This 1954 Supreme Court Ruling ended the "separate but equal" manner in which white and black students were treated.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas?
100
This is a test given and scored the same way each time, and compares a student's score to other students of the same age or grade level through the use of a norm group.
What is a standardized, norm-referenced test?
100
This is a measurement tool used for assessing students' academic growth repeatedly over time in a specific content area
What is curriculum-based measurement (CBM) assessment?
100
In terms of behavior, you need to have this completed before you create this.
What is an FBA- a functional behavioral assessment and a BIP- a behavioral intervention plan?
100
This means providing students with the fewest physical and cognitive barriers.
What is LRE - the least restrictive environment?
200
The 1973 law known as Section 504 was the first law to guarantee civil rights to persons with disabilities.
What is The Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
200
We use these to describe the central tendency of a large set of student data in order to get an accurate assessment level for the student.
What is mean, median and mode?
200
These are two similar assessments that are a collection of student work indicating learning. One is project-oriented, and one consists of artifacts that show the development and growth of a student's knowledge.
What are a product and process portfolio?
200
Unlike Piaget, this theorist believed that intelligence is based on sociocultural perspective- that it is formed by one's environment by both human and non-human 'teachers'.
Who was Vygotsky?
200
These are the ABCs of assessing behavior.
What are Antecedent, Behavior and Consequence?
300
This 1975 law passed by Congress provided equal rights for children with disabilities and protected them under the 14th. Amendment.
What is EAHCA or the Education for All Handicapped Children Act?
300
This is what a test must be in order to be considered reliable.
What is reliable AND valid?
300
This measures performance at the end of specified unit of study (ex: end of a unit, term or course)
What is a summative assessment?
300
This assessment measures functional daily living skills like, personal hygiene, social engagement, etc.
What is an Adaptive Behavior Assessment?
300
This is a measure of the variation of data in relation to the mean (average) data on a bell curve. It's formula is the square root of variance.
What is standard deviation?
400
This four-letter acronym, FAPE, stands for ensuring that related services such as speech, occupational therapy, and physical therapy are (also) provided to students with disabilities.
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
400
This is when the same test is administered to the same students in different ways over a relatively short period of time.
What is Test-Retest Reliability?
400
Examples of this type of assessment include: authentic assessment, performance-based assessment, rubrics, teacher-made quizzes, exit-slips, etc.
What is informal assessment?
400
This widely used achievement test measures oral expression, listening comprehension, written expression, basic reading and math skills for those aged 2 - 90.
What are the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement?
400
This is on the high end of the spectrum.
What is Asperger's Syndrome?
500
Transition services, as well as assistive technology were more clearly defined in this 1990 Act and then amended in 1991 to allocate federal funding to help states educate/support children between birth and pre-school age with an IFSP - an Individual Family Service Plan.
What is IDEA or the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
500
This is a comparison that measures a person's performance or a specific criterion from one point in time to a later time. (ex: how an S.A.T. might determine college achievement)
What is Predictive Validity?
500
This is an important component of the CBM (curriculum-based measurement) process as student performance is analyzed after the altering of instruction and/or after the implementation of a new strategy.
What is RTI- response to intervention?
500
This test is designed to assess student reading levels throughout the course of their education and focuses on: decoding, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension.
What is the Gates-MacGinitie reading test?
500
This must be conducted before a child with a classification of ED receives a (superintendent's) suspension from school.
What is an MDR or manifestation Determination Review?