EDSP 504 - Assessment in Special Education

Credits: 3

This course will provide direct experience with selecting, administering, and interpreting formal and informal assessment measures for analysis of student learning profiles. Assessments will include ecological inventories, norm-referenced, performance-based and curriculum-based testing standardized achievement and intelligence measures, and vocation/transition-related evaluations. Categories of assessment will include authentic, formative, summative, diagnostic, and benchmark. Cooperative discussions will focus on instructional decision-making based upon student learning profiles.