For courses in Assessment of Students with Special Needs. With a new focus on curriculum-based assessment, this easy-to-follow text provides all of the information future teachers need in order to make optimal use of formal and informal assessments to inform and improve daily instructional practice in the classroom. The only text on the market to explicitly link assessment to IEPs, it focuses primarily on students with mild to moderate disabilities, while including significant material appropriate for the assessment of those with severe disabilities. In short, this one volume incorporates ways to use formal and informal assessments, tests, and measurements to help students of all ages, all grade levels, and all abilities grow, develop, and learn to the maximum extent possible.
Assessing Students with Special Needs FROM THE PUBLISHER This comprehensive, yet straightforward text covers the processes and procedures for assessing students with special needs at all age levels, beginning with preschoolers and continuing into adulthood. A broad range of performance levels is also discussed, including mild, moderate, and severe disabilities, features include: strong coverage of curriculum-based assessment integrated throughout the text (emphasis in Part IV), including a discussion of portfolio assessment; a case or mini-scenario at the beginning of each chapter to help facilitate reader comprehension and understanding of core chapter content; diversity and technology issues meaningfully integrated into each chapter to make the discussion relevant to the topic at hand; and issues, content, and concepts related to specific CEC and PRAXIS standards addressed in each chapter; a listing of these standards can be found at the end of each chapter.
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