SPED 596 Assessment of Students with Disabilities
In this course, students develop skills in formative and summative evaluation methods for children, youth, and young adults with mild, moderate, or severe disabilities in an academic or functional curriculum. Students will learn how to administer, interpret and report in a nondiscriminatory manner: observations, work sample, task and error analysis, file review, inventories, diagnostic probes, checklists, rating scales, questionnaires, error analysis, curriculum-based measurements and formal achievement tests. Emphasis is on screening, pre-referral, eligibility determination, instructional assessment with on-going evaluation (progress monitoring) and data-based decision making. Case studies will be used for analysis and assessment decisions. Students will engage in independent research and analysis of summative assessments.