Assessing Students With Special Needs, Fifth Edition

by Venn, John J.

• ISBN13: 9780132852364
• ISBN10: 0132852365
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780133347906
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780133400021
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2013-11-07
• Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

This title is only available as a loose-leaf version with Pearson eText.

 

Known for its practical, applied approach, John Venn's Assessing Student's with Special Needs, 5/e continues to focus on how teachers can use assessment as a guide to instruction.  This noteworthy revision focuses on what teachers really need to know to include assessment in the curriculum.  Coverage includes all of the core information expected of an assessment text, but the book goes far beyond the basics by addressing multicultural considerations, technology and assessment, high-stakes testing, and the reauthorization of IDEA.  The book clearly shows how assessment is more than giving a test to a child, but is an essential tool for teachers as they help students achieve, learn, develop, and grow.

 

 

Author Biography

John Venn is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Education and Human Services at the University of North Florida. John’s experience includes serving as a classroom teacher, an educational diagnostician, a university professor, a researcher, a grant writer, and an administrator. His teaching, research, and service interests focus on how to assess and evaluate students with special needs as well as on curriculum-based assessment and measurement. John’s interests extend to technology and online learning; he maintains a website dedicated to assisting teachers with student assessment, and he has taught online courses in assessment. John is committed to finding practical solutions to the most difficult problems and issues in testing and measurement. For this reason, he spends considerable time in schools where he learns first hand how teachers are conducting assessment. John takes what he learns in the schools back to the university where he incorporates his experiences into his classes and scholarship. To learn more about John’s work in assessment visit his website at www.johnvenn.com.

Table of Contents

PART I THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS 

CHAPTER 1 DEFINING AND DESCRIBING THE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS  WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

CHAPTER 2 STEPS IN THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS

 

PART II ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS AND SKILLS

CHAPTER 3 PRACTICAL MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS

CHAPTER 4 TEST SCORES AND WHAT THEY MEAN

CHAPTER 5 SELECTING AND USING ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS

 

PART III ASSESSING GENERAL PERFORMANCE

CHAPTER 6 ASSESSING INTELLIGENCE AND ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

CHAPTER 7 DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT

CHAPTER 8 LANGUAGE AND BILINGUAL ASSESSMENT

CHAPTER 9 ASSESSING BEHAVIOR

CHAPTER 10 CAREER AND VOCATIONAL ASSESSMENT

 

PART IV ASSESSING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

CHAPTER 11 ASSESSING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: GENERAL STRATEGIES

CHAPTER 12 ASSESSING READING ACHIEVEMENT

CHAPTER 13 ASSESSING MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT

CHAPTER 14 ASSESSING WRITTEN EXPRESSION

CHAPTER 15 PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT