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Assessment of Children with Special Needs: A Guide to Practical and Theoretical Frameworks

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Pages:244
ISBN:1-4955-0805-6
978-1-4955-0805-9
Price:$179.95
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.”
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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