Assessments
Accommodations to consider for assessments
Helpful terminology for children with disabilities
What needs to be done inside our school's for children with disabilities
Court Cases that have impacted the education of children with disabilities
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is a set of statewide assessments given in Tennessee to measure students' skills and progress. Students in grades 3-8 take the Achievement Test, and high school students take End of Course exams for various subjects.
What is The Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP)?
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To allow frequent breaks and extend allotted time for a test
What is timing?
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Meeting the stipulated requirements for a disability classification so services can be received. Under IDEA, there are 13 classifications of disability.
What is eligibility?
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A three-step practice that many schools are using in general education to support students who struggle in academic areas, primary in reading.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
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In 1954, this court case was concerned with not only racial desegregation in public schools, but also the connection between the inclusion of children with disabilities and African American children was the court's consideration that school segregation, in any form, was unjust.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
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this assessment helps to emphasize the importance of reading and comprehending complex texts and writing in response to sources, to prepare students for the type of content expected on PARCC assessments.
What is the TCAP writing assessment?
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To provide on audio tape, in large print, reduce number of items per page or line, a designated reader or present instructions orally
What is presentation?
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this rule states that schools cannot reject any child from a free appropriate public education. Everyone is allowed to attend school and receive appropriate supports, even students with severe disabilities who do not learn in traditional ways or learn traditional content.
What is the zero reject rule?
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"Doing whatever it takes to maximize students' learning instead of relying on a one-size-fits-all, whole class method of instruction."
What is differentiation?
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In 1971, this case in Pennsylvania mandated that all youth with intellectual disabilities or brain injury be mandated the access to public education.
What is Pennsylvania Association of Retarded Citizens (PARC) v. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
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A college readiness assessment that is a curriculum- and standards-based educational and career planning tool that assesses students' academic readiness for college. It consists of four multiple-choice tests: English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science. It can also be given with a writing portion.
What is the American College Testing assessment (ACT)?
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To provide preferential seating, special lighting or acoustics, a space with minimal distractions, administer a test in small group setting or administer a test in private room or alternative test site
What is setting?
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Administration of the law so that no student with a disability is denied his or her rights under the law. Procedures include clear steps for disagreeing and negotiating when the school and family do not agree about a disability label or the way special education services are provided.
What is due process?
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Ways to change what is taught, how material is presented, and how learning is assessed to support all students benefiting from instruction.
What is adaptations and modifications?
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In 1972, this court case included a district was not providing publicly supported education and training to children with disabilities. In fact, these children were being excluded, suspended, expelled, resigned, and transferred from regular public schools without due process.
What is Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia?
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A college readiness assessment that test in 3 areas (critical reading, mathematics and writing) will be scored on a 200- to 800-point scale, for a possible total of 2400. You’ll also get two “subscores” on the writing section: a multiple-choice score from 20 to 80, and an essay score from 2 to 12.
What is the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)?
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Allow for verbal responses, for answers to be dictated to a scribe, the use of a tape recorder to capture responses, permit responses to be given via computer, or permit answers to be recorded directly into test booklet
What is response?
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Written annual education plan for a student eligible for a disability classification. This document outlines placement, services, accommodations, and modifications necessary to meet the student's individualized needs in the least restrictive environment.
What is an individualized education program (IEP)?
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A type of classroom where all students can learn, despite their differences. This classroom supports the idea that all students are valued and children are more alike than different.
What is an inclusive classroom?
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In 1973, this act required all agencies that accepted federal funding to provide equal opportunities to persons with disabilities. This was enacted primarily in reaction to the number of veterans with disabilities who had ten excluded from employment, community services, education and recreation due to the accommodations required to support them.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
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is a group of states that have come together to develop high-­‐quality student assessments linked to new, more rigorous English language arts (ELA)/literacy and math standards. The assessments will be ready for the 2014–15 school year for students in grades 3–11 and will replace the statewide tests in those subjects that students take now.
What is The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC?
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To administer a test in several timed sessions or over several days, Allow subtests to be taken in a different order, Administer a test at a specific time of day
What is test scheduling?
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The idea that students with disability classifications should be educated as much as possible with their peers without disability classifications.
What is least restrictive environment (LRE)?
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A psychologist, Vygotsky, came up with this idea. It is the distance between the actual development level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
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In 1975, this act pointed out that it was in the national interest to pass federal legislation that standardized specific procedures to qualify students for specialized services, evaluate their needs, involve families, purposefully plan for and support individualized needs in the least restrictive environment, and provide procedures for grievance.
What is Public Law 94-142: The Education of All Handicapped Children Act (EHC) of 1975?
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