Course description and structure

The purpose of the course 'TAO Terminology Explained' is to examine the terms in TAO which may cause potential confusion for the education professionals and classroom teachers who use it, for a variety of reasons. By means of examples, we try to explain these terms in a way that makes them more accessible.

The course is divided into three parts. This first, short part looks first at what terminology is, and then at the terms used in the architecture of TAO. The second part will examine the terminology connected with creating and delivering assessments, whilst the third part looks at the terms used in the scoring process. For each problematic term, we'll try to explain the rationale behind it, and how it is used. 

In each part, a chapter is devoted to a specific area of TAO where applicable, and each lesson in them is dedicated to one of the less obvious terms in that area. 

As it is often easier to understand a complex system by way of example, for the purposes of this course we'll presume the following short assessment scenario:

George Stone is a geography teacher. He wants to test his class on their knowledge of capital cities around the world. The test he is going to prepare will only contain ten short questions as he has to fit it in at the end of a lesson.