Test One: Fair Game
This is not a requirement under IDEA 2004:
A. The use of RTI for all students
B. That a child’s disability impact educational performance.
C. That a child’s difficulties do not stem from a lack of instruction.
D. That classroom performance be considered in the evaluation process.
What is: A?
Explanation: IDEA 2004 does not specifically require that RTI be included in the assessment of all students who are referred for special education evaluations.
Students who participated in the science fair were ranked by category and received first-, second-, and third-place ribbons. This is an example of what type of the _______scale.
What is: Ordinal?
Explanation: Ordinal scales are used to rank-order items. The numbers have the quality of identification and indicate greater or lesser quality.
This assessment is given weekly or bi-weekly to determine how a student is performing and if program changes are warranted.
What is: Progress monitoring?
Organizing data to see how the data cluster is called this.
What is: Measures of central tendency?
Explanation: Measures of Central Tendency describes a way to organize data to see how the data cluster, or are distributed around a numerical representation of the average score.
This law was the original law that mandated education agencies ensure an appropriate assessment and education for individuals with disabilities.
What is: Education for all Handicapped Children Act?
Utilizing the RTI model, the government expects to get the number of students who are referred for special education services down to this percentage:
What is: 3-5%?
Explanation: Response to Intervention, the process through which students receive additional assessment and evaluation for possible special education support when he or she does not respond to existing intensive interventions, should only result in 3-5% of students requiring a full evaluation.
This is an example of a sensitive measure that would provide detailed information regarding a student’s response to instruction:
What is: Curriculum-based measurement?
This scale’s numbers are used for identification that ranks greater or lesser quality or amount. The numbers are equidistant on the scale.
What is: Interval?
Explanation: Interval scales are used for identification that ranks greater or lesser quality or amount, the numbers on the scale are equidistant, and there is no absolute zero.
This is the percentile rank that is equivalent to the mean.
What is: 50?
According to IDEA, transition services should begin at this age.
What is: 16?
Explanation: IDEA stresses the importance of transition services to prepare students 16 years old or older for a work or postsecondary environment. When appropriate, younger students may also be eligible for such services.
This person may initiate a request for an initial evaluation of a student:
A. Parent
B. Teacher
C. Others who know and work with a student in school
D. All of the above
What is: D?
Explanation: Parents, teachers, or others who know and work with a student in school may initiate a request for an initial evaluation.
Organizing data to see how the data spread away from the mean is called this.
What is: Measures of Dispersion?
Explanation: Measures of dispersion are used to calculate how scores are spread from the mean.
Using a standard deviation of 15 IQ points, a person with an obtained IQ score of 115 would have a z score of:
What is: +1?
Explanation: A person with an IQ score of 115 would have a z score of +1 because on tests measuring intelligence the mean IQ is 100 and the standard deviation is 15 IQ points. One standard deviation above the mean would be 115, represented by the z score of +1.
This refers to the consistency of scores on a specific instrument across time or across items:
What is: Test reliability?
An LEA has this many days to conduct a comprehensive evaluation.
What is: 60 days?
Explanation: The IDEA 2004 requires that this comprehensive evaluation be completed within a specific timeframe of 60 days from the date that the parent signs a consent form for the evaluation.
Reliability/Validity:
Administering two instruments within a short period of time is necessary in order to establish this:
What is: Alternate forms reliability?
Explanation: An advantage of equivalent (alternate) forms reliability is that two tests of the same difficulty level that can be administered within a short time frame without the influence of practice effects.
A teacher may choose to use this to determine the exact point where a student begins to perform a math operation incorrectly:
What is: Error Analysis?
Explanation: Error analysis is an assessment method that a teacher can use with formal, informal, and direct measures to discover patterns of errors.
Validity/Reliability: A practice effect may be a problem when studying the results of this type of assessment design
What is: Test-retest reliability?
One of the disadvantages of repeated measures (test-retest) design is that students may remember test items (practice effects) and score higher on the assessment the second time.
When measuring student progress against an objective, the teacher using:
A. Checklists
B. Worksamples
C. Criterion-referenced assessment
D. Norm-referenced assessment
What is: C?
Explanation: Criterion-referenced assessment compares the performance of a student to a given criterion.
According to IDEA 2004, the diagnosis of learning disabilities specifically requires that a student does this.
What is: Not respond to research-based interventions?
Explanation: IDEA 2004 specifically requires that a student who is to be determined eligible for services under the label of LD must have received and remained unresponsive to research-based interventions.
Aaron’s teacher noticed he was having difficulties reading in all of his classes. She referred him for special education services immediately. What model of assessment is Aaron’s teacher following?
What is: Historical Model?
Explanation: In the Historical Model of Assessment, children who experienced difficulties were referred immediately. There was no intervention put in place to remediate the problems.
A person who scores at the 85%tile scored as well or better than this group:
A. 14% of the students in that age/grade
B. 84% of the students in that age/grade
C. 85% of the students in that age/grade
D. 15% of the students in that age/grade
What is: 85% of the students in that age/grade?
Explanation: A person who scores at the 85th percentile scored as well or better than 85% of the students in that age/group.
Miss Morgan is collecting progress monitoring data using DIBELS and determining if she needs to change her instructional strategies in order to help her students reach their aim line. Miss Morgan is using this type of assessment strategy:
What is: Curriculum-based measurement?
Explanation: Curriculum-based measurement measures progress of a specific skill against an aim line.
John’s parents disagree with the results of his most recent evaluation and the recommendation from the multidisciplinary team, which is that John be discontinued from receiving special services. John’s parents' legal recourse to do this:
What is: File a due process claim?
Explanation: Due Process is the legal recourse when parents or schools disagree with evaluation or placement recommendations.
If a member of an IEP Team is unable to attend an IEP meeting, s/he must do this.
What is: Submit her/his information in writing to the IEP Team.
Explanation: If a member of an IEP Team is unable to attend an IEP meeting, they must submit their information to the IEP Team in writing, as long as parent and school consent is given. Such consent must be provided in writing.