Data-Driven Instruction
Data-driven instruction involves collecting information about students and using that information to…
Terms starting with D
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Dean
Dean is the title for an administrator who leads a specific academic unit including departments or…
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Deductive Learning
Deductive learning is a more instructor-centered approach to education. Concepts and generalizations…
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Deeper Learning
Deeper learning is an academic philosophy that places an emphasis on providing learners with robust…
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Deferred Admissions
Deferred admissions means that an institution has not yet completed reviewing an application file…
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Department Chair
A department chair is a faculty member in a given academic department, assigned by the dean to…
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Design Thinking
Design thinking is an interactive process that aims to understand the user and challenge their…
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Diagnostic Assessment
A diagnostic assessment is a form of pre-assessment where teachers can evaluate students’…
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Diagnostic Teaching
Diagnostic teaching is the process of discovering individual student abilities, needs and objectives…
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Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated instruction is a mode of teaching that accounts for students’ individual needs and…
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Digital Classroom
A digital classroom is typically one that incorporates electronic devices and software into the…
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Digital Humanities
Digital humanities is an umbrella term for the application of digital technology to traditional…
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Digital Natives
Digital natives are considered by many experts to be people who were born in 1980 or later although…
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Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling is a short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to…
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Digital Textbook
Data-driven instruction involves collecting information about students and using that information to…
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Direct Instruction
Direct instruction is where teachers use explicit teaching techniques to teach a specific skill to…
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Disaggregated Data
Disaggregated data is data that has been divided into detailed sub-categories.
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Discourse Community
Discourse communities refer to a group of people who have a broadly agreed set of common public…
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Dissertation
A dissertation is a lengthy written project prepared at the end of an academic program. There are…
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Distance Learning
Distance learning is where students educate themselves without in-person interaction among peers or…
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Drop a Class
Drop a class is a function in an institution’s student portal for students to remove themselves…
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Dual Enrollment
Dual enrollment describes students who are enrolled in two academic programs or educational…
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Dynamic Textbook
Dynamic textbooks are interactive, electronic textbooks that have been purpose-built to give…
