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This most recent revision of Assessing Learners with Special Needs: An Applied Approach includes thorough explanations of the IDEA 2004 Regulations including RTI (response to intervention) and Early Intervening Services. Moreover, this text includes more applied exercises within the textbook. To address the increasing importance of accurate assessment of students with pervasive developmental disorders such as autism, the most widely researched diagnostic instruments are included. Students using this textbook will be able to understand progress monitoring through applied exercises in which they monitor their own progress in the course, plot a goal line, and chart their progress across the semester. Students and instructors are provided with chapter-by-chapter CEC Knowledge and Skills Standards. This allows students to see the skills they are expected to master when they complete coursework that is aligned for CEC Accreditation and provides the students with an understanding of the knowledge base expected of today's highly qualified teachers. All complex concepts are included in the culminating chapter exercises on educational assessment report writing.In these exercises, students will apply their knowledge and skills needed for understanding and making data-based decisions for educational planning using both formal and informal assessment methods. Highlights of the New Edition: *Emphasis on progress monitoring, including progress monitoring applied to the acquisition of knowledge and skills presented in this text. *Changes within the assessment process according to the regulations of IDEA 2004. *Increased number of case studies throughout the text and inclusion of exercises in the text. *Expanded chapter on special considerations including assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorders. *Increased emphasis and coverage of curriculum-based assessment. *Increased consideration of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the assessment process.
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Not happy about shipping
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I bought this book for a class I was taking. It said when I purchased the item that it would take 5-8 days to get here but it took almost a month. My class started and I had no book - very frustrating.
Assessing Special Learners
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This book was the required text for my class at ODU. The cost for the new book was less than the University Bookstore's price for a used copy of the 5th edition (bookstore ordered the wrong edition text).
Assessing Learners with Special Needs
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I have only read the first few chapters so far but it is a great book. Chapter 2 clearly explaines many of the laws that affect the way we teach and provide services to children with special needs. I will definitely not be selling this book back at the end of this semester. Its a keeper!
Annoying!
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This is one frustrating textbook to be assigned. The organization and design are really poor. For example: Design - the text will be cut off mid-sentence by a diagram that you don't need to look at until the next page, when you have to flip back and forth to refer to it. Organization - information is scattered about so you feel like you're reading the same [boring] thing 20 times, so you start skimming, but then you miss the one kernel of information that's added each time (the book would be shorter, lighter, AND easier to read if it were organized better). Also, the author includes full citations for everything, like a term paper (a loooong one), so you can lose track of the sentence you're reading by trying to hunt through all the names and dates to find the information. Footnotes, anyone?!
Sheesh. This is going to be a long semester...
SpEd Assessment Text
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Assessing Learners with Special Needs is a great text to learn more about the assessment of students with special needs. It includes information on different types of assessments and how to use assessment information in decision making. Also includes information on young children and transition. Keep in mind though it is on the assessment of STUDENTS!