ability
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Secondary Characteristics: A Performance Factor
For students with a disability, performance does not align with ability. In my view, there are 3 different categories of performance factors: the disability, gaps in achievement, and secondary characteristics. (Percents are contrived to provide a visual representation.) To address these secondary characteristics, which manifest as a set of behaviors, I suggest a focus on…
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Secondary Characteristics – Math Anxiety
Watch the video of 2 students, 1 with ADHD. You will notice differences. Some differences are directly related to ADHD. Others are the result of secondary characteristics. In special education these are characteristics of a student that result not from the disability but from how the disability plays out in an academic and other settings.…
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Performance vs Ability
In the effort to assess student ability performance factors are likely present. It is incumbent upon the educators to mitigate the performance issues to assess true ability. For example, I conducted an evaluation on a student in middle school who has ADHD. All of her testing records indicated that she would lose focus during the…