Classroom Assessment for Students in Special and General Education

By Cathleen G. Spinelli

Book Overview

KEY BENEFIT The primary text on classroom assessment procedures features the latest in authentic, curriculum, and performance-based assessment measures and prepares teachers with the skills necessary to effectively use assessment, particularly informal assessment, in understanding the needs of the whole student in today's general and special education classrooms . KEY TOPICS: The third edition of Spinelli's best-selling text focuses on the latest research, development, and strategies in assessing students with and without special needs. The content makes connections to instruction, IEP development, and reporting to parents using a variety of assessment procedures and specific directions on how to construct, administer, score, interpret, graph, monitor, write, and report assessment results, and the various methods of gathering and interpreting students' developmental history, the rationale for gathering pre-assessment information and specific guidelines and examples for implementation. The author also includes techniques on how to obtain critical background information on students, observe and document findings, conduct interviews, analyze work samples, document critical classroom behaviors through anecdotal record keeping, screen for visual and auditory processing, and evaluate textbooks for readability. New to this edition: a full spectrum of assessment strategies supported by current research and best practices, with new concentrations on progress monitoring, Response to Intervention (RTI), and the practical application of assessment results; a new four-part organization; fully revised and updated chapters and more. MARKET: Written for special education and general education teachers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137050135
• ISBN13: 9780137050130
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Assessment

Very good reference for classroom assessment in general and special education. Updated and recently published in compliance with NCLB and IDEA 2004.