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  2. Teaching method - Wikipedia

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    Teaching method. A teaching method is a set of principles and methods used by teachers to enable student learning. These strategies are determined partly by the subject matter to be taught, partly by the relative expertise of the learners, and partly by constraints caused by the learning environment. [1] For a particular teaching method to be ...

  3. Pedagogical agent - Wikipedia

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    A pedagogical agent is a concept borrowed from computer science and artificial intelligence and applied to education, usually as part of an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). It is a simulated human-like interface between the learner and the content, in an educational environment. A pedagogical agent is designed to model the type of ...

  4. Social–emotional learning - Wikipedia

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    Social–emotional learning ( SEL) is an educational method that aims to foster social and emotional skills within school curricula. SEL is also referred to as " socio-emotional learning ," " social and emotional learning ," or " social–emotional literacy ." In common practice, SEL emphasizes social and emotional skills to the same degree as ...

  5. Chat room - Wikipedia

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    Screenshot of a group chat in the Element instant messaging client. The term chat room, or chatroom (and sometimes group chat; abbreviated as GC), is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing.

  6. Transfer learning - Wikipedia

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    Transfer learning ( TL) is a technique in machine learning (ML) in which knowledge learned from a task is re-used in order to boost performance on a related task. [1] For example, for image classification, knowledge gained while learning to recognize cars could be applied when trying to recognize trucks.

  7. Evaluation - Wikipedia

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    Evaluation. In common usage, evaluation is a systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to assess any aim, realizable concept/proposal, or any alternative, to ...

  8. Drypoint - Wikipedia

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    Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (or "matrix") with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. In principle, the method is practically identical to engraving. The difference is in the use of tools, and that the raised ridge along the furrow is not scraped or ...

  9. Schema (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Schema (psychology) In psychology and cognitive science, a schema ( pl.: schemata or schemas) describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. [1] [2] It can also be described as a mental structure of preconceived ideas, a framework representing some aspect of the world, or a ...