SPED 70151 - Advanced Preparation in Educational Assessment

Understanding and skill critical to assessing students with learning disabilities and behavior disorders in order to determine instructional starting points, guide intervention, and track progress. Includes multiple administrations of measures assessing pre-reading (including phonological awareness), word recognition, reading comprehension, writing, vocabulary, and mathematics, as well as progress monitoring probes. Also, informal assessment of general knowledge, curriculum-specific vocabulary, and self-monitoring. In-class assessment practice, as well as assessment of students (videotaped for review and analysis).

Hours 45
Credits 3