Educational Diagnostician Exam ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Ability Test - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An assessment instrument used to measure an
individual's ability in a particular domain such as cognitive, psychomotor, or physical
functioning.
Accommodations - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Describe changes in format, response,
setting, timing, or scheduling that do not alter in any significant way what the assessment
instrument measures. Accommodations are designed to ensure that an assessment measures
the intended construct, not the child's disability.
Acculturation - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Refers to an individuals' understanding of the
language (including pragmatics), history, values, and social convections of society at large.
Achievement Tests - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An assessment instrument that measures
information that someone has learned.
Adaptive Behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Is the way individuals meet the
expectations of their physical and social environments. Includes such things as
communication, daily living skills, and socialization.
Adequate Yearly Progress AYP - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Measure of yearly progress
toward achieving state academic standards. "Adequate Yearly Progress" is the minimum level
of improvement that states, school districts and schools must achieve each year.
Age Equivalent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅In assessment, age equivalent means a child's
raw score is the mean score for a particular age group and is expressed in years and months;
For example, if children who are 11 years and 5 months old have a median score of 17 on a
test, the score 17 has an age equivalent of 11-5.
Aimline - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅On a progress monitoring chart, a line that connects a
student's baseline performance level with a learning goal.
, Anectdotal Information - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Information collected based on
personal experience or reported observations.
Articulation Disorder - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Speech disorder characterized by deficits
in the speaker's production of sounds such as lisps and stuttering.
Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The process of collecting information on an
individual in order to make educational decisions.
Assisstive Technology - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Refers to assistive, adaptive, and
rehabilitative devices for students with disabilities.
Auditory Discrimination - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Refers to the ability to detect
differences in sounds.
Auditory Figure Ground - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The ability to attend to one sound
against a background of another sound.
Auditory Memory - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Ability to retain information which has been
presented orally.
Auditory Processing - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The ability to perceive and process
information presented auditory
Authentic Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An assessment taking place in a real-life
setting often based on performance, examples include musical ability, athletic ability,
functional skills.
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Is often referred to
as "playground English" or "survival English." In ESL students, this language is more
developed than academic language skills.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Ability Test - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An assessment instrument used to measure an
individual's ability in a particular domain such as cognitive, psychomotor, or physical
functioning.
Accommodations - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Describe changes in format, response,
setting, timing, or scheduling that do not alter in any significant way what the assessment
instrument measures. Accommodations are designed to ensure that an assessment measures
the intended construct, not the child's disability.
Acculturation - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Refers to an individuals' understanding of the
language (including pragmatics), history, values, and social convections of society at large.
Achievement Tests - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An assessment instrument that measures
information that someone has learned.
Adaptive Behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Is the way individuals meet the
expectations of their physical and social environments. Includes such things as
communication, daily living skills, and socialization.
Adequate Yearly Progress AYP - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Measure of yearly progress
toward achieving state academic standards. "Adequate Yearly Progress" is the minimum level
of improvement that states, school districts and schools must achieve each year.
Age Equivalent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅In assessment, age equivalent means a child's
raw score is the mean score for a particular age group and is expressed in years and months;
For example, if children who are 11 years and 5 months old have a median score of 17 on a
test, the score 17 has an age equivalent of 11-5.
Aimline - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅On a progress monitoring chart, a line that connects a
student's baseline performance level with a learning goal.
, Anectdotal Information - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Information collected based on
personal experience or reported observations.
Articulation Disorder - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Speech disorder characterized by deficits
in the speaker's production of sounds such as lisps and stuttering.
Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The process of collecting information on an
individual in order to make educational decisions.
Assisstive Technology - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Refers to assistive, adaptive, and
rehabilitative devices for students with disabilities.
Auditory Discrimination - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Refers to the ability to detect
differences in sounds.
Auditory Figure Ground - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The ability to attend to one sound
against a background of another sound.
Auditory Memory - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Ability to retain information which has been
presented orally.
Auditory Processing - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The ability to perceive and process
information presented auditory
Authentic Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An assessment taking place in a real-life
setting often based on performance, examples include musical ability, athletic ability,
functional skills.
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Is often referred to
as "playground English" or "survival English." In ESL students, this language is more
developed than academic language skills.
