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• Nativistic theory: language development is determined from within the child; language is innate - The paper presents the nativistic theory, associated with Lenneberg (1967) and McNeill (1966), arguing that language development is determined from within the child rather than by external factors suc
• NBPTS Five Core Propositions for Accomplished Teaching - The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards defines accomplished teaching across five propositions — commitment to students, subject and pedagogical mastery, managing and monitoring learnin
• Negotiation of meaning sequences model (Varonis & Gass, revised by Smith) with trigger and resolution parts - The study's analytic framework codes chat interaction into negotiation of meaning sequences consisting of "two parts: trigger and resolution".
• Nested contexts of reception (NCOR) framework - The NCOR framework, from Golash-Boza and Valdez (2018) building on Portes and Rumbaut, "conceptualizes educational institutions as one of several interrelated contexts which shape educational outcomes
• Network-based continuous improvement in education - Network-based continuous improvement (CI) is an approach in which "a network of schools using CI to iteratively test and refine strategies that address a common challenge while learning from one anoth
• Neurolinguistic account of adults' superior language learning capabilities - The digest presents a neurolinguistic account, citing Walsh and Diller (1978), that replaces the 1960s critical-period hypothesis.
• Neurotheology framework: distributed neural networks for spiritual experience and the state-versus-trait distinction - Neurotheology is defined in the review as "the scientific investigation of the relationship between brain function and religious or spiritual experience".
• Neyman causal inference framework distinguishing finite-population and super-population models for clustered education RCTs - The report grounds the estimation of average treatment effects in two-stage clustered RCTs in the Neyman causal inference framework.
• Nine common pain points districts encounter when implementing student success technology platforms - From a Digital Promise field scan including "conversations with 50 individuals from 30 organizations including schools and districts, technology vendors, intermediaries, researchers, and strategic par
• Nine principles of community-based education grounded in democratic participation - The paper enumerates nine principles of community-based education drawn from various writers: self-determination, self-help, leadership development, localization, integrated delivery of services, redu
• Nkrumah's consciencism: the African personality defined by a cluster of humanist principles underlying traditional African society - The article presents Nkrumah's philosophy of consciencism as the intellectual map enabling African society to digest Western, Islamic, and Euro-Christian elements so they fit the African personality.
• Normalisation Process Theory's four domains as an analytic lens for how AAC practices become routine in classrooms - Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) is the deductive framework this protocol uses to analyse how AAC practices have or have not become routine in classrooms.