In this principle, assessment helps determine the appropriate setting for the individual.
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
100
The first areas of assessment were related to this.
What is intelligence and personality.
100
Anxiety, test wiseness, health, and type of disability all effect this person in regards to the assessment process.
Who is the examinee or student?
100
This type of validity occurs when a teacher glances over a test to see if they think it might be valid.
What is face validity?
100
This is a simple, numerical result of an assessment, typically the number of items scored correctly.
What is the raw score?
200
In this principle, assessment is used to create appropriate goals for the individual.
What is Individualized Education Program?
200
The first intelligence test is still used today and is called this.
What is the Stanford-Binet?
200
An individual from the midwest incorrectly interprets an assessment answer from a student raised in a different country.
What is an example of examiner bias? (or cultural bias)
200
If a student can score within the same range on a test repeatedly, the test is thought to be this.
What is reliable?
200
This score compares the individuals score to the scores of individuals within a sample group.
What is a norm-referenced score?
300
In this principle, teachers must keep GOOD documentation of assessment and related decisions in the event that this occurs.
What is Due Process? Or Procedural Safegaurds & Rights
300
This person had an influence on the design of early behavior assessments.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
300
This consideration deals with when a student does better on a computer-based exam than a pencil-paper exam.
What are differences in administration?
300
If a test measures what it claims to measure, the test is said to be this.
What is valid?
300
These are the two most common types of norm-referenced scores.
What are age and grade scores?
400
In this principle, teachers share assessment information and partner with families to make decisions.
What is Student and Family/Parent Participation?
400
During the 80s-90s, this model was introduced to emphasize assessment and interventions should take place prior to special education referral.
What is prereferral intervention?
400
This can occur when a student has taken the same test or same type of test repeatedly.
What is test wiseness?
400
This occurs when two teachers score the same test to see if their scores are comparable.
What is interater reliability?
400
This is defined as any 1 of 99 scores divided into a distribution of 99 equal ranks.
What is a percentile rank?
500
In this principle, students are assessed in ways that are not culturally irrelevant.
What is Nondiscriminatory Evaluation?
500
While wildly unpopular, this federal law held students in special education accountable to general education standards in assessment.
What is No Child Left Behind?
500
If used frequently in class and in regular course testing, this student may benefit from the use of these in large-scale, standardized assessments.
What are accommodations?
500
this has to do with the extent to which a test measures some type of theoretical characteristic or concept.
What is construct validity?
500
This score expresses performance by comparing the deviation of individual scores from the mean or average score with the scores of students in a norm group.