Writing
Cognitive Approaches to Mathematics
Cognitive Approaches to Science
100

A question or instructions that set expectations for what students should produce on a writing assessment.

What is a Writing Prompt?

100

A key goal in mathematics problem solving

What is flexible knowledge?

100

A major reorganization in memory of the conceptual framework for a domain of knowledge

What is conceptual change?

200

A widely used approach to teaching writing designed to help students acquire writing strategies, learn about different writing genres and build positive attitudes

What is self-regulated strategy development (SRSD)?

200

An instructional approach that involves introducing algebra-related concepts and notions to elementary students as an integral part of arithmetic introduction

What is early algebra?

200

Instruction in science and other content areas that are characterized by posing broad, challenging questions and having students answer them through investigations

What is inquiry-based instruction?

300

Term for writers simply writing what someone else has said or written with little transformation

What is knowledge telling?

300

Case's concept of memory or space capacity, in chunks

What is M-Space?

300

Inaccurate beliefs about a phenomenon, acquired through uncontrolled observation

What is naive belief?

400

A group of individuals in a setting that is organized around reading, writing, speaking, and listening

What is literacy community?

400

A procedure in mathematics or computer science that applies to a particular type of problem and that, if followed correctly, guarantees the correct answer

What is an algorithm?

400

Partial or incorrect conceptual frameworks for understanding a domain and important processes within that domain

What are naive theories?

500

A writing instruction technique that focuses on syntactical and propositional knowledge in which students combine simple sentences into more complex ones 

What is sentence combining

500

In mathematics, an incorrect version of an algorithm that, if followed, will yield wrong answers

What is buggy algorithm?

500

Cooperative learning environment focused on developing scientific thinking and metacognitive skills 

What is inquiry-based learning?