special education - ANS -specifically designed instruction, at no cost to parents, to meet
the unique needs of the learner with a disability
assessment - ANS -the process of collecting data for the purpose of making decisions
about students or schools
formal assessment - ANS -- standardized, norm-reference tested
- administered by diagnosticians
- used to see if students need SPED or not
informal assessment - ANS -- non-standardized
- teacher-created assessment
- (Ex: giving students a quiz; interviewing parents)
formative assessment - ANS -assessment used during instruction to inform your next
decision (Ex: asking students, "Does everything make sense?")
summative assessment - ANS -- completed after instruction
- summarizes the effects of the instruction
- (Ex: final exam)
mastery measurement - ANS -- accuracy-based, short-term, weekly skill-based quizzes
- (Ex: spelling tests)
general outcome measurement - ANS -- long-term (for the whole academic year)
- rate-based
- curriculum focused
- occurs weekly
- (Ex: naming 20 letters in 1 minute)
curriculum-based measurement (CBM) - ANS -- standardized rate-based assessment
for progress monitoring (ex: general outcome measurement)
- tests certain skills of the students and their academic progress
- repeated testing using specific administration & scoring guidelines
- time + accuracy based (means rate-based)
- specific example of CBA
- targets reading, math, language, writing, social studies, & science
benchmarks - ANS -a score that tells you where a student is at (assessment for "at-risk"
for SPED or not)
screening - ANS -- early on
- determines which students need help