Assessing Learners with Special Needs: An Applied Approach

by Overton, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780131599574
• ISBN10: 0131599577
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This top-selling book continues its focus of showing teachers how to do formal and informal assessments in the classroom using practical examples to explain difficult concepts.This most recent revision of Assessing Learners with Special Needs: An Applied Approach includes thorough explanations of the IDEA 2004 Regulations including RTI (response to intervention) and Early Intervening Services. Moreover, this text includes more applied exercises within the textbook. To address the increasing importance of accurate assessment of students with pervasive developmental disorders such as autism, the most widely researched diagnostic instruments are included. K-12 Special Education and General Education Teachers.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Assessment

An Introduction

CEC Knowledge and Skills Standards

Assessment: A Necessary Part of Teaching

Monitor Your Progress

Historical and Contemporary Models of Assessment

Contemporary Model of Assessment

Evaluating Student Progress in the Classroom

Designing an Assessment Plan

Assessing the Whole Child: Cultural Considerations

Law, Ethics, and Issues

CEC Knowledge and Skills Standards

The Law: Public Law 94-142 and IDEA IDEA and Assessment

Evaluating Children with Specific Learning Disabilities

Meeting the Needs of Persons with Attention Disorders

IEP Team Evaluation

Determining Eligibility

Parent Participation

Developing the Individualized Education Program

Transition Services

Due Process

Impartial Due Process Hearing

Section 504

Research and Issues Concerning IDEA

Issues of Nondiscriminatory Assessment

Disproportionality

The Multidisciplinary Team and the Decision-Making Process

Least Restrictive Environment

Impartial Hearings

Ethics and Standards

Technical Prerequisites of Understanding Assessment

Descriptive Statistics

CEC Knowledge and Skills Standards

Why Is Measurement Important?

Getting Meaning from Numbers

Review of Numerical Scales

Descriptive Statistics

Measures of Central Tendency

Average Performance

Measures of Dispersion

Mean Differences

Skewed Distributions

Types of Scores

Reliability and Validity

CEC Knowledge and Skills Standards

Reliability and Validity in Assessment

Correlation

Methods of Measuring Reliability

Which Type of Reliability Is the Best?

Standard Error of Measurement

Estimated True Scores

Test Validity

Reliability versus Validity

Introduction to Norm-Referenced Assessment

CEC Knowledge and Skills Standards

How Norm-Referenced Tests are Constructed Basic S

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