Evaluation
Should occur before any student can receive special education services.
What is a comprehensive evaluation?
How often does federal law regarding school-age students with disabilities require that a re-evaluation be conducted?
What is every three years?
Which of the following compares an individual student's scores to the scores of a group of students?
Criterion-referenced tests
Teacher-made tests
Norm-referenced tests
Informal assessments
Norm-referenced tests
The process of evaluating an environment to determine if there are any influences on the learning process is called:
An observation
A dynamic assessment
An ecological evaluation
A performance-based assessment
An ecological evaluation
A student is tested on December 16, 2019. His date of birth is July 19, 2008. Calculate his chronological age at the time of testing.
11 years, 4 months, 27 days
Parents must be fully informed and provide consent for these three things before they occur?
Comprehensive evaluation
Initiation of services
Release of confidential records
IDEA requires these three things:
Assessment must be nondiscriminatory on a racial, cultural, and linguistic basis.
Instruments must be valid and reliable.
Testing form must take into account possible impact of the suspected disability.
A teacher who collects student book reports, work samples, and weekly quizzes over time is using which of the following methods?
Portfolio Assessment
Questionnaires
Teacher checklists
Norm-referenced tests
Portfolio Assessment
Numbers on a football jersey are examples of what type of scales?
Nominal
Calculate the median for the following set of data:
7, 9, 12, 13, 16
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Name three members of the multidisciplinary team.
School Psychologist
Special Education Teacher
LDT-C
List 3 reasons why a distribution would be negatively skewed.
Easy test
Students mastered the concepts
post-test
Which of the following is considered a formal method of assessment?
Teacher checklists
Error Analysis
Norm-referenced tests
Classroom observations
Norm-referenced tests
Which of the following is NOT a measure of central tendancy?
Mean
Median
Mode
Range
Range
Calculate the mode for the following set of data:
6, 3, 9, 6, 6, 5, 9, 3
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Which of the following would NOT be a consideration in determining a student’s eligibility for special education services?
Does the student have a disability?
Does the disability adversely affect educational performance?
Can the student’s needs be addressed through special education?
Were the assessments used valid and reliable?
Were the assessments used valid and reliable?
List a reason why a distribution may be positively skewed distribution.
Possible answers:
Test is too difficult
Students were not prepared
Pop-up quiz or pre-test.
If a teacher wants to determine the types of mistakes a student is making on written expression tasks such as sentence writing, the teacher may use
Teacher Checklist
Error analysis
Curriculum-based assessment
Classroom observations
Error analysis
Administering two instruments within a short period of time is necessary in order to establish which of the following?
Inter-rater reliability
Test retest reliability
Predictive validity
Content validity
Test retest reliability
Calculate the mean for the following set of data:
16, 14, 12, 18
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Which of the following is not a legal consideration when developing an individualized assessment plan?
Assessments must assess all areas of concern.
Ethical standards must be upheld.
Assessments must be valid for their intended purpose.
One test may be used for eligibility.
One test may be used for eligibility.
Define Standard Score
Standard Score is a set of scores that have the same mean and standard deviation so they can be compared.
What are the 5 steps of the assessment process?
Collection, analysis, evaluation, determination, and recommendation
Select the statement that most likely would represent a negative correlation:
The number of hours spent at a party the night before an exam and the exam grade.
The number of hours spent studying and test grades.
The number of classes attended and test scores.
The course section number and the test grade.
The number of hours spent at a party the night before an exam and the exam grade.
What is the range?
89, 73, 84, 91, 87, 77, 94
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