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Effective Assessment for Students With Special Needs

A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

By: Jim Ysseldyke, Bob Algozzine

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

With guidelines for determining student eligibility for special education services, this practical handbook shows educators 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, this handbook provides information about:

Formal and informal methods of data collection
What various assessment practices can show an evaluator
Standards for conducting assessments to ensure accuracy
Data-driven decision-making for the education of exceptional students

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412938969
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 144
Publication date: March 28, 2006

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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

A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher: The 13-Book Collection equips educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring-and meeting-their fullest potential.

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Key features

Practical, accessible, research-based information and advice distilled from a highly-successful textbook
Numerous case studies
Practical, age-appropriate strategies for the classroom
Reflection/professional development exercises
Resources – books, articles, organizations
Linked to IDEA 2004

Author(s)

Jim Ysseldyke

Jim Ysseldyke, Ph.D., is Birkmaier Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, director of the School Psychology Program, and director of the Center for Reading Research at the University of Minnesota. Widely requested as a staff developer and conference speaker, Ysseldyke brings more than 30 years of research and teaching experience to educational professionals around the globe.

As the former director of the federally funded National Center on Educational Outcomes, Ysseldyke conducted research and provided technical support that helped to boost the academic performance of students with disabilities and improve school assessment techniques nationally. Today, he continues to work to improve the education of students with disabilities.

The author of more than 300 publications on special education and school psychology, Ysseldyke is best known for his textbooks on assessment, effective instruction, issues in special education, and other cutting-edge areas of education and school psychology. With A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher, Ysseldyke seeks to equip educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring—and meeting—all their potentials.

Bob Algozzine

Bob Algozzine is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina and project codirector of the U.S. Department of Education-supported Behavior and Reading Improvement Center. With 25 years of research experience and extensive firsthand knowledge of teaching students classified as seriously emotionally disturbed, Algozzine is a uniquely qualified staff developer, conference speaker, and teacher of behavior management and effective teaching courses. He is active in special education practice as a partner and collaborator with professionals in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina and as an editor of several journals focused on special education. Algozzine has written more than 250 manuscripts on special education topics, including many books and textbooks on how to manage emotional and social behavior problems.

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?

Screening Decisions

Decisions to Provide Special Help or Enrichment

Referral to an Intervention Assistance Team

Decisions to Provide Intervention Assistance

Decisions to Refer for Evaluation

Exceptionality Decisions

Decisions About Special Learning Needs

Decisions About Eligibility or Entitlement

Instructional Planning Decisions

Progress Evaluation Decisions

Program Evaluation Decisions

Accountability Decisions

2. What Are the Most Common Assessment Practices?

Curriculum-Based Assessment

Curriculum-Based Measurement

Instructional Diagnosis

Academic Time Analysis

Assessment of Instructional Environments

Outcomes-Based Accountability

Performance Assessment

3. How Is Assessment Data Collected?

Methods for Collecting Data

Tests

Observations

Interviews

Work Portfolios

4. Which Methods of Assessment Should Be Use to Sample Certain Behaviors and Abilities?

Intellectual Ability

Academic Achievement

Sensory Acuity

Adaptive Behavior

Language Development

Psychological Development

Perceptual-Motor Development

5. What Standards Must Be Met To Ensure the Accuracy of an Assessment?

Reliability: Is Performance Consistent?

Representativeness: Does the Instrument Adequately Sample the Behavior?

Validity: Does a Procedure Measure What it is Supposed to Measure?

6. What Concerns Do Parents, Students, and the General Public Have About Assessments?

Test Fairness

Acceptability

Consequences

7. What Are the Assumptions Underlying Assessment Practices?

The Examiner is Skilled

Future Behavior Can Be Inferred From Present Behavior

Assessment Is Relatively Free From Error

Students Have Comparable Acculturation

8. What Guidelines Should Be Followed for Appropriate Assessment?

There Is No One Way To Do It Right

There Is No One Cause of School Problems

Assessment Must Do More Than Describe Problems

Assessment Must Be Directed At Improving Instruction

Assessment Should Occur Often During Teaching

Assessment Should Concentrate on Relevant Variables

Assessment Should Occur Where The Behavior Occurs

Tests Should Be Adapted To Accommodate Students

9. Assessment in Perspective

Assessment in the Classroom

The Effects of Assessment

10. What Have We Learned?

Key Points

Key Vocabulary

Self-Assessment II

Answer Key for Self-Assessments

On Your Own

Resources

Books

Journals & Articles

Organizations

References

Index

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