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Special Education Evaluation and Assessment

Understanding Tests and Assessments from LD OnLine
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/assessment/tests_measurements.html

Assessing Children for the Presence of a Disability - NICHCY News Digest (ND23)
http://www.nichcy.org/pubs/transum/nd23txt.htm

Glossary of Measurement from Harcourt Educational Measurement- Basic measurement concepts. To locate a term quickly, click on the first letter.
http://www.hbem.com/library/glossary.htm#perank

Some Things Parents Should Know About Testing from Harcourt Education Measurement. A series of questions and answers including explanations of stanine, percentile, grade equivalent, etc.
http://www.hbem.com/library/parents.htm

Assessments in Young Children from LD Online - Assessment is the process of gathering information about a student in order to make decisions about his or education. One kind of assessment procedure is testing. In elementary and secondary schools, tests are given routinely to measure the extent to which we profit from instruction.
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/early_identification/assessment_devareas.html

What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment? - A functional behavioral assessment, or analysis, is a process which seeks to identify the problem behavior a child or adolescent may exhibit, particularly in school, to determine the function or purpose of the behavior, and to develop interventions to teach acceptable alternatives to the behavior. This article is by the PACER Center which was created by
parents of children and youth with disabilities to help other parents and families facing similar challenges.
http://www.pacer.org/parent/function.htm

Additional Assessment Resources on Parentpals.com

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