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by: Edward S. Shapiro, PhD, Director, Center for Promoting Research to Practice, and

ISBN: 9781606239605 | 1606239600

This popular practitioner guide and text presents an effective, problem-solving-based approach to evaluating and remediating academic skills problems. Leading authority Edward S. Shapiro provides practical strategies for working with students across all grade levels (K12) who are struggling with reading, spelling, written language, or math. Step-by-step guidelines are detailed for assessing students' learning and their instructional environment, using the data to design instructional modifications, and monitoring student progress. The research ... MOREbase for the approach is accessibly summarized. The companion workbook, available separately, contains practice exercises and reproducible forms. New to This Edition *Incorporates the latest advances in evidence-based assessment and instruction. *Shows how the author's approach fits perfectly into a response to intervention (RTI) model. *Chapter and extended case example focusing on RTI. *30 of the figures, tables, and forms are new or revised.

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An ideal companion to Academic Skills Problems, Fourth Edition, this indispensable workbook provides practice exercises and reproducible forms for use in direct assessment and intervention. The convenient large-size format facilitates photocopying. Book jacket.

1. Introduction 2. Choosing Targets for Academic Assessment and Remediation 3. Step 1: Assessing the Academic Environment 4. Step 2: Assessing Instructional Placement 5. Step 3: Instructional Modification I: General Strategies 6. Step 3: Instructional Modification II: Specific Skills Areas 7. Step 4: Progress Monitoring 8. Academic Assessment within a Response-to-Intervention Framework 9. Case Illustrations

Edward S. Shapiro, PhD, is Director of the Center for Promoting Research to Practice and Professor in the School Psychology Program at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is a winner of the Senior Scientist Award given by the Division of School Psychology of the American Psychological Association and a past Editor of School Psychology Review, the official journal of the National Association of School Psychologists. Dr. Shapiro has written numerous books and other publications in the areas of curriculum-based assessment, behavioral assessment, behavioral interventions, and pediatric school psychology. He is best known for his work in curriculum-based assessment and nonstandardized methods of assessing academic skills problems. Among his many projects, Dr. Shapiro has recently completed a federal project focused on the development of a multi-tiered response-to-intervention (RTI) model in two districts in Pennsylvania. He has been working as a consultant to facilitate the implementation of RTI with the Pennsylvania Department of Education as well as with many individual school districts across the country. He also codirects a training grant from the U.S. Department of Education to train preservice school psychologists as facilitators and developers of RTI implementation.