Desert Mountain Charter SELPA Policies and Procedures

Policy – Category 5000 (Students) BP 5002 – Assessment and Evaluation

measure IQ and their construct validity is partially or fully determined through correlations with other IQ tests. A supplement to these DMCS guidelines will address information regarding assessment for intelligence of African American children as it becomes available. See Appendix A for an opinion letter regarding the propriety of administering IQ tests to African American students. 14. In conducting an assessment, the Charter LEA must use a variety of assessment tools and strategies to gather relevant functional, developmental, and academic information about the child including information provided by the parent that may assist in determining whether the child is a child with a disability and the content of the child’s IEP, including information related to enabling the child to be involved in and progress in the general curriculum. 15. English Learners (ELs) California Education Code § 56320(b) . Tests and other assessment materials meet all of the following requirements: (1) are provided and administered in the language and form most likely to yield accurate information on what the pupil knows and can do academically, developmentally, and functionally, unless it is not feasible to so provide or administer as required by Section 1414(b)(3)(A)(ii) of Title 20 of the United States Code. Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations § 3001(q) . “Primary Language” means the language other than English, or other mode of communication, the person first learned, or the language which is used in the person’s home. According to the California Department of Education publication, Guidelines for Individual Evaluations of California Students with Disabilities, Birth Through Age Twenty-One, 1999, changes occurred in IDEA 1997 that relate to evaluation requirements for English learners who are suspected of having a disability. Per that document: a. The definition of native language was changed in IDEA 1997 to refer to the language normally used by the parents of the English-learning child. If a disability is suspected, school districts should provide and administer tests and other evaluative procedures using the child’s native language or other mode of communication, unless it is clearly not feasible to do so.

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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