Legal Issues in Assessment-Cover

Module 2: Legal Issues in Assessments

In this second module, you will begin to look at the legislation that plays a role in assessment and with a focus on how it impacts an IEP development.

Special Education as you know has a lot of oversight from legal sanctioning bodies because the Special Education process has traditionally been an adversarial process. So that means you have to pay special attention to ensuring that the child has all their rights met. The introduction of all these laws can be a real help to a psychometrist and any IEP team member because the law is so very clear on how to ensure that the child gets his educational needs met.

This module has a high concentration of readings from Special Education advocacy groups. Sit back relax and get ready to fill your mind with important information about assessments and the law.

Two interesting sites for looking at Special Education Court Cases are:

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jde7/ese504/class/advanced/publiclaw.html
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jde7/ese504/class/advanced/courtcases.html

Chapter Readings and Responses for this Module

Chapter 3 Legal and Ethical Considerations in Assessments

Objective

2.Recognize key litigation, laws, ethical issues, trends, and case studies relevant to the evaluation and assessment of the disability groups addressed by this course.

4. Understand the special education process of student identification, evaluation, eligibility, Individual Education Plan development, and other forms of programmatic documentation

Assignments:

Reading 1: 10 tips

Assignment 1: 10 tips

Reading 2: Laws and Regulations

Assignment 2: Laws and Regulations

Reading 3: Legalities in Special Education

Assignment 3: Legalities in Special Education

Personal Tests

Go on to Module 3: Special Education and Assessment
or
Go back to Module 1: Psychology of Assessment

E-mail J'Anne or Martha Affeld at Janne.Affeld@nau.edu

Course developed by J'Anne & Martha Affeld