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Assessing for Instructional Purposes

Assessment tools include:

norm-referenced tests

observation reports

criterion-based assessments

*curriculum-based assessments

*in-class assessments

(* the most appropriate assessments for instructional purposes)

Interest Box 5.6 p. 144 Bender text

Questions you should address in your small group work.

Which of these instruments have you used? Which have you found most helpful to you as classroom teacher, or as the support to classroom teacher(s)? Has anyone used task analysis, error analysis or analysis of daily class work? If you have, share ideas and/or sample work sheets. If not, try using them.

Resources for Future Investigation:

Ministry of Education- Developing An Individual Education Plan

Web Resource Links

Special Needs Opportunity Windows

LD OnLine Organization

Center for Discoveries in Learning

Yahoo-Special Education

Council for Exceptional Children

Child & Family Canada-LD

Richard Lavoie's Videos

CHALLENGE TO PONDER:

Teaching Exceptional Children, Volume 22, no.3, provides several articles on precision teaching, as examples of a daily curriculum-based assessment. Check it out. Develop objectives for a future Individualized Education Plan (IEP) based on the data from this resource. Optional : Share it with us and feel free to ask for comments.

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