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Effective Assessment for Students with Special Needs

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Jim Ysseldyke, Bob Algonzzine

  • Effective Assessment for Students with Special Needs

144 pages
2006
ISBN: 9781412938969

At last, a practical guide to the what, how, when, and where of effective assessment!

When determining whether or not a student should receive special education services, what the specific nature of the student’s instruction should be, or the extent to which a student is making educational progress, it is critical to know not only what sort of assessment method is most appropriate, but how, when, and where it should be administered.

Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, Effective Assessment for Students With Special Needs helps educators make these weighty decisions with highly practical information such as:

  • Formal and informal methods of data collection
  • When to use various assessment practices and what they can show an evaluator
  • Standards for conducting assessments to ensure accuracy
  • Using data to make decisions about the education of students with disabilities and those who are gifted and talented.

Table of Contents

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Self-Assessment I

Introduction to Effective Assessment for Students With Special Needs

  1. What Should Every Teacher Know About Assessment for Decision-Making Purposes?
  2. Screening Decisions
  3. Decisions to Provide Special Help or Enrichment
  4. Referral to an Intervention Assistance Team
  5. Decisions to Provide Intervention Assistance
  6. Decisions to Refer for Evaluation
  7. Exceptionality Decisions
  8. Decisions About Special Learning Needs
  9. Decisions About Eligibility or Entitlement
  10. Instructional Planning Decisions
  11. Progress Evaluation Decisions
  12. Program Evaluation Decisions
  13. Accountability Decisions
    1. What Are the Most Common Assessment Practices?
    2. Curriculum-Based Assessment
    3. Curriculum-Based Measurement
    4. Instructional Diagnosis
    5. Academic Time Analysis
    6. Assessment of Instructional Environments
    7. Outcomes-Based Accountability
    8. Performance Assessment
      1. How Is Assessment Data Collected?
      2. Methods for Collecting Data
      3. Tests
      4. Observations
      5. Interviews
      6. Work Portfolios
        1. Which Methods of Assessment Should Be Use to Sample Certain Behaviors and Abilities?
        2. Intellectual Ability
        3. Academic Achievement
        4. Sensory Acuity
        5. Adaptive Behavior
        6. Language Development
        7. Psychological Development
        8. Perceptual-Motor Development
          1. What Standards Must Be Met To Ensure the Accuracy of an Assessment?
          2. Reliability: Is Performance Consistent?
          3. Representativeness: Does the Instrument Adequately Sample the Behavior?
          4. Validity: Does a Procedure Measure What it is Supposed to Measure?
            1. What Concerns Do Parents, Students, and the General Public Have About Assessments?
            2. Test Fairness
            3. Acceptability
            4. Consequences
              1. What Are the Assumptions Underlying Assessment Practices?
              2. The Examiner is Skilled
              3. Future Behavior Can Be Inferred From Present Behavior
              4. Assessment Is Relatively Free From Error
              5. Students Have Comparable Acculturation
                1. What Guidelines Should Be Followed for Appropriate Assessment?
                2. There Is No One Way To Do It Right
                3. There Is No One Cause of School Problems
                4. Assessment Must Do More Than Describe Problems
                5. Assessment Must Be Directed At Improving Instruction
                6. Assessment Should Occur Often During Teaching
                7. Assessment Should Concentrate on Relevant Variables
                8. Assessment Should Occur Where The Behavior Occurs
                9. Tests Should Be Adapted To Accommodate Students
                  1. Assessment in Perspective
                  2. Assessment in the Classroom
                  3. The Effects of Assessment
                    1. What Have We Learned?
                    2. Key Points
                    3. Key Vocabulary

                      4. Self-Assessment II

                      Answer Key for Self-Assessments

                      On Your Own

                      • Resources
                      • Books
                      • Journals & Articles
                      • Organizations

                      References

                      Index


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