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Understanding how to use ‘Student Profiles’ to
identify students who learn differently
Or
 “Why do some kids not test well?”
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Content standards Mastery Report
Individual instructional summery
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Time of Day
Low key to reduce anxiety
◦ Familiar space
◦ Small numbers
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Headphones
Seating
Rewards
Stereotype threat
Active proctoring
Familiar format
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Why?
◦ Averaging dispersant scores =
meaningless
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Start with the:
Contents Standards Mastery
Report
◦ Variation between skills assessed in
each section
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Student Profile with Items
(Individual Instructional Summary)
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Lack of time
Attention issues
Working memory
Language processing issues
Visual processing
Fluid reasoning
Cognitive rigidity
Executive function
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What do you see?
◦ Proctor notes : start finish times
◦ Incomplete or high number of errors at the end
◦ Rushing
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Checks
◦ Processing speed on WISC
 Rule out perfectionism, graphomotor etc.
◦ Anxiety
 Perseveration
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What can you do?
◦ Stop clock, breaks, more time.
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What do you see?
◦ Scores don’t match classroom performance !
◦ Errors are random
◦ Increased frequency of errors as test progresses,
strong finish?
◦ Impulsivity, quick finish
◦ Metacognitive skill
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Novelty of testing experience
Inability to maintain attention/
attention to detail
◦ Errors lead to under reporting of
ability
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1. Take the free way to Ipswich, and watch for the
Brown street exit, ours is the next
2. Go two miles on Pinoak Avenue and turn left on
Berry
3. After the third intersection, our house is second
on the right.
4. Get off the freeway at Pinoak Avenue exit , turn
right at the light onto Pinoak
A 1234 B 1342 C 1423
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What is it?
◦ fluid reasoning is the capacity to think logically and
solve problems in novel situations. Fixed trait
◦ Applying what you know in a new way, problem
solving
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What do you see?
◦ Over reliance on rote learning/avoiding risk taking
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How can you help?
◦ Teach problem solving strategies and reward risk
taking
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What is it?
◦ Working memory is a system for
temporarily storing and managing the
information required to carry out
complex cognitive tasks
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What do you see?
◦ Weak attention regulation, inability to
multi task
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Multiple choice
◦ single word v sentences
◦ Not a but not b, b but not a, a and b,
◦ What helps? chunk, down load
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telescope : stars
◦ how do you solve this
◦ Ability to categorize is needed….
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Deductive / inductive
◦ top down learner needs the big picture, executive
function
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Antonym for “down”
Novel language
◦ ‘antonym’ ‘analogies’ ‘states’….
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Paired words
◦ puppy: dog categories and relationships
◦ Vocabulary is a marker for reading issues or
retrieval issues or exposure!
◦ Spelling is a marker for reading, visual memory
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What is it?
◦ Visual discrimination, sequencing, figure-ground
discrimination,
◦ 46% of Question on Quantitative Reasoning are
visual.(22% on math)
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What do you see?
◦ Spatial
◦ Attention to visual detail
◦ What helps? verbalizing
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Cognitive rigidity
◦ Literal interpretation
◦ inference, cause and effect, figurative language
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Anxiety makes you rigid due to fear of failure
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Given the increasing
number of students
with learning
differences entering
traditional
independent
schools, a
successful teaching
approach must
begin with sound
theoretical
underpinnings
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Any disability can be an
ability when viewed
from a different
perspective.”
Ellen Langer “The Power of
Mindful Learning
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