Assessment of Children with Special Needs: A Guide to Practical and Theoretical Frameworks
Author: | Birnbaum, Barry W. |
Year: | 2020 |
Pages: | 244 |
ISBN: | 1-4955-0805-6 978-1-4955-0805-9 |
Price: | $179.95 |
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This book focuses on the assessment process for students with disabilities. Different categories of exceptionality are included as well as a discussion on Differentiated Instruction and Universal Design for Learning. These techniques are applied to a wide range of students, between birth and twenty-one who have been diagnosed with a disability. This book is based in current research and is appropriate reading for teachers, parents and other professionals in the field.
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“This books contains valuable information about working and assessing children with disabilities and provides a practical and hands-on approach to implementing assessments to these children. It is relevant to practitioners who are wanting to understand the assessment process and the teaching end of it.”
From the Abstract
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Foundations of Assessment
Chapter Two: Roles of the Participants in the Process of Assessment
Chapter Three: Using Appropriate Materials for Assessing Students with Special Needs
Chapter Four: Intellectual Assessment and Adaptive Behavior
Chapter Five: Assessing Students with Learning Disabilities
Chapter Six: Assessing Young Children
Chapter Seven: Interpreting Assessments Results
Chapter Eight: Classroom Assessment
Chapter Nine: Measuring Assessment and School Performance
Chapter Ten: Alternative Assessment
Chapter Eleven: Instructional Expectations of Assessing Children
Chapter Twelve: Bias-Free Assessment
Chapter Thirteen: Assessing Performance
Chapter Fourteen: Differentiating Instruction
Chapter Fifteen: Universal Design for Learning and Assessment
Chapter Sixteen: Assessment of Reading and Writing
Chapter Seventeen: Assessing Mathematics
Chapter Eighteen: Assessing the Classroom Environment
Chapter Nineteen: Assessing Transition
References
Index