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Google Books excerpt of Language, literacy, and learning in educational practice: a reader by Stierer and Maybin, see pp 45-58. This excerpt includes Vygotsky's work on proximal development. Also known as Vykotsky.

mentioned in Deeper Learning thread re: adaptive testing. "Vygotsky's "zone of proximal development," the problems are situated for success with an incremental stretch by the student. Adaptive testing can well serve competency based learning- earn an "A" by progressing X number of steps or reach some threshold of competence. Attainment is self-reinforcing and can be pragmatically related to grades."

From Wikipedia, essentially "Diffusion of Innovations is a theory of how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures." Theory was popularized this theory in his 1962 book "Diffusion of Innovations"

Mentioned in Engaging Faculty thread in Jam as theory that claims to predict who would be willing to adopt a technology.

By Grant P. Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998. (On Worldcat) "With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. "

"Classroom assessment techniques : a handbook for college teachers"

By Malcolm S Knowles, New York: Association Press, 1975 (on Worldcat)

By Robert M. Diamond. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2nd edition 1998. (On Worldcat)