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| Backbone | The part of a network used as the main path for sending data between different areas |
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| BAECE (British Association for Early Childhood Education) - known as 'Early Education' | The British Association for Early Childhood Education is known as Early Education. It is the leading national voluntary organisation for early years practitioners and parents, with members and branches in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. |
| Bandwidth | A measure of how much information a communication link can carry. More bandwidth means more capacity to carry information. |
| BC (British Council - Education in Scotland) | In Scotland the British Council works with overarching bodies and education providers to form international links and to promote Scottish education and training systems and expertise. |
| Becta (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) | Becta is the Government's key partner in the strategic development and delivery of its information and communications technology (ICT) and e-learning strategy for the schools and the learning and skills sectors. |
| BEd (Bachelor of Education) | A school leaver or someone who does not already have a degree can do either a Bachelor of Education degree (BEd) in Primary Education, Music, Physical Education or Technological Education, or a concurrent (combined) degree course. They do not have to make a decision on whether to undertake a teaching qualification until towards the end of the second year of a concurrent degree course and if at that point they decide they do not want to teach, they will still be able to obtain a degree in the subject they have studied. |
| BELMAS (British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration) | BELMAS seeks to advance the practice, teaching and study of educational management, administration and leadership in the United Kingdom, and to contribute to international developments in these areas. |
| BERA (British Educational Research Association) | A learned society for educational research which publishes (in association with Carfax Publishing, part of Taylor and Francis Ltd) the British Educational Research Journal six times a year. |
| Binary | Composed of two parts. |
| Black and Wiliam | Academics at King's College London who carried out the major review of assessment in 1998 and summarised their findings in the booklet entitled 'Inside the Black Box' (King's College London, 1998). |
| Black Box | A metaphor for the classroom, coined by Black and Wiliam and used in the titles of a number of booklets on assessment, each dealing with assessment in different subject contexts. Borrowed from systems engineering, the term describes how inputs, such as pupils, teachers, resources, management processes, parents' expectations, tests and so on, may be transformed into outputs: hopefully knowledge and competence, better test results and teachers' job satisfaction. In the booklet 'Inside the Black Box', Black and Wiliam address the concept of formative assessment and how to make it more effective for learning. |
| Blog | A blog, otherwise known as a weblog, is an online diary. The person writing the weblog is known as a 'blogger' and the process of keeping an online diary is known as 'blogging'. |
| Bloom's taxonomy | A hierarchical classification of educational objectives formulated by the American educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom and his associates. Bloom identified three 'domains' of educational activity in the learning process, in which the cognitive domain controls knowledge and intellect. Based on the premise that cognitive learning occurs on six levels, with comprehension and application at the lower end of the scale, and analysis, synthesis and evaluation at the higher end, specific behaviours were identified and used for writing instructional objectives. These can be used by teachers to structure effective questioning techniques. |
| Bluetooth | A technology that allows computers, printers and mobile phones to make wireless connections. |
| Bolt-on activity | A well-designed summative assessment should not be a 'bolt-on' activity: it is integral to learning and teaching, in that it aims specifically to test that intended learning has occurred and ideally it will have been planned at the same time as the curriculum was planned. |
| Bookmarks | In a web browser, bookmarks allow you to keep a note of pages you want to revisit. |
| Broadband | A communications link with bandwidth of at least 1.5 Mbps. This is approximately thirty times faster than a dial-up link |
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