credit hours
Academic workload measure
Credit hours are units measuring academic work, typically representing one hour of classroom instruction per week over a semester.
A three-credit-hour course meets three hours weekly.
Students need a set number of credit hours to graduate: She's taking fifteen credit hours this semester.
Also called credits or semester hours.
Half academic year
- transcriptVerbatim written account
- GPACumulative academic score
- courseworkStudent academic tasks
- syllabusCourse plan document
curriculum · elective · prerequisite · corequisite · major · minor · undergraduate · graduate
Standard measures of quantity
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- conversionAct of changing states
- equivalencyState of being equal
- weightingAssigning relative importance values
Required prior condition
- eligibilityState of meeting criteria
- graduationCompleting academic requirements formally
- degreeUnit of measurement
- certificationAttestation of qualification
credential · admission · qualification · minimum · threshold · completion · fulfillment · core
semester
Half academic year
- transcriptVerbatim written account
- GPACumulative academic score
- courseworkStudent academic tasks
syllabus · curriculum · elective · prerequisite · corequisite · major · minor · undergraduate · graduate · registrar
units
Standard measures of quantity
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- conversionAct of changing states
- equivalencyState of being equal
prerequisite
Required prior condition
- eligibilityState of meeting criteria
- graduationCompleting academic requirements formally
- degreeUnit of measurement
certification · credential · admission · qualification · minimum · threshold · completion · fulfillment · core · distribution
courseload
Semester's academic commitments
- assignmentsAllocated duties or tasks
- studyingDeliberate learning effort
- readingInterpreting written text
lectures · labs · homework · exams · projects · papers · demanding · intensive · overload · underload
- Eduspeakpedagogy, curriculum mapping, scaffolding, rubric, formative
- teachingteaching, lesson plans, instructing, educating, courses
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
- collegecampus, courses, application, dorms, dorm room
- college lifefreshman, freshman year, sophomore, junior, classes
credit hoursseat time
Time in attendance
real time · elapsed time · billable hours · man-hours · labor hours
credit, hours, discredit, credits, credited, accredit, crediting, creditor, accredited