Assessing Students with Special Needs, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (November 7, 2013) © 2014
John J. Venn

Title overview

This text is recognized for its practical approach that helps students:

 

  • Make assessment an integral part of the curriculum using the classroom-based techniques and strategies presented throughout.
  • Look at the assessment process from the point of view of teachers, students, and parents by reading and applying the brief chapter-opening vignettes about assessing a student and the scenarios illustrating key concepts and techniques.
  • Select assessment instruments and conduct assessment through the many proficiency checklists, review guides, and actual assessment instruments.
  • Build confidence while getting additional help through the materials and learning activities for instructors on the Companion Website and Author’s Website.
  • Focus on key concepts and assessment strategies with the help of section summaries.
  • Understand and apply the material with children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with the help of Multicultural Considerations Focus Boxes with Reflection Questions.

Thoroughly revised throughout, yet continuing to focus on how teachers can use evaluation as part of instruction, the Fifth Edition highlights what teachers really need to know to include assessment in the teaching and learning process. In it students see how to:

 

  • Use data-based decision-making techniques and procedures through the edition’s expanded coverage of curriculum-based measurement, progress monitoring, and response to intervention. (NEW)
  • Monitor and chart student progress with the help of new charts illustrating curriculum based progress monitoring procedures and the response to intervention process. (NEW)
  • Make use of the most current strategies and tests through the books thorough updating. (NEW)
  • Learn and understand the legal requirements for assessment with the updated information in Chapter 2 on the assessment process as required by IDEA regulations.
  • More easily connect assessment strategies and procedures with instruction through many new and revised figures, tables, and guides included throughout. (NEW)
  • Conduct informal assessment in the classroom with the help of the expanded focus throughout. (NEW)

Table of contents

Brief Contents

PART I THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS

  • CHAPTER 1 DEFINING AND DESCRIBING THE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
  • CHAPTER 2 STEPS IN THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS

PART II ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS AND SKILLS

  • CHAPTER 3 PRACTICAL MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS
  • CHAPTER 4 TEST SCORES AND WHAT THEY MEAN
  • CHAPTER 5 SELECTING AND USING ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS

PART III ASSESSING GENERAL PERFORMANCE

  • CHAPTER 6 ASSESSING INTELLIGENCE AND ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR
  • CHAPTER 7 DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT
  • CHAPTER 8 LANGUAGE AND BILINGUAL ASSESSMENT
  • CHAPTER 9 ASSESSING BEHAVIOR
  • CHAPTER 10 CAREER AND VOCATIONAL ASSESSMENT

PART IV ASSESSING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

  • CHAPTER 11 ASSESSING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: GENERAL STRATEGIES
  • CHAPTER 12 ASSESSING READING ACHIEVEMENT
  • CHAPTER 13 ASSESSING MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT
  • CHAPTER 14 ASSESSING WRITTEN EXPRESSION
  • CHAPTER 15 PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT

Author bios

John Venn is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Education and Human Services at the University of North Florida. John's experience includes serving as a classroom teacher, an educational diagnostician, a university professor, a researcher, a grant writer, and an administrator. His teaching, research, and service interests focus on how to assess and evaluate students with special needs as well as on curriculum-based assessment and measurement. John's interests extend to technology and online learning; he maintains a website dedicated to assisting teachers with student assessment, and he has taught online courses in assessment. John is committed to finding practical solutions to the most difficult problems and issues in testing and measurement. For this reason, he spends considerable time in schools where he learns first hand how teachers are conducting assessment. John takes what he learns in the schools back to the university where he incorporates his experiences into his classes and scholarship. To learn more about John's work in assessment visit his website at www.johnvenn.com.

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