Assessment and Eligibility

Question 1

What is an authentic assessment?

Answer 1

Used in every day classroom activities and routines to gather information on student’s progress.

Question 2

What is a summative assessment?

Answer 2

at the end of an instructional unit. Unit exam, mid-term exam.

Question 3

What is the Council for Exceptional Children for?

Answer 3

Serves youth with intellectual disabilities, children who are gifted and talented, and children who are abused and neglected.

Question 4

What is a functional behavior assessment?

Answer 4

A problem-solving process for addressing a student’s problem behavior using a variety of techniques and strategies

Question 5

What is cognitive behavioral management?

Answer 5

A method of training students to recognize and replace destructive thought patterns with constructive thought patterns

Question 6

What is manifestation determination

Answer 6

A process that determines whether a problem behavior is attributable to a student’s disability or is it behavior

Question 7

What is a performance based assessment?

Answer 7

measures students’ ability to apply the skills and knowledge learned from a unit or units of study. Typically, the task challenges students to use their higher-order thinking skills to create a product or complete a process
examples: portfolio, lab, essay response

Question 8

What is a Criterion Referenced test used for?

Answer 8

To determine students’ mastery of skills at given performance levels
Example: Driver’s test, Advanced Placement exams