Key Terms
A second grader struggles to meet reading and math benchmarks by the end of the year. The school decides the student will spend another year in second grade to gain more time for mastering those foundational skills.
What is Retention?
A student loves writing poems and telling stories to express their ideas and feelings. This MI is known as...
What is Linguistic Intelligence?
A teacher looks at STAR and classroom assessment scores in order to identify which students are meeting expectations and which students may need extra help. The teacher is...
What is identifying student needs?
A teacher gives students a one-question exit ticket to check whether they understood the main idea lesson before planning the next day’s instruction.
What is formative?
A student is slightly below benchmark on STAR, so the teacher meets with them and a few others who share the same skill gap to reteach context clues. The intervention is...
What is small group?
A teacher gives her first graders a short reading passage at the start of the year in order to see what decoding skills they already have. This assessment will help her plan instruction by showing current strengths and areas for growth.
What is Diagnostic Assessment?
A student creates a science experiment, where they carefully control variables to test a hypothesis. This MI is known as...
What is Logical-Mathematical?
A teacher looks at test data to see whether students are meeting grade-level expectations. The teacher is...
What is checking progress?
During reading, the teacher listens to a student’s one-minute fluency read to see if their decoding has improved since last week.
What is formative?
A student’s scores are inconsistent from one test to the next. The teacher checks their reading fluency weekly to track whether the skill is improving.
What is monitoring?
After taking a standardized test, a student's report shows they scored in the 45th percentile compared to other students nationwide. This tells the teacher that the student performed better than 45% of students in their grade nationwide. What type of test is this?
What is Norm-Referenced?
A student sets long-term goals based on their values and motivations, even when peers choose differently. This MI is known as...
What is Intrapersonal Intelligence?
A student with a PR (percentile rank) below 25 is placed in this category
What is Intervention?
A teacher uses a quick writing sample during class to see which students still struggle to cite text evidence so she can pull a small group.
What is formative?
A student continues to confuse main idea and supporting detail. The teacher goes back and gives them color-coded organizers and simplified steps to help them understand the skill. This intervention is...
What is scaffolding instruction?
Two different teachers grade the same writing sample using the same rubric, and they both give identical scores. This shows that the assessment produces consistent results across evaluators.
What is Reliability?
A student notices group tension during a project and suggests strategies to improve collaboration. This MI is known as...
What is Interpersonal Intelligence?
FSA results are used not only to measure students proficiency but also to evaluate these two groups...
What are teachers and schools?
At the end of a full reading unit, students complete a graded comprehension assessment covering all standards taught over the past three weeks.
What is summative?
A student’s reading scores have steadily declined, and the teacher suspects inconsistent practice at home. The teacher schedules a conference, sends home reading logs, and shares strategies the family can use daily to support literacy.
What is parental involvement?
After analyzing FAST test results, the district notes that the teachers students showed more growth than predicted compared to similar students across the state. This suggests that the teachers instruction had a positive impact on student learning beyond what was expected. What term is this scenario reflecting?
What are VAM scores?
A student mentally maps constellations in the night sky and explains how they shift with seasons. This MI is known as...
What is Visual-Spatial Intelligence?
Students who master basic skills but don't get chances for higher-level thinking may show stagnant growth. This is a lack of...
What is differentiated instruction?
A school analyzes students’ end-of-quarter exam results to determine mastery, identify students who need interventions, and plan groups for the next grading period.
What is summative?
A student has failed to make progress despite intensive support and shows major gaps in foundational skills. The school team considers giving the student an additional year to build mastery.
What is retention?