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=Collaboration and Assessment=


 * #11

4/17 || * Considerations in Assessment of Reading Informal Reading Inventories || ** Chapter 10: Reading  ** || Read Ch.15 ||
 * Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests—Revised/Normative Update
 * Gray Oral Reading Tests—Fourth Edition
 * Test of Reading Comprehension—Third Edition
 * Measures of Phonemic Awareness and Phonological Processing
 * Reading Fluency Measures
 * #12

4/24 || * Considerations in the Assessment of Young Children
 * Screening
 * Ecological Assessment, Family Interviews and Rating Scales, Observation, and Play-Based Assessment
 * Curriculum-Based and Criterion-Referenced Assessment
 * Norm-Referenced and Dynamic Assessment
 * School Readiness
 * Program Plans, Goals, and Objectives || ** Chapter 15: Early Childhood Assessment  ** || ** Observations due ** ||
 * #13

5/1 || FINAL EXAM || FINAL || EXAM ||

__ The norm-referenced testing project (NRT Project) consists of a two-three page report that you will write based-on your research of the assessment. You will select a particular test to use for the subject of the research paper from among a variety of available tests. For example, commonly used achievement tests include the Peabody Individual Achievement Test - Revised, the Keymath Diagnostic Arithmetic Test - Revised, and the Weschler Individual Achievement Test. You may read about these and other norm-referenced achievement tests in the class text. __ __You will write a report that explains the test preparation, procedures for administration and reporting results, as well as providing recommendations for remediation.__
 * Norm-Referenced Testing Project**

**__FROM LORI HILL, ASST FIELD PLACEMENT DIRECTOR__** I wanted to let you know I am sending a letter regarding clearances to all graduate students enrolled in any course with a field experience component. All of your students must have these clearances on file in the Field Placement Office before they can begin to complete their observation hours. I will keep you updated when I have received clearances for all of your students.
 * ALL OF YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS - IF NOT, PLEASE TAKE CARE OF THIS ASAP. HOLY FAMILY REQUIRES YOU TO DO OBSERVATIONS AS A REQUIREMENT OF THIS (AND MANY OTHER) CLASSES. YOU CANNOT FULFILL THAT REQUIREMENT WITHOUT THE APPROPRIATE CLEARANCES.**

Required Texts:
__Assessing Students with Special Needs__ McLoughlin 7th ED

__Better IEPs__ Bateman 4th ED

THIS CLASS WILL CONSIST OF FORMAL CLASS MEETING AND ONLINE "VIRTUAL" CLASSES EACH WEEK.

**ON-LINE ACTIVITIES**  • Virtual Class Meetings • Weekly chapter assignments • Threaded Discussion Forums • Weekly Electronic powerpoints and notes • Weekly Electronic reflections • Electronic Glossary Excercises • On-line Practice Tests