SAFMEDS

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A type of curriculum based assessment that emphasizes repeated, direct measurement of student performance

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CBM

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Individualized education program

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IEP

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Ongoing assessments that measures student progress regularly throughout the instructional period. Guides teachers to to modify and adjust instruction

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Formative (assessment)

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Final assessment of progress, administered at the end of a period of instruction. Determines how many skills or concepts a student has learned and retained over an extended period of time and overall effectiveness of instructional program

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Summative (assessment)

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Informal assessment device in which the informant judges or rates the performance of the student

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Rating scale

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In test administration, the point at which it can be assumed that the student would receive no credit for all more difficult test items

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Ceiling

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Changes to the educational program and assessment procedures and materials that do not substantially alter the instructional level, the content of the curriculum, or the assessment criteria

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Accommodations

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Assessment of past learning

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Achievement testing

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Collection of conceptual, social, and practical skills that individuals learn to function in their everyday lives

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Adaptive behavior

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Events that happen before a behavior

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Antecedents

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Technology that helps individuals with disabilities to learn, be independent, communicate, and lead productive lives

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Assistive technology

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Examples of student work that illustrate each scoring level on the assessment scale

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Benchmark

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Assessment that uses a word passage in which works are deleted according to a word-count formula

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Cloze procedure

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A score that is derived by combining the results of two or more contributing tests according to a specific formula. The score represents the student’s overall performance

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Composite score

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Events that follow the behavior

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consequences

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The extent to which a test measures a particular construct or concept

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Construct validity

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The extent to which the test items reflect the content they are designed to cover

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Content validity

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The extent to which two or more scores vary together

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Correlation

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A statistic that measures the correlation, or relationship, among tests, test items, scoring procedures, observations, or behavior ratings. It quantifies a relationship and provides information about whether there is a relationship, the strength of the relationship, and the direction of the relationship. Symbol is lowercase r.

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Correlation coefficient

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A test that measures a student’s test performance with respect to a well-defined content domain

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Criterion-referenced test (CRT)

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A prespecified score established to select or classify students

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Cut score

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A standard score with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 or 16

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Deviation IQ score

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Method of recording that measures the length of time a specific event or behavior persists

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Duration recording

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Approach that allows teachers to gather information about a student in more than one setting and to determine how the setting affects student behaviors or student functioning

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Ecological assessment

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A technique that identifies patterns or errors in student work

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Error analysis

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The process of establishing a value judgement based on the collection of actual data

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Evaluation

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Recording of a behavior each time it occurs during an observation period.

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Event recording

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Personal or professional perspectives that can interfere with the interpretation of assessment results

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Examiner bias

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The ability to use language to communicate information, thoughts, feelings, and ideas

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Expressive language

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A systematic process of gathering information that identifies the causes of and interventions for addressing problem behaviors

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FBA (Functional Behavioral assessment)

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Measure of the strength of a behavior

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Intensity recording

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Profess that involves presenting information so that it can be easily understood, providing alternatives, identifying risks and benefits, and accepting or consenting to the information proposed

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Informed consent

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An estimate of the extent to which two or more scorers, observers, and raters agree on how to score a test or how to observe behaviors

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Interobserver reliability

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Measure of the amount of time elapsed between a behavior or event and the beginning of the prespecified behavior

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Latency recording

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Behaviors that include anti-social, aggressive, withdrawal behaviors, delayed social skills, and difficulties with interpersonal relationships

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Maladaptive behaviors

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The average score

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mean

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The point on a scale above which and below which 50 percent of cases occur. The point or score that separates the top 50 percent and the bottom 50 percent

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Median

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The score that occurs most often in a group of scores; the most commonly occurring test score

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Mode

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Changes or adaptations made to the educational program or assessment that alter the level, content, and/or assessment criteria

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Modifications

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A test that compares a student test performance with that of similar students who have taken the same test

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Norm-referenced test

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Systematic process of gathering information by looking at the students and their environments

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Observation

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Demonstration of knowledge, skills, or behavior

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Performance-based assessment

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A score that translates student test performance into the percentage of the norm group that performed as well as or poorer than the student on the same test

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Percentile rank

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A systematic collection of students’ work, assembled over a period of time, that demonstrates the student’s efforts, progress, and achievement

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Portfolio

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Diagnostic technique that modifies instruction in order to determine whether an instructional strategy of effective

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Probe

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The adjustments that individuals make in behaviors during an observation

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Reactivity

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Consistency or stability of test performance

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Reliability

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A type of rating scale that describes various levels of student performance

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Rubric

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Score that is derived from raw scores according to a scaling process. Enhance test interpretation because these scores from one test may be compared with those from a second test.

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Scaled score

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Measure of the degree to which various scores derived from the mean, or average score

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Standard deviation

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Test in which the administration, scoring, and interpretation procedures are prescribed in the test manual and must be strictly followed.

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Standardized test

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The process that occurs two or three times during the year to identify students who are experiencing difficulties with age appropriate skills

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Universal screening

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The extent to which a test measures what is says it measures

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Validity