Chapter 1
How often a disability occurs.
What is Prevalence?
Involves breaking down a particular task into basic sequential steps, component parts or skills necessary to accomplish task.
What is Task Analysis?
Expresses how often a score appears in a data set.
What is Frequency Distribution?
A very general score that is used to compare the performance of other children with the same age with one another.
What is Age Equivalent?
When used in reference to a person with limited English language ability, means the language is used by individual and or parents of individual.
What is Native Language?
A written document that directs the provision of Special Education services to students with disabilities who needs them.
What is an IEP?
Single set of expectations for all students and come with prescribed criteria for scoring and interpretation.
What is a Formal Assesment?
Middle score of distribution of scores.
A score indicating the percentage of people or scores that occur at or below a given score.
What is Percentile Rank?
Legal granting or permission to assess child for suspected disability.
What is Parental Consent?
Collecting information about a student for the purpose of making decisions involving gathering information about students strengths or needs in all areas of concerns.
What is an assessment?
Focused on a students learning performance over time, comparisons are made between a students current and past performances.
What is a Dynamic Assessment?
Relationship between two variables.
What is a Correlation?
A very general score that is used to compare the performance of other children with the same grade with one another.
What is Grade Equivalent?
The collaboration between the parents and the school to improve children's education experience and academic performance
What is Parental Participation?
Documents and guides early interventions process for children with disabilities developed with families.
What is IFSP?
Structuring test materials, administration procedures, scoring methods and techniques for interpreting results.
What is Standardization?
A measure used to quantify amount of variation.
What is Standard Deviation?
A score that has been transformed to fit a normal, with a mean and standard deviation that remain the same across ages.
What is Standard Scores?
A legal right guaranteed to parents of kids with IEPs
What is Prior Written Notice?