Given What You Have Learned About Testing and Its Legal

question 44

Essay

Given what you have learned about testing and its legal ramifications in regard to education, what steps would you take to ensure the best possible evaluation of a school-age member in your family, should they need to be evaluated for a learning disability? What particular test or tests would you want (or not want)to be administered to the child? Why or why not?

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Definitions:

Filter Irrelevant Content

The process of identifying and eliminating content that is not pertinent or useful to a specific purpose or audience.

Primary Data

Data collected firsthand by the researcher for a specific research purpose, through surveys, interviews, or experiments.

Sample Frame

A list or database from which a statistical sample is drawn for a research or survey.

Survey Research

A research method involving the collection of information from a sample of individuals through their responses to questions.