EDLD 412 Quiz PAE

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.