What are the federal requirements that ensure appropriate and accurate special education assessment for multicultural students?
Federal law requires: (1) Tests must be selected and administered so as not to be racially, culturally, or sexually discriminatory; (2) Tests must be administered in the student’s primary language or other mode of communication; (3) Tests must be validated for the specific purpose for which they are used; (4) Testing must assess specific areas of educational need and not merely produce a single general intelligence quotient (no single procedure can be used as the sole criterion for determining an appropriate educational program for a student); (5) When a student with impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills is being tested, the testing must ensure that the results accurately reflect the student’s aptitude or achievement level, and not the student’s impaired skills, unless those skills are to be measured by the testing; (6) A student must be assessed in all areas related to a suspected disability, including, where appropriate, health and development, vision (including low vision), h
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