Code

CODE: a. A systematically arranged collection of principles or rules relating to one subject, as a code for learning, the genetic code, a code of ethics, taxonomic codes of botany; a system of principles based on experimental, experimental behavioral science research findings that describe what people do to learn. b. To put into the form of a code, as a Learning Efficiency Analysis Paradigm (aLEAP) arranges descriptions of behavioral science research findings into the order in which observers see or hear them occur.

Synonyms: A LEARNERS’ VIEW (ALV) represents descriptions from experimental empirical behavioral science research reports of choices learners make to solve problems. APPLIED RESEARCH emphasizes the direct use of a research finding in a social activity. FIGURE-IT-OUT, a colloquialism that emphasizes the process of following the rules you know to solve a problem. INFRASTRUCTURE OF LEARNING features the architecture (arrangement, including order) of observable events that occur as a learner learns (solves a problem). RESEARCH BASED indicates a general category of an activity derived (extrapolated) from some part or all of a research study without necessarily applying any procedures or results of that study. SCIENTIFIC LAW denotes general agreement among scientists that a cluster of formal descriptions of a phenomenon, such as behavior patterns, occurs consistently with consistent measurable results.

Antonyms: RANDOM emphasizes a lack of predictable result from a consistent process, as in selecting a number from a table of random numbers.