Scaffold (disambiguation)

Scaffold and scaffolding may refer to:

General

• Scaffolding, in construction, a temporary structure that supports workers and equipment above the ground or floor

Education

• Instructional scaffolding, the provision of sufficient supports to promote learning when concepts and skills are being first introduced to students. Scott Thornbury states that this term refers to the interactional support given to enable learners perform a task at a level beyond their present competence.

Criminal justice

• Scaffold, in capital punishment, refers to a structure used as a gallows that the condemned stands upon, often with a trap door; it can also refer to the elevated structure on which a condemned person is set to be beheaded

Science and engineering

• Scaffold, in chemistry, a structure that is used to hold up or support another material, such as a drug, crystal or protein
• Scaffold, in drug design, fixed part of a molecule on which functional groups are substituted or exchanged
  • The protein that is used as a starting point for the design of antibody mimetics
• Tissue scaffold, in tissue engineering, an artificial structure capable of supporting three-dimensional tissue formation
• Scaffold, in bioinformatics, a collection of discontinuous contigs of a given genetic sequence
• Scaffolding, a technique in bioinformatics.

Computer science

• Scaffold (programming), a term that comes from the Ruby on Rails framework, which is a facility to construct most of the logic and views needed to do common data access operations, such as CRUD

Music

• The Scaffold, a United Kingdom musical group