CHP 3

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Joey has been classified as having Other Health Impairment due to his medical disability. He tires easily and his school day has to be shortened yet the standardized group testing is being administered all day for the entire week. Therefore, he will need the following type of accommodation:

her current level of functioning

Kate has a serious learning disability. She will require accommodations to participate in the standardized testing procedures. Which of the factors must be considered when writing her IEP to include appropriate accommodations?

false

Local education agencies rely on informal assessment mesaures for No Child Left Behind accountability reporting (t or f)

false

a percentile of 100 indicates average performance (t or f)

true

a reliable source used for determining standardized assessments that provides a critical rerview of these tests is the Mental Measurement Yearbook (t or f)

false

a stanine of 9 indicates poor performance (t or f)

true

all norm-referenced tests are standardized, wheras, criterion-referenced tests can be either standardized or non-standardized (t or f)

true

although a standardized group test can be individually administered, a standardized individual test cannot be administered a whole group at one time (t or f)

false

criterion referenced tests compare performance; wheras, norm-referenced tests describe performance (t or f)

false

it is not important for the teacher to know how to interpret test results, that job is only done by the psychologist (t or f)

to determine whether students are eligible for classification

local education agencies and state education agencies use group tests for all but which of the following purposes

90-110

on most standardized tests, the range of average according to standard scores is:

they provide opportunities for asking clarifying questions during testing

reasons why group standardized testing may be difficult for students with disabilities include all BUT which of the following?

must use exact words

regarding the administration of standardized assessment, the administrator:

ensure that the student's range of skills is covered

standardized test administration requires the use of basal and ceiling levels in order to:

are more time effecient to administer

the benefits of standardized group assessments are that they generally:

level the playing field between students with and w/o disabilities

the goal of an accommodation is to:

true

the most commonly used form of technical assisted technology is the computer system (t or f)

confidence interval

the range of scores in which a true score will fall within a given probability is referred to as a

need to be converted to a derived score to make accurate comparisons

the raw scores from a standardized test:

stanine

the term used to describe a student's performance that demonstrates a representative sample and ranges from a high of 9 to a low of 1 is a:

has improved

this year tamika's score test results indicated her stanine score to be a 6. last year she received a 3, this indicates her performance:

percentile

what is the most commonly used norm score, used to describe how a student performs in comparison to age or grade level peers; expressed in numbers ranging from a low of 1 to a high of 99

standard score

what is used to compare the deviation of an individual score from the mean or average score of students in a norm group of the same chronological age or grade level

all of the above

when teachers are selecting the type of test they will use, they need to consider whether the objective of the test is to:

false

when writing a report for required record keeping, it is important to write using technical terms, although these terms may seem to be educational jargon to parents, they are professional words and parents are usually not concerned about the specific details of the test results (t or f)

individually administered tests are less efficient and less economical to administer

which of the following is an accurate statement about group vs. individually administered tests?

they provide the option for exploration of multiple answers

which of the following is incorrect regarding standardized tests?

there is often a discrepancy between what is tested and what is covered in the text

which of the following statements is NOTconsidered to be an advantage of standardized assessment?

tests administered on a computer tend to be more costly than paper-pencil administration

which statement is NOT accurate about using computer technology for assessment