Assessment of Children and Youth with Special Needs » (3rd Edition)

Dr. Libby G. Cohen is a Professor at the National Institute of Education in Singapore and Professor Emerita at the University of Southern Maine. Her work has focused on linking assessment with teaching and learning, accessibility to technology, and universal design. She is the author of several books including Assessment of Children and Youth and Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities: Research-based Practices.

Dr. Loraine J. Spenciner is a professor of special education at the University of Maine at Farmington. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, and textbooks including: Assessment of Children and Youth, Assessment of Young Children, and Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities: Research-based Practices.

Written in a straightforward, accessible manner, Assessment of Children and Youth, Fourth Edition emphasizes contemporary, practical, and authentic approaches and proven techniques of widely-used tests and measures on special education classroom assessment. Readers will be given the most current information on assessment approaches, research-based practices, and federal mandates related to assessment of students with disabilities, ages 3 - 20. Incorporating formal, informal, and performance-based assessment tools, critical topics linked to school-based examples, and more, special education teachers will be exposed to the most prevalent information, knowledge, and skills that they need to know about special education classroom assessment. This new edition incorporates best practices and the use of technology in assessment practices, and covers contemporary, classroom and teacher approaches; research-based practices; formal and informal assessments and testing practices; observation techniques; functional behavioral assessment; curriculum-based assessment; criterion-referenced assessment; performance-based assessments; standardized instruments; contemporary approaches to the assessment of literacy and mathematics; interpreting tests; writing reports; and program evaluation.

The book is written specifically for pre-service and practicing special educators and other related professionals who, in reading this thoroughly-updated edition, will be exposed to the most prevalent information, knowledge and skills available regarding special education classroom assessment.

Pt. I Foundations of Assessment 1

Ch. 1 Understanding Assessment 3

Ch. 2 Response to Intervention 20

Ch. 3 Assessment Framework 40

Ch. 4 Involving Families 57

Pt. II Assessment Skills 77

Ch. 5 Reliability and Validity 79

Ch. 6 Developing Technical Skills 91

Ch. 7 Test Interpretation and Report Writing 109

Pt. III Behavior 133

Ch. 8 Observing, Interviewing, and Conferencing 135

Ch. 9 Behavior 170

Pt. IV Achievement 199

Ch. 10 Achievement: Overall Performance 201

Ch. 11 Reading 223

Ch. 12 Written Language 246

Ch. 13 Oral Language 264

Ch. 14 Mathematics 286

Ch. 15 Performance-Based, Authentic, and Portfolio Assessments 302

Pt. V Special Considerations 325

Ch. 16 Cognitive Development 327

Ch. 17 Young Children 348

Ch. 18 Youth in Transition 376

Glossary 389

Name Index 395

Subject Index 397