IFFA6312 Glossary of Terms

A system for learning to read and write

• Breakthrough to

  literacy

• Breakthrough to numeracy

The ability to recognise written letters, words, and sentences and

understand their meaning.

• coding skills

• decoding skills

• robotics

Individuals must actively build knowledge and skills.

• constructivism

• co-operative learning

Learners helping one another to understand concepts and

demonstrate outcomes.

• co-operative learning

• constructivism

Recognition of prior learning. An assessment which diagnoses what a

learner knows.

• Formative Assessment

• Baseline Assessment

• Summative Assessment

Daily or informal on-going assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Formative Assessment

• Baseline Assessment

Formal tests or exams

• Summative Assessment

• Baseline Assessment

• Formative Assessment

The support given to a student by an

instructor throughout the learning process.

• Support

• Scaffolding

• Training

An area outside a person’s current area of knowledge and abilities.

• Zone of Proximal Development

• Zone of Probable Development

• Zero Proximal Development

A cognitive structure that serves as a framework for one’s knowledge.

• simile

• schema

• schemes