D.Sc.

Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science#English

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Science.


app

“Ky—please don't take this the wrong way—I actually have to wear a dress from our line. You know, to show off my marketing materials on my college app. So, I'm working on it with Hannah.”

2011, Nicole Leigh Shepherd, Stealing Bases:

(education, informal) application (to a college etc.)


SSR

sustained silent reading
w:sustained silent reading

(education) Initialism of sustained silent reading.


bursar

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bursārius, from bursa (“purse”) (English purse).

(Scotland, education) A student funded by a bursary.


openness

en-noun

openness (usually uncountable, plural opennesses)

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From Middle English *opennesse, from Old English openness (“openness, publicity”), equivalent to open + -ness. Cognate with Old High German offannussi (“disclosure, revelation, openness”).

cog

(computing, education) The degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing.


bus stop

bus stops (plural)
busstop (alternative)

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(education) The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing.


feeder

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.


JCR

(education, UK) Initialism of junior common room (in British universities).


statementing

(British, education) formal official assessment of a child as having special needs.


streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

Since he also demonstrated that the A-streamers in his sample showed enhancement of measured intelligence over their primary school careers while the B-streamers showed deterioration, it can be seen what a far-reaching effect such decisions may have had upon child performance.

1984, Anthony Gale, Antony J. Chapman, Psychology and Social Problems, page 82:

(UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).


ITA

Initial Teaching Alphabet
w:Initial Teaching Alphabet

(education) Initialism of Initial Teaching Alphabet.


TEA

Hinojosa presented state budget data going back to 2016 that she said shows TEA has grown by about 50% over the last decade under Gov. Greg Abbott, while the percentage of students who pass the state’s assessment tests has declined.

2025 March 28, Brant Bigamon, “DOGEing the Texas Education Agency”, in The Austin Chronicle:

Texas Education Agency
w:Texas Education Agency

(Texas, education) Initialism of Texas Education Agency.


CSE

en-noun

CSE (countable and uncountable, plural CSEs)

John left school with eight CSEs.

Certificate of Secondary Education
w:Certificate of Secondary Education

(UK, education, historical, countable) Initialism of Certificate of Secondary Education, a former examination in UK schools; a pass achieved in this examination.


differentiate

en-verb

differentiate (third-person singular simple present differentiates, present participle differentiating, simple past and past participle differentiated)

differentiates (present singular third-person)
differentiating (participle present)
differentiated (participle past)
differentiated (past)

equate

antonym(s) of “to show the distinction between things”

mix up

antonym(s) of “to perceive the difference between things”

From New Latin differentiātus, perfect passive participle of differentiō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from Latin differentia (“difference”); see difference.

Like most teaching, differentiating is a mix of art and science. When it works, "it's like a jazz rhythm," said Carol Tomlinson, an education professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on differentiation.

2012 May 16, Michael Alison Chandler, “Teaching for all levels — in one class”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2023-02-11:

Moreover, children of STIP-teachers who showed many types of differentiation activities learnt more than children of STIP-teachers who differentiated less.

2017 August, Tessa H.S. Eysink, Manon Hulsbeek, Hannie Gijlers, “Supporting primary school teachers in differentiating in the regular classroom”, in Teaching and Teacher Education, volume 66, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, page 107116:

I use technology to differentiate in my Algebra classroom in many different ways. Sometimes, I put this technology in the hands of students and sometimes I use it myself to streamline a process.

2018 June 22, Larry Ferlazzo, quoting Sarah Shartzer, “Response: Ways to Use Tech to Differentiate Instruction”, in Education Week, archived from the original on 2022-05-19:

(education) To teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students.

differenciál

education: to teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students


stipend

The noun is derived from Late Middle English stipend, stipende (“salary, wage”) [and other forms], from Old French stipende, stipendie, from Latin stīpendium (“contribution; dues; impost, tax; tribute; military pay or stipend; military service”), from *stipipendium, *stippendium, from stips (“alms; contribution, donation, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steyp- (“erect; stiff”)) + pendere (the present active infinitive of pendō (“to cause to hang down or suspend; to weigh, weigh out; (hence) to pay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin; to stretch”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Italian stipendio
* Portuguese estipendio
* Spanish estipendio

der

(education) A scholarship granted to a student. [from 20th c.]

bourse

scholarship granted to a student — see also scholarship


OSS

en-noun

OSS (countable and uncountable, plural OSSes or OSS's or OSSs)

OSSes (plural)
OSS's (plural)
OSSs (plural)

out-of-school suspension
out-of-school suspension#English

(education) Initialism of out-of-school suspension.


ICS

ICS (countable and uncountable, plural ICSs)

1986, Judith S Shoemaker, Predicting Cumulative and Major GPA of UCI Engineering and Computer Science Majors, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), 2,
Currently there are two oversubscribed majors at UCI: Engineering (ENG) and Information and Computer Science (ICS).

computer science
computer science#English

(business, education) Initialism of information and computer science or informatics and computer science, a combined discipline.


enrichment

enrichment (countable and uncountable, plural enrichments)

enrichments (plural)
inrichment (alternative)

(education) Extracurricular activities for students.


sixth form

sixth form (countable and uncountable, plural sixth forms)

sixth forms (plural)
6th form (alternative)

Earlier educational naming conventions in public schools termed every two years of education "forms" (itself sometimes said to be from form (“bench”), where students of certain ages would sit together, though disputed, or alternatively from form (“established method of expression or practice”)), where Years 12 and 13 (i.e. ages 16 to 18) was the "sixth" and final form. State schools adopted the term "sixth form" and retained it when the rest of the form structure was dropped.

Nathaniel: Maister, there is nobody to teach in the sixth form.
Maister: What a thing is this?
N: He is sick in bed.
M: How do you know?
N: One of the scholars in his house told me so.

1653, Corderius, Colloquia scholastica Anglo-Latina, […] 1653, page 220:

(UK except Scotland, education) The final two years of secondary education, during which students of about 16 to 18 years of age prepare for their A-level examinations or equivalent qualifications.


textbook

textbooks (plural)
text-book (alternative)

(education) A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.


quadrivium

quadrivium (plural quadriviums or quadrivia)

From Medieval Latin quadrivium (“the four mathematical studies”), from Latin quattuor (“four”) + via (“road”).

lbor

Coordinate term: trivium

(education, historical) The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.


assignment

en-noun

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)

assignment (computer science)
homework assignment
sex assignment

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.

Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.

(education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.


grade school

In contrast to high schools, the subsequent secondary school type, classes of this kind of school do not have typical nicknames.
In a grade school all classes are simply enumerated 1st to 8th grade (called form or year in British English).
In a high school, on the other hand, school year groups are in everyday parlance referred to as freshman/sophomore/junior/senior year.

(US, Philippines, rarely Canada, education) Elementary school; primary school.


clinical

(education) A medical student's session spent in a real-world nursing environment.


formative

en-adj

formative (comparative more formative, superlative most formative)

more formative (comparative)
most formative (superlative)

From Middle English formatyve, formatif (“having the ability to form”), from Old French formatif, formative (modern French formatif), from Medieval Latin formātīvus, from Latin fōrmātus + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘doing’ or ‘related to doing’). Fōrmātus is the perfect passive participle of fōrmō (“to form, to shape”), from fōrma (“a form, shape”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “a form, shape”) (see further at that entry). By surface analysis, form + -ative.

cog

(education) Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.

formatiivinen

of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes


CCA

en-noun

CCA (countable and uncountable, plural CCAs)

(Singapore, education) Initialism of cocurricular activity.


CTC

City Technology College
city technology college#English

(British, education) Initialism of City Technology College.


top-up

top-up (countable and uncountable, plural top-ups)

(education) The situation where a student who holds a qualification equivalent to part of a degree course is then accepted onto a degree course at an intermediate point, without having to start it from the beginning.


high school

high school (countable and uncountable, plural high schools)

high schools (plural)
highschool (alternative proscribed)
HS (alternative)

Inherited from Middle English hyȝ scole (“school for higher education”), equivalent to high + school. Cognate with Dutch hogeschool (“academy, university, graduate school”), German Hochschule (“academy, college, university”).

cog

(education) An institution which provides all or part of secondary education.


fellowship

en-noun

fellowship (countable and uncountable, plural fellowships)

From Middle English felowschipe, felawshipe, felaȝschyp, equivalent to fellow + -ship; or perhaps adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr (“fellowship”). Compare Icelandic félagsskapur (“companionship, company, community”), Danish fællesskab (“fellowship”), Norwegian fellesskap (“fellowship”), and Old Swedish fælaghskap (“fellowship”)

cog

Coordinate term: traineeship

There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making sure that we’re investing in domestic work force.

2021 May 18, Catie Edmondson, quoting Debbie Altenburg, “Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

It will go toward 20 full-tuition fellowships for students of color, as well as to endow the initiative in perpetuity, provide relief for the existing scholarship fund and bring in artists of color as visiting faculty over the next five years.

2021 May 20, Hilarie M. Sheets, “A Utopian Art School in Michigan Looks Back and Ahead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.


two-way

From two + way. Compare Old English twiweġ (“intersection, junction of two roads”).

There are increasing examples of Indigenous-led research, and "two-way" collaborative research between scientists and Indigenous land custodians.

2023 August 11, Sarah Legge, Libby Rumpff, Stephen T. Garnett, John C.Z. Woinarski, “Loss of terrestrial biodiversity in Australia: Magnitude, causation, and response”, in Science, volume 381, →DOI, page 8, column 3:

(education) Utilising both Western and Indigenous knowledge systems; bothways.


NEA

(education) Initialism of non-examination assessment.


yeshiva

yeshivas (plural)
yeshivot (plural)
yeshiba (alternative)
yeshibah (alternative)
yeshivah (alternative)
eshiba (alternative)
eshiva (alternative)

From Yiddish ישיבה (yeshive), from Hebrew יְשִׁיבָה (y'shivá, “meeting”).

Nonetheless, in 1976, after graduating with a B.A. in religious studies, he entered Yale's doctoral program in the same department. A year later, he left Yale to study Talmud in a Manhattan yeshiva.

1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Shalom grew up in an Orthodox family in Stamford Hill. His father, who ran an office-furniture business, intended him for a synagogue cantor, and when Shalom finished school he was sent to the yeshiva.

2015, Will Self, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, vol. 37 no.5

Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.

2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents:

(education, Judaism) An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.


platoon

From obsolete French plauton, variant of peloton, from Middle French pelote + -on. Doublet of peloton. Compare pellet.

(education, historical) A group of children in the platoon grouping education system.


reliability

en-noun

reliability (usually uncountable, plural reliabilities)

(education) the ability to measure the same thing consistently (of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent); that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See also validity).


repeater

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(education) A student repeating a course, class, or grade.


rubric

From Middle English rubriche, rubrike, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rūbrīca (“red ochre”), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

Do not award marks to candidates who have made rubric errors.

In the first prospectus the rubric on this paper began 'Historical sources and materials and how the historian uses them[…]'

1985, Asa Briggs, Serious Pursuits: Communications and Education (The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs), volume 3, Harvester Press, page 364:

(education) A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper, usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.

We refer to the rubric when marking oral examinations.

(education) A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.


straight A

Should I try to be a straight A student? "If you are, then you think too much."

1980, “It's Still Rock & Roll to Me”, Billy Joel (music):

(education) Pertaining to one who makes straight As.


secondary school

secondary school (countable and uncountable, plural secondary schools)

One of the key roles played by the Whitby line is the transport of children from rural spots along the branch to secondary school in the coastal town.

2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 77:

(education, UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) A state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.

(education, Canada, US) The federally designated, graduation-separated classification of grades 9–12 (approximately ages 14–18), regardless of whether they are compiled together in one school or separate from the other grades.

(education, Singapore) Middle school; junior high school; a school that one attends between the ages of 12-17 (equivalent of grades 7-10 in North America, and years 7-10 in Australia).


prepositor

prepositors (plural)
præpositor (alternative)
prepostor (alternative)

Conjunction of pre- + posit and suffixed with ‐or, from Latin praepositus.

(education, chiefly historical) A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor or prefect.


first grade

first grades (plural)
1st grade (alternative)

(US, education) The first or second year of grade school depending on classification, the period in school that comes after kindergarten and before second grade. Children usually begin first grade at age six.


ELL

ELL (countable and uncountable, plural ELLs)

(education) Initialism of English-language learner.


diploma mill

(education, derogatory) A disreputable university, churning out diplomas to unqualified students.

野雞大學 /野鸡大学

university churning out diplomas to unqualified students


streaming

streaming (usually uncountable, plural streamings)

→ French: streaming

→ German: Streaming

→ Japanese: ストリーミング (sutorīmingu)

→ Korean: 스트리밍 (seuteuriming)

→ Portuguese: streaming

→ Spanish: streaming

From Middle English stremynge, equivalent to stream + -ing.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

(UK, education) Division of classes into academic streams.


mindtool

VR technology was used as a delivery medium conveying a message rather than a mindtool with which the subjects enhance higher order thinking skills.

2001, Mahbub Syed, Wcs Icimade Conference Proceedings Distance Learning and Multimedia, page 97:

When used to scaffold information, mindtools reduce the cognitive load on learners and allow them to engage in critical thinking.

2009, Lawrence A. Tomei, Lexicon of Online and Distance Learning, page 151:

(education) A tool, such as a computer, that can be used to extend cognitive function.


cinquain

(education) A five-line poetic form set as a writing exercise for children, consisting of one noun, two adjectives, three actions, four feeling words, and the initial noun again.


peer review

peer review (countable and uncountable, plural peer reviews)

peer reviews (plural)
peer-review (alternative)

Peer review [...] happens in two ways. In one method, a paper submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal is examined by other scientists in the field before an editor (usually an expert in the field) passes judgment on it. The second method is review by an independent panel of experts who, using rigorous criteria, determine whether the findings of the paper are credible.

2006, National Institute for Literacy, What is Scientifically Based Research?, page 2:

It isn’t easy to know what to make of these studies. Many undergo peer review, but an experiment can be structured in a way that favours a particular outcome and still be valid science.

2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian:

(education) The scholarly process whereby manuscripts intended to be published in an academic journal are reviewed by independent researchers (referees) to evaluate the contribution, i.e. the importance, novelty and accuracy of the manuscript's contents.


four square

(education) A method used to teach children to write about a topic, based on a diagram with four squares, each containing a type of sentence about the topic.


desmond

From Desmond (“given name”); abbreviation of Desmond Tutu (South African archbishop); from Tutu (“surname”) which sounds like 2.2 (two-two).

(British, rhyming slang, education) A lower second class honours or 2.2 degree.


new math

(US, education, historical) A dramatic and short-lived change in the teaching of mathematics in grade schools in the 1960s, focusing on abstract topics such as symbolic logic, to the detriment of simple arithmetic etc.


duster

desc

→ Cebuano: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)

→ Indonesian: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)

→ Tagalog: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)

(education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a chalkboard.


Ivy League

From earlier Ivy colleges (1933), as Ivy League first used by AP sports editor Alan J. Gould (1935). The title became official after the formation of the athletic conference in 1954. From the tradition of Ivy Day at many older colleges and universities, where ivy is planted to honor academic excellence.

Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale form the Ivy League.

Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id.

2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(US, education, politics) An association of eight universities in the USA, known for high quality.

Alan J. Gould
en:Ivy League
en:Ivy League (disambiguation)


R&R

R-n-R (alternative)
R and R (alternative)

(education) Initialism of revise and resubmit.


MPS

en-noun

MPS (countable and uncountable, plural MPSs)

Master of Professional Studies
w:en:Master of Professional Studies

(education) Initialism of Master of Professional Studies.


tracking

tracking (countable and uncountable, plural trackings)

(education) The division of pupils into separately taught groups by perceived ability level.


Hilary

From Latin Hilarius (“cheerful, happy”), name of a fourth-century saint and from its feminine form Hilaria.

It was the first day of term, and one of the rare days in Oxford when the weather was deceitfully marvellous; when its warmth promised more sunshine and joy than the relentless rain and sleet Hilary inevitably brought.

2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 447:

(UK, Ireland, law, education) Ellipsis of Hilary term.


cold read

en-verb

cold read (third-person singular simple present cold reads, present participle cold reading, simple past and past participle cold read)

cold reads (present singular third-person)
cold reading (participle present)
cold read (participle past)
cold read (past)

At the audition you will be required to cold read a script.

(intransitive, transitive, acting, newsreading, education) To perform (a script) without preparation.


mimetic

mimetics (plural)
mimetick (alternative obsolete rare)

From Ancient Greek μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”).

der

(education) A type of mnemonic in the form of a picture.


criticality

en-noun

criticality (countable and uncountable, plural criticalities)

(education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered to be contextually appropriate and that are expected to result in positive outcomes related to the purpose.


streamed

(UK, education) Divided into academic streams.


weeder

Weeders are often the first barrier to entry into certain professional careers for students. The most famous example is being “weeded-out” of the pre-med track.

2024 September 16, Opinion Department, “TIAS | It’s Time to Weed Out Weeder Courses”, in The Cornell Daily Sun:

(education) Ellipsis of weeder class / weeder course.


remediate

en-adj

remediate (comparative more remediate, superlative most remediate)

more remediate (comparative)
most remediate (superlative)

(rare, archaic, education) Intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject.


Calhoun

Common anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Colquhoun.


looping

(education) The practice of having a teacher remain with the same group of students for more than one school year.


salutatorian

Coordinate term: valedictorian

At first, it seemed a joyous occasion. There was an audible gasp in the room, then boisterous cheering and applause when the announcement was made: Ikeria Washington and Layla Temple had been named 2021 valedictorian and salutatorian for West Point High School.

2021 June 11, Stephanie Saul, “Two Black Students Won School Honors. Then Came the Calls for a Recount.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

He was the salutatorian of his high school class (a sore subject, his sister said, since So thought he missed the top spot on a technicality), and entered Stanford intending to major in computer science.

2021 July 19, Andrew LaVallee, “A Rising Star’s Career Was Cut Short. His Impact Is Just Beginning.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US, education) The person who graduates high school with the second-highest GPA and thus gets to give the salutatory address during the graduation ceremony.


GPA

en-noun

GPA (countable and uncountable, plural GPAs)

He said those recruiting for technical jobs like engineering might be more likely to restrict their search to candidates with high GPAs from specific schools.

2017 August 18, Katie Lobosco, “What top employers look for in new college grads”, in CNN Money:

He had a 0.13 GPA and was still in ninth grade. With a class rank of 62 out of 120, he was being promoted through the course levels, which led France to believe everything was fine when it wasn’t.

2022 March 29, Chris Papst, “From 0.13 GPA to future graduate, mom of Baltimore student says 'We did it'”, in WNWO-TV:

grade point average
grade point average#English

(US, education) Initialism of grade point average.


grade point average

grade point average (plural grade point averages)

It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.

2021 March 1, Chris Papst, “City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA”, in WBFF:

(education) The overall average grade of all courses taken at a particular time.


vulgus

So the table was cleared, the cloth restored, and the three fell to work with Gradus and dictionary upon the morning's vulgus.

1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:

(UK, education, historical) A school exercise in which pupils are tasked with writing a short piece of Greek or Latin verse on a given subject.


sin bin

sin bins (plural)
sin-bin (alternative)
sinbin (alternative)

From sin + bin. Apparently Australian. Usage of the panel van sense is influenced by the US trade name.

(UK, education, colloquial) A referral unit or special class for frequent truants.


Letters and Science

(education) The humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, considered together.


Lunchables, made by Kraft Heinz, took its packaged ready-to-eat kids meals directly into K-12 school lunchrooms nationwide through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) for the first time last year.

2024 April 9, Parija Kavilanz and Sandee LaMotte, “Consumer Reports says Lunchables ‘should not be allowed on menu’ for schools, petitions USDA for removal”, in CNN:

(Canada, US, Philippines, education) Kindergarten through 12th grade (US) / grade 12 (Canada and the Philippines).


middle school

middle school (countable and uncountable, plural middle schools)

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school containing both primary and secondary students

(education, countable) A school which crosses the traditional divide between primary school and secondary school.

These authors argue that lists based on university-level reading material cannot be directly imported into contexts such as middle school since the lexical profiles of subjects and their vocabulary demands are different.

2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:

(education, uncountable) An educational level or stage between primary school and secondary school.


junior school

A school providing primary education to children.

(UK) A school providing education to children in Key Stage 2, i.e. for four academic years from September after a child's 7th birthday.

(Australia) Usually a part of a private school that educates children between the ages of 2 and 5.

(Canada, chiefly Ontario) A school teaching children from kindergarten to Grade 5; an elementary school.


exceptionality

exceptionality (countable and uncountable, plural exceptionalities)

1998, National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, "Learning Disabilities: Preservice Preparation of General and Special Education Teachers," Learning Disability Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 185,
Educators who are earning degrees as learning disability specialists should . . . understand the differences between learning disabilities and other exceptionalities.

(education) the condition of requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability


scantron

scantrons (plural)
Scantron (alternative)

Genericized trademark. By genericization of Scantron (from scan + -tron), a manufacturer and brand name of the devices.

The Grievant, however, insisted on using the scantron himself.

1989, Bureau of National Affairs, Labor Arbitration Reports, volume 91, page 897:

2008, Audrey Denise Bowser, Transforming Teacher Education to Support Multicultural Technology Pedagogy, PhD Dissertation, Iowa State University, page 66,
Additionally, a scantron bubble sheet and a statement of informed consent were given to students for review and a signature was required before the survey was administered.

Applicants must submit a completed application form together with the scantron sheet; cover sheet; student activity and community activity sheets; personal essay; and a copy of unofficial transcript (signed by the counselor).

2008, College Blue Book: Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans, 36th edition, volume 5, page 277:

According to Jenny's story, everything each of us does, every decision made during each day, is indelibly marked on a lifetime scantron sheet in Heaven. (This, of course, made sense because it was very similar to the scantron sheets we filled out every day in school.)

2010, Bill Golembeski, The English Setter Dance, page 29:

(education, often attributive) A device used to scan prepared forms used for multiple-choice and true-or-false testing.

(education) A prepared form for use in such a device.


primary school

primary school (countable and uncountable, plural primary schools)

The child's mother was tearful as he boarded the bus for his first day of primary school.

My primary school is a good place to study.

(British, Australia, sometimes Philippines, education) A formal, obligatory kind of school that typically begins with nursery school or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.


NQT

(education) Initialism of newly qualified teacher.


HNC

(British, education) Initialism of Higher National Certificate.


elementary school

elementary school (countable and uncountable, plural elementary schools)

On one offshore island Wuciou (also Wuqiu), the song of the only elementary school had these lyrics:
We are the little friends of the frontier, good students of Wuciou elementary school. We are not afraid of stormy winds and frightening waves; bravely and [with] perseverance, we advance forward. Our school is erected on the lonely island of the ocean. We will study hard, and are not afraid of gongfei on the opposite shore.

2015, Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan: Naming China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:

(Canada, US, historically UK) A children’s school, typically older than toddlers and younger than adolescents. In the U.S., elementary schools cover grades 1 through 5, and the ages of the children are usually 6-11 years. At a minimum, elementary schools will teach basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and history.

(Philippines) A primary education school for grades 1-6 (a continuation of preschool). It is succeeded by junior high school.


fagging

fagging (countable and uncountable, plural faggings)

We are happy we never had anything to do with faggings and floggings. We can well remember the terrific impression they made on our mind, as our friends were afflicted by them.

1841, The English Journal, volume 1, page 222:

The public schoolboy is taught to bear whippings and faggings without murmuring.

1922, Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt, Record of Christian Work, volume 41, page 343:

(UK, historical, education) The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students.


vestibular

Students usually complete high school when they are seventeen years old. If they want to go to college or university, they must pass a difficult test called the vestibular, which takes two or three days to write.

2002, Malika Hollander, Brazil: The People, page 23:

(education) A competitive examination used by Brazilian universities to select students.


Seven Sisters

(education) A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.


master class

master classes (plural)
masterclass (alternative)

From master + class. First use appears c. 1861 in the publications of John Stuart Mill.

The vocal pedagogue loves the Master Class idea. Such classes are usually conducted by the more plutocratic teachers for periods of from two to six weeks. Many of them vaguely promise to deliver a complete technique within that time.

1929, Tillman Breiseth, “Arias for Angels”, in North American Review, page 95:

(education) A class, typically in a performing art such as music or drama, in which a teacher listens to and critiques the performance of individual students, one at a time, while the other students observe.

վարպետության դաս

class in which a teacher critiques students


percipient

en-adj

percipient (comparative more percipient, superlative most percipient)

more percipient (comparative)
most percipient (superlative)

From Latin percipiēns, present participle of percipiō (“to perceive”).

(psychology, education, dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, like a very young child.


essentialism

en-noun

essentialism (countable and uncountable, plural essentialisms)

If a curriculum is dedicated to getting back to the basics, then we can be sure that the guiding philosophy is that of essentialism.

2004, Arthur K. Ellis, Exemplars of Curriculum Theory, →ISBN, page 109:

Arguments of “back to basics” are usually associated with essentialism, and many contemporary educational theorists still suggest that the “nonessentials” should be taken out of the school curriculum.

2011, Thomas E. Smith, Clifford E. Knapp, Sourcebook of Experiential Education, →ISBN:

(education) The doctrine that there are certain traditional concepts, values, and skills that are essential to society and should be taught to all students.


chunking

chunking (countable and uncountable, plural chunkings)

(mathematics, education) The partial-quotients method for solving simple division problems by repeated subtraction.


MR

mentally retarded
mentally retarded#English

(education, special education) Initialism of mentally retarded.


precalculus

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2016, Pam Goodner (lead writer/editor), Eureka Math Precalculus Study Guide, Wiley (Jossey-Bass), page ix,
As we wrote the Precalculus course, we wanted to create interest for older high school students by presenting topics in a context, something that students could relate to so that they could see the value in their work.

2017, Sheldon Axler, Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus, Wiley, 3rd Edition, page xviii,
Similarly, many precalculus textbooks consider, for example, a colony of bacteria doubling in size every 3 hours, with the textbook then producing the formula e/3) for the growth factor after t hours.

2023, Mehdi Rahmani-Andebili, Precalculus, Springer, page v,
Moreover, in many universities and colleges, a precalculus course is mandatory for under-prepared students as the prerequisite course of Calculus 1.

(education, mathematics) A course, or set of courses, that includes (specifically) trigonometry and algebra at an appropriate level to prepare students to study calculus.


prealgebra

prealgebra (countable and uncountable, plural prealgebras)

prealgebras (plural)
pre-algebra (alternative)

2000, Alfred S. Posamentier, Making Pre-Algebra Come Alive, Sage Publications (Corwin Press), page 1,
In most secondary school curricula, pre-algebra is the last course in which specific attention is paid to multiplication, division, squares, cubes, and primes. Thereafter, these skills and operations are pretty much taken for granted.

Almost everyone pursuing a career or a course of study needs to know pre-algebra math. Also, almost all college entrance tests and professional exams require knowledge of at least pre-algebra math. The practicing of almost all crafts involves the use of pre-algebra math.

2002, Sally H. Spetz et al., REA's Practical Help for Pre-algebra, Research & Education Association, page 1:

Pre-algebra is considered to be something of a terminal arithmetic course. What this means for the student is that pre-algebra is a course that links many topics together before the student proceeds to more abstract mathematics courses.

2011, Hal Torrance, Math Tutor: Pre-Algebra Skills, Mark Twain Media, page 1:

(US, education, uncountable) A school (in the US, middle school) course that introduces students to concepts needed to learn algebra.


postsecondary

In its revised budget, the government has increased funding for postsecondary education.

(education, US and Canada) Of or pertaining to education or educational institutions subsequent to secondary school or high school.


postsecondary school

postsecondary school (plural postsecondary schools)

McGill University is a well-known Canadian postsecondary school.

(education, US and Canada) An educational institution (usually a college or university) which is attended after graduation from secondary school or high school.


cume

The pucks don’t bounce, the trains don’t spring, my cume is gonna fall,
And unless I pass that final quiz I’ll be screwed right to the wall.

1965, Matt Fichtenbaum, Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw”, in The Broadside of Boston, volume III, number 22:

(education) Cumulative grade point average.


reclassify

en-verb

reclassify (third-person singular simple present reclassifies, present participle reclassifying, simple past and past participle reclassified)

reclassifies (present singular third-person)
reclassifying (participle present)
reclassified (participle past)
reclassified (past)

(transitive, education) To change the graduation year of (a student) by reclassification.


junior college

en-noun

junior college (countable and uncountable, plural junior colleges)

(education) An institution of higher education that awards an associate's degree but not a bachelor's degree or higher.

初級學院 /初级学院

institution of higher learning that awards the associate's degree but not bachelor's degree or higher


need-based

en-adj

need-based (comparative more need-based, superlative most need-based)

more need-based (comparative)
most need-based (superlative)

Coordinate term: merit-based

(education) Derived from need rather than earned by merit, regarding financial or other assistance.


TALULAR

(education) Initialism of Teaching And Learning Using Locally Available Resources.


school year

school years (plural)
schoolyear (alternative)

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(education) The academic year of a school.


report card

And with that in mind, I'm going to distribute your report cards. Now, is there a Christian Stobich in this class?

1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Mr Hall (Wallace Shawn):

(education) A document, on cardboard or plain paper, indicating the grades that a student has earned, issued at the end of a term of a regular period.


second grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after first grade and before third grade.

toinen luokka

period in school after first grade and before third grade


third grade

en-noun

third grade (countable and uncountable, plural third grades)

(US, education) The period in school that comes after second grade and before fourth grade.


fourth grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after third grade and before fifth grade.


fifth grade

4) The Psychology Research Institute of the China Academy of Sciences carried out an experiment in teaching arithmetic in coordination with algebra in two classes of the fifth grade in the No. 2 experimental elementary school in Peking with good results. At a unified examination in arithmetic held among all elementary schools in Hsicheng ch’ü, Peking, the grades of the students in these two classes averaged better that 94.

1976 [1960], Ting-yi Lu, “Our Schooling System Must Be Reformed”, in Shi Ming Hu, Eli Seifman, editors, Toward a New World Outlook: A Documentary History of Education in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976, New York: AMS Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 124:

(US, education) The period in school that comes after fourth grade and before sixth grade.


sixth grade

sixth grade (countable and uncountable, plural sixth grades)

(US, education) The period in school that comes after fifth grade and before seventh grade.


seventh grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after sixth grade and before eighth grade.


eighth grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after seventh grade and before ninth grade.


ninth grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after eighth grade and before tenth grade.


tenth grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after ninth grade and before eleventh grade.


eleventh grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after tenth grade and before twelfth grade.

yhdestoista luokka

does not technically exist in Finland, but sometimes used of the first year in lukio


twelfth grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after eleventh grade and, rarely in the US, before thirteenth grade.

kahdestoista luokka

does not technically exist in Finland, but sometimes used of the second year in lukio


grading

Today is my first grading exam.

(Philippines, education) Ellipsis of grading period.


pass-fail

Many may argue that pass-fail is the “easy way out.” However, a pass-fail weeder class may be more helpful than a traditional weeder class. Pass-fail gives students flexibility and time to learn content and material at their own pace.

2024 September 16, Opinion Department, “TIAS | It’s Time to Weed Out Weeder Courses”, in The Cornell Daily Sun:

(education) Describing a form of examination, etc. in which the student either passes or fails, without receiving a specific mark or grade.


professorship

And as regards histories of art, they are quite valueless to you unless you are seeking the ostentatious oblivion of an art professorship.

1883, Oscar Wilde, “Lecture to Art Students”, in Essays and Lectures:

She earned a professorship at Los Angeles City College, and taught theatre there for two years.

2022, Claire Chwalek, No Rest for a Heartbreaker, →ISBN:


double-dip

en-verb

double-dip (third-person singular simple present double-dips, present participle double-dipping, simple past and past participle double-dipped)

double-dips (present singular third-person)
double-dipping (participle present)
double-dipped (participle past)
double-dipped (past)
double dip (alternative)

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(higher education) To enroll in a single class which will fulfill two different requirements of a course of study.


junior high school

en-noun

junior high school (countable and uncountable, plural junior high schools)

junior high schools (plural)
JHS (alternative)

intermediate high school

school between elementary and high school

In California the term originally used was "intermediate high school," later shortened to "intermediate school," but the term "junior high school" is rapidly supplanting the others.

1919, Guy Vernon Bennett, The Junior High School, Warwick & York, page 1:

(US) A school for children who have completed elementary school or grade school, but are not yet old enough for high school. It often includes grades 7 and 8, and possibly also 6 or 9.

初級中學 /初级中学

school for children that have completed elementary school

(Philippines) A secondary education school for grades 7-10 (a continuation of elementary school). It is succeeded by senior high school.


reclassification

reclassification (countable and uncountable, plural reclassifications)

(education) The assignment of a high-school student to a different graduation class (either a year earlier or later than their original), often to allow a potential athlete either to develop further or to start playing professionally earlier.


not yet

If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or […]

2013, Julie Vargas, Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching:

(education) A skill that one is learning but has not yet acquired.


NJQSAC

(US, education) Initialism of New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.


MRP

MRP (countable and uncountable, plural MRPs)

(education) Initialism of Master in Regional Planning.


resection

en-verb

resection (third-person singular simple present resections, present participle resectioning, simple past and past participle resectioned)

resections (present singular third-person)
resectioning (participle present)
resectioned (participle past)
resectioned (past)

In connection with a scheme of resectioning, a number of questions naturally present themselves. When the students complete their first term or first year of the subject in the most efficient, intermediate, and least efficient sections, what process of equalization is going to occur at the beginning of the second term or year?

1925, Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew, Educational Review - Volume 69, page 153:

This is easily understandable when, with resectioning, a cadet is offered the opportunity to underperform with the only punishment being an easier class!

1973, K. Bruce Galloway, Robert Bowie Johnson, West Point; America's power fraternity, page 71:

Tully's class was initially assigned to sections alphabetically and then resectioned later in the year according to academic merit.

2015, Brian R. McEnany, For Brotherhood and Duty, →ISBN, page 37:

(education) To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.


noncredit

(education) Describing a course that does not contribute credits towards an academic degree.


LLM

(education, law) Alternative form of LL.M. (“Master of Laws”)


(education, psychology) Abbreviation of twice-exceptional.


coursework

(education) An assignment, project or task that a student is required to complete as part of a particular course, which is then assessed and counts towards the grade given.

курсова работа

work carried out by students of a particular course


instructional design

1983, Reigeluth,http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=qt_9Q4K5Bz8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=instructional+design&ots=83ufQ_l9Gd&sig=58ViHGTy6N-Z6gztRt40Oi02Vys [BOOK] Instructional-design Theories and Models: An Overview of Their Current Status - CM Reigeluth - 1983 - books.google.com ... for Reading This Book xlll Foreword xv David R, Krathwohl UNIT I INSTRUCTION: WHAT THE DISCIPLINE IS LIKE 1. Instructional Design: What Is It and Why Is It? ...

(education) The discipline of creating educational materials, often with the implication of alternative media.


DT

en-noun

DT (countable and uncountable, plural DTs)

DTs (plural)
DT. (alternative)
Dt. (alternative)
Dt (alternative)
D/T (alternative)

design and technology
design and technology#English

(education) Initialism of design and technology.


SPM

SPM (countable and uncountable, plural SPMs)

(education, Malaysia, countable) Initialism of Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia. (Malaysian Certificate of Education, certificate for secondary school students in Malaysia)


bell ringer

bell ringers (plural)
bellringer (alternative)
bell-ringer (alternative)

Inherited from Middle English belringer, belle ringer, bellryngar, belryngere, equivalent to bell + ringer.

(education) An assignment, done regularly at the beginning of a class, and intended as a warm-up before other classroom activities.

In Health Sciences, Dr. Ball was always available to us in the anatomy lab giving us tips and tricks for bell ringers. You can tell he genuinely cares about teaching, because why else would he wear a uterus costume!

2018 May 24, “Meet today's Faculty of Health Sciences valedictorian”, in McMaster Daily News, archived from the original on 2023-04-03:

(anatomy, education) A type of anatomy exam in which students must answer questions at a series of stations and move on to the next station when a bell is rung.


TSA

Territory-wide System Assessment
w:Territory-wide System Assessment

(Hong Kong, education) Initialism of Territory-wide System Assessment.


lesson plan

You've written thousands of lesson plans. You've taught the same subjects over and over. Why doesn't your principal just exempt you from having to write lesson plans? You could teach your lessons with your eyes closed, couldn't you?

2015, Annette Breaux, Todd Whitaker, Quick Answers for Busy Teachers: Solutions to 60 Common Challenges:

(education) A teacher's document used to plan a lesson.


language lab

(education) A dedicated space for the learning of a foreign language where students have access to audiovisual materials.


ESOL

(education) Acronym of English for speakers of other languages.


CELTA

w:Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults

(education) Acronym of Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults, a qualification to teach English.


TTT

(language education, uncountable) Initialism of teacher talking time: the amount of time a teacher talks during a class.


CW

CW (countable and uncountable, plural CWs)


FTFY

(education) Initialism of first-time first-year (often referring to offerings for entering freshmen)


cheder

cheder (plural cheders or chederim or chedarim or chadarim or chadorim)

cheders (plural)
chederim (plural)
chedarim (plural)
chadarim (plural)
chadorim (plural)
cheider (alternative)
cheyder (alternative)
kheder (alternative)
kheyder (alternative)

From Yiddish חדר (kheyder), from Hebrew חֶדֶר (khéder, “room”).

A businessman in New York who happened to be in the Midlands at the time was so impressed by Asher's methods that he was funding him to set up a string of chederim – Sunday schools for Jews – all over the United States.

2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 51:

(education, Judaism) An elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew.


vice-chancellor

vice-chancellors (plural)
vice chancellor (alternative)

(education) An official holding a rank immediately below that of chancellor.

(education, often) The chief executive of a university, college or similar facility where the chancellor is a largely ceremonial role.


FLE

From French FLE (“FLÉ”) (français langue étrangère).

(linguistics education, initialism) French as a foreign language; French language for foreign language education


backwash

backwash (countable and uncountable, plural backwashes)


grade inflation

Grade inflation refers to an increase in grade point average without a concomitant increase in achievement.

1981, I. Bejar, E. Blew, “Grade Inflation and the Validity of the Scholastic Aptitude Test”, in American Educational Research Journal, volume 18, number 2, page 143:

(education) A gradual upward trend in grades awarded to students during the decades since the mid-20th century, reported in a number of countries and at a number of levels of schooling and sometimes offered as evidence of a decline in academic standards.


vocabulary word

vocabulary word (plural vocabulary words)

The teacher then held up a real food item of each vocabulary word and asked the students to repeat each word in Spanish.

2010 June, Stella Erbes et al., "Understanding How Cognitive Psychology Can Inform and Improve Spanish Vocabulary Acquisition in High School Classrooms." Journal of Instructional Psychology v.37 n.2 pp.120–132

In my 1st grade classroom, I use our read-alouds to introduce our weekly vocabulary words. Before reading, I pre-select five to seven words from the text that students really need to fully comprehend the text.

2019 July 10, Brittany Oakley, “Teaching Vocabulary Takes More Than Just Talking About Words During Read-Aloud”, in Education Week:

2020 July 15, "33 Middle School Vocabulary Words Adults Still Get Wrong" Reader's Digest

(education, US) A word which a student is expected to learn; a word included in a test of one's general vocabulary or of subject-specific terminology


PGCE

(British, education) Initialism of Postgraduate Certificate in Education.


LEA

local education authority
w:local education authority

(England and Wales, education, historical) Initialism of local education authority.


walk the line

en-verb

walk the line (third-person singular simple present walks the line, present participle walking the line, simple past and past participle walked the line)

walks the line (present singular third-person)
walking the line (participle present)
walked the line (participle past)
walked the line (past)

A Baldwin High School student will be able to wear slacks to her graduation ceremony, under an order from the Maui School District. . . . "I'm very glad she'll be able to walk the line with her graduating class," Rosaga said.

2002 May 7, Gary Kubota, “Maui girl wins right to forget the dress”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, archived from the original on 2006-04-09:

Montano's family, including her parents, sons and fiance, Thomas Gallegos, planned to be on hand to see her walk the line and be honored by the UNM-VC Advisory Board, faculty and staff and her fellow associate degree graduates.

13 May 2006, “Graduation 2006: Valedictorian seeks better life for her family”, in Valencia County News-Bulletin.com, archived from the original on 2007-08-16:

(idiomatic, US, education) To participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate.


OWTTE

For one mark, candidates should state that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light (OWTTE).

or words to that effect
or words to that effect#English

(education) Initialism of or words to that effect, used in academic rubrics.


ATKT

(education) Initialism of allowed to keep term.


blue book exam

blue book exams (plural)
blue book examination (alternative)

From the color of the book cover, chosen by Butler University in Indianapolis to match its school colors.

postsecondary school
postsecondary school

(US, education) A type of test that normally includes one or more essays or short-answer questions, used at many postsecondary schools.


past paper

Use the past papers to practise when revising.

(education) An examination paper from a previous year.


school age

en-noun

school age (countable and uncountable, plural school ages)

school ages (plural)
school-age (alternative)
schoolage (alternative)

(education) An age at which a child is required to attend school.


SRS

SRS (countable and uncountable, plural SRSes)

(education, software) Initialism of spaced repetition software.


whole language

(education) A method of teaching literacy that emphasises the recognition of words in an everyday context; often contrasted with phonics.


business administration

(business, education) A course of study in higher education intended to prepare the students for a career in business.


S.D.

Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science#English

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Science.


wordpool

Give the example first and make it clear that learners can use the same word from the wordpool in different sentences and can use the same word twice...

1998, Ruth Gairns, Stuart Redman, True to life: English for adult learners:

A wordpool can contain big or small words, foreign words, misspelled words, anything your heart desires.

2008, Brigid Lowry, Juicy Writing, →ISBN, page 58:

(education) A random collection of words, used as inspiration for writing.


immersive

en-adj

immersive (comparative more immersive, superlative most immersive)

more immersive (comparative)
most immersive (superlative)

(education) Using or relating to the immersion technique of language teaching.


mainstreaming

en-noun

mainstreaming (usually uncountable, plural mainstreamings)

It was 1979, and for many educators mainstreaming was an idea whose time had come.

1985 April 14, Barbara Gerbasi, “Mainstreaming My Son”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(education, chiefly US) The practice of educating students with special needs in regular classes.


predoctoral

a predoctoral fellowship

(education) Prior to receiving a doctorate


show and tell

show and tell (usually uncountable, plural show and tells)

show and tells (plural)
show-and-tell (alternative)

(education) A school activity in which each student brings an item to school and presents a small speech on it to the class.


Elmo

From an Italian contraction of Erasmo, cognate with Erasmus. Also a German short form of Elmar.
* By folk etymology seen as a short form of Elmer.

Someone had to tell me when the paper was positioned correctly under the elmo (document camera).

1998 April 21, Joan M. Whitworth, quoting Dr. Kern (pseudonymous), “Looking at Distance Learning through Both Ends of the Camera”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), ERIC:

Students bring their math work under the Elmo to share with other students to discuss their thoughts.

2009, Kate Popejoy, “New Outcomes: Learning Improvement in Mathematics Integrating Technology - NO LIMIT! An Enhancing Education through Technology Project. Final Report: Years Five and Six (2005-2007)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), ERIC:

The teacher can ask students to categorize the new information on the graphic organizer as they go through the text and the video, and then model this activity on an Elmo or overhead projector during the lesson, thus providing another means of visual support

2011, Sally A. Spencer, “Universal Design for Learning: Assistance for Teachers in Today's Inclusive Classrooms”, in Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, ERIC:

Courtrooms in the United States District Court for the Central District of California have DVD/VCR equipment and an Electronic Evidence Presenter (sometimes referred to as an "ELMO") for attorneys to use when presenting evidence at trial or evidentiary hearings.

2010s, “Presenting Evidence”, in Clerk Services, United States District Court for the Central District of California:

You know, in the courtroom, I used to have a little ELMO (an electronic evidence presenter) machine and there is absolutely nothing simpler than ELMO-ing. You put in the piece of paper and hit a button and the image is projected. But I can't tell you how many lawyers approached the ELMO as if they were approaching a cobra!

2015 September 8, Robert Hilson, John Facciola, “Judge Facciola: I'm not in the business of supporting an industry”, in Logikcull, Logik:

genericized trademark
genericized trademark

(education, law, genericized trademark) A document camera.


chalkface

From chalk + face.
In the education sense, it is a play on coalface (“place where practical work is done”), after the chalk used on school blackboards, and is believed to have been coined by Ted Wragg for his Times Educational Supplement column.

(education) The environment where teaching is carried out, specifically a school.


honor roll

honor rolls (plural)
honour roll (alternative)

(US, education) A list of high-achieving students at a university or college.


A minus

(education) A grade lower than "A" and higher than "B plus".


MSI

The Budget preserves funding for Title III and V programs that support Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), consistent with the President’s executive order on HBCUs.”

2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN:

minority-serving institution
w:minority-serving institution

(US, education) Initialism of minority-serving institution.


wallchart

I put up a wallchart of the periodic table next to the blackboard.

(education) A large informational chart, typically hung on the wall of a classroom


CCE

(Singapore, education) Initialism of character and citizenship education.


summative

Coordinate term: formative

en:being of a quantifying type of assessment, in education

(education) Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes.


summative

The reson a summative evaluation might not be available at this point is that it is not unusual to offer summatives for more than one objective as opposed to offering summatives for each objective.

1989, David A. Jacobsen, David Jacobsen, Paul D. Eggen, Methods for Teaching: A Skills Approach, page 215:

Summatives, on the other hand, are used for comparisons between schools and districts.

2015, Michael K. Raible, Every Child, Every Day, page 22:

All of this was great, and there were many summatives that we loved for many reasons. Since becoming standards based, however, our thoughts on summatives have changed.

2018, Emily Rinkema, Stan Williams, The Standards-Based Classroom: Make Learning the Goal, page 58:

(education) A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.


transmissionist

(education) One who favours, or uses, a teaching style focused on transmitting facts without regard to the individual student.


PMR

Penilaian Menengah Rendah
w:Penilaian Menengah Rendah

(Malaysia, education, historical) Initialism of Penilaian Menengah Rendah.


ETB

Meanwhile, Andy Pike of Fórsa, which represents SNAs, said the work to accommodate Ukrainian students has been coordinated very well through the Education and Training Boards (ETBs). / The Government could ask the ETBs to make sure there is sufficient provision within their catchment area, he added.

2022 October 4, Jess Casey, “Eight-week summer gap 'not acceptable' for children with additional needs”, in Irish Examiner:

Education and Training Board
w:Education and Training Board

(Ireland, education) Initialism of Education and Training Board.


corner time

corner time (countable and uncountable, plural corner times)

(education) A punishment consisting of a period of time for which the culprit (usually a misbehaving child) must stand still in a corner, facing the wall.


corequisite

Coordinate term: prerequisite

(education) A course that must be or can be taken concurrently with a given course.


converger

From converge + -er. The learner sense was coined by educational theorists David A. Kolb and Roger E. Fry in the 1970s.

(education) A learner who prefers to focus on the practical application of abstract ideas, hence primarily technical subjects.


IB

International Baccalaureate
International Baccalaureate#English

(education) Initialism of International Baccalaureate.


IB

Coordinate term: AP

(education) An International Baccalaureate program


MEQ

Ministry of Education of Quebec
Ministry of Education of Quebec#English

(Quebec, education) Abbreviation of Ministry of Education of Quebec.


EAZ

Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.

2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement:

(UK, education) Initialism of Education Action Zone, any of various areas of England considered for special assistance in increasing the quality or availability of educational opportunities, instituted by New Labour.


FE

further education
further education#English

(UK, education) Initialism of further education.


LMS

LMS (countable and uncountable, plural LMSs)

(education) Initialism of learning management system: a software system for delivering, tracking and managing training or education.

learning management system

(education, uncountable) Initialism of local management of schools.


course authoring tool

course authoring tool (plural course authoring tools)

Course authoring tools are special-purpose tools for creating e-learning courses

2003, Katherine Horton, E-learning tools and technologies, page 280:

(education, computing, technology) Software designed for creating e-learning courses.


MCQ

multiple-choice question
multiple-choice question#English

(education) Initialism of multiple-choice question.


edu-babble

Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools.

1992 November 17, “Schoolspeak”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives

1998, Andy Hargreaves, International Handbook of Educational Change, page 412:

These terms, this way of talking, is what we like to refer to as “Edu-babble.” Orwell liked to call it doublespeak. Edu-babble is just that, with some hip catchphrases attached. And by hip I mean impractical.

2009, Gwendolyn Green, Edu-Babble: The Glamorous World of the New York City Public School System, page 3:

(education, derogatory) Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon.


ride the short bus

en-verb

ride the short bus (third-person singular simple present rides the short bus, present participle riding the short bus, simple past rode the short bus, past participle ridden the short bus)

rides the short bus (present singular third-person)
riding the short bus (participle present)
rode the short bus (past)
ridden the short bus (participle past)

learning disabilities
learning disability

(US, slang, idiomatic, derogatory, education) To participate in a special education program, such as for those with learning disabilities.

[…] complete with golden shag carpet on the floor and Christian rock posters on the wall for the poor kids forced to ride the short bus of Christian culture […]

2006, Mark Driscoll, Confessions of a Reformission Rev:

"Have you been riding the short bus, or something? You know what Us Weekly said about her."

Admittedly, I'm no Rhodes Scholar, but I didn't ride the short bus to school either, […]

2011, Anthony Q. Artis, The Shut Up and Shoot: Freelance Video Guide:

“You think because I make my living putting balls through hoops, I rode the short bus to school?”

2014, T. E. Woods, The Red Hot Fix: A Justice Novel:

I accidentally called him Chris, and he turned red and yelled, "My name is Christopher"
Okay, now I was thinking he rode the short bus. As quick as he erupted, he relaxed and told me how much he loves his nanna and his kitty, Buttons. I ended the date early and said goodnight and went home.

2014, Greg Figueroa, Emily Feliciano, Worst Dates: best of the rest, page 4:

Is there any place on earth that has as many elected officials who rode the short bus to school as Lackawanna County?

2016 October 21, “Flynn, Burgerhoff square off in 113th district debate”, in Scranton Times-Tribune:

(US, slang, idiomatic, derogatory, education) To require a special education program, as though one were learning-disabled.


DELF

(education) Diplôme d'étude de langue française, a French-language qualification.


metadiscourse

en-noun

metadiscourse (countable and uncountable, plural metadiscourses)

(philosophy, linguistics, education) Discussion, especially involving academic analysis, about a discussion or about discourse.

Meronyms: transition, summative, disjunct

Everything you write needs metadiscourse, but too much buries your ideas […] Some teachers and editors urge us to cut all metadiscourse, but everything we write needs some. You have to read with an eye to how good writers in your field use it, then do likewise. There are, however, some types that you can usually cut. [Examples follow.]

2012, Joseph M. Williams, Gregory G. Colomb, Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace, Longman, →ISBN, page 64:

(philosophy, linguistics, education) Words and phrases, woven into a discourse, whose reference is the external framing constituted by the reader's attention and purposes for reading, the writer's purposes for writing, the narrative sequence or document organization, the epistemics behind the discourse, and so on.


responsion

/ɹɪˈspɒnʃən/

(UK, education, historical, in the plural) The first of three examinations once required for an academic degree at the University of Oxford; nicknamed the little go and generally taken around the time of matriculation.


MBioEnt

(education) Abbreviation of Master of Bioscience Enterprise.


diverger

From diverge + -er. The learner sense was coined by educational theorists David A. Kolb and Roger E. Fry in the 1970s.

(education) A learner who prefers reflection on and discussion of their concrete experiences, and thus typically cultural and creative subjects.


D.

(education) Abbreviation of doctor, as used in academic degrees.


undermatching

(US, education, economics) The practice of accepting a match that is less than optimal, especially when accepting a slot at a college or university when a superior one is available.


sight word

Our program will teach your child 200 sight words.

Aside from the handful of words directly taught by teachers, every sight word was once not a sight word; at least once its identity had to be figured out through some combination of decoding and context skills.

2000, Nancy C. Lewkowicz, “On the Question of Teaching Decoding Skills to Older Students”, in Struggling Adolescent Readers, →ISBN, page 191:

(education) A word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.


summatively

The author observes that teachers who persistently perform poorly can be counseled out of teaching by using the model summatively.

1995, Anthony J Shinkfield, Daniel L Stufflebeam, Teacher evaluation: guide to effective practice:

A good example of a process that can be assessed formatively and summatively is student use of safety skills in a laboratory or vocational program.

2009, Ken O'Connor, How to Grade for Learning, K-12:

(education) By means of summative assessments, aiming to summarize earlier knowledge with periodic tests.


open-book

(education) Designating exams in which specified external resources, potentially including textbooks, glossaries, study notes, calculators, etc. may be used.


closed-book

(education) Designating an examination in which external resources such as calculators, glossaries, and study notes are prohibited.

閉卷 /闭卷

referring to exams in which external resources are prohibited


unstreamed

(UK, education) Not divided into streams.


SPAG

(UK, education) Acronym of spelling, punctuation and grammar: a set of criteria used in marking certain examinations.


chalk talk

(education) An informal lecture on an academic subject.


grand rounds

(medicine education, invariant) A series of lectures whose subject matter is a particular patient or similar case or a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.


multigrade

(education) Relating to students of differing grade levels


summer melt

Summer melt sometimes happens when students are admitted over the summer to a school that places the student on a waitlist in the spring.

(education) The phenomenon where incoming students who have committed to attend a college or university change their minds during the summer and opt to attend another institution.


B. Des.

(education) Abbreviation of Bachelor of design.


entrance examination

entrance examination (plural entrance examinations)

(education) An examination that an educational institution conducts to select prospective students.

уступны экзамен

an examination that an educational institution conducts to select prospective students


nonconserving

(education, psychology) Being a nonconserver: not yet aware that certain properties of objects, such as the volume of a liquid or the number of items in a set, are conserved during physical transformations.


IGCSE

w:International General Certificate of Secondary Education

(education) Initialism of International General Certificate of Secondary Education; an internationally recognised qualification taken by secondary school students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; similar to the GCSE.


MAS

MAS (countable and uncountable, plural MASes)

MASes (plural)
M.A.S. (alternative)
M. A. S. (alternative)

(education) Initialism of master of applied science.


FSM

(UK, education) Initialism of free school meals.


PSE

From what I remember, periods of PSE – personal and social education – were mostly spent catching up on work for other subjects or shooting the breeze with the teacher.

2022 July 18, Martin Pengelly, “I grew up where Liz Truss did, attended the same school. She’s not telling you the truth”, in The Guardian:

(UK, education) Initialism of personal and social education.

post-secondary education
w:post-secondary education

(education) Initialism of post-secondary education.


SEN

(UK, Hong Kong, education) Initialism of special educational needs.


nonstreamed

(UK, education) Not divided into academic streams.


colleger

(UK, education) One of the 70 foundationers at Eton College.


VELS

w:Victorian Essential Learning Standards

(Australia, education) Initialism of Victorian Essential Learning Standards, a school curriculum framework used in Victoria, Australia.


HSK

Initials of Hanyu Pinyin for Mandarin 漢語水平考試／汉语水平考试 (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì).

zh-l

漢語水平考試／汉语水平考试 (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì)

Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi
w:Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi

(education) Initialism of Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, standardized test of Standard Mandarin Chinese proficiency for non-native speakers.

اِمْتِحَان مُسْتَوَى اَللُّغَة اَلصِّينِيَّة

中国語検定試験

ちゅうごくごけんていしけん

中国語能力検定試験

ちゅうごくごのうりょくごけんていしけん

tɛst po kitájskomu jazykú kak inostránnomu

тест по кита́йскому языку́ как иностра́нному

ᠨᡞᡣᠠᠨ ᡤᡞᠰᡠᠨ ᡞ ᠮᡠᡣᡝᡞ ᠨᡝᠴᡞᠨ ᠪᡝ ᠰᡞᠮᠨᡝᠷᡝᡢᡤᡝ

nikan gisun -i mukei necin be simnerengge


single-track

Highglen elementary school will maintain a dual-track system of a Montessori program and a regular neighbourhood school program side-by-side for one more year, Prince George trustees decided this week. In January, the board had voted in favour of making the Montessori program into a single-track program where it would occupy an entire school like Highglen.

2003 April 19, Paul Strickland, “Single-track Montessori on hold until 2004”, in Prince George Citizen, Prince George, British Columbia, page 3:

This week the district placed Cathedral City Elementary and Landau Elementary back to a “single-track” schedule in which all students attend school on the same days throughout the year. A few years ago, overcrowding forced the district to split students into tracks so that some kids attended classes while others were on vacation.

2006 April 15, “Our voice”, in The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, California, page B10:

(education) Having a single curriculum or other educational approach for all students.


preservice

(education) Occurring before a trainee teacher begins service.


holist

Pask suggests that these strategies reflect basic learning styles; holist strategies reflect a comprehension learning style and serialist strategies an operation learning style.

2000, Francis M. Quinn, The Principles and Practice of Nurse Education, page 34:

Pask described the two strategies as 'holist' and 'serialist'.[…]Learners who adopt a holist strategy (described as comprehension learners) like to get an overview of a topic.

2001, Howard Hills, Team-based Learning, page 87:

The serialist/holist cognitive style is a measure of a bipolar information-processing strategy that describes the way that learners select and represent information (Pask, 1976; Pask & Scott, 1972).

2012, David H. Jonassen, Barbara L. Grabowski, Handbook of Individual Differences Learning and Instruction, page 209:

(education, of a learning strategy) That concentrates on forming an overview of the topic.


holist

Those subjects using a serialist strategy tended to proceed in a step-by-step manner, whereas the holists adopted a more global approach to what was to be learned.

They^([serialists]) learn rules, methods and details more readily than the holists.

Holists use a global, thematic approach to learning by concentrating first on building broad descriptions.[…]The holist then uses complex links to relate mutileveled information.

(education) One who prefers to learn by forming an overview of the topic.


antilearning

en-adj

antilearning (comparative more antilearning, superlative most antilearning)

more antilearning (comparative)
most antilearning (superlative)

(education) Opposing or countering learning.


swot vac

swot vacs (plural)
swotvac (alternative)
swot-vac (alternative)

This is clearly what happens in the "swot-vac" phenomenon: the student rote-learns his material for just long enough to see the exam through.

1968, John Burville Biggs, Information and human learning, Australia: Cassell:

In the old days it was probably quite a sound alternative to the "swot-vac" spent in cold towels and black coffee or benzedrine as done in Australia.

2003, Frank William Coaldrake, Maida Coaldrake, William Howard Coaldrake, Japan from war to peace: the Coaldrake records 1939-1956, Routledge, page 234:

I reminded her that it was the September holidays, and after that I was off on swot vac until the exams started.

2004, Joanne Horniman, Secret Scribbled Notebooks,, Allen & Unwin, page 28:

She died during the swotvac before my third year exams.

2006, Vaughan Nikitin, Wurruk: Reflections in Black and White, page 249:

(Australia, education, informal) In secondary and tertiary education, a period of non-teaching prior to examinations.


occupational therapy

en-noun

occupational therapy (usually uncountable, plural occupational therapies)

(psychiatry, education, mental health) Sensory play for children often involving an obstacle course to relieve stress while the therapist works to nurture the patient's basic life skills.


antitruancy

en-adj

antitruancy (comparative more antitruancy, superlative most antitruancy)

more antitruancy (comparative)
most antitruancy (superlative)

(education) Opposing or countering truancy from school.


speech day

(education) A school event where prizes are given out to pupils, and speeches are made by guest speakers.


overlearn

en-verb

overlearn (third-person singular simple present overlearns, present participle overlearning, simple past and past participle overlearned or overlearnt)

overlearns (present singular third-person)
overlearning (participle present)
overlearned (participle past)
overlearned (past)
overlearnt (participle past)
overlearnt (past)
over-learn (alternative)

(psychology, education) To learn (something) to the point where responses become instinctive.


core curriculum

en-noun

core curriculum (plural core curricula or core curriculums)

core curricula (plural)
core curriculums (plural)

The senior high school, if free to concentrate on intensive specialized courses and a core curriculum of constants, will consummate the socially integrating influences of the elementary school.

1923, James M. Glass, “The Reorganization of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Grades—Program of Studies”, in The School Review, volume 31, number 7, pages 523–524:

Thus, the undergraduate core curriculum is a college's foundational education, a developing lens that effectively focuses issues of whatever sort and projects them, so focused, onto a community screen as conventional wisdom.

1991, David M. Bossman, “Cross-Cultural Values for a Pluralistic Core Curriculum”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 62, number 6, page 662:

Even the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act includes foreign languages as part of a core curriculum.

2007, Anne C. Lewis, “Language Learning and National Security”, in Phi Delta Kappan, volume 89, number 2, page 84:

(education) The courses or other components of an educational program which are foundational, prerequisite, or mandatory, as opposed to the elective, secondary, or variable components of a program.


friendship bench

friendship bench (plural friendship benches)

(education) A bench in a grade school's public area meant for a child on free time in need of someone to talk with, and whoever joins them there for that reason.


cram school

Most of my classmates went to a cram school in order to get ready for the high school entrance exams that you take in the second half of ninth grade.

2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), pages 139-140:

entrance examination
entrance examination

(education) A specialized school that trains students to meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities.


ipsative

(education) Comparing a measure of a person against that person’s previous assessments.


PAT

PAT (countable and uncountable, plural PATs)

(education, Alberta) Initialism of provincial achievement test.


rule of three

the rule of three (canonical)
the Rule of Three (alternative)

(mathematics education) A rule stating that, if two ratios are equal, then the denominator of the second equals its numerator times the reciprocal of the first ratio: if a/b=c/d then d=(bc)/a.


YELLIS

(UK, education) Year eleven information system: a mathematics and vocabulary test used to compare the performance of GCSE pupils.


conscientization

Conscientization includes exchanges of ideas, debates, discussions, and working with students and not on them. Freire fashions conscientization as a process that results from confrontation with the world; it also entails constant research as well as invention and reinvention.

1994, John L. Elias, Paulo Freire: Pedagogue of Liberation, Krieger Publishing Company, page 123:

(sociology, education) A social concept, grounded in Marxist critical theory, that focuses on achieving an in-depth understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of social and political contradictions.


CEF

C.E.F (alternative)
C.E.F. (alternative)

Common European Framework
w:Common European Framework

(education) Initialism of Common European Framework.


secondary modern

secondary modern (plural secondary moderns)

(education, British) In the UK, from 1944 to the 1970s, a secondary school for children who had failed the eleven plus examination.


Camford

(UK, education, rare) Synonym of Oxbridge


supersenior

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-supersenior.wav

postsecondary education
postsecondary school

(education, US, Philippines) A university student who is in their fifth year of postsecondary education without having graduated.


statemented

(UK, education) Having been provided with a Statement of Educational Needs.


course credit

(education, academics) A unit for measuring the amount of academic studies of which exact definition varies by learning institution. Typically, there is a minimum number of course credits required as a precondition for graduation.


TPS

TPS (countable and uncountable, plural TPS's or TPSes)


BCL

Bachelor of Civil Law
w:Bachelor of Civil Law

(education, law) Initialism of Bachelor of Civil Law.


academize

en-verb

academize (third-person singular simple present academizes, present participle academizing, simple past and past participle academized)

academizes (present singular third-person)
academizing (participle present)
academized (participle past)
academized (past)
academise (alternative)

(transitive, UK, education) To convert (a school) into a publicly-run academy.


academic year

In many countries the academic year starts in September and finishes in August of the next calendar year.

(education) The annual period during which a student attends school, college or university.


test site

Connie took her bar exam at the University of Texas test site.

(education) A room dedicated to the administration of exams, especially for certifications.


wranglership

en-noun

wranglership (countable and uncountable, plural wranglerships)

(education) The honor or position of being a wrangler (at the University of Cambridge, England)


flashboard

flashboards (plural)
flushboard (alternative)

(education) An acrylic board used to display children's work in a school.

Then he comes forward, takes the flashboard V, and stands in front of the class so that all may see it .

The tachistoscope is a mechanical flashboard, an apparatus for testing recognition, attention, and memory, which flashes images on a screen for measured periods of time, usually from 1/100 of a second to one second.

1960, Louis Shores, Instructional Materials: An Introduction for Teachers:

It is also at this level that each sentence of the experience story is put on a separate strip of paper or flashboard.

1972, Communication Training in Childhood Brain Damage, page 354:

A set of nine or ten flashboards is sufficient for most purposes and avoids the consumption of great quantities of card.

2002, Geoffrey Broughton, Christopher Brumfit, Teaching English as a Foreign Language:

Unlike a picture chart the flashboard contains only language material .

2004, Joseph C. Mukalel, Creative Approaches to Classroom Teaching, page 147:

(education) A board for displaying language material in the classroom, used like a flashcard but potentially holding more information.


ALS

w:Alternative Learning System (Philippines)

(Philippines, education) Initialism of Alternative Learning System.


helpsheet

(education) A sheet of paper with advice and suggestions related to schoolwork or learning.


error/mistake distinction

the error/mistake distinction (canonical)

(education) The distinction drawn by some language teachers between an "error" (a mistaken belief that a given usage or construction is correct; or, an incorrect use resulting from such a belief) and "a mistake" (an accidental use of a usage or construction despite knowing that it is incorrect).


fagmaster

(historical, education, in public schools) A senior student who has a junior student as a fag, or servant.


Hilary term

Hilary + term. The name Hilary is from the Latin Hilarius (“Latin name of Saint Hilary of Poitiers”), hilarius (“more cheerful, more joyful”), from hilarē (“cheerful, joyful”), from hilaris (“cheerful, light-hearted, lively”), from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, glad, happy, joyful, merry”), from ἵλαος (hílaos, “gracious, merciful, propitious; gentle, kind, mild”). The feast day of Saint Hilary of Poitiers (c. 310 – c. 367), 13 January, occurs during this term.

der

There are four terms in the year, viz. […] 2. Hilary term, which begins on the 14th day of January, and ends the day before Palm Sunday.

1813, “University Terms, and How Many are Required to be Kept for each Degree”, in The Oxford University Calendar, for the Year 1813, Oxford: Printed by Munday and Slatter, for J. Parker; and F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ames] Rivington, London, →OCLC, page 65:

(education) The second academic term of the universities of Oxford and Dublin, and other educational institutions, running from January to March; equivalent to Lent term at the University of Cambridge. The term was modelled after the legal term, but does not begin and end on the same dates.


subrector

(education, originally UK) An assistant rector.


zero period

(education) A high school class that is offered early in the morning, before the scheduled start of the school day.


philanthropinism

(historical, education) A 19th-century German system of education, aiming to reform society by teaching children to become philanthropic, natural and rational beings.


CPE

en-noun

CPE (countable and uncountable, plural CPEs)

Cambridge University
w:en:Cambridge University

(education) Abbreviation of Certificate of Proficiency in English. (the highest-level ESOL exam awarded by Cambridge University)


numberwork

(education) mathematical work done with numbers


groupwork

(education, therapy) Work done in groups.


sourcework

(education) A historical work that emphasizes the use of sources.


VGTU

w:Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

(education) Initialism of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas) in Lithuania.


victory lap

2012 Summer Olympics
Gladys Tejeda
Nastassia Staravoitava
Rasa Drazdauskaitė
Sviatlana Kouhan
Ümmü Kiraz

It’s not just finances that lead to victory laps. Those who study abroad during undergraduate may find it difficult to earn enough credits to fulfill degree requirements in four years.

2013 February 25, Vivien Chang, “The myth of the four-year degree”, in Maclean's:

McNaughton continues, “I took a stroll underneath it before freshman year and I am going to be taking a victory lap.”

2017 April 1, Peter Lenz, “The Clock Tower: The History, The Myths, and More”, in The Racquet:

(Canada, US, education, slang) One or more years of study beyond the traditional four taken to complete one's undergraduate degree.

An examination of the data generated by the survey instrument revealed the existence of a definitive gender disparity between the two groups in that 47.8% (22 of 46) of male respondents reported having taken a victory lap compared to 20.2% (21 of 104) of their female counterparts.

2010 November 18, Patrick Brady, Philip Allingham, “Pathways to University: The ‘Victory Lap’ Phenomenon in Ontario”, in Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, number 113:

Each year as many as 20,000 students head back for a so-called victory lap in Ontario's classrooms, which prompted the province to implement a 34-credit cap in a bid to save up to $22 million annually.

2012 April 9, Teri Pecoskie, “A cap on the victory lap”, in Hamilton Spectator:

(Canada, chiefly Ontario, education, slang) One or more additional years of study in high school.


chalk and talk

(informal, derogatory, education) The traditional method of teaching, consisting mainly of speaking and writing on a chalkboard.


quadrium

Church music was carefully taught at the universities. IT was of the four sciences of the quadrium, and was a means of promotion in the church and colleges.

1861, William Howitt, John Cassell's illustrated history of England:

He describes how by the late fifteenth century the language arts of the trivium had come to seem useful only for communication, teaching and public debate, and how humanists turned to the mathematical arts of the quadrium - including music - to enable new means and methods of discovery.

1997, Timothy J. Reiss, Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe:

The classical curriculum distinguishes between trivium and quadrium to classify knowledge fields in education. Trivium deals with the disciplines of language, grammar, rhetoric, dialectic and logic, while quadrium deals with the sciences of arithmetic, geometry and astronomy.

2014, Andreas Nordin, Transnational Policy Flows in European Education:


IPCC

(education, India) Initialism of Integrated Professional Competency Course: a course of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.


senior high school

senior high school (countable and uncountable, plural senior high schools)

senior high schools (plural)
SHS (alternative)

(US) An institution which provides secondary education, typically in grades 10, 11, and 12, and often also in grade 9.

高級中學 /高级中学

(Philippines) A secondary education school for grades 11 and 12 (a continuation of junior high school), which consists of tracks, which some consist of strands.


intermediate school

intermediate school (plural intermediate schools)

(education) A school for children that serves grades between elementary school and high school, and occasionally between the former and middle school. These grades vary from anywhere from grade 4 to grade 12.


tenure-track

[T]he hierarchical structure of Japanese academic-research teams often denies women precious tenure-track positions.

2005 March 21, Hanna Kite, “Japan Lags Behind”, in Time:

It would be better to forget RAE exercises and instead have a large number of independent universities with proper tenure-track positions and with high standards enforced.

2009 January 22, Andrew Oswald, “Competition is the key to the best research”, in The Independent, UK:

(education, of a professorship or other academic job) Possessing contractually guaranteed terms of employment specifying that, after a period of time, the employed person will be considered for tenure status, which typically confers enhanced job security and sometimes other benefits.


general education

(education) Education in a number of important subjects, taught in schools.

普通教育

education in a number of important subjects


liberal education

general education
general education#English

(education) Synonym of general education


UCSD

Durable goods can be cost-effective but make great disease vectors, and disposables like syringes and needles can be a problem in the poorest places, where there's desperate need of vaccines for diseases like polio. That's where the UCSD scientists come in.

2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech:

“We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep.

2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times:

University of California, San Diego
w:University of California, San Diego

(education, US) Initialism of University of California, San Diego.


ALM

(language education) Initialism of audiolingual method.


preliminary examination

preliminary examination (plural preliminary examinations)

(education) An examination that usually qualifies a student to continue studies at a higher level.


multiple-choice question

multiple-choice question (plural multiple-choice questions)

Holonyms: exam, examination, test, testbank

(education) A question where several answers are presented and the respondent must choose the correct one.

選擇題 /选择题

a question where the answerer has the choice between multiple answers


kollel

kollels (plural)
kollelim (plural)
kolel (alternative)

Borrowed from Hebrew כולל (“collective, community”).

bor+

(education, Judaism) An institute for full-time advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature.


GCR

(education, UK, rare) Initialism of Graduate Common Room (in certain British universities.)


TLE

en-noun

TLE (countable and uncountable, plural TLEs)

(Philippines, education) Initialism of technology and livelihood education.


call time

en-verb

call time (third-person singular simple present calls time, present participle calling time, simple past and past participle called time)

calls time (present singular third-person)
calling time (participle present)
called time (participle past)
called time (past)

The teacher called time, and there were a few groans. (Some children pleaded for more time, another just said it was really hard, and a few others agreed that this was really cool.)

2011, Linda Schwartz Green, Diane Casale-Giannola, 40 Active Learning Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom, Grades K–5, Corwin Press, →ISBN, page 104:

(US, education) To indicate that an activity, especially the taking of a test, is complete.


selective school

en-noun

selective school (plural selective schools)

(education) A school that admits students on the basis of their academic achievements.


NAPLAN

(Australia, education) Initialism of National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy.


SHS

senior high school
senior high school#English

(Philippines, education) Initialism of senior high school.


technological university

technological university (plural technological universities)

(education) A university specialising in the study of engineering, science and technology.


MACOS

(US, UK, Australia, education) Man: A Course of Study. A controversial education programme in the 1970s.


SEMP

(Australia, historical, education) Acronym of Social Education Materials Project.

(Australia, education) Acronym of School Environmental Management Plan.


coursepack

(education) A set of photocopied documents or other materials to be given to students as part of a course of study.


Gonski

* Named after the reporting committee's chairman, David Gonski.

(Australia, education, informal) The Gonski Report, a series of recommendations regarding funding for education in Australia.


sage on the stage

sage on the stage (plural sages on the stage or sages on stages)

sages on the stage (plural)
sages on stages (plural)
sage on a stage (alternative)

Mrs. Johnson said the teacher for the gifted and talented will be more of a "guide on the side" rather than a "sage on the stage."

1981 August 6, “‘Gifted Students’ Classes Offered”, in Harlan Daily Enterprise, USA, retrieved 2013-09-01, page 5:

Case Western has always been an advocate of what Williams calls the "sage on the stage versus the guide on the side" learning method.

2006 August 25, Nina Vizcarrondo, “Sci-Fi Today, Sci-Fact Tomorrow”, in Time, retrieved 2013-09-01:

But the limitations of the method as usually employed — . . . its fostering of passivity on the part of those students not involved in the dialogue, and its privileging of the professor as the sage on the stage — are serious impediments.

2011 December 15, Robert D. Dinerstein, “Limitations to the Method”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-01:

(education, sometimes mildly derogatory) An educator, especially at the postsecondary level, who imparts knowledge by lecturing to an audience; the method of imparting knowledge used by such an educator.