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• Early Algebra as a gateway to advanced high school math, STEM majors, and higher lifetime earnings - The brief frames early Algebra as "a key gateway to advanced high school math, STEM majors, and higher lifetime earnings." This gateway framing organizes the equity analysis: unequal access to 8th-gra
• Earth Science logical reasoning framework: logical inference, hermeneutics, and historical method - The article adopts a three-part framework of Earth Science methodology as an analytic tool for coding curriculum inquiry tasks.
• ECD framework as a conceptual and rhetorical structure for designing simulation studies in games-based assessment - The article extends the evidence-centered design (ECD) framework beyond assessment design to the design of simulation studies investigating statistical methods for games-based assessment.
• Ecological dynamics as a theory of mathematics learning: mathematical concepts emerge from guided discovery of sensorimotor schemes oriented on attentional anchors - Ecological dynamics blends dynamical systems theory and ecological psychology's theory of affordances; the article applies it to mathematics education, modeling learning as 'the complex and adaptive s
• Ecological Paradigm of Interdisciplinary Learning - A framework that studies and designs for interdisciplinary learning as a group-level, socio-material process distributed across learners, artifacts, and institutions, rather than as an individual cogn
• Ecotone framing: accommodations occupy a transitional zone between two stable states in assessment - The article proposes a metaphorical framework in which accommodations sit "like an ecotone of sorts" — a transitional zone — between two ports.
• Edit distance space: Euclidean embedding of states under a symmetric edit distance - The article introduces "the notion of an edit distance space, a continuous space in which each state corresponds to one vector and the Euclidean distance between vectors corresponds to the edit distan
• Education 4.0 paradigm - The review describes Education 4.0 as the educational expression of the fourth industrial revolution, in which education takes place amid disrupted technologies such as the Internet of Things, 3D prin
• Educational debate as an argumentation laboratory requiring basic theories of argumentation and reasoning - The paper's organizing framework is that any debate format is legitimate as education only if it applies argumentation theory and gives students a laboratory for testing advocacy.
• Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems defined by practices rather than structure - Following Weick (1976), the paper portrays educational organizations as "loosely coupled systems" in which groups interact "without compromising their identity." Loose coupling carries "connotations o
• Educational Psychology as Both Art and Science - Educational psychology bridges the scientific study of learning with the art of teaching practice — research findings inform practice, and practice raises new questions for systematic study, in a cont
• Educator micro-credentials as a competency-based, personalized, on-demand, shareable professional learning design - The report defines educator micro-credentials as an emerging learning design with four defining features: "They are competency-based, personalized, on-demand, and shareable." Educators select a discre
• Effective time constant as a quantifiable construct predictive of task difficulty - The effective time constant (te) is a construct embodying machine properties described by the equations of motion of the vehicle and the operator property of level of threshold of perception of vehicl
• Effort-moderated model of unmotivated test-taking behavior - The effort-moderated model is one of several types of models proposed to represent unmotivated test-taking behavior, describing how response accuracy depends on test-taker effort as reflected in respo
• Egan's developmental understanding model: later understandings build on and incorporate the Somatic - The article draws on Kieran Egan's (1997) model of developmental understanding, in which prelinguistic bodily knowing from infancy undergirds later linguistic experience.
• Eight laboratory method types from three classificatory adjectives - The paper classifies laboratory instruction along three adjective groups, producing eight option types that differ in their space requirements.
• Eight-element systems model for competency-based staff development in adult education - The project used a simplified systems model, shown in Figure 1, to structure competency-based staff development.
• Eight-type taxonomy of staff development objectives: five teacher-centered, one student-centered, one curriculum-centered, one school-centered - The monograph's first organizing axis classifies everything staff development might aim at into eight main types.
• Elaborated theory of levels of abstraction with a parallel set of levels for computational operation schemes - The article elaborates Battista's (2007) theory of levels of abstraction—perceptual/recognition, internalized, and interiorized levels—by adding an empirically supported parallel set of levels for com
• Elaborative Retrieval Account - Proposed by Carpenter (2009), this account holds that "semantic elaboration occurs during the process of retrieval and enhances subsequent recall".
• Element interactivity as the CLT criterion of subject complexity - Within Cognitive Load Theory, element interactivity is defined as "the coordination of many information elements working simultaneously to complete a task" and is treated as the criterion of a subject
• Ellis's revised Interaction Hypothesis: acquisition via noticing, comparison and integration - Rod Ellis critically evaluates the Interaction Hypothesis and argues that because teaching can be viewed as interaction providing learners with opportunities for learning, studying the interaction-SLA
• Ellis's revised interaction hypothesis: noticing, comparison, and integration as the basic acquisitional procedures - Ellis proposes that L2 acquisition involves three basic procedures: "noticing", "comparison", and "integration".
• Ellis's taxonomy of task planning in task-based language teaching - The review adopts Ellis's (2005) classification of task planning, in which "Planning in task-based learning and teaching can be cataloged into two kinds: pre-task planning and within-task planning." P
• Ellsworth's Framework of Educational Change - Ellsworth's organisation of the classic educational change models around a communication model, in which a change agent communicates an innovation to an intended adopter through a change process, acro
• Ellsworth's framework organizes educational change models around agent, innovation, adopter, process, environment, and resistance - The digest presents Ellsworth's framework as a way of uniting the major perspectives, or models, of educational change into a 360 degree view of the change process.
• Emerging LA-specific privacy conceptualizations: contextual integrity and intellectual privacy - Beyond the established categories, the review identifies two emerging, LA-relevant approaches.
• Empathy by design: four guiding principles for adult ed-tech development - The report names "empathy by design" as "a set of guiding principles for the development of adult educational technology products," "drawn from the large body of research and practice in the field of
• Empirical Bayes shrinkage as a precision-based adjustment to teacher value-added estimates in accountability systems - The article describes empirical Bayes shrinkage as a procedure "common in the implementation of teacher accountability systems" that is used "to adjust teacher value-added estimates by their level of
• Empowerment in counselling defined as a five-part process of awareness, skill and capacity, exercise, non-infringement, and support for others' empowerment - The article defines empowerment in counselling by drawing on social work, community psychology, education, multicultural counselling, and feminist literatures.
• Empowerment theory with relational and cognitive dimensions frames the predicted benefits of peer discussion - The article draws on empowerment theory (Christens et al., 2016) to frame how peer-driven discussions in youth-led groups may foster positive development.
• ENA-based three-dimensional model of self-regulated learning linking learning strategies, time management modes, and course topics - A network analytic model in which epistemic network analysis (ENA) represents each student's self-regulated learning as a network whose nodes are codes from three dimensions: learning strategies, time
• Enfoque inclusivo de las transiciones en el aprendizaje - El informe adopta un enfoque inclusivo de las transiciones en el aprendizaje, cuestionando la concepción tradicional lineal (hogar→guardería→escuela→trabajo) por androcéntrica, siguiendo estudios femi
• Engagement Framework: five distinct yet interrelated, non-hierarchical dimensions of student engagement - The Engagement Framework addresses how students engage, offering "five distinctive, non-hierarchical dimensions of engagement that are fundamental to students’ success at university": personal, academ
• Engeström's activity system model as a lens for analyzing synchronous computer-mediated discussion - The study applies Engeström's (1987) activity system model, which situates Vygotsky's tool-mediated action within Leont'ev's collective activity by adding rule, community, and division of labor.
• Environmental enrichment hypothesis as an account of how cognitive ability and curiosity translate into knowledge attainment - The environmental enrichment hypothesis holds that engagement in epistemic behaviors enriches the environment, "thus providing more opportunity for the acquisition of knowledge".
• Environmental neuroscience active-ingredients framework - The article frames environmental neuroscience as a field aiming to identify the "active ingredients" of the physical environment — specific features such as air quality, ambient noise levels, and ligh
• Episodic Context Account of Retrieval-Based Learning - Proposed by Karpicke et al.
• Epistemic Commitments - Dynamic, student-originated values (not disciplinary ideals imposed from outside) that shape which models students build, use, and trust — functioning as forward-looking impulses for further inquiry,
• Epistemic frame hypothesis: communities of practice have SKIVE-based epistemic frames internalized through training and induction - The epistemic frame hypothesis holds that any community of practice has a culture whose base structure comprises skills, knowledge, identity, values, and epistemology.
• Epistemic freedom and epistemic violence as opposing education-related epistemic constructs - The article organizes its inquiry around two opposing epistemic constructs operating in education and communication.
• Epistemic Games - A framework describing knowledge construction as playing generative, rule-like "games" — recognizable sets of moves, constraints, and strategies organized around building a particular kind of knowledg
• Epistemic Injustice - Epistemic injustice describes wrongs done to people specifically in their capacity as knowers — through testimonial injustice (unwarranted credibility discounting) or hermeneutical injustice (a gap in
• ePortfolio Social Pedagogy Ecosystem - A framework in which ePortfolio learning occurs through three interrelated modes of social learning activities: authoring a written ePortfolio on a digital platform, presenting the ePortfolio in a web
• Equations as Language - Making sense of a physics equation is analogous to reading a text with comprehension — moving through textually-explicit, textually-implicit, and scriptally-implicit levels of understanding — rather t
• Equity-centered strategic learning as a four-part organizational capability - The article defines equity-centered strategic learning as an organizational capability with four linked parts: setting equity-focused goals, forming hypotheses about reaching them, building supportive
• Equity-relevant research as answering for whom and under what conditions an improvement works - The report frames equity-relevant research through two concepts: equity "respects variability among learners" including differences in strengths, needs, experiences, and opportunities, and equity resp
• Erikson-Marcia psychosocial development and ego identity status framework - The paper organizes its study around Erikson's lifespan psychosocial development theory, in which identity involves sameness and continuity and can be destabilized by later life changes such as immigr
• Ernest's Mathematics-Related Belief Systems as a framework for characterizing preservice teachers' philosophies of mathematics - The article uses Ernest's (1991a) framework of mathematics-related belief systems, comprising five belief clusters concerning mathematics, to characterize and track a preservice teacher's philosophy.
• ESSA as a federal policy framework granting states more discretion over standards, assessment, school improvement, and educator effectiveness - The report describes the Every Student Succeeds Act as the current authorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
• Essential Supports for Educational Technology framework - The article organizes the conditions for school technology use into a framework of interacting supports: student-side factors (technology availability to students, home use/background, belief in techn
• Essentialism and Perennialism (Educational Philosophy) - Essentialism holds that a universal core of essential skills and knowledge must be taught to all students through a teacher-centered, testing-focused, back-to-basics curriculum; Perennialism resembles
• Ethnomethodology as 'serious ethnography' for studying interaction in natural settings - The essay describes Goffman's method of inquiry, "serious ethnography" or ethnomethodology, whose studies "explore the influence of peoples' standpoints (or perspective) on their thought and action in
• Evaluation technical assistance (ETA): liaison-provided support to grantees developing interventions and evaluations simultaneously - Evaluation technical assistance (ETA) is support provided to grantees of federal initiatives to help them build evidence while designing and implementing interventions.
• Executive function components in early decoding: working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility - The article frames early decoding as drawing on executive function, defined as "cognitive resources to control attention to the print, recall the relevant phonological codes, ignore irrelevant codes,
• Executive Function Development - Executive functions — inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, and working memory — are self-regulatory processes that emerge gradually from early childhood through adolescence, shaped by both brain
• Existential hope framework: a psychological stance grounded in existential trust, meaning, and agency under radical uncertainty - The article proposes an integrative framework in which existential hope is "a foundational psychological stance toward life and the future, grounded in existential trust, sustained by a sense of meani
• Existentialism (Educational Philosophy) - Existentialism holds that individuals are free to determine their own meaning and identity rather than possessing one given in advance; educationally it emphasizes personal choice, authentic self-dire
• Expanded accountability - A lens developed by Dr.
• Expansive learning: object reinterpreted and widened when activity-system components change and generate contradictions - Drawing on Engeström and on Virkkunen and Kuutti, the article presents expansive learning as a transformation in the object of activity.
• Expectancy-congruency learning mechanism updating lexical representations from context fit - The chapter proposes that lexical organization is driven by an expectancy-congruency mechanism: the learner updates a word's lexical representation based on how well the current contents of memory mat
• Expectancy-value account of homework effort and motivation - The paper applies expectancy-value theory to homework: since teachers cannot watch students outside school, effort depends on whether students value the assignment and expect they can make progress on
• Expectancy-Value Framework for Teachers' Motivation to Use AI Applications - A theoretical application of Expectancy-Value Theory to why teachers do or do not adopt AI applications in education.
• Expectancy-Value Theory - Expectancy-Value Theory holds that the two most immediate predictors of a learner's motivation to engage in a task are their expectancy of succeeding at it and the value they place on it, with value f
• Experiential Learning Theory - Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory models learning as a cyclical, dialectical process in which concrete experience and abstract conceptualization, and reflective observation and active experimentatio
• Experiential learning: students develop opinions of a concept through interaction with information - The article frames VR-based instruction as an instance of Dewey's experiential learning, quoting Dewey's claim that "there is an intimate and necessary relation between the processes of actual experie
• Expert-performance framework: reproducible superior performance on representative tasks as the object of explanation - The expert-performance approach studies objectively measurable, reproducibly superior achievement in a domain rather than informal impressions of talent.
• Expertise Reversal Effect - The expertise reversal effect is the idea that instructional guidance that helps novices can become redundant or counterproductive as learner expertise increases.
• Expertise reversal effect applied to multi-principle visual revisions - The expertise reversal effect is the phenomenon in which "guidance intended to assist learning actually makes learning more difficult for students with higher levels of prior knowledge" because the gu
• Explanation questions divide into cause-seeking, effect-seeking, and causal-elaboration types with distinct answer structures - Explanation questions are analyzed with a simple cause-effect model and split into three major types: questions that give an effect and ask about the cause (Why-Action, Why-Conflict, Why-Reaction, and
• Explicit step-by-step problem-solving plans operationalizing Polya's phases for middle-grade word problems - The article describes textbook problem-solving plans derived from Polya's four phases, which give students steps to follow such as "Read the problem, Plan, Find the answer, Check the answer," plus str
• Exponential Forgetting Curve with Item Difficulty - The article adopts a variant of the exponential forgetting curve, in which recall is binary and recall probability decays exponentially with time since last review at a rate reduced by memory strength
• Extended TAM with perceived contextual value (PCV) for mobile learning acceptance - The article extends Davis' Technology Acceptance Model, which predicts actual system use via perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), attitude, and behavioral intention (BI), by adding
• Extensive reading framework: ten tenets and the virtuous circle of the good reader - The article presents extensive reading as an approach in which learners "read quickly large amounts of easy and varied self-selected material to build fluency and consolidate language knowledge", with
• External conceptual resources as cross-context frameworks, tools, and concepts in teacher learning ecologies - The article defines external conceptual resources as "frameworks, tools, and concepts that transcend different teacher learning environments, which are external to the local school context and echo vo