Teachers use this instructional strategy rarely in a personalized competency based classroom
What is whole group direct instruction?
100
These are step-by-step instructions that play a key role in classroom management in a personalized competency based system.
What are Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)?
100
Knowledge and skills historically taught in K12 schools, such as world history, biology, geography, Algebra, and English language arts.
What is traditional academic content?
100
Bob's current favorite saying about assessment.
What is "test less, assess more"?
100
Exercising these gives students control within the teaching and learning environment.
What are student voice and choice?
200
This is an approach where some instruction is face-to-face and some instruction takes place online.
What is blended learning?
200
Teachers and students create them for issues like "I'm stuck, what do I do now?" or "I missed class yesterday, what did I miss?"
What are Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)?
200
Skills that help us effectively process information and complete tasks and that are required for tasks involving retrieval, comprehension, analysis, and utilization of knowledge.
What are cognitive skills?
200
All scores contain this, and it is the reason you should never rely on a single assessment.
What is error?
200
The Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) had its roots in a 1994 reform effort in this school district.
What is Chugach School District (CSD) in Alaska?
300
This is a popular scheduling technique in schools where a chunk of time is set aside for all students to have access to teachers and resources.
What is Focused instruction time (FIT)?
300
In a personalized competency based system, the learning environment shifts to become more...
What is student-centered?
300
We use these to provide executive control over our actions.
What are metacognitive skills?
300
In the Marzano Research approach teachers align instruction and assessments to this.
What is a proficiency scale?
300
Marzano Research staff will be presenting at this national conference on K-12 competency-based, blended and online learning in October.
What is the iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium?
400
The Parking Lot is one way of giving students this in the classroom.
What is voice?
400
Students use this to monitor their classroom behaviors.
What is a Code of Cooperation?
400
Decision making is one example.
What is a cognitive skill?
400
This is equal to the True Score + Error Score.
What is the Observed Score?
400
These (not assessments) should be thought of as formative or summative.
What are scores?
500
In a traditional system, time is the constant. In a personalize competency based system, this is the constant.
What is learning?
500
"The capacity and propensity to take purposeful initiative—the opposite of helplessness.”
What is student agency?
500
Planning for goals and making adjustments is one example.
What is a metacognitive skill?
500
The importance of an assessment measuring a single dimension.
What is unidimensionality?
500
Bob's first book related to competency-based education.
What is A Comprehensive Guide to Standards-Based Districts, Classrooms, and Schools?