What is the term we use to describe the sample of students your classroom students will be compared against when using a standardized test?
What is the norming group/sample
100
Please describe for the class what the term NPR means.
What is a national percentile rank that describes how a child scored in comparison to a norming sample of his/her same age peer group. The score indicates what percentage of students scored below that child on the assessment test.
100
What is the process of analyzing a test and determining if question were valid by examing the percentage of students that answered the question correctly.
What is item analysis
100
True or false...in Pennsylvania a child must attain a minimum IQ score of 130 to get identified as gifted and be eligible for special education services.
What is false.
100
What are the three ways a teacher differentiates instruction for students?
What is content, process, product...and sometimes environment.
200
What is the term used to describe an uneven distribution of test scores favoring the right side of the normal curve?
What is a negative skew
200
When giving a standardized test a student should stop testing at what point? Please use the technical term.
What is when the student reaches his/her ceiling.
200
How many years worth of data makes for a trend in a school district?
What is three years.
200
What is the disorder in which a child struggles to comply with authority figures and trust people as a result of not forming bonds with a primary care giver early in life?
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?
200
How many days does a school district have to conduct an evaluation on a child suspected of having a disability after permission to evaluate has been obtained?
What is 60 calendar days.
300
When analyzing the results of a projective test such as Rorschach's Ink Blots Test and we use a more objective system for scoring, the system is said to be a.........
What is a thinking system of scoring
300
What happens to the range of numbers a true score may fall in when we increase the confidence interval?
What is the range of possible scores widens.
300
Describe this phenomenon in subtest scores.
Analogies 12, Comprehension 10, Digit Span 3, Similarities 9
What is inter-test scatter.
300
What is a childhood disorder that is characterized by physical cruelty to animals, running away, fire starting, and assault?
What is Conduct Disorder?
300
Describe in a detail the Discrepancy Model used for identifying children with SLDs.
An IQ test is given and scores are obtained that indicate average to above average intelligence. An achievement test is then given. If the child has a discrepancy between his IQ score and his achievement score that indicates between 1 1/2 to 2 standard deviations difference between what a score should be and what it actually is...the child has a SLD.
400
What is the term used to describe a system of assessment in which a child's expected level of academic growth can be predicted based on a number of variables.
What is value added assessment system
400
What is one method for determining the reliability of a standardized assessment test?
What is test-retest method, the inter-rater reliability method, and the equivalent form reliability method.
400
At what two points on the normal curve can we say with certainty that exceptionality begins?
What is 70 and 130 or two standard deviations away from the mean of 100.
400
A disability in which the primary problem is a child's understanding of the grapheme-phoneme relationship. Strephosymbolia is found in 5% of these children.
What is dyslexia?
400
Name four tenets of IDEA and explain them.
What is Non-discriminatory evaluation, FAPE, Due-Process, Child Find, Zero-Reject, Parental Participation, Appropriate Education (IEP), and LRE
500
What is mental age multiplied by chronological age divided by 100?
What is a person's IQ
500
Identify at least two subtests on any IQ test that measures verbal intelligence?
What is Analogies, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Digit Span, and Similarities.
500
Explain to me how a student that scores slightly in the abnormal range on the DBRS with a T-score of 66 might actually have a "true score" in the normal range. What should we do in this case?
What is... it can happen if we apply a high confidence interval (95%) to the result and end up with a range of possible true scores that span through the borderline range and the normal range. We should use DBRS data from other people as well as analyze other assessment results from other tests.
500
What disorder is characterized by expressive language problems and poor fine motor skills resulting in illegible handwriting?
What is dysgraphia?
500
Explain one example of a parent exercising due process when considering the results of an evaluation.
What is having an independent evaluation done and seeking mediation or filing a complaint with the Office of Dispute Resolution and having a hearing officer settle the disagreement.