WHAT IS A BASIC CHILD STUDY TEAM EVALUATION:
According to the New Jersey Special Education Code, a Child Study Team evaluation may include an assessment by two or more of the following certified personnel: School Psychologist, Learning Disabilities Teacher-Consultant, and Social Worker.
Each evaluation of the student shall:
1. Include, where appropriate, or required, the use of a standardized test(s) which shall be:
- Individually administered;
- Valid and reliable;
- Normed on a representative population; and
- Scored as either standard score with standard deviation or norm referenced scores with a cutoff score.
2. Include functional assessment of academic performance and where appropriate, behavior. Each of the following components shall be completed by at least one evaluator:
- A minimum of one structured observation by one evaluator in other than a testing session;
- In the case of a student who is suspected of having a specific learning disability,
one evaluator shall observe the student's academic performance in the regular classroom; - An interview with the student's parent;
- An interview with the teacher(s) referring the potentially disabled student;
- A review of the student's developmental/educational history including records and interviews;
- A review of interventions documented by the classroom teacher(s) and others who work with the student; and
- One or more informal measure(s) which may include, but not be limited to surveys and inventories; analysis of
work; trial teaching; self report; criterion referenced tests; curriculum based assessment; and informal rating scales.
If necessary, evaluations will be conducted by other specialists: speech/language specialists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, audiologists, school nurses, and physicians.