Types of Assessment
Testing
Acronyms
True or False
Potpourri
100
Use of content from the currently used curriculum to assess student progress.
What is curriculum-based assessment?
100
A method to determine a student's ability to complete certain tasks or demonstrate mastery of a skill or knowledge of content.
What is testing?
100
The acronym for this law is IDEA.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
100
IDEA 2004 and ESEA 2001 place more emphasis on assessing all students in attaining the standards, leading to more students being included in the general education classroom and more students who receive special education services to receive a regular diploma.
What is TRUE?
IDEA 2004 and ESEA 2001 place more emphasis on the assessment of all students for measuring attainment of educational standards within the general curriculum. This emphasis has increased the number of students receiving services to be included in the general education classroom and increased the percentage of students in those programs graduating with regular high school diplomas.
100
This model of assessment is depicted in the following diagram:
What is the Traditional (or Historical) Model of Assessment?
200
Method of assessing a student's total environment to determine factors that might be contributing to learning or behavioral problems.
What is ecological assessment?
200
Tests developed with specific standard administration, scoring, and interpretation procedures that must be followed precisely to obtain optimum results.
What are standardized tests?
200
The acronym for this plan, which includes related needs of the family of the child with disabilities is IFSP.
What is an individual family service plan?
200
All students, regardless of disability, are required to take statewide exams, or alternative exams to measure their progress within the general education curriculum.
What is TRUE?
Students with exceptional learning needs are required to take statewide exams or alternative exams to measure their progress within the general education curriculum.
200
These animals were one of the first animals to be tamed by humans and were being herded 9000 years ago:
What are goats?
300
Assessment in which the examiner prompts or interacts with the student to determine the student's potential to learn a skill.
What is dynamic assessment?
300
Tests designed to accompany and measure a set of criteria or skill-mastery criteria.
What are criterion-referenced tests?
300
This application and measurement of learning or behavioral interventions has the acronym RTI.
What is response to intervention?
300
Historically, pre-referral interventions have been intended to address bias in the referral process and prevent unnecessary assessments, and are now part of the Response to Intervention (RTI) model.
What is TRUE?
In the past, prereferral interventions have been intended to address bias in the referral process and prevent unnecessary additional assessment, and they are now a part of the RTI model.
300
This mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices is usually kept in a jar and used for scent:
What is Potpourri?
400
Assessments that are appropriate for students with disabilities and that are designed to measure their progress in the general curriculum.
What are alternative assessments?
400
Accountability assessment of state or district standards, which may be used for funding or accreditation decisions.
What is high-stakes testing?
400
This law, passed in 2001, has the acronym ESEA.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
400
All students who are eligible for special education services are required to have an alternative planning document in place.
What is FALSE?
All students who are eligible to receive special education services must have an individualized education program in place. An alternative plan is used for students who are not eligible and may be a 504 accommodation plan.
400
Ducks say quack & fish go blub, & the seal goes ow ow ow, but there's one sound that no one knows.
What does the fox say?
500
Evaluating student progress, strengths, and weaknesses using a collection of different measurements and work samples.
What is portfolio assessment?
500
Tests designed to compare individual students with national averages or norms of expectancy.
What are norm-referenced tests?
500
Old MacDonald had a farm...
What is EIEIO?
500
An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) differs from an Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) in that an IEP includes family needs as well as the child’s needs.
What is FALSE?
An IFSP includes the family’s needs as well as the child’s.
500
This model of assessment is depicted in the following diagram:
What is the Contemporary Model of Assessment?