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237 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Foundations of Education exam

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A

Academic achievement
Action research
Active Learning
ADDIE Model
Artificial intelligence
Asset-based approach
Authoritarian parenting
Authoritative parenting

B

Backward design
Bilingual education
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
Bologna Process
Brain-based learning
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory

C

Carol Ann Tomlinson
Categorical funding
Central executive
Character Education
Charter Schools
Co-teaching
Cognitive Flexibility
Cognitive objectives
Collaborative goal-setting
Collectivist cultures
Common School Movement
Community input
Community schools
Community service learning
Community-based knowledge
Competency-based education
Compulsory Education
Computer-adaptive testing
Cooperative learning
Cross-curricular integration
Cultural capital
Cultural Capital Theory
Cultural deprivation theory
Cultural Literacy
Cultural Pluralism
Cultural Scaffolding
Cultural Transmission
Culturally relevant content
Culturally relevant curriculum
Culturally relevant materials
Culturally responsive assessment
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

D

Data-driven personalized learning
David Kolb
Democracy and Education
Developmentally appropriate practice
Digital badges
Digital Citizenship
Digital credentials
Digital equity
Digital Portfolios
Discovery learning
Dismissal policies
Distractor analysis
Downward mobility

E

Ecological Systems Theory
Education as investment
Education for peace
Educational outcomes
Elected school boards
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Empowerment theory
Enlightenment educational reforms
Environmental Education
Equity Audits
European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
Every Student Succeeds Act
Exosystem
Experiential Learning

F

Fading
Funding Disparities