Developing a special education assessment plan Task description: Develop a special education assessment plan to assess a students eligibility for special education Criteria: 1. Reason(s) for the assessment 2. Assessment areas 3. Selecting and administrating tests (Racial, cultural or linguistic) 4. Administering tests that can yield accurate information 5. Selecting and administering tests that measures students disability and special needs, rather then students English language skills 6. Selecting tests that assess specific areas of educational needs 7. Using variety of assessment tools to gather developmental information about the student 8. Obtain information about how the student is involved and progress in the general curriculum 9. The types of staff who will conduct the assessment The special education assessment plan describes: The reason(s) for the assessment. The assessment areas that will be assessed. A. Assessing the student in all areas of suspected disability. The types of assessments that will be included. A. Selecting and administering tests and other assessment materials that are not racially, culturally, or linguistically discriminatory. B. Administering tests and other assessment materials in the language and form most likely to yield accurate information on what the student knows and can do academically, developmentally and functionally unless it is not feasible to provide or administer. C. Selecting and administering tests and other assessment materials to assess an English Language Learner that measure the extent to which the student has a disability and needs special education, rather than measuring the students English language skills. D. Selecting tests and other assessment materials that assess specific areas of educational need and are not designed to provide a single intelligence quotient. E. Using a variety of assessment tools and strategies to gather relevant functional and developmental information about the student. F. Obtaining information about how the student is involved and progressing in the general curriculum. The types of staff who will conduct the assessments.
