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a. Selected and administered so as not to be discriminatory on a racial or cultural basis;
b. Provided and administered in the student’s native language or other mode of communication, and in the form most likely to yield accurate information on what level the student is and can do academically, developmentally, and functionally, unless it is clearly not feasible to do so;
c. Used for the purposes for which the assessments or measures are valid and reliable;
d. Administered by trained and knowledgeable personnel;
e. Administered in accordance with instructions provided by the producer of the assessments (Note: if an assessment is not conducted under standard conditions, a description of the extent to which it varied from standard conditions; for example., the qualifications of the person administering the test, or the method of test administration must be included in the evaluation report.);
f. Tailored to assess specific areas of educational need and not merely those designed to provide a single general intelligence quotient;
g. Selected and administered so as best to ensure that if an assessment is administered to a student with impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills, the assessment results accurately reflect the student’s aptitude or achievement level or whatever other factors the test purports to measure, rather than reflecting the student’s impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills (unless those skills are the factors that the test purports to measure).
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