Strategic Environmental Assessment

The Battelle Developmental Inventory is a developmental assessment for early childhood, it was first developed in 2004, but has been updated this year. It was developed, by Jean Newborg, was put together by LINC Associates INC and was published, by Riverside Publishing Company. The Developmental Inventory assessment helps measures out the following, personal and social aspects, adaptive, motor, communication, and cognitive. The have an English and Spanish version, which will help benefit…

isn’t possible for “one size” to fit everyone. For this reason, we don’t rely on one person to make every educational decision, one assessment to determine the appropriate services, or one teaching strategy to reach every student. This is an important concept to remember each and every day. 2. The child must always be the center of focus. Quantitative data (assessment scores) should never be the only factor in the decision-making process. 3. Under IDEA, there are 13 categories of disabilities.…

Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight” (Proverbs 4:6-7, English Standard Version). It is wise to look into one’s personality in order to gain insight into how life can be lived fully and in right standing with God. The Prentice Hall’s Self-Assessment shows how a person’s personality, values, motivations, and decision making styles can be transformed to make the person a better leader and co-worker. While the questionnaire does not correlate all of these traits together, it does explain…

A functional behavior assessment is a systematic method of gathering and analyzing information about why an individual engages in specific behaviors which enables the identifying the potential functions, triggers, and abating influences (Mayer, Sulzer-Azaroff, & Wallace, 2014). In conducting a functional behavior assessment an attempt is made to identify which antecedents and consequences can be reliably associated with the occurrence of the behavior. Indirect assessment methods are utilized…

2.5. How and why assessments are used. Ongoing data is collected across all key learning areas (KLA’s) to inform teachers and to allow teacher to make judgements. Assessments are graded/marked by teachers making judgement (Marsh, 2010). Data collected from assessments is also used to inform practice and to assist in the planning of future lessons and report to parents during interviews and on report cards. Assessments and reporting are key components of the curriculum planning process…

authentic activities that go beyond reading chapters and memorizing facts, the integration of other subject areas into the social studies lesson and content reading strategies and comprehension opportunities, and finally, both formal and authentic assessments used. The companies that publish these educational materials, not just for social studies look at the national social studies national standards to make sure that the books they produce are meeting the standards of as many states as…

This study chose to, “examine the potential intergenerational transmission of social skills and psychosocial problems (i.e., loneliness and anxiety) among a sample of 255 father-mother-adult child triads,” (Burke et al., 2013). Burke, Woszidlo, & Sergin (2013) argued that one of the primary places to learn any kind of social skills is in a family setting. How a parent communicates with others arounds them can influence their child and can even go as far as predicting what kind of social skills…

Interest and Habits Survey Two assessments were used to obtain knowledge about the interest and practices of Shevaun Smith. The “Getting To Know You” interest assessment, which consists of nine open-ended questions, was administered to obtain a better understanding of Shevaun’s likes and daily routines. Shevaun was asked to read and write a word or phrase to complete each sentence. The findings showed that Shevaun loves to play basketball, but hates playing baseball. He also indicates that he…

They are the ACT, the three institutional benchmark assessments used three times throughout the year, and the end of the year assessment called SAGE. The first benchmark assessment mentioned by our school principal is the ACT assessment. The data shows a trend of student scores dealing with math, English or language arts, and science that have flat lined from 2010 through 2016. This means that student scores have…

With the large amount of diversity in our class, working with each student in a way that best suits their needs is ideal in this type of classroom. Planning for assessments and grading the students based on ways they can grow, rather than fail is the starting point in assessing these students. Our classroom contains two teachers; one who is a special education teacher, the other is a general education teacher. The students are made up of ELL’s, three with mild disabilities, and one with a serve…