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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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40 terms filed under R, showing 21–30 (page 3 of 4).
R
Representation
How people, places and ideas are presented — and whose version it is.
Requesting an assessment yourself
You do not need the school's agreement to ask for an EHC needs assessment.
Required practicals
The set experiments every student must do. Exam questions are written about them.
Research methods in psychology
How psychology gathers evidence, and how to criticise a study.
Research methods in sociology
How sociologists gather evidence, and the argument about what counts as evidence.
Resits in English and maths
Continuing English and maths after 16 if you did not get a grade 4. A condition of funding.
Resource management
Food, water and energy: supply, demand and the gap between them.
Restraint
Also called Reasonable force, Physical intervention, Positive handling
Physically holding or moving a pupil. Lawful in narrow circumstances, and it must be recorded and reported.
Results day and appeals
Also called Review of marking, Remark, Appeal
What happens when results arrive, and what you can do if one looks wrong. Deadlines are short.
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