What is standardized achievement test scores, attendance records, graduation rates, Free and Reduced lunch data, etc.
100
What do we call an answer sheet used in a standardized test?
What is a protocol.
100
The mean IQ score in society is ?
What is 100.
100
What is the defining score for diagnosing mental retardation.
What is 70.
100
Name the first step in the evaluation process
What is getting parent permission
200
List one thing that educational data can do for a teacher.
What is (various answers accepted)
200
What two broad areas are often measured on an IQ test?
What is verbal and performance IQ (also called crystalized and fluid intelligence).
200
Describe in detail the concept of stanines.
What is the bell shaped curve being divided up into 9 parts with 5 being average.
200
How many adaptive skill deficiencies do students have to have to be diagnosed with MR. Name three areas of adaptive skills.
What is 2 and social skills, daily living skills, safety and health, occupational skills, leisure.
200
How many days do school districts have to complete a comprehensive evaluation once a child is referred?
What is 60 calendar days.
300
Define the term "soft data".
What is data that is taken or collected from informal sources such as anecdotal records and interviewing.
300
When using a norm referenced test how are scores reported to teachers and parents.
What is a national percentile rank.
300
List at least five ways scores can be reported to teachers.
What are NPRs, Standard scores, raw scores, stanines, grade equivalencies, age equivalencies, T-scores, Z-scores, scaled scores.
300
Describe the process often used in schools (to identify a child with a LD) known as the Discrepancy Model.
What is at least a 15 point or one standard deviation difference between an area(s) on an achievement score and a child's IQ score.
300
Describe the concept of non-discriminative evaluation outlined in IDEA 04.
What is at least two tests used to diagnose and place, given in a child's native language, and assessing in all areas of suspected disability, a right to get an outside evaluation done.
400
Describe the concept of value added assessment.
What is using a series of factors/variables to construct a mathematical formula to predict potential educational growth in students.
400
What does SAI represent?
What is school ability index or IQ test.
400
Explain why the concept of two standard deviations is important to understand in special education.
What is 2 SD to the right equals gifted and 2 SD to the left equals developmentally delayed.
400
What IQ score qualifies a child for gifted education and what percentage of the population has an IQ score in that range.
What is 130 and approximately 2.5 % of the population.
400
What is the assessment process that must be done when suspending a child for more than 10 consequitive days with a disability.
What is conducting a functional behavioral assessment.
500
Describe the process of cluster analysis and how data is used in the process.
What is looking at student scores in various skill areas on standardized test data and determining if any of the clusters show a pattern of weakness.
500
Provide an example of an objective assessment and a subjective assessment that might be used in the evaluation process for a child suspected of having a disability.
What is an IQ test or achievement test and an apperception test or sentence completion test.
500
Can we expect that a child whose IQ score falls in the 7th stanine will be eligible for gifted education?
What is no because a child's IQ in the 7th stanine is probably between 110 and 120.
500
What exceptionality might we expect if a child has an average to above average IQ, poor expressive communication, average to above average receptive communication skills, and a tendancy to be obsessive regarding particular objects.
What is Asperger Syndrome
500
What is the process called that allows parents to appeal placement decisions, IEP content, delivery of services, etc.