A global trait signifying an individual’s overall ability to adapt to and succeed in his or her environment.
Instructional validity-29.06.2024
The belief that tests must be valid for improving instruction and learning.
Instructional management-28.06.2024
Two broad components of teaching skill: (1) expertise in planning for instruction and (2) expertise in delivering instruction.
Instructional events-27.06.2024
Elements of the teaching process that allow learners to acquire and transfer new information and skills.
Instinct theory-26.06.2024
An early school of thought about motivation that assumed that individual and collective actions and thoughts were a result of inherited and innate instincts.
Information-processing model-25.06.2024
A model of learning that examines how we learn using the “mind as computer” metaphor.
Individualized education plan (IEP)-24.06.2024
A written educational plan, revised annually, that provides a detailed road map of the kinds of services a child will receive and how those services will be evaluated.
Individual ability tests-23.06.2024
Ability tests administered by one examiner to one learner at each testing session.
Indirect instruction-22.06.2024
Instructional methods best suited for the learning of concepts, patterns, and abstractions. Indirect instruction involves the expression of learner ideas, teachermediated discussion, and group problem solving.
Index of item discrimination-21.06.2024
An ability test question’s or task’s actual reflection of the overall trait or ability that the test is presumed to measure.
Index of item difficulty-20.06.2024
The appropriateness of an ability test question for its intended audience. It is represented by the proportion of individuals in a test tryout who answered the item correctly.
Independent variable-19.06.2024
A variable that is thought to produce a desired effect or outcome.
Independent practice-18.06.2024
The solitary attempt of a learner to master skills.
Impulsivity-17.06.2024
A failure to stop and think before responding to a task.
Impact stage-16.06.2024
The stage of teaching when instructors begin to view their learners as individuals with individual needs.
Immediate memory-15.06.2024
Our information-storage capacity that holds sensory data for less than a second before it is lost or transferred to our working memory.
Hypothetico-deductive reasoning-14.06.2024
The ability to pose hypotheses and draw conclusions from observations.
Hypothesis.-13.06.2024
A prediction about how the variables in a question are related to one another.
Hyperactivity-12.06.2024
A greatly increased rate of activity and/or restlessness.
Humanistic tradition-11.06.2024
An approach to classroom management that emphasizes the critical role of communication and problem solving between teacher and students.
Horizontal relationships-10.06.2024
Students’ relationships with peers.
Homogeneous grouping-09.06.2024
The tracking or ability grouping of learners into instructional clusters that are defined by aptitude as measured by ability tests.
Holistic scoring-08.06.2024
Estimating the overall quality of a performance by giving a single value that represents a specific category of accomplishment.
Heterogeneous grouping-07.06.2024
In education, assigning learners to classes or learning groups in a manner that insures that these groups will include a diverse mixture of learners.
Hearing disability-06.06.2024
An inability to hear well; may range from mild disability to total deafness.
Guided practice-05.06.2024
Teacher-provided activities used to encourage learners to organize a response to what has been modeled or demonstrated, often with prompts and questions.
Group conflict-04.06.2024
Disruptions that destabilize group relationships, structures, and goals.
Group cohesiveness-03.06.2024
The degree to which members of a group have relationships, common goals, and a social structure within that group.
Group ability tests-02.06.2024
Ability tests designed for administration to large groups of learners on one occasion.
Group-01.06.2024
Two or more persons engaged in interactions around a common goal so that each member of the group influences the others.