Assessment of children and youth with special needs
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Description
This highly respected text focuses on current assessment issues and procedures that every special educator needs to know. The author’s integrated approach emphasizes in-class assessment approaches as well as more formal measures and instruments. Throughout they provide numerous practical examples of how the techniques and procedures can be used in the classroom. Included are practical, ready-to-used materials integrated within instruction delivery methods; relevant case studies; and examinations of current assessment topics in every chapter. This new Fifth Edition features an expanded discussion of classroom assessment and the assessment cycle; an expanded discussion of Response to Intervention (RTI); new sections on how to use assessment effectively with students with behavior problems and how to collaborate effectively with speech and language specialists; updated descriptions of formal, standardized texts and measures; interactive features embedded into examples and mini-cases throughout; and Web links embedded into the text to further engage readers with the material.
ISBN
978-0133570861
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Pearson
City
Boston
Keywords
special education, child development, adolescence, psychological testing, behavioral assessment, tests and measurements
Disciplines
Education | Special Education and Teaching
Recommended Citation
Cohen, Libby G. and Spenciner, Loraine J., "Assessment of children and youth with special needs" (2011). Faculty and Staff Books. 18.
https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/18
