Theories: Z

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• Zen-derived sense-of-mastery account of mastery learning's accumulated benefits - The paper develops an account, drawn from Zen training traditions, in which a learner intensely focuses on a very small domain, masters it, and then uses "this sense of mastery as a guide to the tackl
• Zone of Proximal Development as an assessment and instruction tool - The ZPD is defined by Vygotsky as "the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem-solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem
• Zone of Proximal Development as learners' responsiveness to culturally appropriate mediation - In this interview's account, the ZPD is what the instrumental method becomes when brought into school: education delivers "appropriate forms of cultural mediation" and observes whether and how student
• Zone of Proximal Development: tasks a child cannot yet do alone but can do with help - The article defines the zone of proximal development as "The range of task that a child cannot yet perform alone but can perform with help and guidance from others." It distinguishes two ability level
• Zone of Proximal Development: the gap between independent and assisted problem solving - The paper presents Vygotsky's zone of proximal development as the construct at the centre of his sociocultural account of development.
• Zones of Mathematical Play - A descriptive, largely conceptual framework proposing that players in a well-designed mathematical digital game pass non-linearly through five zones — from pure play, through developing a preference a