Assessment
The process of gathering information to monitor progress and to make educational decisions when necessary
High-stakes test
Are assessments designed to measure whether students have attained learning standards.
Testing Accommodations
Common accommodations include changing the setting of the test, chnag8ing the timing of the test, changing the response format, and changing the presentation format.
Probes of Basic Academic Skills
Probes are quick and easy measures of students' performance in the basic skills areas of reading, math, and written expressions.
Screening
Involves the decision about whether a student's performance differs enough from that of his or her peers to merit changes in instructions.
Standardized Achievement Test
Another common source of information for making educational decisions is standardized achievement tests.
Alternate Assessments
Usually for students with disability who typically work on a more individualized curriculum and do not have to meet the same requirement.
Curriculum-based Assessment
An effective option in that many instances can be an alternative to standard tests.
Diagnosis
Concerns eligibility for special education services.
Group-Administered Tests
Two major types of standardized achievements tests are group-administered and individually administered diagnostic tests.
Eligibility Requirement
The decision to give an alternative assessment should not be based on whether the student is expected to do poorly but rather based on the severity of the student's disability.
Curriculum based measurements
A particular time of curriculum-based assessments.
Program Placement
Decisions involve the setting in which the student's special education services take place.
Individually Administered tests.
Tests may screen students' performance interval curricular areas, they tend to be more diagnostic in nature.
The focus of the Assessments
Based on students age
Probes of Reading Skills
The critical reading skills in the elementary years include phonemic awarenesses, letter sounds, word recognition, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Program Evaluation
Decisions involve whether a student's special education program should be canceled, continued as is, or modified.
Psychological Tests
Psychological tests are used are part of the process of evaluating students with special needs, particularly to determine whether a student has inellual or learning disabiblities.
How is the assessments aligned?
The skills assessed should have a meaningful relationship to content areas covered by the standard such as reading and math.
Skill Mastery and Curriculum Placement
Inclusive education involves the use of a variety of instructional grouping arrangements.