Classroom Measures that Matter
This type of assessment is conducted during instruction to provide feedback and guide teaching decisions.
What is formative assessment?
This is the process of identifying why a behavior is occurring in order to better intervene.
What is functional behavior assessment?
This is the process of designing instruction starting with the end goals and planning backward.
What is backwards design?
Schools must obtain this from a parent or guardian before conducting an initial evaluation to determine a student’s eligibility for special education services.
What is informed consent?
This refers to the degree to which a test measures what it claims to measure.
What is validity?
This type of assessment occurs at the end of an instructional period to evaluate overall learning.
What is summative assessment?
This is the term for what happens immediately before the behavior occurs in an ABC analysis.
What is antecedent?
This type of assessment is administered and scored in a consistent, predetermined way to ensure comparability across students and settings.
What is a standardized assessment?
This federal law governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to students with disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
This is the consistency of assessment results over time or across different assessors.
What is reliability?
This type of assessment aligns directly with the curriculum taught in class and is used frequently to track student progress.
What is curriculum-based measurement?
This is the type of data that is collected before an intervention is put in place.
What is baseline?
This type of assessment compares a student's performance to that of a larger group, typically represented by a percentile rank.
What is a norm-referenced assessment?
This legal principle requires that students with disabilities be educated with their non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
This term describes how well a test reflects the true performance of a student, without being distorted by error.
What is accuracy?
When students are aware that they are being assessed and the assessment may interrupt learning, it is called this.
What is obtrusive assessment?
This is one common function of behavior that occurs when a student acts out to get out of a task.
What is escape?
These are assessment tools that measure specific learning objectives rather than comparing students to a norm group.
What are criterion-referenced assessments?
This law emphasizes accountability and includes provisions for assessments of students in underrepresented groups.
This type of data collection assesses how well two observers data align.
What is interobserver agreement?
This type of assessment gathers data without the student being directly aware or interrupted, such as observing participation.
What is unobtrusive assessment?
This type of data collection provides information about the function of behavior through interviews, rating scales, and questionnaires.
What is indirect assessment?
This group of people meet to review a student's formal assessment results to determine whether the student qualifies for special education services.
What is the eligibility determination team?
If parents disagree with the school’s evaluation, they have the legal right to request this type of assessment, which must be considered by the IEP team.
What is an Independent Educational Evaluation?
By assessing for this, you can assess how well a skill demonstrated in one environment translates to another environment.
What is generalization?