Question

Define the following Key terms as used in Chapter 10 of the Book “The Exceptional Child: Inclusion in Early Childhood Education, portfolio, prosthesis, pull-out services, reliable

Answer 1

Portfolios are used to assess developmental progress among learners as they contain samples of the learner's work and shows growth over time.

Prosthesis refers to an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trauma, disease, or congenital conditions.

Pull out services are individual instructions that are given to learners with the special education teacher in another setting outside of the general education classroom.

Reliability is an important property of a standardized tool and refers to the degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consistent results.