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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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500 terms, showing 311–320 (page 32 of 50).
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Pressure and forces in fluids
Force spread over an area, and why it changes with depth and height.
Primary and secondary sources
Evidence made at the time, and accounts made later from it.
Principles of training
How to design a training programme that works. SPORT and FITT.
Probability
How likely something is, on a scale from 0 to 1. Trees, tables and the difference between with and without replacement.
Progress 8
Also called Attainment 8, EBacc, Performance measures
How secondary schools are measured. It shapes which subjects your child is pushed towards.
Prologue and epilogue
An opening or closing section outside the main action.
Proof
Showing something is always true, not just true for the numbers you tried.
Protagonist and antagonist
The character the story follows, and the one who opposes them.
Protocols and layers
Agreed rules that let different systems talk, organised in layers.
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