Education A to Z

Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers

Please note: This page explains a word or a process in education. It is general information about the system, the law and the guidance in England — not advice about your child, your school or your exam. If a decision is going against you, get advice from one of the free services we link to before you agree to anything or miss a deadline. If you are revising, check your own exam board's specification: boards word things differently and yours is the one that marks you.

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26 terms filed under D, showing 1–10 (page 1 of 3).

D

Daffodils

Also called I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Wordsworth's poem about remembering a field of flowers. Romanticism, and memory as consolation.

Data presentation

Choosing the right graph or map for the data you have — and being asked to justify it.

Data protection in computing

The legislation a computer science specification expects you to know.

Data representation

How text, images and sound become numbers.

Databases

Structured storage of records, and the tables they sit in.

Deadlines and planning work

Getting work in on time. A skill, and a large share of coursework marks.

Decomposition and abstraction

Breaking a problem into parts, and ignoring the detail that does not matter.

Deferred and delayed school entry

Starting school later, or outside the normal year group. Possible, and not automatic.

Descriptive writing

Writing to describe, usually from a picture. Atmosphere over incident.

Designated safeguarding lead

Also called DSL, Child protection lead

The senior member of staff with lead responsibility for child protection in a school.

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