Academic Skills Problems Workbook

by Edward Steven Shapiro

An ideal companion to Academic Skills Problems, Third Edition, this user-friendly workbook offers numerous opportunities for practicing and mastering direct assessment and intervention procedures. Practice exercises and forms--some of which are reprinted from the text--are presented in a convenient 8 ½" x 11" format with permission to photocopy. Updated to reflect the changes in the third edition of the text, the workbook includes teacher and student interview forms; a complete guide to using the Behavioral Observation of Students in Schools (BOSS) observation code; exercises on administering assessments and scoring, interpreting, and graphing the results; and much more.

147 pages, Paperback

First published May 20, 1996

About the author

Edward S. Shapiro (b.1951) is a professor of school psychology at the Center for Promoting Research to Practice, College of Education, at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA).

Reviews

[Carly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the workbook that accompanies the Academic Skills Problems book that loved so much. The only reason this got 3 stars (and the text book it accompanies only got 2) is that I felt this book COULD be more practical for actual use. The book itself is a workbook--so the size makes it easy to photocopy any of the pages if needed.

Of course, I still felt it was geared toward elemtary school psychologists or teachers...not what I will be. The focus on assessments reminded me of TFA--they would LOVE this book.

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This workbook accompanied the Academic Skills Problems full text. I thought the workbook was beneficial in that it broke down each step in identifying student problems in an organized and detailed manner. Examples were provided alongside the explanation. The pages are reproducible, encouraging application.

Topics covered: interviewing teacher/parent/child
assessing to determine problem areas
observation methods
interventions
progress monitoring

A good resource.