Assessment Basics
This type of assessment is initially used to identify students who may need additional Tier 2 support.
What is a screening assessment
Teacher observations are an example of this kind of assessment.
What is informal assessment?
A teacher only checks progress once every nine weeks. Why is this weak?
What is data are not frequent enough for timely instructional decisions?
A parent and teacher complete rating scales about attention concerns. Is this an example of indirect or direct behavioral assessment:
What is indirect assessment?
A report includes parent concerns, attendance history, grades, and previous interventions. This most likely belongs in:
What is background information?
A student can solve single-digit addition but gets overwhelmed by multi-step long division. The teacher breaks long division into smaller teachable steps. This strategy is called:
What is task analysis?
This refers to whether a test measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity.
The WJ-IV and WIAT are examples of this kind of assessment.
What are formal/standardized assessments?
A fourth-grade student currently reads 22 correct words per minute. Recent progress-monitoring data show the student is gaining about 1 word per minute each week. The teacher uses this growth rate to set a realistic end-of-term goal. This goal-setting method is:
What is Rate of Improvement (ROI)?
A student drops to the floor during transitions. The teacher wants to know how long each episode lasts. The best measure is:
What is duration recording?
A report states that the student was cooperative, asked clarifying questions, and persisted on difficult items. This belongs in:
What are behavioral observations?
A student is not making progress despite receiving intervention. Before changing the student goal, the teacher should first check whether the intervention was delivered consistently as planned. This is called:
What is implementation fidelity?
This refers to consistency of test scores over time or across raters.
What is reliability?
This kind of assessment happens during instruction to guide teaching.
What is formative assessment?
If a student performs above the goal line consistently, you may do this.
What is raise the goal?
A behavior specialist observes the student live in class and records behavior occurrences. This is an example of ___________:
What is direct assessment?
A report says, “Student was lazy and unmotivated during testing.” What is the major problem?
What is subjective / judgmental language instead of objective behavioral observations?
A student is learning long division. The teacher first teaches setting up the problem, then teaches divide, then multiply, then subtract, adding each next step only after the previous one is mastered. This is:
What is forward chaining?
These are the two broad categories of what kind of data can be collected.
What is qualitative vs. quantitative data
Running records and fluency checks are examples of these.
What are curriculum-based assessments?
If data points bounce around a lot, this is high _____.
What is variability?
A teacher wants to know how many times Malik calls out during math each day. The best data collection method is:
What is frequency recording?
A report says “the student is anxious in class,” but no observer, interviewee, or setting is identified. This weakens the report because it lacks:
What is source documentation?
A student cannot begin a multi-step writing assignment independently. What instructional support would best help first?
What is task analysis / checklist / step-by-step scaffold?
This Supreme Court case emphasized meaningful progress for students with disabilities.
What is Endrew F.?
A student performs poorly on a standardized test but strongly in class. What should the team do?
What is review multiple data sources / use both formal and informal data?
A student’s reading goal is “will improve reading.” This goal is weak because it is missing this feature.
What is measurability / specific criteria?
A teacher says, “The rating scale proves the student is aggressive.” Why is this statement incomplete and potentially problematic?
What is rating scales reflect perceptions and should be combined with other data sources/direct observation?
A student earns a standard score of 85. How many standard deviations is this away from the mean?
What is one standard deviation below the mean?
A student’s baseline reading data is highly inconsistent with large ups and downs. When setting a goal, the teacher should use caution because of:
What is variability in baseline data?