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| DENI (Department of Education for Northern Ireland) | The Department of Education is responsible for education provision in Northern Ireland. |
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| Development plan | An annual plan in which a school reaffirms its aims and objectives, reports on its audit, and outlines future action for the coming year. All Scottish state schools are now required by the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc. Act 2000 to evaluate the quality of their provision and to make an annual development plan to improve it. Almost all schools had been engaged in development planning for several years before the promulgation of this Act, following national guidance from HM Inspectorate of Education, published in 'How Good is our School?' |
| DfES (Department for Education and Skills) | The DfES works in England to: give children an excellent start in education; enable young people to equip themselves with life and work skills; and encourage adults to achieve their full potential through learning. |
| Diagnostic assessment | Aims to reveal an underlying problem in learning or to find out about a learner's ways of learning, in order to help them achieve learning aims. There are many forms of published 'diagnostic tests', but, in the ordinary course of teaching, a teacher's interaction and discussion with a pupil is often the most effective basis for this process. |
| Digital | A method of sending data which uses a combination of 1s and 0s (representing 'on' or 'off') to carry the information. |
| DNS (Domain name system) | Domain name system is the naming service used to organise groups of computers on the internet |
| Download | Where one computer transfers data to a distant computer |
| DPA (Data Protection Act) | The Data Protection Act 1998 gives individuals certain rights regarding information held about them. It places obligations on those who process information (data controllers) while giving rights to those who are the subject of that data (data subjects). |
| DTP | Desktop Publishing. Software programs that enable you to create newsletters, presentations, magazines and other printed documents. |
| DtS (Determined to Succeed) | DtS is the Scottish Government's strategy for enterprise in education. It aims to help Scotland's young people develop self-confidence, self-reliance and ambition to achieve their goals - in work and in life. |
| DVD | Digital Video Disk. A CD-ROM that holds a large amount of data and is often used for viewing films. |
| Dyslexia | Occurring at any level of intellectual ability, this causes difficulties in reading, writing and spelling. It can also cause difficulties with short-term memory, in mathematical ability, and in the ability to concentrate. According to the Dyslexia Institute, it is generally caused by differences in the processing of language-based information. Because the origins are biological it may be seen to run in families, but environmental factors may also be significant. The 1993 Education Act defined dyslexia as a Special Education Need, and it is one of several Specific Learning Difficulties. Its effects can be overcome by specialist teaching. |
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