UNIVERSAL SCREENING
This term describes the process of assessing ALL students to identify those who are having difficulty despite good Tier 1 instruction.
What is universal screening?
This type of placement decision involves deciding the setting where special education services take place, such as a general education classroom or resource room.
What is program placement?
This score is obtained by adding two or more scores together, such as combining reading comprehension, vocabulary, and written expression scores.
What is a composite score?
This concept means designing tests with built-in supports, so fewer separate accommodations are needed for individual students.
What is universal design?
These brief, repeated assessments tell teachers whether students are making adequate progress toward grade-level benchmarks.
What are progress-monitoring assessments?
Effective screening measures must be brief, easy to administer, and reflect this part of the school program.
What is the curriculum-based screening?
This type of placement decision involves deciding at what level to begin instruction, such as which reading or math book a student should use.
What is curriculum placement?
This term refers to the extent to which a test actually measures what it is designed to measure.
What is validity?
Extended time, unlimited time, and testing over multiple days all fall under this category of accommodation.
What is scheduling/timing?
This curriculum-based measure is ideally suited for progress monitoring because it directly reflects the curriculum and can be given repeatedly at equal difficulty (identify it by its acronym).
What is CBM (curriculum-based measurement)?
This is the minimum number of times per year that screening should be conducted (at the beginning and end of the year).
What is two (times per year)?
This term (in quotes in the text) describes the risky practice of delaying more intensive instruction until a student has failed repeatedly
What is "wait to fail"?
This score tells you the percentage of students in a comparison group who scored the same as or below a particular student's score.
What is a percentile score?
Testing in a separate location, testing in small groups, and preferential seating (like carrels) all fall under this category of accommodation.
What is setting?
According to the "four and above" decision rule, this action should be taken if the last four data points fall below the aimline.
What is changing the intervention (or tier)?
A screening battery that measures multiple aspects of an academic area (like phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, AND comprehension in reading) is considered more of this than a single-skill test.
What is accurate?
In the chapter's example, this student's math computation skills were fine, but his skills in this specific math area were very deficient compared to his classmates.
What is math problem solving?
This term refers to the consistency of a test in measuring the areas it is assessing over repeated administrations.
What is reliability?
Using braille or large print and reading directions aloud are examples of this accommodation category.
What is method of presentation?
This is the minimum number of times per year Tier 1 students are typically assessed for progress monitoring.
What is three times per year?
A drawback of RTI/MTSS is that some very low-performing students may be better served by skipping Tier 2 and going straight into this tier.
What is Tier 3?
This IDEA principle requires students with disabilities to be educated alongside non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate — the reason placement teams try general education supports before a more restrictive setting.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
This potentially misleading score compares a student's performance to the average number of correct responses at a specific grade level and point in the year.
What is a grade equivalent?
Dictating answers to a scribe or using assistive technology to respond are examples of this accommodation category.
What is method of response?
This is how often Tier 2 and Tier 3 students are typically assessed for progress monitoring.
What is every 3-4 weeks?