The Law I
Operating within federal regulations
compliance
Procedural Safeguards
Assessment that utilizes a student-created product as a demonstration of knowledge
Performance Assessment
thought to represent the level of skills below which the student would answer all test items correctly
basal
Ongoing assessment that is completed during the acquisition of a skill
Formative Assesssment
Federal law mandating education of all students with disabilities
IDEA
A legal requirement that children with special needs be assigned to the most general educational context in which they can be expected to learn
LRE
Evaluating student progress, strengths, and weaknesses using a collection of different measurements and work samples
Portfolio Assessment
The dependency or consistency of an instrument across time or items
Reliability
Assessment that is completed at the conclusion of an instructional period to determine the level of skill acquisition or mastery
Summative Assessment
The Educational for All Handicapped Children's Act: guarantees FAPE in the LRE. Renamed IDEA in 1990.
PL 94-142
A complete assessment in all areas of suspected disability (academic, functional, and developmental as applicable)
Comprehensive Evaluation
Frequent measurement comparing a student's actual progress with an expected rate of progress
CBM
A derived score that indicates the percentage of people who scored at or below a given raw score
Percentile Rank
the 25th percentile - the student scored that same of better than 25% of age/grade like peers in norm group
Using content from the currently used curriculum to assess student progress
CBA
Condition that exists when students of a specific ethnic group are at risk for over-identification or under-representation in special education
Disproportionality
Fair and objective testing practices for students from all cultural and linguistic backgrounds
Nondiscriminatory Assessment
Assessment in which the examiner prompts or interacts with the student to determine the student's potential to learn a skill
Dynamic Assessment
The quality of a test; the degree to which an instrument measures what it was designed to measure
Validity
Tests designed to compare individual students with national averages or norms of expectancy
Norm-Referenced Tests
A civil rights law that includes protection from discrimination and that provides for reasonable accommodations
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Parents are informed in their native language and mode of communication and agree in writing to the procedures for the child; consent may be revoked at any time
Informed Consent
Tests designed to accompany and measure a set of criteria or skill-mastery criteria
Criterion-Referenced Tests
A unit of measurement that represents the typical amount that a score can be expected to vary from the mean in any given data set
Standard Deviation
A plan designed for children 3 and young that addresses the child's strengths and weaknesses as well as the family's needs
IFSP