- National Board Certification
- Program of teacher certification (beyond education degree) focused on teacher development and professionalism, requiring "intense self-reflection and analysis of [teacher] practice" through preparation of a portfolio and responses to assessment questions drawn from their field (such as early childhood and mathematics).
- No Child Left Behind
- No Child Left Behind is a 2001 federal law placing requirements on state schools in four broad areas: increased accountability, implementing research-based instructional strategies, increasing parental options, and expanding local control in schools. Specific goals include 100% student proficiency on state achievement tests by 2013–2014 and "highly qualified" teachers in every classroom.
- norm-referenced assessment
- An assessment designed to measure and compare individual students' performances or test results to those of an appropriate peer group (that is, norm group) at the classroom, local, or national level. Students with the best performance on a given assessment receive the highest grades.
- North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
- The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction administers the policies adopted by the State Board of Education and offers instructional, financial, technological, and personnel support to all public school systems in the state.
- North Carolina thinking skills
- Model of thinking skills adopted by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in 1994. Lists seven levels of thinking skills from simplest to most complex: knowledge, organizing, applying, analyzing, generating, integrating, and evaluating.
- number sense
- An intuitive understanding of numbers, their magnitude, relationships, and how they are affected by operations.
- number theory
- The study of the relationships and properties of integers, including prime numbers, sequences, etc.
- numbered heads together
- Cooperative strategy in which the teacher has students number off (e.g. 1-4), asks a question, and then tells the students to “put their heads together” to develop a complete answer to the question. When the teacher calls out a number, the students with that number raise their hands to respond.
- NWREL model of thinking
- A simplified version of Bloom's Taxonomy developed by the NorthWest Regional Education Laboratory (NWREL) in 1989. Levels of thinking in this model are recall, comparison, analysis, inference, and evaluation.
K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education
