Goals and Objectives
A broad statement that indicates a direction and type of change.
What is a goal?
"required and necessary for a student to benefit from special education services"
What is a related service?
CSE
What is Committee for Special Education?
The primary purpose of the SEMTAP.
What is eligibility?
Use when you want to know how often something occurred.
What is frequency count?
Gathering information by talking with members of the team, caregivers, or the client.
What is interviewing?
Gathers information about clients performance in terms of specific behaviors or skills, only in reference to him or herself, or against an established benchmark
criterion-referenced
A description of clearly observable outcomes.
What is an objective?
The environment which is as close to typical as possible, given a particular child’s needs and capabilities with special services is:
What is the least restrictive environment?
LRE
What is least restrictive environment?
The SEMTAP is an acronym for this assessment tool.
What is special education music therapy assessment process?
Used when you want to know how long something occurred.
What is duration recording?
What is observation?
Performance is compared to some known group or standard
What is norm-referenced?
A, B, C, D, E
What are the parts of an objective? OR What are audience, behavior, condition, degree/criterion, end date?
Eligibility for music therapy as a related service is determined by this.
What is an assessment?
IEP
What is individualized education plan?
The SEMTAP is this type of an assessment.
What is criterion-referenced?
Used when you want to know the quality or degree of a response or behavior.
What is a rating scale?
Gathering information from the client's file.
What is reviewing?
The consistency of measurements across time and data-collectors.
What is reliability?
"75% of opportunities" or "for at least 30 seconds"
What is a degree/criterion?
All students are legally required to receive this.
What is a free and appropriate education?
FAPE
What is free and appropriate public education?
What is compared in the SEMTAP process.
Used when you want to sample behavior to determine whether or not a target behavior occurred during specified time periods.
What is interval recording?
Gathering information in a systematic way through use of a formalized assessment method.
What is testing?
A set of observations of a target behavior that gives an indication of the client’s level of performance without therapeutic interventions.
What is baseline data?
"Given a pause in a familiar song" or "with no more than 2 gestural prompts"?
What is a condition?
A type of service delivery that doesn't require an eligibility assessment, but can be removed at any time.
What is integrated services OR enrichment model?
PLOPS
What is present levels of performance?
A SEMTAP is initiated by this.
What is a referral?
Used when you want to know if a behavior has occurred but don’t need to know how often.
What is a checklist?
What are objective observations?
The extent to which a tool measures something that it is intended to measure.
What is validity?