Assessing Learners with Special Needs, Pearson New International Edition, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (29 August 2013) © 2014

  • Terry Overton University of Texas - Brownsville
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Title overview

Each chapter begins with a Chapter Focus that serves as an advance organizer for readers to better prepare them for the concepts presented in the chapter. CEC Knowledge and Skills standards relevant to the chapter topic are also listed.

Reader-friendly key terms are defined in the margin at the point in the chapter where they are presented.

Check Your Understanding exercises provide an opportunity for readers to monitor their progress in the learning and assessment process.

Test Review tables in part 3 summarize the assessment instruments covered in the chapters.

Progress Monitoring Assessments are included at the end of each part of the text. Readers first complete a baseline assessment and learn how to plot their scores against an aim line.

Chapter Summaries provide an overview of the important points covered in the chapter.

Think Ahead Exercises enable readers to gauge their understanding of the chapter as a whole. Answers to these exercises are available in the Appendix.

Table of contents

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 

 

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