Glossary Flashcards
Diagnosis:
Finding out the cause of an illness or condition being identified so the appropriate treatment or program can be offered.
Assessment:
The process of gathering information for the purpose of making a decision.
IDEA 2004:
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004
IEP:
Individualized Education Plan
What is IDEA 2004:
A law guarantees that students with disabilities shall receive free, appropriate, public education in the least restrictive educational environment.
Special Education Assessment:
A systematic process of gathering educationally relevant info to make legal and instructional decisions about the provisions of special services.
Intervention Fidelity:
Intervention that was implemented as planned and delivered consistently to all students over time.
Diversity:
The state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness; variety; multiformity.
Formative Evaluation:
An evaluation that ongoing during the period of program implementation.usually informal assessments closely linked to curriculum.
Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM):
Assessment approach that links instruction w/ assessment and emphasizes repeated direct measurement of student performance.
Cloze Procedure:
An assessment that uses a word passage in which words are deleted according to a word-count formula.
Nominal Scale:
The scale of measurement in which data are sorted into categories.
Ordinal Scale:
The scale of measurement in which data are arranged in rank order.
Interval Scale:
The scale of measurement characterized by equal intervals (i.e. distances) between points in the scale.
Ratio Scale:
The scale of measurement characterized by equal intervals between points in the scale and a true zero.
Mode:
The most common score: a measure of central tendency.
Median:
The middle score in a distribution of scores; a measure of central tendency
Mean:
The arithmetic average; a measure of central tendency.
Range:
A descriptive statistic that expresses the spread of distribution.
Standard deviation:
A descriptive statistic that expresses the amount of variability within a set of scores.
Correlation:
A descriptive statistic that expresses the degree of relationship between two sets of scores.
Norm-Referenced Tests:
A test that compares a student’s performance with that of the students in the norm group.
Inductive Instruction:
When it has some sort of exploratory discovery task the student performs with help of teacher
