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• Jagged profile: learner characteristics that guide learning capacity cannot be described by one-dimensional values like IQ or standardized test scores - Drawing on Todd Rose's The End of Average (2016), the paper argues there is no such person as the "average" student.
• Jagged profiles concept of learner variability - The article adopts Todd Rose's concept of "jagged profiles," which the paper describes as recognizing "that each learner has distinctly different strengths and areas of growth or variability." This co
• Janusian thinking: holding contradictory thoughts simultaneously underlies creative breakthroughs and cognitive flexibility - Drawing on Rothenburg (1979), the chapter defines Janusian thinking as the simultaneous conception of opposites or antitheses as equally valid, named for the two-faced Roman god Janus.
• Johnson and Johnson's four basic elements of cooperative learning - The review presents the Johnsons' account of what distinguishes cooperative learning from ordinary group work: "interdependence among students seeking mutual goals through combined efforts", face-to-f
• Joint latent curve modeling of achievement and self-efficacy as parallel developmental processes - The article proposes fitting latent curve models that jointly estimate growth in mathematics achievement and academic self-efficacy from repeated measures, allowing the two constructs to have unique d
• Joint media engagement (JEM) as a design target for family science learning - The paper's organizing framework is joint engagement with media (JEM): intentionally designed shared media experiences that support learning.
• Joyce and Showers' technical coaching: a cyclical training extension for transferring new teaching skills - The paper analyzes Joyce and Showers' model, which borrows coaching from athletics and treats it as the next step after training.