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Bloom's taxonomy

Bloom's taxonomy, or the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, is a 1956 hierarchical classification of learning goals by Benjamin Bloom's committee across cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains, revised in 2001 into six verb-based levels from remember to create.

Principles of learning

Principles of learning: empirically established regularities of human learning. Rooted in behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism; best-evidenced strategies are spacing, retrieval practice (testing effect, g = 0.50 in classrooms), and interleaving, while learning-styles matching lacks support.

Response to intervention

Response to intervention (RTI) is an educational framework integrating assessment with instruction in a schoolwide, multi-tiered prevention system, used for early academic support and learning disability identification.

Twice exceptional

Twice exceptional (2e) students are gifted learners who also have a disability such as ADHD, autism, or dyslexia. Masking between gift and disability, jagged Wechsler profiles, and poor Full Scale IQ gatekeeping drive underidentification; support combines gifted and special education.

Zone of proximal development

The zone of proximal development (ZPD, zona blizhaishego razvitiya) is Lev Vygotsky's concept for the gap between what a learner can do alone and with adult or capable-peer assistance; formulated 1933, basis of dynamic assessment and linked to, but distinct from, Wood, Bruner and Ross's 1976 scaffolding.