EDUC-293 Special Education Assessment Part I Birth-12th Grade
This course provides students with the knowledge, professional ethics, conduct, and skills in selecting, administering, interpreting, diagnosing, reporting, using assessment tools and data, as well as monitoring and evaluating the instructional program using appropriate strategies of assessment. Legal perspectives and technical aspects of assessment tools, accommodations, modifications and the computer as a tool for assessment, as well as nondiscriminatory testing procedures will be examined. Students will demonstrate knowledge and apply standards and best practices of the trans-disciplinary model of assessment in case studies and assessment simulations. Students will practice and master observational assessment techniques, curriculum-based assessment methods, and alternative assessment practices in role plays, case studies, and simulations. This course meets the Maryland State Department of Education Assessment, Diagnosis, and Prescriptive Techniques requirement for an initial certificate in Generic Special Education Infant/Primary, Elementary/Middle School, and Secondary/Adult.