Assessment of Exceptional Students: Educational and Psychological Procedures [Hardcover]

Ronald L. Taylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1988 | ISBN-10: 0130501700 | ISBN-13: 978-0130501707 | Edition: 2nd

Assessment of Exceptional Students, Fifth Edition, offers a practical approach that emphasizes how both informal and formal procedures fit into the overall assessment process. Retaining the major features of previous editions, this text details historical, legal, and philosophical issues as well as current concerns in the field. It provides up-to-date coverage of assessment instruments, techniques, and procedures that are used with special education students, and reviews observation, criterion-referenced testing, curriculum-based and portfolio assessment, and other alternative procedures. In addition to covering the areas of ability assessment, achievement testing, early childhood assessment, and vocational assessment, the text also provides readers with a complete chapter on case studies that examine the instruments and techniques for students with both mild and severe disabilities.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Key Benefit: This book is a pragmatic, comprehensive book on the assessment of exceptional students. It covers historical, legal and philosophical issues and concerns. Key Topics: Covers both formal (norm-referenced) and informal (CRT, CBA, observation, portfolio) assessment. Includes a summary matrix at the end of each chapter that allows for comparison of specific instruments and techniques. Contains case studies that assess both a student with a mild disability and a student with a severe disability. Integrates overview boxes that summarize age range, technical adequacy and suggested use for each test. Market: For professionals dealing with the assessment of exceptional students. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 409 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2nd edition (October 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130501700
• ISBN-13: 978-0130501707
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,543,877 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Assessment of Exceptional Students: Educational and Psycholo, July 24, 2000

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George M. Kretschmar Jr. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Assessment of Exceptional Students: Educational and Psychological Procedures (5th Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is the finest compendium of information on thehistory and tools of assessment that I have ever seen. This is amust-read for any guidance counselor, teacher, school administrator or parent that is dealing with exceptional children.

Taylor includes assessments of the screening tools, their effectiveness, and recommended usages. His reporting of research is up-to-date and easily understandable.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource, October 2, 2009

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This review is from: Assessment of Exceptional Students (8th Edition) (Paperback)

For those going into the field of special education or educational psychology, specifically those who will have some hand in assessment, this text is an invaluable resource to have in your professional library. It not only defines the various assessment forms, it explains how and why to administer each form as well. Also, for many (including the highly regarded CBA), it gives information to help in creating assessment tools. While I have been told that not much has changed in the new edition, this edition does include information on RTI. Because of that, I would suggest that this edition is worth the extra money over the last edition. Since little change seems to occur between editions, I would suggest getting this one and not worrying so much about the next one-- but the RTI information is a must!