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This text not only combines current coverage of formal and informal assessment to meet federal initiatives, but Assessing Students with Special Needs, Sixth Edition, takes extra steps showing how to really use assessments and their results to improve education for students with special needs. The sixth edition prepares teachers and assessment professionals for all aspects of the assessment process-from identifying students with special needs to monitoring, accommodating, and evaluating assessment tools, based on the Assessment Question Model listed on the inside front cover of this text. Features of the sixth edition of this accessible, comprehensive text include: Up-to-date coverage of the latest laws and regulations impacting how, when, and why students are assessed A thorough discussion of CEC skills and knowledge competencies related to assessment Over 200 formal and informal tools, including the most commonly used assessments, emphasizing how they fit into the overall assessment process Assessment in Action cases to encourage critical thinking about assessing students with special needs More coverage on alternate assessments including observation, criterion-referenced testing, curriculum-based and portfolio assessment How to develop collaborative partnerships when assessing students with special needs A robust, text-specific website at www.prenhall.com/mcloughlin

Introduction to Special Education Assessment
Special Education Assessment
The Assessment Process
Assessment Skills for Special Educators
Selection of Assessment Tools
Standardized Tests
Informal Assessment
Curriculum-Based Classroom Assessment Techniques
Assessment of General Performance Areas
School Performance
Learning Aptitude
Specific Learning Abilities and Strategies
Classroom Behavior
Assessment of Academic Areas
Reading
Mathematics
Written Language
Oral Language and Bilingual Assessment
Special Considerations
Parent and Family Involvement
Early Childhood Assessment
Assessment for Transition Education and Planning
Answers to Review Questions
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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Assessment is at the center of all good teaching, and this book is designed to provide a clear, comprehensive guide to the assessment of students with mild disabilities. This book will give you an understanding of the assessment process as well as the practical skills needed to assess students with special needs successfully so that you can teach them well. To structure the process, we offer an assessment question model and we have developed the idea of the individualized Assessment Plan OAP). Our basis for the assessment questions and suggested procedures is a combination of best professional practices and legal mandates. This approach allows you sufficient flexibility to explore the areas and types of assessment in which you are particularly interested. In accordance with our belief that educators need useful information, we maintain a strong educational orientation toward assessment. THE SIXTH EDITION This is the sixth edition ofAssessing Students with Special Needs,and it reflects many changes in professional thought and practice in both special education and general education. Topics new to or enhanced in this edition include recent legislation, reform movements in general and special education such as No Child Left Behind, techniques for ongoing classroom assessment (e.g., curriculum-based measurement), test accommodations for students with disabilities, assessment for grading and report cards, evaluation of new areas of interest such as phonological processing, and the development of collaborative parent-professional partnerships in the assessment process. The sixth edition has been thoroughly updated with current literature and coverage of pertinent issues, trends, and professional practices. Throughout, we maintain our interest in the promotion of nonbiased assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Chapter 14, in particular, focuses on strategies for the assessment of students who speak dialects of English and those who speak languages other than English. Part I, Introduction to Special Education Assessment, includes information on the purposes of assessment, laws and regulations governing assessment, the team approach to assessment, the organization of the assessment process using the assessment question model, and the steps in assessment. Part II, Assessment Skills for Special Educators, contains chapters on selecting the tools for assessment, administration and scoring of standardized tests, and design and use of informal assessment techniques and procedures. Chapter 6, Curriculum-Based Classroom Assessment Techniques, has been updated and revised to increase coverage of techniques for evaluating student progress in the classroom instructional program. Among the techniques included are functional behavioral assessment, curriculum-based measurement, action research, and portfolio assessment. This chapter also discusses important issues in ongoing assessment such as managing student data, grading and report cards, and test accommodations. Part III of the sixth edition, Assessment of General Performance Areas, centers around the general performance areas most relevant to eligibility assessment: school performance, learning aptitude, specific learning abilities and strategies, and classroom behavior. Part IV, Assessment of Academic Areas, focuses on the assessment of academic skills: reading, mathematics, written language, and oral language and bilingual assessment. Part V, Special Considerations, provides information on three important topics: parent and family involvement in assessment, assessment during the preschool years, and assessment for transition planning. This edition also features new tests and assessment procedures, many of which are revised versions of measures described in earlier editions. More than 50 new published measures are included. Among the new instruments discussed are: Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-Second

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