Chapter 10

• A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.

  Specific learning disability
• A multilevel prevention framework applied in educational settings that is designed to maximize student achievement through the use of data that identifies students at risk for poor learning outcomes combined with evidence-based intervention and teaching that is adjusted on the basis of student responsiveness.

  Response to intervention model
• Refers to the use of interventions tailored to students individual needs that are selected by a multidisciplinary team of school professionals.

  Problem solving model
• This has been used to describe a multidisciplinary approach to evaluation that assimilates input from relevant sources.

  Integrative assessment
• It is an approach to assessment that departs from reliance on and can be contrasted to fixed tests.

  Dynamic assessment
• The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by individual problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.

  Zone proximal development
• Designed to measure accomplishment.

  Achievement tests
• Tests that cover a number of academic areas are typically divided into several subtests.

  Achievement batteries
• Pretests administered to determine the level of the actual test most appropriate for administration.

  Locator tests
• A term used to refer to assessment of information acquired from teachings at school.

  Curriculum based assessment
• A characterized by the use of standardized measurement procedures to derive local norms to be used in the evaluation of student performance on curriculum based tasks.

  Curriculum based measurement
• Tests that tend to focus more on informal learning or life experiences.

  Aptitude tests
• Tests that are typically used to make predictions.

  Prognostic tests
• A questionnaire on which marks are made to indicate the presence or absence of a specified behavior, thought, event, or circumstance.


  Checklist.
• A nonsystematic relatively brief, and "off the record" assessment leading to the formation of an opinion or attitude conducted by any person, in any way for any reason in an unofficial context that is not subject to the ethics or other standards of an evaluation by a professional.

  Informal evaluation
• A 100 item multiple choice analogy test that draws not only on the examinee's ability to perceive relationships but also on general intelligence, vocabulary, and academic learning.


  Miller analogies test
• A tool used to identify areas of deficit to be targeted for intervention.

  Diagnostic test
• A paper and pencil measure of reading readiness, reading achievement, and reading difficulties takes between 15 ad 45 minutes to administer the entire battery.


  Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised (WRMT-III; Woodcock, 2011)
• A psychoeducational test package consisting of two co-normed batteries: Test of Achievement; and the Test of Cognitive Abilities.


  Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV)
• A work sample designed to elicit representative knowledge, skills, and values from a particular domain of study.

  Performance task
• An evaluation of performance tasks according to criteria developed by experts from the domain of study tapped by those tasks.

  Performance Assessment
• Refers to the evaluation of one's work samples.

  Portfolio Assessment