Assessing Student Needs
The process of gathering student information to monitor their progress
What is assessment?
When students with disabilities take alternate assessments in place of standardized tests, the bases of those assessments should be ...
What are state standards?
This is the acronym for a strategy that is used for adjusting instruction for students with special needs
What is INCLUDE?
The process of designing instruction to meet the needs of all students.
What is differentiated instruction?
Linda is a student with autism. She is also gifted with an exceptional abilities in the area of mathematics.
What is an autistic savant?
The process of making decisions about a student’s eligibility for special education services
What is diagnosis?
A method of assessing students' achievement based on what they are taught in the classroom?
What are curriculum based assessments?
The process of promoting order and engaging learners in the classroom.
What is classroom management?
An instructional approach that provides the opportunity for all students to access, participate in, and progress in the general-education curriculum by reducing barriers to instruction.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
Although Jim has autism, he is verbal and he often responds by echoing back what is said to him.
What is echolalia?
The process of making decisions about the level to begin instruction for the student
What is curriculum placement?
These tests help teachers make a range of special education decisions. They are ideal for monitoring student progress in class and they are easy to administer.
What are curriculum-based assessment?
This term refers to the all of the following areas of classroom management:
i. arrangement of furniture and desks
ii. Lighting
iii. Floor space
iv. Storage
What is physical organization?
A curriculum that focuses upon independent living skills and vocational skills and is usually designed for students with moderate to severe disabilities.
What is a functional curriculum?
This method of communication is used to help students with autism, who are nonverbal, to initiate communication with teachers/peers.
What is a Picture Exchange System (PECS)?
John is a student with a learning disability and receives his special education services in the general education classroom. His IEP states that John should have extended time when taking tests.
What is an accomodation?
These tests are often used to assess comprehension skills.
What are psychological tests?
Any support provided to students to bridge gap between current ability and intended goal
What is scaffolding?
Students with these types of disabilities receive some special education services most of their lives.
What are low incidence disabilities?
This type of support helps students with autism to keep track of what happens routinely during the day.
What is a visual schedule?
A type of assessment where student scores are compared to a benchmark
What is a criterion-referenced test/assessment?
These tests are used to compare a student’s score to the average scores
What are norm-referenced tests?
Devices used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of child with disability.
What is assistive technology?
Ruth has been diagnosed with intellectual disability, physical and sensory impairment. Under what category of disabilities does she fall
What are multiple disabilities?
These are the two defining characteristics of autism.
What are communication and social skills deficits?