exceptional child education - Jefferson County Public Schools

SECTION VI
TEST CRITERIA
Tests and other evaluation materials used to assess a child shall be:
(a) Selected and administered so as not to be discriminatory on a racial or cultural basis; and
(b) Provided and administered in the child’s native language or other mode of communication most likely to yield
accurate information on what the child knows and can do academically, developmentally, and functionally, unless it
is clearly not feasible to do so. 707 KAR 1:300, Section 4(2)
Materials and procedures used to assess a child with limited English proficiency shall be selected and administered to
ensure that they measure the extent to which the child has a disability and needs specially designed instruction and
related services, rather than measuring the child’s English language skills. 707 KAR 1:300, Section 4(4)
Tests shall be selected and administered so as best to ensure that if a test is administered to a child with impaired
sensory, manual, or speaking skills, the test results accurately reflect the child’s aptitude or achievement level or
whatever other factors the test purports to measure, rather than reflecting the child’s impaired sensory, manual, or
speaking skills (unless those skills are the factors that the test purports to measure). 707 KAR 1:300, Section 4(8)
When feasible, tests and evaluations are administered in the child’s or youth’s native language or his
or her mode of communication that is most likely to yield accurate information on what he or she
knows and can do academically, developmentally, and functionally. The ARC makes sure that
evaluators make accommodations for the mode of communication and language (e.g., signing,
gesturing, English, Spanish, Japanese) used by the child or youth and that results are
nondiscriminatory in terms of race, culture, sex, or disability.
If the child or youth uses a language other than English or uses an alternate mode of communication
(e.g., Bosnian, American Sign Language [ASL]), the lead psychologist/designee arranges for an
interpreter or translator to be present during the administration of tests and/or during assessment
procedures.
A determination that it is not feasible to administer an evaluation instrument in the native language
or to conduct an assessment in the alternate mode of communication is only made if, after
consultation with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) and each surrounding statesupported
institution of higher education within Kentucky, no translator or interpreter can be found.
Tests are selected and administered so as to best ensure that when a test is administered to a child or
youth with impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills, the test results accurately reflect the child’s
or youth’s aptitude or achievement level or whatever other factors the test purports to measure,
rather than reflecting the child’s or youth’s impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills (unless
those skills are the factors that the test purports to measure).
A variety of assessment tools and strategies shall be used to gather relevant functional, developmental, and academic
information about the child, including information provided by the parent, and information related to enabling the child
to be involved in and progress in the general curriculum described in the Kentucky Program of Studies, 704 KAR 3:303.
707 KAR 1:300, Section 4(5)
The following assessment tools and strategies may be used in the determination and implementation
of a full evaluation by the ARC and the evaluators.
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