Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Overton, Terry

Titel

Assessing learners with special needs: An applied approach. 6th ed

Ort / Verlag

Upper Saddle River, NJ u.a: Merrill

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The process of monitoring and assessing students within the general education environment who have academic and behavioral challenges continues to change as a result of changes in federal regulations and discovery of evidence-based practices. [This book] was written to reflect these changes in the assessment process. ... The primary focus of this text is to provide students with a practical approach for learning about the complex procedures of the assessment process. [It] presents complex concepts ... and provides students with practice exercises in a step-by-step manner. Students also have portions of assessment instruments, protocols, and scoring tables provided as part of this practice exercises. Students will participate in the educational decision-making process using data from classroom observations, curriculum-based assessment, functional behavioural assessment, and data from norm-referenced assessment. This text is divided into four parts. Part 1 ... introduces students to the basic concepts in assessment and types of assessment. This part also presents the legal issues of assessment in IDEA 2004 and ethical concerns of assessment. Part 2 ... addresses the topics of descriptive statistics, reliability, and validity. Part 3 ... presents the mechanics of both informal and formal assessment. Students practice curriculum-based assessment, behavioural assessment, and norm-referenced assessment. Part 4 ... discusses interpretation of data for classroom interventions, eligibility decisions, and educational planning. Numerous case studies are included in this section. (DIPF/Orig.).