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Standardized Tests
Informal Assessments

EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR GENERAL EDUCATION
IEP Process
Assessment
100
Test publishers give the test questions to a large number of children of the same age.
What is norm referenced tests?
100
Watching a student and what they do in the classroom.
What is classroom observation?
100
It is a strategy for the general education classroom in which two children work on learning tasks together. One child is the tutor and serves as a teacher; the other child is the tutee and serves as the learner.
What is peer tutoring?
100
A major provision of the special education law is the requirement that each public school child who receives special education and related services must have an one of these.
What is an IEP?
100
This process is a cursory evaluation that is used to detect students who may need a more comprehensive evaluation.
What is screening?
200
This test provides four index scores—Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Reasoning, Working Memory, Processing Speed—with 16 subtests of mentalability by Harcourt Brace & Co.
What is The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 4th edition (WISC–IV)?
200
Multiple samples of a student’s actual classroom work are collected over an extended period of time.
What is portfolio assessment?
200
It means that the teacher clearly states what is to be taught and explains what needs to be done.
What is explicit teaching?
200
These are provided in federal law, and they are designed to protect the rights of children and parents.
What are procedural safeguards?
200
This process seeks additional assistance from other school personnel. On the basis of observation and classroom performance, the teacher (or others) requests an evaluation of a student.
What is referral?
300
This standardized test has 15 subtests grouped into four areas—Fluid Reasoning, Knowledge, Quantitative Reasoning, Visual-Spatial Processing, and Working Memory. By Riverside Publishing.
What is The Stanford–Binet
300
This type of test can be used as a quick method to determine the student’s approximate reading level.
What is Informal Graded Word-Recognition Test?
300
This strategy shows students who (1) attend to instruction, (2) attribute results to their own efforts, (3) relate tasks and materials to their knowledge and experience, and (4) actively construct meaning during learning.
What is active learning?
300
These are specific things meet the child’s needs that result from the child’s disability, in order to enable the child to be involved in and make progress on the general education curriculum.
What are annual goals?
300
This process is used to determine a student’s eligibility for services. Students are assessed to judge the need for services and to identify the category of disability.
What is classification?
400
This standardized test offers a nonverbal composite and a mental processing/fluid-crystallized index, plus individual scale scores. By Western Psychological Services.
What is Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children II (K–ABC)?
400
An informal test that can be easily devised to point out weaknesses in a student’s basic computational skills
What is an Informal Arithmetic Test?
400
It refers to abundant teacher supports at the initial stage of a student learning a task.
What is scaffolding?
400
Such assistance may include speech-language specialists and auditory services, psychological services, physical and occupational therapy (including therapeutic recreation), social work services, counseling services (including rehabilitation counseling),orientation and mobility services, and medical services for diagnostic and evaluation purposes.
What are related services?
400
This process develops an educational program for an individual student. The assessment information is used to formulate instructional goals and to develop specific plans for teaching.
What is instructional planning?
500
This standardized test provides a conormed set of tests for measuring general intellectual ability, specific cognitive abilities, scholastic aptitude, oral language, and academic achievement. It can be used on subjects from age 2 to 90+ and for gradeK through graduate school. It consists of two assessment instruments: (1) tests of cognitive abilities and (2) tests of achievement.
What is The Woodcock Johnson Psychoeducational Battery III, Complete Battery (WJ-III)?
500
An informal assessment that is used to create a vision for the future and plan ways for that vision to become reality.
What is a person centered planning?
500
This is a method of teaching through a social interactive dialogue between the student and the teacher.
What is reciprocal teaching?
500
In IDEA–2004, this curriculum is presented to be the appropriate beginning point for planning an IEP for a student, and is the preferred course of study for all students.
What is general education?
500
Several approaches to monitoring can be used, including standardized formal tests, informal measures, and a continuous monitoring procedure.
What is progress monitoring?