Comprehensive Assessment
Landmark Court Cases
Federal Legislation
The Assessment Process
Chapter 2 Pre-Test
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This term is usually used to refer to the group of people that work together to provide a comprehensive assessment.
What is the multi-disciplinary team?
100
In 1954, this famous case concluded that segregation based on unalterable characteristics was illegal.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
100
This 1973 civil rights law prevents discrimination against those with disabilities by ensuring that all entities receiving federal funding provide equal opportunity and equal access through the provision of reasonable accommodations.
What is Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act.
100
According to Luke and Hans S. v. Nix et al (1982) school have this many days to complete an evaluation once the decision has been made by a team and parents have given their consent.
What is 60 days?
100
Norm-referenced tests compare students to what standard?
What is the performance of other students of the same age.
200
These are the 4 primary purposes of assessment in Special Education.
What are eligibility or diagnosis, IEP development, educational placement decisions, and instructional planning?
200
These 2 legislative cases specifically made it illegal for schools to either exclude or expel students who are disabled for the conditions of their disability.
What are PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Mills v. Board of Education, District of Columbia.
200
Public Law 94-142 was the first law to define the rights of students with disabilities and required schools to include parents in the special education process, mandated the IEP, required that all students be placed in the LRE, required all students to be evaluated in their native language, and set up a procedure for due process when things didn't go as planned. Which president enacted EHA or PL 94-142?
Who is Gerald Ford?
200
IDEIA mandates that all states identify, locate, and evaluate ALL children with disabilities nationwide. While public schools often provide these services for those students who are enrolled, this organization ensures that ALL students in the c country are found, assessed, and served.
What is Child Find?
200
Because Standardized, Norm-Referenced tests are designed to test students at a number of different ages certain starting and stopping points are pre-determined. What are these called.
What are the floor and the ceiling.
300
This part of the special education assessment focuses primarily on cognitive strengths and weaknesses.
What is the psycho-educational evaluation?
300
Diana v. Board of Education of Topeka, in 1970, determined that all students must be evaluated in this.
What is both their primary language and in English.
300
In 1986, PL 94-142 or the Education for All Handicapped Children Act was amended to include children ages 3-5. This "reauthorization" was known as Public Law ___.
What is Public Law 94-457.
300
Once an assessment has been completed and eligibility has been determined, the multi-disciplinary team must complete the IEP in how many days.
What is 30.
300
While norm referenced tests refer to how a student is performing or is "ranked" compared to other students, this type of assessment considers how well a student is doing relative to a pre-determined level of performance. What is this type of testing called?
What is a Criterion Referenced Test
400
This type of an individualized assessment is done when significant behavior concerns are present.
What is the functional behavior assessment?
400
To be placed into a classroom with children who are intellectually disabled, Guadalupe v. Tempe (1972) found that students must be at least ___ standard deviations below average and must be assessed with at least ___ different measures in addition to the IQ test.
What is 2 and 2?
400
List the 3 purposes of the current version of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act.
What are FAPE with an IEP, protection of rights of student with special needs and their parents, and help all related educational programs and agencies provide for the education of students with disabilities.
400
The IEP can be reviewed as often as necessary but must be reviewed at least this many times per year.
What is 1?
400
When a student is assessed on their mastery of a particular curriculum the testing is called ______.
What is Curriculum-Based Assessment
500
These are the 18 potential components of a comprehensive assessment.
What are psycho-educational evaluation, social history and/or skills, academic history, physical exam/history, classroom observation, educational/academic performance, functional behavior assessment, bilingual assessment, auditory processing, vision skills, classroom performance, speech and language assessment, sensory and motor skills, family/significant other interview?
500
Larry P. v. Riles (1984) found IQ tests to be discriminatory against African American students in these 3 ways.
What are: certain IQ tests measure achievement and NOT cognitive ability, IQ tests assume intelligence to be equally distributed and this claim might be false, IQ tests lead to over-representation of AA children in special education.
500
Under the current IDEIA laws, name all 13 disability categories.
What is autism, deaf/blindness, developmental delay, emotional disturbance, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, multiple disability, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment.
500
There are 9 steps listed in your text under "Overview of the Assessment Process." List them.
What is identification, full and individual evalaution, determination of eligibility, scheduling the IEP, holding the IEP meeting and writing the IEP, providing special education and related services, progress monitoring, reviewing the IEP, re-evaluating the child?
500
When dialogue and interaction between the student and the examiner are part of the testing process, we call this a ______________ assessment.
What is dynamic.
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