General education

General education

The science and practice that encompass teaching and learning knowledge, beliefs, and skills.

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functional illiteracy

Education; General education

Refers to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills efficiently in everyday life situations. Unlike an illiterate, a functionally illiterate adult ...

Refers to thinking about cognition (memory, perception, calculation, association, etc.) itself. Metacognition can be divided into two types of knowledge: explicit, conscious, factual knowledge; and ...

law

Education; General education

Refers to universal principles that describe the fundamental nature of something, to universal properties and relationships between things, or to descriptions that purport to explain these principles ...

expulsion

Education; General education

Removing a student from a school or university for violating rules or honor codes.

educational research

Education; General education

Research conducted to investigate behavioral patterns in pupils, students, teachers and other participants in schools and other educational institutions. Such research is often conducted by examining ...

problem shaping

Education; General education

Revising a question so that the solution process can begin or continue. It is part of the larger problem process that includes problem finding and problem solving. Problem shaping (or problem ...

Polymeric Materials

Education; General education

Materials composed of large molecules, generally based on carbon, that have been formed from the chemical bonding of smaller units (monomers). Monomers are small units which repeats itself to form ...