SPED 363 Flashcards
What is an assessment?
Term for observing, gathering, recording, and interpreting information to answer questions and make instructional decisions about students.
What is Response to intervention (RTI)?
A process of identifying students experiencing difficulties and providing specific interventions to address areas of concern before children fail.
What are Accommodations?
Changes to the education program and assessment procedures and materials that do not substantially alter the instructional level, the content of the curriculum, or the assessment criteria.
What are modifications?
Refer to changes or adaptations made to the educational program or assessment that alter the level, content, and/or assessment criteria.
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Commonly referred to as the Buckley Amendment, it states that no educational agency may release student information without written consent from the student’s parents.
What is Universal Screening?
A procedure that occurs two or three times during the year to identify students who are experiencing difficulties with age-appropriate skills.
What is intervention fidelity?
The procedures and processes are carried out consistently with how they were designed and delivered to all students over time.
What is Progress Monitoring?
A process of regularly assessing student performance on general outcomes measures during RTI and making instructional decisions based on the data.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA)?
Discusses the increasing intensity and frequency of interventions used in RTI as a model to determine whether a student can succeed.
What is Curriculum-Based Measurement - (CBM)?
An assessment approach that links instruction with assessment and emphasizes repeated, direct measurement of student performance.
What is functional behavioral assessment (FBA)
It is a systematic process of gathering information that identifies the causes and interventions for addressing problem behaviors.
What is universal design?
A concept or philosophy for designing and delivering products and services usable by people with the widest possible range of functional capabilities, including products and services that are directly usable (without requiring assistive technologies) and products and services that are made usable with assistive technologies.
What is Assistive technology (AT)?
It helps individuals with disabilities to learn, be independent, communicate, and lead productive lives. According to IDEA, a student can receive AT devices and services if specifically included in the IEP.
What are transition services?
Services that the student will need during the transition to postsecondary education, employment, and/or community living.
What is an IEP (Individualized Education Program)?
The results of a comprehensive assessment. This document includes annual goals based on academic standards or behavioral expectations that the student will meet.
