Policy – Category 5000 (Students) BP 5002 – Assessment and Evaluation
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Assessment Requirements An individual comprehensive assessment of a child must be conducted according to the following Education Code requirements: 1. Assessment materials and procedures must be selected and administered so as not to be racially, culturally, or sexually discriminatory. 2. Tests and other assessment materials must meet all of the following requirements: a. Are provided and administered in the language and form most likely to yield accurate information on what the child knows and can do academically, developmentally, and functionally, unless it is not feasible. b. Have been validated for the specific purpose for which they are used. c. Are administered by trained personnel in conformance with the instructions provided by the producer of the tests and other assessment materials, except that individually administered tests of intellectual or emotional functioning shall be administered by a credentialed school psychologist; and d. Are selected and administered to ensure that they measure the extent to which the child has a disability and needs special education, rather than measuring the child’s English language skills. 3. Tests and other assessment materials include those tailored to assess specific areas of educational need, and not merely those which are designed to provide a single general intelligence quotient. 4. Tests are selected and administered to best ensure that when a test is administered to a child with impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills, the assessment results accurately reflect the child’s aptitude, achievement level, or any other factors the test purports to measure and not the child’s impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills unless those skills are the factors the test purports to measure. 5. No single measure for evaluation will be used as the sole criterion for determining an educational program for a child with a disability. 6. The child is assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability including, if appropriate, health and development, vision (including low vision), hearing, motor abilities, language function, general intelligence, academic performance, communicative status, self-help, orientation and mobility skills, career and vocational abilities and interests, and social and emotional status. A
BP 5002 – Assessment and Evaluation
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Desert Mountain Charter Special Education Local Plan Area (DMCS) (rev. 11/16)
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