EDS3701 Assignment 2 2024

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