Assessing Learners with Special Needs: An Applied Approach, seventh edition, is a practical book designed to teach you about the complex procedures of the assessment process. Each chapter starts out with a chapter focus that contains CEC Knowledge and Skills Standards that show you what you are expected to master in the chapter. Concepts are presented in a step by step manner followed by exercises that help you understand each step. Portions of assessment instruments, protocols, and scoring tables are provided to help you with the practice exercises.
Additionally, you will participate in the educational decision making process using data from classroom observations, curriculum based assessment, functional behavior assessment, and norm-referenced assessment. New to the seventh edition: An emphasis on progress monitoring, including progress monitoring applied to the acquisition of knowledge and skills presented in this text. The assessment process according to the regulations of IDEA 2004. A separate chapter on transition issues and assessment. A separate chapter on assessment in infancy and early childhood. A new chapter on the measurement aspects of Response to Intervention. Increased consideration of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the assessment process.
Part 1 Introduction to Assessment
1. An Introduction
2. Laws, Ethics, and Issues
Part 2 Technical Prerequisites of Understanding Assessment
3. Descriptive Statistics
4. Reliability and Validity
5. An Introduction to Norm-Referenced Assessment
Part 3 Assessing Students
6. Curriculum-Based Assessment and Other Informal Measures
7. Response to Intervention and Progress Monitoring
8. Academic Assessment
9. Assessment of Behavior
10. Measures of Intelligence and Adaptive Behavior
11. Special considerations of Assessment in Early Childhood
12. Special considerations of Transition
Part 4 Interpretation of Assessment Results
13. Interpreting Assessment for Educational Intervention