All About Special Education
The IEP/PPT meeting held every 3 years.
What is the Reevaluation/Triennial Review?
The three major subject areas that the WIAT-4 assesses.
What are Reading, Writing, and Mathematics?
This "tier" provides instruction to ALL student.
Type of assessment used to compare student knowledge or skills to a predetermined standard.
What is criterion-referenced?
IEP
What is Individualized Education Program?
The IEP/PPT meeting held once a year.
What is the Annual Review?
Student performance/scores on the WIAT-4 are compared to same age or grade-level students. The WIAT-4 is...
What is norm-referenced?
Universal screening is typically conducted this many times per year.
What is 3 times?
The extent to which changes in one variable are reflected by changes in the second variable.
What is Correlation?
PPT
What is Planning and Placement Team?
The largest number of students receiving special education services are served under this category.
What is Specific Learning Disability?
How you determine which subtests to administer in the WIAT-4 to administer to students.
What is their grade level?
What is Respond/Response to Intervention?
When assessing scores amongst multiple students, this is what the score most frequently obtained is referred to.
What is the Mode?
IDEA
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
Students cannot qualify for special education services if any of these are the determining factors.
What is lack of opportunity to learn or limited English proficiency?
The number of subtests in the WIAT-4.
What is 19 or 20 (with Orthographic Choice- we did not conduct this one because you need an iPad!)?
______ (more/less) frequent intervention sessions shorter in duration are ______ (more/less) effective than fewer sessions in longer durations.
More frequent intervention sessions shorter in duration are more effective than fewer sessions in longer durations.
The degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretation of test scores for the proposed use of tests (test measures what it is supposed to measure).
What is Validity?
CBM
What is Curriculum Based Measurement?
For a student to be eligible for special education services, they must meet these two criteria.
1) Presence of a disability
2) Adverse effect on educational performance
The starting point of a test (how you know you do not need to administer lower level items) and the ending point of a test (how you know that you can stop administering items).
When interventions/instruction are implemented as intended, they are said to have high levels of this...
What is treatment integrity/fidelity, implementation fidelity?
What is Percentile Rank?
WIAT
What is Weschler Individual Achievement Test?