The publisher, Prentice-Hall Career & Technology
This exciting new text provides future special education teachers, comprehensive coverage of the latest tests and evaluation procedures for all areas of exceptionality...for every age group...for students with mild, moderate, and severe disabilities. Coverage addresses the full spectrum of special education assessment. with an emphasis on the application of information to meet the individual, often unique, requirements of students with special needs. It explores assessment from infancy and preschool age, through high school and into adulthood. Included is a full chapter on test scores and what they mean, as well as a thorough description of major assessment content areas incorporating standardized, norm-referenced testing as well as curriculum-based, criterion-referenced evaluation. A final chapter familiarizes future special educators with the reality of the tough assessment challenges they will face. A distinctive feature of Assessment of Students with Special Needs is the author's highly accessible, conversational style. His interesting, appealing presentation--combining practical material on methods and procedures with thorough discussion of the theoretical aspects of measurement-is enhanced with a wealth of examples, case studies, charts, figures, illustrations, and study aids to help make complex, philosophically-based information on assessment abundantly clear.
