Tpes of Assessments
Adminsitered to all atudents in a particular group (such as a grade or school)
What is a screening assessment?
In terms of diagnostic testing for initial placement in ESE, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act requires
Does the multidisciplinary team or a group of specialists conduct the assessment?
Refers to the extent to which an assessment measures what it is intended to measure.
What is Validity?
A 5th grade student in ESE with an emotional or behavioral disability scored at the 10th percentile in reading recognition on an individually administered diagnostic reading test. One can conclude that
Is the student's score in reading recognition below average for a student in the 5th grade?
Administered to individual students who may need extra support.
What is a Diagnostic Assessment?
Students with medical complexity may be exempt from participating in the statewide standardized assessment. The maximum exemption that a student can receive is a
What is a permanent exemption?
The term used to refer to the consistency of assessment results
What is reliability?
An ESE teacher taught a 5th grade ESE class a social skills unit on acceptable classroom behavior. This is the most appropriate way to document skill maintenance in the students' general education classrooms
Do students maintain a log documenting their use of each new skill?
The student must exhibit some behavior or create some product requiring intergrations of knowledge and skills
What is performance-based assessments?
Refers to the under representation of certain groups in special education
What is disproportionality?
Refers to the extent to which an assessment accurately measures some identifiable content, such as curriculum standards or clearly defined behaviors.
What is content validity?
A teacher has been informed that a student with cerebral palsy will be attending the class. The teacher conducts an assessment of the classroom to make sure that the student has access to all areas. The teacher conducted the assessment
What is an ecological assessment?
Asessing students during teaching
What is formative assessment?
Whenever certain groups consistently score differently from other groups.
What is test bias?
Refers to the extent to which results will be the same upon repeated administrations of the same assessment
What is test-retest reliability?
A 5th grade student has a specific learning disability in written expression. One of the student's IEP goals is to increase the accuracy of spelling grade-level words by 80%. The ESE teacher would like to monitor the effectiveness of the individualized instructional strategies used to address this goal. this assessment method would be most effective for this purpose
What is administering curriculum-based spelling probes to the student and graphing the results?
Evaluating student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against a standard.
What is summative assessment?
Allows the student to take the test in a way that addresses their exceptionalities without being given an advantage over other students.
What are accommodations?
Refers to the extent to which an assessment accurately measures some underlying construct, such as intelligence, motivation, or engagement
What is construct validity?
An English language learner has been referred for testing to determine whether reading problems experienced in class are the result of a learning disability. To make such a determination, the student's evaluation must include
What is a variety of assessment instruments?