Assessment of Exceptional Students: Educational and Psychological Procedures

by Taylor, Ronald L.

• ISBN13: 9780205306121
• ISBN10: 0205306128
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Assessment of Exceptional Students, Fifth Edition, offers a practical approach that emphasizes how both informal and formal procedures fit into the overall assessment process. Retaining the major features of previous editions, this text details historical, legal, and philosophical issues as well as current concerns in the field. It provides up-to-date coverage of assessment instruments, techniques, and procedures that are used with special education students, and reviews observation, criterion-referenced testing, curriculum-based and portfolio assessment, and other alternative procedures. In addition to covering the areas of ability assessment, achievement testing, early childhood assessment, and vocational assessment, the text also provides readers with a complete chapter on case studies that examine the instruments and techniques for students with both mild and severe disabilities.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART ONE Introduction to Assessment: Issues and Concerns	1	(62)
Assessment: Historical, Philosophical, and Legal Considerations	3	(20)
Historical Events and Philosophical Movements	4	(7)
Relevant Assessment Litigation	11	(2)
Relevant Legislation	13	(8)
Summary	21	(2)
The Assessment Process: A Proposed Model	23	(24)
Why Assess?	23	(7)
How Is the Process Initiated?	30	(2)
What Procedures Should Be Used?	32	(9)
Who Should Assess?	41	(1)
When Should Assessment Be Conducted?	42	(2)
What Should Be Done with the Results?	44	(1)
An Assessment Model	44	(2)
Summary	46	(1)
Practical Considerations	47	(16)
Factors Affecting Test Results	47	(14)
Summary	61	(2)
PART TWO Informal Procedures: Basic Tools for Teachers	63	(92)
Observational Assessment	65	(25)
Student Observation---Informal Systems	66	(12)
Student Observation---Formal Systems	78	(1)
Observation of the Instructional Environment	79	(2)
Functional Behavior Assessment	81	(6)
Summary Matrix	87	(3)
Criterion-Referenced Testing and Error Analysis	90	(24)
Criterion-Referenced Tests	90	(10)
What to Teach versus How to Teach	100	(13)
Summary Matrix	113	(1)
Curriculum-Based Assessment	114	(17)
Criterion-Referenced CBA	115	(5)
Curriculum-Based Measurement	120	(8)
CR-CBA and CBM: An Integrated Model	128	(2)
Summary Matrix	130	(1)
Portfolio Assessment and Other Alternative Procedures	131	(24)
High-Stakes Assessment	132	(2)
Performance Assessment	134	(3)
Authentic Assessment	137	(1)
Portfolio Assessment	138	(8)
Development of a Portfolio: An Example	146	(6)
Advantages and Disadvantages of Portfolio Assessment	152	(2)
Summary Matrix	154	(1)
PART THREE Assessment of Abilities	155	(112)
Assessment of Intelligence	157	(24)
Alternatives to Traditional Tests	158	(2)
Intelligence Tests: General Purpose and Description	160	(17)
Additional Instruments	177	(3)
Summary Matrix	180	(1)
Assessment of Adaptive Behavior	181	(25)
Adaptive Behavior Instruments	183	(19)
Additional Adaptive Behavior Instruments	202	(3)
Summary Matrix	205	(1)
Assessment of Behavior and Emotional Status	206	(36)
Behavior-Rating Scales	207	(1)
Classroom and Home Behavior Instruments	208	(11)
Additional Classroom/Home Behavior Instruments	219	(4)
Social Skills Instruments	223	(3)
ADHD Instruments	226	(2)
Autism Instruments	228	(2)
Measurement of Emotional Status	230	(7)
Inventories and Questionnaires	237	(4)
Summary Matrix	241	(1)
Assessment of Oral Language	242	(25)
Informal Assessment of Language Skills	244	(3)
Formal Language Tests	247	(14)
Tests for Speech and Language Clinicians	261	(4)
Summary Matrix	265	(2)
PART FOUR Assessment of Achievement	267	(114)
Assessment of General Achievement	269	(41)
Norm-Referenced Tests (Group-Administered)	270	(3)
Norm-Referenced Tests (Individually Administered)	273	(23)
Additional Individually Administered Tests	296	(2)
Criterion-Referenced Instruments	298	(10)
Summary Matrix	308	(2)
Assessment of Reading	310	(26)
Reading Assessment	312	(1)
Informal Assessment Procedures	312	(6)
Diagnostic Reading Tests	318	(12)
Other Diagnostic Reading Tests	330	(2)
Oral Reading Tests	332	(2)
Summary Matrix	334	(2)
Assessment of Mathematics	336	(22)
Diagnostic Mathematics Tests	337	(8)
Criterion-Referenced Mathematics Instruments	345	(8)
Informal Assessment	353	(4)
Summary Matrix	357	(1)
Assessment of Written Expression	358	(23)
Written Expression and Language Tests	361	(8)
Additional Written Language Instruments	369	(2)
Diagnostic Spelling Tests	371	(4)
Informal Assessment	375	(4)
Summary Matrix	379	(2)
PART FIVE Special Assessment Considerations	381	(110)
Comprehensive Assessment Systems	383	(31)
Cognitive/Achievement Systems	384	(17)
Behavioral Assessment Systems	401	(12)
Summary Matrix	413	(1)
Early Childhood Assessment	414	(44)
Team Assessment: A Collaborative Effort	417	(2)
Play Assessment	419	(2)
Screening Instruments	421	(13)
Additional Screening Tests	434	(1)
Developmental Tests (Norm-Referenced)	435	(7)
Readiness and Preacademic Instruments	442	(3)
Developmental Tests (Criterion-Referenced)	445	(11)
Summary Matrix	456	(2)
Vocational/Transitional Assessment	458	(33)
Stephen B. Richards
Ronald L. Taylor
Support for Transition Services	459	(2)
Guidelines for Establishing Transition Services: Importance of Vocational Assessment	461	(4)
Informal Procedures	465	(18)
Interest and Aptitude Instruments	483	(6)
Summary Matrix	489	(2)
PART SIX Examples	491	(16)
Examples: Putting It All Together	493	(14)
Case Study: Frank, a Student with Mild Disabilities	493	(9)
Case Study: James, a Student with Severe Disabilities	502	(4)
Summary	506	(1)
Appendix A: Process Instruments (Instruments Used for Measuring Processing Skills)	507	(5)
Appendix B: Instruments for Measuring Traumatic Brain Injury	512	(3)
Appendix C: Definition and Assessment Profiles for Selected Categories	515	(4)
Appendix D: Functional Behavior Assessment Form	519	(5)
Appendix E: Cognitive Measures for Special Populations	524	(4)
References	528	(32)
Author Index	560	(9)
Subject Index	569	(7)
Test Index	576