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Prepared by: Sir Redz
 Topics
• Assessment in Special Education
• Testing
• Difference between Assessment and
Testing
• Legal Bases of Assessment for
Individuals with Disabilities

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 Introduction
This topic discusses the importance of
assessment in the field of Special Education.
Knowing its importance will enable to better
understand what the students have learned
and then decide what steps they will take to
improve the learning environment.
Assessment also allows teachers to recognize
student’s difficulties in school and their
advancement toward goals. In this way,
teachers are able to modify their teaching
methods to aid the students to become
successful.
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A S S E S S M E N T
ASSESSMENT IS THE
PROCESS OF COLLECTING
D ATA F O R T H E P U R P O S E O F
MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT
ST U D ENTS O R S C H O O L . I T
AIMS TO AID TEACHERS IN
U N D E RSTA N D I N G T H E
LEVEL OF EVERY STUDENT
AND DECIDE THE NEXT
STEPS TO BE UTILIZED IN
ORDER TO ENSURE PROPER
L E A R N I N G . ( S A LV I A ,
Y S S E L D Y K E , A N D B O LT,
2010)
 Assessment in
Special Education
In the discipline of Special Education,
assessment can be defined as “the
systematic process of gathering
educational relevant information to
make legal and instructional
decisions about the provision of
special services”(McLoughlin and
Lewis, 2008).

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 Assessment in
Special Education
Assessment in Special Education should be
considered as continuous. To note, assessment
should be an ideally ongoing process.
Assessment should also be done systematically
to answer important questions that are
educationally relevant. Therefore, it should serve
a definite purpose of catering highly
individualized instructional plans for the student
with disability. In other words, each program is
designed to fulfill a specific purpose of
addressing the needs of the student with
disability.
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 Testing is a form of assessment where students
are presented with different specific problems
for them to answer and as a result, they are
expected to gain a specific score. Test is also
considered a procedure for evaluation by
means of determining the presence, quality, or
truth of something. A test may consist of series
of questions, problems, or physical responses
designed to determine knowledge,
Testing intelligence, or ability. Thus, it is considered as
a reliable basis for evaluation or judgement
that gives teachers quantitative data.

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 Knowing the difference between
assessment and testing is important
Difference with regard to student’s learning
between behavior. In testing, assessment
Assessment normally results to labeling. The
and Testing result of test determines the service
that the students need. Hence, the
teacher should not be too quick to
assess his student. In Special
Education, students who have
difficulty in reading are not readily
labeled as dyslexic; rather, they are
diagnosed to have reading
difficulties.
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Legal Bases
of
Assessment
for
Individuals
with
Disabilities

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 Individuals
with The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) was
Disabilities previously patterned after the Public Law 94-142
or the Education for All Handicapped Children
Act (IDEA) Act. The specific purposes of the law includes the
following: (1) to insure publicly funded Special
education and related services for all
handicapped children no later than 1978; (2) to
insure the rights of handicapped children and
their parents and guardians; (3) to relieve the
Special Education financial burden of state and
local governments; and (4) to assess and insure
the effectiveness of efforts to educate
handicapped children.

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No Child Left This requires stronger accountability for results
Behind by specifying that schools must have challenging
(NCLB) educational standards, test children starting
grade 3 every year, and specify progress
objectives that ensure proficiency of every child.
(Salvia et al., 2012)

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