Types of Assessment for Special Education

Calculate the z-score using the following data: Raw score is 75, mean is 50, and standard deviation is 10

2.5

The child's family has the strongest interest in making sure the child's needs are met by any of the professionals seeking to assess their child. This statement describes which of the following roles of a parent in the assessment process?

Advocate

Which of the following situations is most appropriate for a performance-based assessment?

An art teacher wants to assess her students' ability to differentiate between still-life and portraits by creating a charcoal drawing of each.

Which of these statements is NOT true about reporting learning progress to students and parents?

An open house is not a valid means of reporting learning progress

Which of the following describes an assessment tool that consists of objective written observations of student learning?

Anecdotal notes

What are portfolio assessments?

Collections of student work used to evaluate students for a specific purpose

Sanjay stopped taking the test when he came upon several questions with words that had different meanings and contexts to him. This is an example of:

Construct bias

Which of these is an example of summative documentation?

End-of-quarter report card

What is another name for curriculum-based assessment?

Curriculum-bases measurement

One of the purposes of Functional Assessments is to _____.

Determine eligibility for special education programs

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was created so that:

Districts, schools and teachers were held accountable for what students learned.

Formative communication always reports progress

During a learning period

When creating probes to use in curriculum-based measurement, where should you get the material?

From the curriculum

which is a type of diversity in students?

Gender, culture, liknguistic

Another name for standardized tests/assessments are also called:

High stakes tests

Which of the following is an example of information that might be included in an ecological assessment?

How the desks are arranged in a classroom, How the child plays with other children, How information is presented in each class

What was passed into law in 1975 that ensured children with disabilities were treated as individuals in educational settings?

IDEA

The child's family knows more about them than anyone else and this information is critical to any professional conducting an assessment. This statement describes which of the following roles of a parent in the assessment process?

Informant

Using idiomatic phrases such as 'bury the hatchet' could lead to _____.

Item bias

The purpose of aptitude tests is to:

Measure what a student understands about a particular subject area.

A child in class exhibits extreme distress about testing and sometimes the anxiety gets so bad that it impedes their ability to take the assessment. The teacher has tried every trick she knows for relieving test anxiety, to no avail. Which of the following assessments is the most appropriate referral for that teacher to make?

Mental health assessment

The use of differing test administration and instruction potentially results in _____.

Method bias

Which of these is an example of formative communication?

Mid-term progress report

All of the following are ways to compare one test-taker score to a population of test-taker scores, EXCEPT:

Raw score

Which of these would most likely NOT be considered a means of casual communication?

Results of a standardized exam

_____ assessments are constructed by experts and published for use in schools.

Standardized

Which of the following statistical tools is used to represent standardized test results by ranking student performance on an equal interval scale of 1-9?

Stanines

What aspects should teachers differentiate when considering diverse learners?

The content of what is being taught, the process used to teach, and methods used to assess

Which of the following patterns of scores lies mostly in the mid-range?

The normal distribution

What is curriculum-based assessment?

The repeated, direct assessment of targeted skills in basics areas

Which of the following is true about portfolio assessments?

They are considered authentic assessments

Which of the following is NOT a purpose of assessment?

To create stress and anxiety

Which of the following is NOT considered a misuse of standardized assessments?

Using assessments as a motivational tool to hold students accountable for their learning

All of the following are considered uses of standardized assessments EXCEPT:

Using standardized assessment results to modify classroom curriculum

What makes a test biased?

When one group's scores are predictably different compared to the results from the other test takers

Which of the following statistical tools has a standard deviation of 1 and a mean of 0?

Z-scores

Which type of assessment is used primarily to informally gather information to help make instructional decisions?

formative

An assessment is the process of making _____ about a student's knowledge and abilities.

inferences

Physical disabilities _____.

may be temporary or permanent

How does language impact students on assessments?

some students may not understand questions

Examples of accommodations for physically disabled students include _____.

the option of demonstrating comprehension using an enabled sense, preferential seating in a classroom, the use of assistive technologies

Standardized assessments should not replace end-of-course exams because _____.

they only test a sample of general knowledge for each subject