Education [F-I]
Fair use
Any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and "transformative" purpose such as commentary, criticism, or parody. "Fair" uses do not require permission from the copyright owner.
Flexible grouping
Varying grouping strategies (combining, for example, whole group, cross-ability, student-selected, topic interest, multiage, partners, and/or ability groups) depending on instructional goals, activities, and student learning needs.
Formative assessment
Ongoing observations and methods of evaluation designed to measure student comprehension of a concept or task in order to identify areas that require enhanced or adapted instruction.
General degree
Often called a pass degree at the bachelor's level, in which there is no concentration in a particular academic field.
Geosolids
Three-dimensional shapes (for example, cubes, spheres, triangles, prisms, cones, pyramids) useful in geometry instruction.
Gifted
A label once reserved for a small group of students who displayed above-average intellectual achievement, giftedness now represents a more comprehensive set of skills or capacities based not only in ability, but also in creativity, motivation, and social factors acting together. Giftedness, therefore, is distributed across all socio-economic, gender, cultural, and racial categories.
Graduate programs
Sometimes called postgraduate programs that lead to advanced degrees, diplomas or certificates and that come with a first-degree prerequisite.
Graduate
A person who has successfully completed the final year of a level or sublevel of education. In some countries completion occurs as a result of passing an examination or a series of examinations. In other countries it occurs after a requisite number of course hours have been accumulated. Sometimes both types of completion occur within a country.
Graphic organizer
Visual illustrations to help students establish and learn connections between concepts. Useful at any stage of learning, graphic organizers can be used to organize new material or to review information already discussed.
Hands-on activities
Instructional activity in which students actively work with and manuipulate materials and objects in order to study a concept or solve problems.
Heterogeneous grouping
The practice of mixing students of varying abilities, interests, or ages in academic classes. Heterogeneous classes may be formed school-wide or within classrooms where two to five students learn together.
Home schooling
Education of a child in a home environment in which parents or legal guardians assume responsibility for instruction.
Homogeneous grouping
Grouping students according to perceived ability, achievement, interests, or other characteristic.
Honorary degree
A distinction, usually conferred as a doctorate, which recognizes an individual's outstanding accomplishments in their field or profession but without the usual academic requirements associated with receiving a degree at that level.
Humanities
Disciplines that study human cultures and expressions.
I-search
Method of inquiry grounded in students' curiosity about a topic. Students develop a question for inquiry based on personal interest, assumed to faciltiate greater investment in the project and more meaningful research experiences for students.
Immersion
Instructional practice in which students are immersed in a non-native language classroom in order to learn to speak, read, and write in that second language through exposure to conversation and instruction in the second language.
Informal education
Learning that takes place in dailylife without clearly stated objectives. The term refers to a lifelong process whereby every individual acquires attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from daily experiences and the educative influences and resources in his/her environment – e.g. family and neighbours, work and play, the marketplace, the library, the mass media.
In-service training
Workshops and lectures designed to keep practicing teachers informed about current trends and practices in their field.
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)
Classification system designed to serve as an instrument suitable for assembling, compiling and presenting comparable indicators and statistics of education both within countries and internationally.
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