Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning

The term demonstration of learning refers to a wide variety of potential educational projects, presentations, or products through which students “demonstrate” what they have learned, usually as a way of determining whether and to what degree they have achieved the expected course and university student learning outcomes. 

Differentiation refers to a wide variety of teaching techniques and lesson adaptations that educators use to instruct a diverse group of students, with diverse learning needs, in the same course or classroom.

In general usage, the term direct instruction refers to instructional approaches that are structured, sequenced, and directly taught to students.