Assessing Students with Special Needs

John Venn is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Education and Human Services at the University of North Florida. John's experience includes serving as a classroom teacher, an educational diagnostician, a university professor, a researcher, a grant writer, and an administrator. His teaching, research, and service interests focus on how to assess and evaluate students with special needs as well as on curriculum-based assessment and measurement. John's interests extend to technology and online learning; he maintains a website dedicated to assisting teachers with student assessment, and he has taught online courses in assessment. John is committed to finding practical solutions to the most difficult problems and issues in testing and measurement. For this reason, he spends considerable time in schools where he learns first hand how teachers are conducting assessment. John takes what he learns in the schools back to the university where he incorporates his experiences into his classes and scholarship. To learn more about John's work in assessment visit his website at www.johnvenn.com.

Brief Contents PART I THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS

CHAPTER 1 DEFINING AND DESCRIBING THE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
CHAPTER 2 STEPS IN THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS

PART II ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS AND SKILLS

CHAPTER 3 PRACTICAL MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS
CHAPTER 4 TEST SCORES AND WHAT THEY MEAN
CHAPTER 5 SELECTING AND USING ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS

PART III ASSESSING GENERAL PERFORMANCE

CHAPTER 6 ASSESSING INTELLIGENCE AND ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR
CHAPTER 7 DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 8 LANGUAGE AND BILINGUAL ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 9 ASSESSING BEHAVIOR
CHAPTER 10 CAREER AND VOCATIONAL ASSESSMENT

PART IV ASSESSING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

CHAPTER 11 ASSESSING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: GENERAL STRATEGIES
CHAPTER 12 ASSESSING READING ACHIEVEMENT
CHAPTER 13 ASSESSING MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT
CHAPTER 14 ASSESSING WRITTEN EXPRESSION
CHAPTER 15 PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT