SPED 397 Assessment of Students with Disabilities
In this course, students will acquire skills in both formative and summative evaluation methods tailored for children, youth, and young adults with varying degrees of disabilities, whether mild, moderate, or severe, within academic or functional curricula. The course covers the administration, interpretation, and reporting of various assessment tools in a nondiscriminatory manner, including observations, work samples, task and error analyses, file reviews, inventories, diagnostic probes, checklists, rating scales, questionnaires, curriculum-based measurements, and formal achievement tests. Key focus areas include screening, pre-referral processes, eligibility determination, instructional assessment, ongoing evaluation (progress monitoring), and data-driven decision-making. Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education and completion of SPED 289.