Everything Worth Knowing - Schema

In the book "Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse OR Your First Year of Teaching," schema is defined as "collections of experience and knowledge about how to react, interpret, or operate in an environment."  Basically, it's all relative.

The methods of measuring student intelligence generally involve some type of test questioning their knowledge base of the subject matter presented to them.  These methods aren't necessarily accurate, though.  As the book explains, students knowing or not knowing something is not directly related to their level of smartness or dumbness.  

Each student will enter the same situation with their own experiences guiding their interpretation of it.  Some experiences allow one student to excel in certain situations while others will struggle.  This is not a division of intelligence, but rather of circumstance.