Student opinions, surveys, focus groups or other methods used to measure student knowledge on a topic.

The documentation of a family and its interaction with people, locations, and events using a loosely-structured interview.

A numerical or qualitative scale used to record whether students exhibit specific skills or behaviors.

A written record for documenting a particular student or group of students’ activities at a given time.

A written record kept by the teacher of skills or behaviors he or she wants the students to exhibit in the classroom.

Checklists that allow a teacher to quickly note how frequently a specific behavior is exhibited in class.

Forms a teacher uses to quickly record the skills or behaviors of students in a classroom.

Written records about a class’s progress toward a learning standard or other educational goal made by the teacher.

The degree to which an assessment accurately measures the skill, knowledge or characteristic it was designed to measure.

A model in which the teacher grades a student based on the targets set by a multidisciplinary team. The five-step process provides a child with a disability, with a developmental delay, or for whom English is a second language with fair and meaningful grades.