Nick - Pearson

Review of PreviousStandardized Testing:KeyMath -Diagnostic AssessmentNick’s parents notethat his poor mathgrades are inconsistentwith the B’s and C’she receives in his otheracademic classes.Nick was given the KeyMath-3 Diagnostic Assessment on February 13, fourweeks prior to this evaluation by Mrs. Martinez. His Total Test Compositescore was 79 (at the 8th percentile ranking), which falls in the Below Averagerange in comparison to grade-level peers. His scores in each of the threemeasured domains also fell below average with a Basic Concepts StandardScore of 79 (8th percentile), an Operations score of 78 (7th percentile), andan Applications score of 83 (13th percentile).There are few differences among his subtest scores, with every score fallingat least one standard deviation below the mean of 10. His lowest scores areon the Measurement and the Multiplication and Division subtests, on whichhe earned below average scaled scores of 5. Error analysis indicates he hasnot mastered several of the foundation skills that are necessary for successin fourth-grade math.Of particular interest is his difficulty in relating math calculation to a real-lifecontext and in identifying and applying effective strategies. Mrs. Martineznoted Nick’s frequent use of his fingers, tally marks, and drawings to aidproblem solving, calculation errors related to fact retrieval, and that Nickworked much more slowly than other students she had tested in his grade.6 nick