Asset-based: An approach that focuses on strengths in a given domain.
Benchmarking: Identifying a “Benchmark” or measurable outcome for an identified period of time specific to concepts or measurable standards for learning.
Criterion-Referenced Assessment: an assessment that measures a student’s outcomes against a predetermined set of criteria or standards.
Core Instruction: Instructional that is universal and provided to all students.
Data-driven Decision Making: The process by which a team uses data to determine students’ assets and goals for continued growth when creating value-added opportunities that have clearly identified outcomes related to a set of predetermined standards or criteria.
Engaged Strategic Instruction: Instruction is similar in content but differentiated tasks are created for students based on an individual need for value-added scaffolding or extension of identified skills based on formative or summative assessment.
Formative Assessment Data: the intentional collection of information related to desired outcomes by teachers and students self-assessing, that is used as feedback to inform learning and enhance, not just check on, a student’s movement toward desired outcomes (adopted from Black and Wilson, 1998, Chappuis Stiggens, Arter and Chappuis, 2006).
Multiple Measures: using a variety of tools that demonstrate evidence of the desired student outcomes in a given domain. These measures can include but are not limited to, universal assessment data, benchmarking assessment data, classroom assessments, New York State Assessments, Common Formative Assessments, Unit Assessments, Stages of Psychological Development, Stages of Orthopedic or Speech Development, and any other method a student uses to demonstrate their brilliance.
Norm-Referenced Assessment: an assessment that compares a student’s outcomes against peers that demonstrate a similar performance and places a student within the pool of peer performance using a “bell curve” method.
Progress Monitoring: The process of using an identified tool and specific frequency to monitor a student’s, or group of students, trajectory toward a predetermined goal when using a chosen intervention.
Strategic Engaged Instruction: The instruction is strategically created to impact an identified outcome for a student or group of students.
Summative Assessment Data: data that is collected at the end of learning and is used to determine a student’s performance in relation to a set of standards for learning.
Universal Screener: An assessment that is used to assess a student’s trajectory toward grade-level expectations in an identified domain.
Value Added Goal: a goal that is specifically designed to support a student with increasing their growth goal beyond one normal year’s growth as measured in an identified domain of support.
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