Assessment of Children and Youth with Special Needs [with eText Access Code]

by Libby G. Cohen, Loraine Spenciner

Note: This is the loose-leaf version of Assessment of Children and Youth with Special Needs and does not include access to the Pearson eText. To order the Pearson eText packaged with the loose-leaf version, use ISBN 013357086X. This highly respected text focuses on current assessment issues and procedures that every special educator needs to know. The author's integrated approach emphasizes in-class assessment approaches as well as more formal measures and instruments. Throughout they provide numerous practical examples of how the techniques and procedures can be used in the classroom. Included are practical, ready-to-used materials integrated within instruction delivery methods; relevant case studies; and examinations of current assessment topics in every chapter. This new Fifth Edition features an expanded discussion of classroom assessment and the assessment cycle; an expanded discussion of Response to Intervention (RTI); new sections on how to use assessment effectively with students with behavior problems and how to collaborate effectively with speech and language specialists; updated descriptions of formal, standardized texts and measures; interactive features embedded into examples and mini-cases throughout; and Web links embedded into the text to further engage readers with the material.

Genres: Nonfiction, Education

432 pages, Unbound

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.).