Chapter 17 vocabulary Flashcards
Academic history
This section is listed under section III of the comprehensive educational report and provides relevant academic performance during the child’s school years.
Background history
The third section that contains a very thorough description of the child’s family history, developmental history, academic history, and social history.
Behavioral observation
This fourth section of the comprehensive report that includes the description of the child’s behavior during the testing sessions, during the interview with the student, and during classroom observations.
Chronological age
The age of the child at the time of testing.
Conclusions
In this section of the comprehensive educational report, the examiner indicates in very simple terms to the reader the trends in the child’s testing results that may indicate academic strengths and weaknesses, modality strengths and weaknesses, process strengths and weaknesses, and overall diagnosis and level of severity of the problem areas indicated.
Content area by content area approach
An approach that takes all reading, math, spelling, writing, visual, auditory, and motor tests from each evaluation measure and analyzes the results separately by content area.
Developmental history
This section is listed under section III and provides any relevant background history pertaining to developmental milestones.
Family history
This section is listed under section III and provides a general understanding of family structure, siblings, parental perceptions, and so on.
Identifying data
The first section of the comprehensive report that contains all the necessary basic information about the child.
Reason for Referral
The second section of the comprehensive report that explains the specific reason the evaluation is taking place.
Recommendations
Teh last section of the comprehensive report (and probably the most valuable section for the reader) containing practical recommendations that will bring some hope and direction for the identified problem areas.
Social history
This section is listed under section III and provides an understanding of the child in his/her social world. Group participation, organizations, hobbies, interests, interaction with peers, social style, and so forth should all be discussed.
Test-by-test approach
This approach separately analyzes the child’s performance on each test. It analyzes the results of different subtests and provides indications of strengths and weaknesses, manner of approach, and indications of whether the scores on the specific test should be considered valid.
Test results
This section of the comprehensive educational report that analyzes the results of each test and looks at the child’s individual performance on each measure.
Tests and Procedures Administered
The section of the comprehensive educational report that includes the list of individual tests included in the test battery and any procedures used to enhance the report, such as classroom observations, review of records or parent intake.
