Fw: Able2Learn Evaluation Checklist, IEP evaluation

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Subject: [kansascityautism] Able2Learn Evaluation ChecklistTo: autism@...Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 12:13 PM

Able2Learn Evaluation Checklist

Child¢s Name: Date:

Scope of Evaluations

Yes or No Are the members of the IEP team involved in ongoing case record review

Yes or No Does the team have accurate information regarding the child¢s current levels of academic functioning?

Yes or No Does the evaluation provide information regarding the child¢s current levels of functioning in the communication domain?

Yes or No Does the evaluation provide information regarding the child¢s current levels of functioning in the social domain?

Yes or No Does the evaluation provide information regarding the child¢s current levels of functioning in the area of life skills?

Yes or No Does the evaluation provide information regarding the child¢s current levels of functioning in the adaptive and mental health domains?

Yes or No Does the evaluation provide information regarding the child¢s current level of functioning in the areas of health and physical skills? Yes or No Is the proposed scope of the evaluations calculated to answer all of the questions raised by the parents and other members of the IEP team? Yes or No Does the evaluation solicit information from the child¢s teachers? Yes or No Does the evaluation solicit information form the child¢s parents? Yes or No Does the evaluation include a review of school attendance records? Yes or No Does the evaluation include a review of school disciplinary records? Yes or No Does the evaluation include a review of school grades? Yes or No Does the evaluation include measures of how the child is performing relative to age cohorts? Yes or No Does the evaluation include measures of how the child is performing relative to current IEP goals? Yes or No Does the evaluation include measures to assess the child¢s generalization of skills from school to home? Yes or No Does the evaluation include measures to provide information about the child¢s learning style?

Yes or No Does the evaluation include measures to assess the child¢s generalization of skills form school to the community? Yes or No Is the evaluation reasonable calculated to identify strengths that the child may use to work around or compensate for disabilities? IDEA Basic Required Features

Yes or No Are a variety of assessment tools being employed? Yes or No Are the employed measures valid? Yes or No Are the employed measures reliable? Yes or No Are the employed measures technically sound? Yes or No Are the measures employed free of racial bias? Yes or No Are the measures employed administered in my child¢s first language by a person fluent in that language? Yes or No Are the measures employed normed on children who speak my child¢s first language? Yes or No Are multiple measures being employed to assess each area of suspected handicapping condition? Yes or No Is the evaluation reasonably calculated to assess ALL areas of suspected handicapping conditions? Yes or No Are all of the measures and tools to be employed in the child¢s assessment process being administered in accord with the publisher¢s directions? Yes or No Are all the measures and tools to be employed in the child¢s assessment processing being administered by knowledgeable personnel trained in tests and measurement? Utility of Evaluation on Development of an Appropriate IEP the

Yes or No Does the evaluation provide sufficient information to enable the school team to address the child¢s academic needs on the IEP? Yes or No Does the evaluation provide sufficient information to enable the school team to address the child¢s social needs on the IEP? Yes or No Does the evaluation provide sufficient information to enable the school team to address the child¢s emotional needs on the IEP? Yes or No Does the evaluation provide sufficient information to enable the school team to address he child¢ physical needs? Yes or No Does the evaluation provide sufficient information to enable the school team to address the child¢s communication needs? Yes or No Does the evaluation provide sufficient information to enable the school team to address the child¢s pre-employability/ employability needs? Yes or No Does the evaluation provide sufficient information to enable the school team to address the child¢s life skills needs? Yes or No Does the evaluation provide sufficient information to enable the school team to address the child¢s community based instructional needs? Yes or No Is the evaluation as planned and implemented, reasonably calculated to provide the IEP team members with enough data to enable the team to develop an appropriate IEP that will insure meaningful progress? Yes or No Does the evaluation as planned and implemented permit us to assess the student¢s level of progress by comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges from the last assessment? Yes or No Is the evaluation reasonably calculated to provide information about needed accommodations to develop an IEP that will increase the student¢s progress? Yes or No Is the evaluation reasonably calculated to provide information about needed related services to develop an IEP that will increase the student¢s progress? Yes or No Is the evaluation reasonably calculated to provide information about needed community based instruction to develop an IEP that will increase the student¢s progress? Yes or No Is the evaluation reasonably calculated to provide information about needed modifications to develop an IEP that will increase the student¢s progress? Yes or No Is the evaluation reasonably calculated to provide information about needed assistive technology to develop an IEP that will increase the student¢s progress? Yes or No Is the evaluation reasonably calculated to provide information about the student¢s learning style to develop an IEP that will increase the student¢s progress? Yes or No Is the evaluation reasonably calculated to provide information about the student¢s ability to generalize skills learned in school to home and the community? Copy right 4/2008 S. L. Crum, B.S., M.S., Ph.D. Sherri R. Tucker

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