Category: C

The use of ideas or concepts as the unifying threads or framework of curricular components.  

In research, a process for finding the characteristics that define a term. Especially useful for defining constructs and concepts.  

The age since conception. This age provides a more reliable index of developmental status than does chronological age for infants during their first year.  

The process of categorizing learning experiences in a meaningful way, enabling the learner to appropriately communicate with others. It implies a generalized comprehension as a result of specific learning experiences. Significance and relationships of basic factual information result as concepts are formed.  

A teaching strategy that attempts to develop the thinking process of students around generalizations.  

Fo¬ cuses on the attainment of three principles: (a) growing and developing, (b) decision making, and (c) interaction. Learning experiences are directed toward each individual developing health concepts which can be applied to improved daily living. This approach to health education was popularized as a result of the School Health Education Study (SHES) conducted in…

A representation of the common properties of distinguished objects. A through or idea, or something which someone might be able to imagine.  

Beliefs that reflect what we view as ideal.  

A person’s orientation toward an object or a class of objects, conative.  

An acronym for catechol-O-methyl transferase.