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Educational and Psychological Measurement

Educational and Psychological Measurement is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering measurement theory in education and psychology, founded by Frederic Kuder in 1941 and published by SAGE Publications.

Educational assessment

Educational assessment is the systematic process of documenting and using evidence about student learning, ranging from classroom checks for understanding to international surveys like PISA, judged by validity, reliability, and fairness.

Educational attainment in the United States

Educational attainment in the United States is the highest level of education a person has completed, as measured by the Census Bureau through the census and American Community Survey.

Educational Broadcasting System (한국교육방송공사)

Educational Broadcasting System (한국교육방송공사, EBS) is South Korea's public educational broadcaster, a statutory public corporation since 2000, operating EBS1, EBS2, FM radio, satellite channels, and e-learning services.

Educational farm

Educational farm (ferme éducative), a farm run for environmental and life education; French official definition from 2001. Documented example: Ferme éducative de Rhinau, AGF Bas-Rhin, created 1982, hosting schools, families, camps, and therapy visits.

Educational game

Educational game: a game designed so play produces learning outcomes; a serious-game category distinct from gamification. Evidence shows small-to-moderate gains (mean effect 0.48) with design-dependent results.

Educational inequality

Educational inequality: unequal distribution of schooling access, learning outcomes, and attainment by socio-economic status, gender, location, and other background; measured via PISA ESCS gradients and UNESCO GEM completion gaps.

Educational psychology

Educational psychology, also called the psychology of teaching and learning, applies psychological principles to teaching, training, and learning in schools, workplaces, and informal settings; APA Division 15, distinct from school psychology (Division 16), with roots in James and Thorndike.

Educational research

Educational research: systematic application of scientific method to educational problems (Mouly). Covers its US history from 1855, RCT and quasi-experimental designs, replication crisis, and evidence use in policy.

Educational stage

Educational stage: a major division of formal learning (primary, secondary, tertiary), standardised internationally by ISCED 2011 levels 0–8, with entry ages, compulsory schooling spans, and national mappings such as US grades 7–12.

Educational Status

Educational status, also called educational attainment or education level, is a MeSH-indexed socioeconomic variable recording an individual's highest education. It predicts health outcomes and is measured via ISCED levels, years of schooling, and datasets such as Barro-Lee.

Educational technology

Educational technology, also known as edtech or instructional technology, is the integration of tools like software, online platforms, and digital content into education to improve learning.

Educational Testing Service

Educational Testing Service (ETS) is an American nonprofit founded in 1947 in Princeton, New Jersey, that develops and scores tests like the TOEFL and GRE.

EDUQ-CPNE trial

EDUQ-CPNE (NCT02311829), a French multicenter randomized trial sponsored by Central Hospital, Nancy, testing psychologist telephone follow-up (DST) versus usual care on quality of life in video-EEG-confirmed psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.

Edurne

Edurne (Edurne García Almagro, born 1985, Madrid) is a Spanish pop singer and TV personality, Operación Triunfo 2005 finalist, Eurovision 2015 entrant with "Amanecer" (21st place), with albums Edurne through éXtasis and Navidad junto a ti.

Eduroam

Eduroam (education roaming) is a free secure Wi-Fi roaming service for the research and education community, letting users connect at over 10,000 hotspots in more than 100 territories using their home institution credentials.

Edvard August Vainio

Edvard August Vainio (Wainio, 1853–1929), Finnish lichenologist, author of Monographia Cladoniarum universalis (1887–1897) and pioneer of phylogenetic lichen classification; curator of herbarium TUR, Turku.

Edvard Beneš

Edvard Beneš (1884–1948), Czechoslovak foreign minister 1918–1935 and second president 1935–1948, exile leader in London, associated with the Munich acceptance and the Beneš Decrees.

Edvard Grieg

Edvard Grieg (Edvard Hagerup Grieg, 1843–1907) was a Norwegian Romantic composer, regarded as Norway's most important, best known for the Piano Concerto in A minor and Peer Gynt incidental music.

Edvard Grieg Oil and Gas Field

Edvard Grieg is an oil and gas field in the central North Sea on the Utsira High, about 180 km west of Stavanger, producing since 2015.

Edvard Hoem

Edvard Hoem, full name Edvard Arnt Hoem, is a Norwegian novelist, poet, dramatist, and hymn writer who writes in Nynorsk. His four-volume family saga sold more than 300,000 copies.

Edvard Ingjald Moser

Edvard Ingjald Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist at NTNU in Trondheim, known for discovering grid cells and sharing the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Edvard Kardelj

Edvard Kardelj (1910–1979) was a Slovenian communist politician and economist who served as Yugoslavia's foreign minister and vice president, and was the chief theorist of the workers' self-management system embodied in the 1974 Constitution.

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Norwegian painter and printmaker of The Scream, Symbolist and precursor of Expressionism; four Scream versions on cardboard, experimental mixed-media technique, bequest forming Oslo's Munch Museum collection.

Edvard Munch (film)

Edvard Munch (1974) is Peter Watkins's Norwegian-Swedish NRK/SR docudrama on the painter's early life, using amateur actors, diary dialogue, and nonlinear editing; first aired 12-13 November 1974, praised by Bergman and Tynan.

Edvard Rusjan

Edvard Rusjan (1886–1911) was a Slovenian aircraft constructor and aviator who made the first powered flight in Slovenia, near Gorizia, in 1909, flying his biplane EDA I.

Edvard Wavrinsky

Edvard Wavrinsky (1848–1924) was a Swedish army officer turned insurance director, Riksdag member from 1890 to 1924, and leader of the peace and temperance movements.

Edvard Westerlund

Edvard Vilhelm Westerlund (1901–1982), Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler, won Olympic gold at 75 kg in Paris 1924, bronze at 67.5 kg in Amsterdam 1928, and the 1922 world title; brother of wrestlers Emil and Kalle Westerlund.

Edvard Westermarck

Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939) was a Finnish philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist who founded social anthropology at the London School of Economics and gave his name to the Westermarck effect.

Edvarts Virza

Edvarts Virza, real name Jēkabs Eduards Liekna (1883–1940), was a Latvian poet and prose writer whose prose poem Straumēni (1933) made him the only interwar Latvian Nobel Prize candidate in literature.