Accommodations For Assessment
Specific procedures written into the IEP to make modifications in testing for students with disabilities.
Adaptive Behavior Scales
Skills that people need to function in their everyday lives, such as independent skills and social responsibility.
Alternate Assessments
A different test based on alternate achievement standards as determined by the state for no more than 1% of the total population of students. The students must be those with the most significant cognitive abilities.
Annual Goals
General estimates of what the student will achieve in one year. These goals should represent the most essential needs of the students. These are part of the written IEP.
Assessment
The process of collecting information about a student to form a judgement and make decisions about the student.
Assessment Stages
This is the stage during which tests are given (multidisciplinary evaluation) and decisions are made (the case conference or IEP meeting).
Assistive Technology
Any technology that enables an individual with a disability to compensate for specific deficits.
Case History
A compilation of the students background, development, and other information. This info is usually obtained from parents and students school and medical histories. Often this information is obtained by interview.
Criterion Referenced Tests
Tests that measure abilities in specific tasks (rather than tests that compare a student to others in a norm group)
Comprehensive Evaluation
Involves collecting information about an individual student that can be used to form judgements and make critical decisions about the student plan for instruction.
CBM
Assessment designed to measure student performance on the student's curriculum activities and materials. The student's performance on an academic task is repeatedly measured and charted to assess changes in learning performance.
Discrepancy Score
a mathematical calculation for quantifying the discrepancy between the student's current achievement and his or her potential
ELL
Students who speak a language other than English have a limited proficiency with English.
Evidence Based Intervention
scientific, research-based methods of instruction
Formal Standardized Tests
commercially prepared tests that have been used with and standardized on large groups of students; manuals that accompany the tests provide derived scores on student performance, such as grade scores, age scores, percentiles, and standard scores
FBA
Assessment that focuses on identifying the target behavior, developing a hypothesis about what conditions provoke the problem behavior, and determining what seems to maintain the occurrence of the behavior.
IEP Meeting
A meeting attended by parents, school staff, and sometimes the student to make decisions about the individualized education plan (IEP)
IEP
A written statement for each child with a disability that is developed, reviewed, and revised in accordance with the IDEA 2004.
Informal Assessment Measures
ways of evaluating performance that are not formal standardized tests; can include teacher-made tests, diagnostic teaching, commercial non-standardized tests, curriculum-based assessment, and so on
Instruction Stages
stage which is part of the IEP process and includes implementing a teaching plan, and reviewing and reevaluating the student's progress
Instructional Support Team
A teacher-assistive team that develops prereferral activities for a student before a referral is made.
Instructional Technology
use of technology, such as computers, for teaching
Mediation
The process of resolving disputes between the parents and the school in a non-adversarial fashion.
Multidisciplinary Evaluation
The assessment process in which specialists from several disciplines evaluate a child and coordinate their findings.
Norm-Referenced Tests
standardized tests that compare a child's performance to that of other children of the same age
Observation
Careful watching of a student's behavior, usually in the classroom setting.
Parent's Rights
the procedural safeguards that protect certain rights for parents
Portfolio Assessment
method of evaluating student progress by analyzing samples of the student's classroom work
Prereferral Activities
preventive procedures taken prior to referral for special education evaluation and intended to help regular teachers work more successfully with the child in the regular classroom
Problem Solving Approach To RTI
An approach to RTI that uses problem solving
Procedural Safeguards
regulations in federal law that are designed to protect the rights of students with learning disabilities and their families
Progress Monitoring
assessment procedures to measure the student's academic performance and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction
Referral
The initial request to consider a student for a special education evaluation.
Referral Stages
initial stages of the IEP process; include prereferral activities and referral activities
RTI
Students at-risk for academic failure are taught using scientifically based instruction materials.