A*
Overview page. Subjects: education.
A grade awarded for exceptionally good performance in any subject at General Certificate of Secondary Education. Previously, the highest grade awarded was an A grade. When the introduction of an A*...
A*
in A Dictionary of Education
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: education. 95 words.
A grade awarded for exceptionally good performance in any subject at General Certificate of Secondary Education. Previously, the highest
A (Not So) Modest Proposal
in The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
January 2010; published online May 2009.
Journal Article. Subjects: education; linguistics; teaching of specific groups and special educational needs. 552 words.
A. S. Neill
Overview page. Subjects: education.
(1883–1973)
Alexander Sutherland Neill was an exponent of democratic, pupil‐centred, or ‘free’ schooling, and the founder of Summerhill School. His reaction to his own Calvinist upbringing led him to...
“A Timely and On-Time Journal...”
in The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
January 2000; published online January 2000.
Journal Article. Subjects: education; linguistics; teaching of specific groups and special educational needs. 0 words.
The ABCs of New Zealand Sign Language: Aerial Spelling
in The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
January 2003; published online January 2003.
Journal Article. Subjects: education; linguistics; teaching of specific groups and special educational needs. 0 words.
Aerial spelling is the term given here for the way many deaf people in New Zealand, especially the elderly, manually represent letters of the alphabet. It is simply a system using the index...
ability
in A Dictionary of Education
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: education. 126 words.
Used in education in the sense of ‘potential for performance’. It is unclear, however, how ability might be accurately measured,
ability grouping
Overview page. Subjects: education.
Grouping pupils together in classes to be taught according to their ability. In the United Kingdom this is not usually the case, as pupils are normally grouped according to age, and within a national...
ability grouping
in A Dictionary of Education
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: education. 124 words.
Grouping pupils together in classes to be taught according to their ability. In the United Kingdom this is not
Abitur
Overview page. Subjects: literature — education.
The German examination equivalent to the General Certificate of Education Advanced Level. It is often held up by educators in the United Kingdom as a model to be emulated as it offers the academic...