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Educational assessment: the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs.

Eligibility: fits/matches a set of requirement; qualifying for something.

Emotional/Behavioral Disorder: generally refers to a situation in which the student has significant or prominent problems adhering to the expected behavioral standards and/or in regulating their emotional state.

Emotional disturbance: inability to maintain emotional state and behavior within “normal” or accepted range of variation.

Evaluation: assessment or judgment of special characteristics such as intelligence, physical abilities, sensory abilities, learning preferences, and achievement.

Exceptionality: a term used by the Department of Education to identify patterns of strengths and needs common to groups of students. These strengths and needs may be: cognitive, emotional, behavioral, medical, social, and physical.

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