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Assessment 1
Statistical Concepts
Concepts
Scoring Terminology
Child Study Team
100
A large number of children who are representative of all children in that age group.
What is a Norm group?
100
The mathematical average of the distribution of numbers.
What is Mean?
100
The extent to which a procedure allows accurate predictions about a subject’’s future behavior.
What is Predictive validity?
100
A child’’s actual age is referred to as the...
What is Chronological age?
100
1. Work as a single unit in determining the possible cause, contributing behavioral factors, educational status, prognosis, and recommendations for a student. 2. Bring together many disciplines and professional perspectives to help work on a case is the major objective of the CST so that a single person is not required to determine and assimilate all of the factors impacting a particular child. 3. Gather all the necessary information on a child in order to determine the most effective and practical direction for him or her.
What is the role of the CST?
200
A starting point that represents the level of mastery of a task below which the student would correctly answer all items on a test
What is the Basal?
200
The middle score in a distribution.
What is the Median?
200
Refers to the consistency of measurements.
What is Reliability?
200
Indicates the number of items correctly answered on a given test. In almost all cases, it is the first score a teacher obtains when interpreting data.
What is Raw score?
200
1. Special Education Teacher 2. Guidance Counselor 3. Speech and Language Teacher
Who is normally a member of the CST?
300
An ending point that represents the level of mastery of a task above which the student would incorrectly answer all future items on a test
What is the Ceiling?
300
The number in the distribution that occurs most frequently.
What is the Mode?
300
Involves having two raters independently observe and record specified behaviors during the same time period.
What is Inter-rater reliability?
300
A percentile rank of 95 means that you did as well as or better than what percent of the students in the class.
What is 95?
300
1. The number of days absent in the student’’s profile 2. The patterns of days absent
What should the CST look at when examining a student’’s attendance records?
400
1. Interaction between students, teachers and others in the classroom 2. Presentation of materials and ideas 3. Selection and use of materials for instruction
What should ecological assessment include?
400
Refers to the extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is Validity?
400
1. Anxiety 2. Motivation 3. Understanding test instructions 4. Deficiencies in educational opportunities
What are test related factors which could affect the validity of a test?
400
On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) a score of 95 would be a in the classification:
What is Average?
400
1. Limit number of directions 2. Simplify complex directions 3. Give verbal as well as written directions 4. Provide extra work time
What are classroom techniques and modifications that could be used as a pre-referral procedure?
500
involves ““graduated prompting."
What is Dynamic assessment?
500
Refers to how precisely a person’’s present performance (for example, a test score) estimates that person’’s performance on the criterion measure at approximately the same time.
What is Concurrent validity?
500
Any information gathered and collected through your research in the assessment process.
What is Data?
500
A student is tested on July 10, 2000. His date of birth is April 20, 1988. His age at the time of testing is...
What is 12-2-20?
500
Which professional would most likely NOT do serious in-school counseling for a student?
What is the student’’s classroom teacher?