Assessment of Children and Youth with Special Needs

by Libby G. Cohen, Loraine J. Spenciner

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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Education

432 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1997

Reviews

[Paula]

I actually read a later version of this and it was very concise. There were areas that could have been expanded, but a good book.

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I appreciated all of the outlines that this text provided for the various forms of testing available. It is a college text, so it is a bit dry and cumbersome to read. The chapters do tend to repeat some information, but most of the sections offer enough examples of specific tests that it is a pretty informative read.

[Joanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an alright text to peruse for my class. I definitely felt it was the most concise to date in the last year and a half on special education (history of and delineation, etc.).