Academic Skills Problems, Third Edition Direct Assessment and Intervention

by Shapiro, Edward S.

• ISBN13: 9781572309777
• ISBN10: 1572309776
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-26
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Now in a thoroughly revised and expanded third edition, this bestselling text provides a comprehensive framework for the direct assessment of academic skills. Presented is a readily applicable, four-step approach for working with students experiencing a range of difficulties with reading, spelling, written language, or math. School-based practitioners are guided sequentially through assessment of the instructional environment, assessment of instructional placement, instructional modification, and progress monitoring. Extensively rewritten to reflect current findings and best practices, the third edition includes information on useful Internet resources, updated sample forms and charts, and all-new case illustrations. Available separately is a newly revised companion workbook, containing helpful practice exercises and reproducible forms.

Author Biography

Edward S. Shapiro, PhD, is Iacocca Professor of Education, Professor of School Psychology, and Director of the Center for Promoting Research to Practice at Lehigh University. He is also Executive Director of Lehigh Transition and Assessment Services, which provides training in the school-to-work transition for secondary school-age students and young adults with disabilities. A recipient of the Lightner Witmer Award from the Division of School Psychology of the American Psychological Association, in recognition of early career contributions to school psychology, he is past Editor of [i]School Psychology Review[/i], the official journal of the National Association of School Psychologists. Dr. Shapiro has written numerous books and publications in the areas of curriculum-based assessment, behavioral assessment, behavioral interventions, and self-management strategies for classroom behavior change, including [i]Conducting School-Based Assessments of Child and Adolescent Behavior[/i] and [i]Behavioral Assessment in Schools, Second Edition[/i] (both coedited with Thomas R. Kratochwill), and [i]Promoting Children's Health[/i] (coauthored with Thomas J. Power, George J. DuPaul, and Anne E. Kazak). He is currently codirecting a federal training project focused on developing doctoral school psychologists as pediatric school psychologists, a model of training that attempts to train students to integrate health, psychological, and educational needs for children within school settings.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(28)
Background, History, and Rationale for Academic Assessment and Intervention	4	(2)
Assessment and Decision Making for Academic Problems	6	(1)
Types of Individual Assessment Methods	7	(15)
Intervention Methods for Academic Skills	22	(7)
Choosing Targets for Academic Assessment and Remediation	29	(35)
Selecting Targets for Assessment	31	(21)
Selecting Targets for Remediation: Linking Assessment to Intervention	52	(3)
Selecting Intervention Procedures	55	(7)
Summary of Procedures for Choosing Interventions	62	(2)
Step 1: Assessing the Academic Environment	64	(59)
What Curriculum-Based Assessment Is	66	(2)
What Curriculum-Based Assessment Is Not	68	(1)
Assessing the Academic Environment: Overview	69	(2)
Teacher Interviews	71	(17)
Direct Observation	88	(16)
Student Interview	104	(3)
Permanent Product Review	107	(2)
Summary and Conclusions	109	(14)
Step 2: Assessing Instructional Placement	123	(40)
Reading	124	(12)
Mathematics	136	(10)
Written Expression	146	(4)
Spelling	150	(1)
Summarizing the Data-Collection Process	151	(12)
Step 3: Instructional Modification I: General Strategies	163	(29)
Background	163	(5)
General Strategies for Academic Problems	168	(23)
Summary	191	(1)
Step 3: Instructional Modification II: Specific Skills Areas	192	(42)
Reading	193	(23)
Mathematics	216	(7)
Spelling	223	(3)
Written Language	226	(6)
Conclusions and Summary	232	(2)
Step 4: Progress Monitoring	234	(35)
Reading	236	(16)
Mathematics	252	(9)
Spelling	261	(3)
Written Language	264	(1)
Summary	265	(4)
Case Illustrations	269	(54)
Case Examples for Academic Assessment	269	(33)
Case Examples for Academic Interventions	302	(12)
A Case Example of the Four-Step Model of Direct Academic Assessment	314	(8)
Conclusions	322	(1)
References	323	(38)
Index	361