Assessment of Exceptional Students: Educational and Psychological Procedures (6th Edition) - Hardcover

Taylor, Ronald L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205351077 ISBN 13: 9780205351077

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2002

Synopsis

Assessment of Exceptional Students, Sixth Edition, offers a practical approach that emphasizes how both informal and formal procedures fit into the overall assessment process.

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From the Back Cover:

A traditional text that provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive and practical approach to special education assessment on the market, Assessment of Exceptional Students emphasizes how both informal and formal procedures fit into the overall assessment process for students with special needs. Not only will readers get the most up-to-date coverage of assessment instruments, techniques, procedures, and current concerns in the field, but they will learn the historical, legal and philosophical issues as well. The eighth edition is full of enhancements to this proven and excellent text, such as a more user-friendly, paperback design, a seamless, interactive case study woven across the chapters, the latest information on assessment techniques and testing accommodations, as well as increased content about assessing students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

 

New to the eighth edition:

• An i ntricately woven interactive case study introduces information across chapters to give users more application experience.
• Vignettes featured at the beginning of many chapters familiarize readers with different types of students, includes questions to consider while reading, suggested answers to the questions at the end of each chapter, and the actual test results of the students described in the vignettes.
• "Focus on Diversity” feature specifically highlights issues related to assessing students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
• Increased coverage of alternate assessment and testing accommodations.
• Includes the most current information related to the reauthorization of NCLB and its effect on assessment practices.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0205351077
• ISBN 13: 9780205351077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 575