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What is assessment?
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The process for identifying a child's strengths and weaknesses; it involves 5 steps: screening, diagnosis, classification, placement, and monitoring.
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Describe the context of the child
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Different things in a child's life that impact his or her development; this includes the child's family, neighborhood, school, community, and even state and country.
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What is authentic assessment?
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Measuring a child's ability by means of an in-class assignment.
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What are continuum of services?
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A range of personnel to provide needed specialized services such as speech, physical, or occupational therapy.
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What are diagnostic achievement tests? What are they important?
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Tests help educators understand how a student solves a problem by examining the strategies that he or she uses when learning. They are important because they help us determine why a child is struggling so that we can offer appropriate support of mediation.
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What does IDEA stand for, and what were the changes?
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act--The reauthorization of PL 94-142; new changes in the law included the need for licensed and credentialed special education teachers, the need for IEP standards, and the inclusion of transition standards.
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What is ecology of the child?
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Those forces surrounding and impacting on the child from family, culture, peers, physical setting, etc.
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Explain high-stakes testing
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Any examination whose results can substantially change the future of a student, such as course failure or admittance to college.
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Explain inclusion
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Bringing children with exceptionalities into the regular classroom.
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What is academic aptitude?
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The measure of a child's aptitudes; for example, an intelligence quotient (IQ) is a measurement of aptitude.
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What is instructional technology
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A growing field of study which uses technology as a means to solve educational challenges, both in the classroom and in distance learning.
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Describe the least-restrictive environment
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The educational setting in which a child with special needs can learn in a way that is as close as possible to the general education classroom.
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What are multiple intelligences?
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A theory associated with Howard Gardner that proposes nine separate intelligences instead of one general intelligence. They include linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and existential.
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What did PL 88-164 accomplish?
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Public Law 88-164 (1963) authorized funds for training professionals to work with children with special needs and for research and demonstration for students with developmental disabilities and deafness.
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What did PL 94-142 accomplish?
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Public Law 94-142 (1975) assured all children had the right to education. The 6 provisions included zero reject, nondiscriminatory evaluation, individualized education program, least restrictive environment, due process (fairness), and parental participation. (Eventually became IDEA act)
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What did PL 99-457 accomplish?
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It ensured all children were included, starting at birth.
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What are standard achievement tests?
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The test measures the student's level of achievement compared with the achievement of students of similar age or grade. Also called norm-reference test
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What are transition services?
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Programs that help exceptional students move from school to the world of work and community.
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What is UDL?
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Universal design for learning--a variety of strategies that give all students access to the curriculum.
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What does FAPE stand for?
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Free and Appropriate Education
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