D755: Assessment for Special Education

Assessment for Special Education builds the full MTSS-to-eligibility assessment pipeline — how data actually drives decisions about a student's educational placement and progress.

What D755 covers

The course prepares special education teachers to use multiple methods of assessment and data sources in making educational decisions concerning the student and their learning environment. It provides an understanding of how assessment data is used during screening in multitiered systems of support (MTSS), the eligibility process, the evaluation process, progress monitoring, and data-based instructional decision making.

The D755 performance assessment

Expect a performance assessment requiring you to interpret assessment data for a given student and make an eligibility or instructional recommendation grounded in that data.

Key topics in D755

• MTSS screening
• Eligibility and evaluation processes
• Progress monitoring
• Data-based instructional decisions

Writing tips for D755

Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line

WGU performance assessments for D755 are graded against a fixed rubric — every rubric line has to be visibly addressed, usually with a labeled heading that mirrors the rubric language. Skipping a rubric point because it seems minor is the single most common reason a competent submission comes back "Not Yet Competent" for revision.

Ground every claim in a specific student with exceptionalities, not "special education" in the abstract

Special Education courses like D755 typically ask you to apply legal frameworks, assessment data, or instructional strategies to a specific student scenario. Evaluators are checking whether your reasoning fits that concrete student's actual needs — vague, generic statements about "supporting all students" usually lose rubric points for lacking that individualized specificity.

Because WGU is self-paced, don't let "no deadline pressure" become no submission

There's no weekly due date forcing progress, which means procrastination costs more at WGU than at a traditional term-based school — a stalled task can quietly eat weeks of a term. Treat your own target date for each D755 assessment as a real deadline.

Why students seek help with D755

Candidates sometimes make a recommendation without tracing it back to specific data points in the given assessment — the rubric typically wants that data-to-decision link made explicit, not a recommendation asserted on its own.

How GradeEssays helps with D755

Share your assessment scenario and rubric, and your writer will build a recommendation explicitly traced back to the specific data provided.

Prerequisites and program context

D755 has no listed additional prerequisites. Part of WGU's undergraduate Special Education teacher-licensure curriculum.

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