Assessing Learners with Special Needs: An Applied Approach -- Enhanced Pearson eText / Edition 8

by Terry Overton

Overview

An applied approach to assessing learners with special needs from early childhood through transition.
Assessing Learners with Special Needs provides a practical, step-by-step approach to assessing students with learning challenges from early childhood through transition. This hands-on guide presents a clear map for assessing student mastery of material through interactive learning activities.

For undergraduate and graduate courses in Special Education Assessment.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780134019499
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	12/24/2014
Edition description:	8th Revised ed.
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Terry Overton has experience as a special education classroom teacher, educational diagnostician, and consults with school districts regularly as a Nationally Certified School Psychologist. She conducts research in the area of autism spectrum disorders and assessment and she continues to provide professional development to school districts to assist with the implementation of RTI models.

Table of Contents

Brief Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction to Assessment 1

1. Introduction
2. Laws, Ethics, and Issues

Part II: Technical Prerequisites of Understanding Assessment

1. Descriptive Statistics
2. Reliability and Validity
3. An Introduction to Norm-Referenced Assessment

Part III: Assessing Students

1. Curriculum-Based Assessment and Other Informal Measures
2. Response to Intervention and Progress Monitoring
3. Academic Assessment
4. Assessment of Behavior
5. Measures of Intelligence and Adaptive Behavior
6. Special Considerations of Assessment in Early Childhood
7. Special Considerations of Transition

Part IV: Interpretation of Assessment Results

1. Interpreting Assessment for Educational Intervention

Glossary

References

Name Index

Subject Index