Utah Admin. Code R277-406-2 - Definitions
(1)
(a)
"Benchmark reading assessment" means the Acadience Reading
assessment.
(b) The "benchmark
reading assessment:"
(i) is given three times
each year;
(ii) gives teachers
information to:
(A) plan appropriate
instruction; and
(B) evaluate the
effects of instruction; and
(iii) provides data about student preparation
for success on an end of year criterion referenced test.
(2)
(a) "Benchmark mathematics assessment" means
the Acadience Math assessment;
(b)
The "benchmark mathematics assessment:
(i) is
given three times each year;
(ii)
gives teachers information to:
(A) plan
appropriate instruction; and
(B)
evaluate the effects of instruction; and
(iii) provides data about student preparation
for success on an end of year criterion referenced test.
(3) "Components of early
mathematics" means the key areas of mathematical learning including:
(a) conceptual understanding;
(b) procedural fluency;
(c) strategic and adaptive mathematical
thinking; and
(d) productive
disposition.
(4)
"Conceptual understanding" means the comprehension and connection of concepts,
operations, and relations.
(5)
"Evidence-based" means a strategy that has demonstrated a statistically
significant effect on improving student outcomes.
(6) "Parental notification requirements"
means notice by any reasonable means, including electronic notice, notice by
telephone, written notice, or personal notice.
(7) "Plan" means the Early Learning plan
described in Section
53G-7-218.
(8) "Procedural fluency" means the
meaningful, flexible, accurate, and efficient use of procedures to solve
problems.
(9) "Productive
disposition" means the attitude of a student who sees mathematics as useful and
worthwhile while exercising a steady effort to learn mathematics.
(10) "Reading on Grade Level" or "ROGL" means
a third grade student is scoring above benchmark and meets or exceeds 405 on
the end of year benchmark reading assessment to achieve the strenuous statewide
goal of 70% third grade-level proficiency as required by Section
53E-3-1001.
(11) "Scoring above benchmark" means that a
student will likely need effective core instruction to meet subsequent learning
goals and may benefit from instruction on more advanced skills.
(12) "Scoring below or well below benchmark"
means that a student:
(a) performs below or
well below the benchmark score on the benchmark reading or benchmark
mathematics assessment; and
(b)
requires additional instruction beyond that provided to typically-developing
peers to close the gap between the student's current level of achievement and
that expected of all students in that grade.
(13) "Remediation interventions" means
reading or mathematics instruction or activities, or both, given to students in
addition to their regular instruction, during another time in the school day,
outside regular instructional time, or in the summer, which is focused on
specific needs as identified by reliable and valid assessments.
(14) "Strategic and adaptive mathematical
thinking" means the ability to formulate, represent, and solve mathematical
problems with the capacity to justify the logic used to arrive at the
solution.
(15) "Utah eTranscript
and Record Exchange" or "UTREx" means the same as that term is defined in
Section R277-404-2.
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