The action or process of adapting or being adapted.
Example: This permits ADAPTATION for different situations, evaluations of new techniques and evaluation of materials.
fr: Adaptation
assessment
noun
The evaluation or estimation of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something.
Example: However, they are likely to appreciate a straightforward summary of the results of the assessment which places equal weight on the child's abilities as well as on her disabilities.
fr: Évaluation
Competence
noun
The ability to do something successfully or efficiently.
Example: As was pointed out earlier, hearing users of BSL are not progressing to full COMPETENCE in the language and are very likely to use English syntax for sign based messages.
fr: Compétence
creativity
adjective
The use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.
Example: Use of this strategy partly reflected an increasing shift of emphasis among academic psychologists - though continuing the tradition set by Terman - towards redefining CREATIVITY as giftedness or eminence.
fr: créativité
development
noun
He process of developing or being developed.
Example: Freud had first introduced this hypothesis in Totem and Taboo as a DEVELOPMENT of an idea of Darwin's.
fr: développement
Education
noun
The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.
Example: Composition in elementary antique fragments underlay the neo-classical architectural EDUCATION at both the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Ecole Polytechnique in the beginning of the nineteenth-century.
fr: Éducation
grades
noun
A mark indicating the quality of a student's work.
Example: Will an anti-bullying program reduce the prevalence of bullying in Junior (GRADES 7-9) and Senior High (GRADES 10-12) school? 2.
fr: notes
guidance
noun
Advice or information aimed at resolving a problem or difficulty, especially as given by someone in authority.
Example: Indeed, it is this last advantage which is most useful in giving GUIDANCE to performers of works other than these three, since if particular tempos can be found to be frequently associated with particular verbal instructions, these may acquire more precise meanings for other works, at least for those by the same composer.
fr: conseil
help
noun
The action of helping someone to do something; assistance.
Example: However, diaries kept by parents can produce valuable information and also HELP parents to see themselves as active partners in the assessment process.
fr: aider
Interaction
noun
Communication or direct involvement with someone or something.
Example: Communication is so complex an INTERACTION of mind, language, and the physical world that it can be disconcerting to try to deal with it all at once.
fr: Interaction
knowledge
noun
Facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.
Example: The accumlation of statisitics about a problem does not necessarily represent adequate KNOWLEDGE about potential remedial characterisitcs or correctable factors.
fr: connaissance
learn
verb
Gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught.
Example: Hansen (1980) maintains that hearing people can LEARN sign language to a satisfactory extent and can be successful in passive LEARNing, i.e. understanding deaf people's signing, within a short time.
fr: Apprendre
lesson
noun
An amount of teaching given at one time; a period of learning or teaching.
Example: Here is a transcript of part of an English LESSON in a British Secondary school.
fr: Leçon
motivation
noun
The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.
Example: My friends have motivation when they eat chocolates.
fr: motivation
patience
noun
He capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
Example: Parents need to learn PATIENCE and show their child that they are pleased with the progress.
fr: patience
Plan
verb
Decide on and arrange in advance.
Example: We must PLAN the emotive path of the whole work so that tranquil periods and emotive peaks find their right places.
fr: planifier
social
adjective
Needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities.
Example: The state has great power over people's lives and it is responsible for allocating resources among different SOCIAL groups.
fr: social
students
noun
A person who is studying at a school or colleg.
Example: Park users (90) and STUDENTS at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (231) were asked to rate their preferences on a 7-point Likert scale.
fr: Élèves
supplies
noun
A stock of a resource from which a person or place can be provided with the necessary amount of that resource.
Example: Thus this paper SUPPLIES only a part of the substantiation which the foregoing analysis requires.
fr: fournitures
teach
verb
Show or explain to (someone) how to do something.
Example: She links such abstraction explicitly with the fact that schools TEACH literacy: The results led to the hypothesis that school is operating on grouping operations at least partly through the training embodied in the written language.
