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Shara L. Cabreros – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify and describe the assessment models school psychologists use to identify African American students with SLDs in three of the K-12 school districts in Riverside County. A second purpose of this study was to determine how school psychologists within three districts of Riverside County…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, African American Students, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Shenoy, Sunaina – Berkeley Review of Education, 2014
English language learners (ELLs) who are in the process of acquiring English as a second language for academic purposes, are often misidentified as having Language Learning Disabilities (LLDs). Policies regarding the assessment of ELLs have undergone many changes through the years, such as the introduction of a Response to Intervention (RTI)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Impairments, Language Skills
Henley, Natasha; Furlong, Michael – California School Psychologist, 2006
The revised "Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Education Act" (2004) and subsequent Federal Regulations promote the use of alternative process of identifying students with specific learning disabilities based on how well a student responds to researched-based interventions. As these strategies are implemented, school…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Campuses, Intervention, School Psychologists
Rueda, Robert; And Others – 1985
The study examined performance of limited-English proficient Hispanic students on a battery of psychometric instruments designed to appropriately assess linguistic minority students. Subjects consisted of three groups: 44 nonhandicapped, 45 learning-disabled, and 39 mildly mentally retarded elementary-level students. Instruments included the…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Measurement, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
Barrows, Patricia L.; And Others – CAPED Journal, 1989
Learning Skills Services, a federally funded student support service program, is responsible for learning disability assessment and provision of a continuum of services at Sonoma State University in Northern California. In response to the perceived lack of assessment and procedures standards for identifying learning-disabled students at the state…
Descriptors: College Students, Delivery Systems, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods
McLarty, Joyce – 1982
Educators designing procedures for identifying students as learning disabled are faced with serious technical difficulties. A student with a learning disability is one who "has a severe discrepancey between achievement and intellectual ability" in one or more designated areas. The methods of quantifying achievement, intellectual ability,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Handicap Identification
Disability Rights Advocates, Inc., Oakland, CA. – 2001
This report from a blue ribbon panel of experts convened by Disability Rights Advocates, Inc. and the Oregon Department of Education addresses the interplay between standardized examinations and students with learning disabilities. The report describes in detail the accommodations, alternate assessments, appeals procedures, and other safeguards…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Court Litigation, Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation
Plakos, John; And Others – 1989
The report documents the first stage of an 18-month study to determine the effectiveness of existing California legislation for identification of 3- to 5-year old children with special needs. Local service sites (N=112) responded to a questionnaire which addressed implementation of eligibility criteria at local sites, improvement of the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Disabilities, Eligibility, Evaluation Methods