Assessment
A progress monitoring strategy that provides individualized, brief, direct, and repeated measures of students’ proficiency and progress across the curriculum.
What is curriculum-based assessment?
The events, stimuli, objects, actions, and activities that precede and trigger the behavior.
What is an antecedent?
A statement or an enjoyable activity that introduces the material in a lesson and motivates students to learn it by relating the goals of the lesson to their prior knowledge, interests, strengths, and future life events.
What is anticipatory set?
An educational philosophy for structuring schools so that all students are educated together in general education classrooms.
What is inclusion?
The use of assessments at the end of instruction to assess student mastery of specific content, topics, concepts, and skills taught and to communicate this information to others.
What is summative assessment?
What are consequences?
A teaching arrangement whereby teachers and ancillary support personnel work together to educate all students in a general education classroom. Educators involved in co-teaching share responsibility and accountability for planning and delivering instruction, evaluating, grading, and disciplining all of their students.
What is co-teaching?
A written, individualized program listing the special education and related services students with disabilities will receive to address their unique strengths and challenges.
What is an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)?
The use of assessment strategies during instruction to monitor students’ learning progress and to use this information to make ongoing decisions about teaching effectiveness and ways to improve it.
What is formative assessment?
A plan focusing on how the learning environment will change to address a student’s behavior, characteristics, strengths, and challenges that include specific measurable goals for appropriate behaviors and the individuals, interventions, supports, and services responsible for helping the student achieve these goals.
What is Behavioral Intervention Plan?
A cooperative technique used to help students reflect on and master content that involves (1) pairing students randomly; (2) giving students a question, problem, or situation; (3) asking individual students to think about the question; (4) having students discuss their responses with their partners; and (5) selecting several pairs to share their thoughts and responses with the class.
What is think-pair-share?
An individually based principle that calls for schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is least restrictive environment (LRE)?
A term used to refer to tests whose results are used to make important decisions about students’ educational programs, including grade-level promotion and graduation
What is high-stakes testing?
A person-centered, multimethod problem-solving process that involves gathering information to determine why, where, and when a student uses behaviors; identifying the variables that appear to lead to and maintain the behaviors; and planning appropriate interventions that address the purposes that the behaviors serve for students.
What is Functional Behavioral Assessment?
Learning approaches that allow students to work on complex open-ended problems and issues that have multifaceted solutions. The technique involves having students work collaboratively to create and examine solutions to real-life and community-based situations and problems.
What is problem-based learning?
A multilevel prevention, assessment, and instructional data-based decision model for assessing the extent to which students respond to a series of more intensive and individualized research-based interventions.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
What are variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their competence, knowledge, and abilities without altering the integrity of the tests?
What are testing accommodations?
A technique for teaching social skills that involves the use of individualized, breif, easy-to-follow stories written from students' viewpoints that describe social situations, the perspective of others, relevant social cues, appropriate social behaviors, and ways to engage in and the consequences for demonstrating appropriate behaviors.
What are social stories?
A collaborative group writing technique where students write and receive feedback from peers and teachers on topics they select. The workshop is divided into four parts: status of the class, minilessons, workshop proper, and sharing.
What is writers' workshop?
Composed of professionals and family members, with the student when appropriate, makes important decisions, concerning a child's education.
What is a multidisciplinary team?