Link to List of terms and definitions cobbled together by Denna for use in the Activity Design Handbook, the booklets for the Gaston College Workshop and various flyers. Note: though a few of the definitions on the linked page jibe with definitions offered elsewhere through this glossary page, there have been some significant changes.

 
A

Academic Quality Improvement Project CS

Accelerator Model CSB

Accrediting Body C

Active Learning C

Activity C

Activity Design CS

Activity Design Assessment Tool C

Adult Learning C

Andragogy C

NEW Assessment/Assessing CS

Appreciative Inquiry C

Assessment Culture C

ADDIE Model of Instructional Design C

 

 

 

B

Behavior Change Model of Self-Regulation CS

Benchmark CS

Best Practices CS

Blackboard™

Bloom's Taxonomy (of Educational Objectives)

Boyer's Model of Scholarship C

Brain-Based Learning

 

 

 

C

Capstone Course S

Challenge Grant

Change Process

Classification of Learning Skills (for Educational Enrichment and Assessment)

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)

Cognitive Dissonance

Cohort

Collaboration/Collaborating

Collaborative Learning

Collegial

Commitment, Shared

Commitment to Excellence

Community of Practice (COP)

Community Outreach

Competence

Concept

Conceptual Framework D

Concept Map

Concept Model

Construct

Construction of Knowledge

Constructive Intervention

Constructivism

Context

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

Cooperative Learning

Core Competencies C

Core Curriculum C

Core Values

Cortical Plasticity

Course Design

Course Evaluation System

Course Management System (or Virtual Learning Environment)

Creative Problem Solving

Criteria/Criterion

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking Questions

 

 

 

D

Design/Designing

Developmental Counseling

Developmental Education

Dimensions

Direct Measure

Domain

Dynamic Self-Regulation

 

 

 

 

E

Effectiveness Criteria

e-Learning (electronic learning)

Empowerment

Enriched Learning Environment

NEW Evaluation/Evaluating

Evaluation Criteria

Evaluation Methodology

Evidence

Exemplar

Expert

Expert Profile

Extrinsic Motivation BD

 

 

 

F

Facilitation/Facilitate/Facilitating

Facilitator

Facilitation Plan

Factor

First-Year (or Freshman) Experience Course CB REVISED 

Forms of Knowledge

Foundations Course C REVISED 

 

 

 

 

G

General Education C REVISED 

Grading System (types) C

Grading Tools (types) C

Growth/Development

Guided-Inquiry Learning

 

 

 

 

I

Indirect Measure  C REVISED 

Information Processing

Institutional Development

Institutional Effectiveness

Instruction Paradigm

Instructional Design

Instructional Systems Design

Instrument

Integrating Knowledge

Intellectual Development

Interactive Learning System

Interdisciplinary Team Teaching     REVISED

Internal Challenge Grant

Intervention

Intrinsic Motivation     REVISED

     
L

Language Development

Lead/Leading

Learner-Centered

Learner Development

Learner Ownership

Learning

Learning Activity

Learning Assessment Journal (LAJ)

Learning-Centered/Learning-Centered Teaching:

Learning College

Learning Communities

Learning Contract

Learning Culture

Learning Cycle

Learning Disability

Learning Model

Learning Object

Learning Outcomes

Learning Paradigm

Learning Preferences

Learning Processes

Learning Process Methodology (LPM)

Learning Styles

Learning Theory

Learning Tool

Learning-to-Learn Camp 

Learner Ownership

Lecture/Lab Notes Log

Level of Performance

Levels of Learner Knowledge

Life Coaching

Lifelong Learner

Life Vision

Life Vision Plan

Life Vision Portfolio

Long-Term Behavior

Long-Term Transfer of Knowledge/Learning

     
M

NEW  Measurment/Measuring

Measure

Measurement

Mentoring

Mentor

Mentee

Metacognition

Meta-Knowledge Table (see Program Design)

Methodology

Mission Statement (see also Strategic Planning)

Model

Module

Motivation

Motivation Theory

Multiple Intelligences

 

 

 

N

Needs Analysis

Novice

 

 

 

 

P

Paradigm

Paradigm Shift

Pedagogy

Peer Assessment (see Assessment)

Peer Assessment

Peer Coaching/Mentoring (see Assessment)

Performance

Performance-Based Learning (PBL)

NEW  Performance Criteria

NEW  Performance Measures

Performance Objectives

Performance Task

Persistence Log

Personal Development (see Self-Development)

Personal Development Methodology

Personal Growth

POGIL (Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry

Portfolio (see Student Portfolio)

Practice

Preassessment (see Assessment)

Problem

Problem-Based Learning

Problem-Based Project

Problem Solving

Problem-Solving Methodology

Procedural Knowledge (or Implicit Knowledge) (see Knowledge)

Process

Process Education

Program Assessment System (PAS)

Professional Development

NEW  Profile

Program Design (see Instructional Design)

Project Learning

 

 

 

Q

Qualitative Research (see Research Methods)

NEW  Qualities (noun)

Quality Systems

 

 

 

 

R

Rate of Learning

Reading Log

NEW  Reflection

Reflection Time

Reflective Practice

Reliability

Remedial Education (not politically correct—see Developmental Education)

Research/Researching

Research Methodology

Research-Based

Research-Based Practices

Research Methods

Research Institution

Responsive Individual

Retention

Role

NEW  Rubric

 

 

 

S

Scale

Schema/Schemata

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL)

Self-Actualization

Self Assessment (see Assessment)

Self-Assessment

Self-Assessment Report

Self-Assessment Report (see Assessment)

Self Development

Self-Directed Learning

Self Efficacy

Self-Growth

Self Grower (see Self-Development)

Self-Growth Paper

Self-Reflection

Self-Regulation (of Motivation)

Self-Study Report

Servant Leadership

Service Learning

Shared Commitment

SII Method (of Assessment Reporting)

Skill –learning vs. knowledge

Skill Cluster (see Classification of Learning Skills)

Skill Exercises

Skill Set (see Classification of Learning Skills)

Specific Skills (see Classification of Learning Skills)

Stakeholder

NEW  Standard (level of quality)

Strategic Planning/PlanStudent-Centered Teaching

Student Portfolio

Student Success

Success Criteria (see Performance Criteria)

Summative Evaluation (see Evaluation)

Synthesis

 

 

 

T

Table of Measures

Tacit Knowledge (see Knowledge)

Taxonomy (see Bloom’s Taxonomy)

Teaching (see Facilitation of Learning)

Team

Team Building

Team Reflection

Team Role (see Roles)

Teamwork Methodology

Team Teaching

Theme

Theory

Theory of Performance (ToP)

Time-Pressured Learning

Tool 

Tough Love

Training

Transfer

Transferable Skills (see also Learning Skills)

Transferable Tools

Transformational Change

Transformational Learning/Transformative Learning

Transparency

 

 

 

U

Underprepared Student

 

 

 

 

V

Validation

Validity

 

 

 

 

W

Way of Being (see Knowledge Forms)

Web CT (see Course Management Systems)