For undergraduate and graduate courses in Special Education Assessment A practical, applied approach to assessing learners with special needs from early childhood through transition Assessing Learners with Special Needs: An Applied Approach, Seventh Edition provides readers with a practical, step-by-step approach to learning about the complex procedures of the assessment process. Integrated cases help facilitate reader comprehension of difficult concepts. Practice exercises provide an opportunity for readers to monitor their progress.
Part 1 Introduction to Assessment
Chapter 1 An Introduction
Part 2 Technical Prerequisites of Understanding Assessment
Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 3 Reliability and Validity
Chapter 4 An Introduction to Norm-Referenced Assessment
Part 3 Assessing Students
Chapter 5 Curriculum-Based Assessment and Other Informal Measures
Chapter 6 Response to Intervention
Chapter 7 Academic Assessment
Chapter 8 Assessment of Behavior
Chapter 9 Measurement of Intelligence and Adaptive Behavior
Chapter 10 Special Considerations of Assessment in Early Childhood
Chapter 11 Special Considerations of Assessment in Transition
Part 4 Interpretation of Assessment Results
Chapter 12 Interpreting Assessment for Educational Intervention
Chapter 13 Laws, Ethics, and Issues
