy is being put into practice in the United States, Canada, and South Africa.
• Firsthand learning — Firsthand learning is an inquiry process that generates questions for subsequent investigations.
• Flipped Classroom — An instructional arrangement that moves initial exposure before class and reserves shared class time for application and feedback.
• Holistic grading — Holistic grading or holistic scoring, in standards-based education, is an approach to scoring essays using a simple grading structure that bases a grade on a paper's overall quality.
• Lesson Study — A collaborative teacher-inquiry cycle that plans a research lesson, observes students' thinking in its live enactment, and uses joint reflection to improve instruction beyond that lesson.
• Literacy-targeted instruction in economics — Principles courses are often designed to prepare students for upper-level economics classes, assuming they will continue in the major.
• Scarr–Rowe effect — In behavioral genetics, the Scarr–Rowe effect, also known as the Scarr–Rowe hypothesis, refers to the proposed moderating effect of low socioeconomic status on the heritability of children's IQ.
• Setting Up to Fail — "Setting up to fail" is a phrase denoting a no-win situation designed in such a way that the person in the situation cannot succeed at the task which they have been assigned.
• Slow education — Slow education is based upon Socratic, adaptive and non-standards based approaches to teaching.
• Standard-Setting Study — Standard-setting study is an official research study conducted by an organization that sponsors tests to determine a cutscore for the test.
• Synthetic phonics — Synthetic phonics, also known as blended phonics or inductive phonics, is a method of teaching English reading which first teaches letter-sounds (grapheme/phoneme correspondences) and then how to blend (synthesise) these sounds to achieve full pronunciation of whole words.
• Teaching-Family Model — The Teaching-Family Model (TFM) is a model of care for people in foster care, residential treatment centers, and other residential youth and dependent adult care facilities.
• Test (assessment) — An examination (exam or evaluation), or test, is an educational assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics (e.g., beliefs).