The Assessment of Special Educational Needs (eBook, PDF)

International Perspective
Redaktion: Cline, Tony

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1992. Special educational needs are being defined in new ways. Changing laws and perspectives in many countries present new challenges to practitioners. The fundamental shift underlying all these changes is the idea that handicap is not an absolute phenomenon, that special educational needs are relative to a person's environment. Once this is accepted, it is inevitable that there will be a radical re-examination of how such needs are identified and how they are assessed.

This book draws together a range of contributions from leading figures in special education worldwide, to emphasise assessment in the service of prevention, of teaching, and of mainstreaming and integration. It is not enough to understand children's individual strengths and weaknesses. The primary objective of assessment is to guide intervention, and for that purpose it must have a broader focus and not concentrate exclusively on the target individuals who appear to have disabilities or learning difficulties: the learning environment is equally important as a focus for assessment.

The book is divided into three sections that explore three broad themes: empowering children and parents during the assessment process; designing assessment so that it supports the integration and mainstreaming of children rather than their segregation; and making improvements through specific approaches to assessment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429996566
• Artikelnr.: 55265253

Autorenporträt

Tony Cline, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Luton and Chair of the Editorial Board of NASEN Journals, examines the challenges that face those involved in the assessment of the The Assessment of Special Educational Needs for Bilingual Children.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements;
Introduction; Part One: Empowering Children and Parents During the
Assessment Process; 1. Images of Deaf Children as Learners: The Influence
of Adults' Perceptions on Assessment and Intervention Alec Webster 2. Pupil
Involvement in Assessment Irvine S. Gersch 3. Towards More Effective
Decision Making in Assessment: Pathway - Meeting the Needs of All Pupils
Miles Halliwell and Tom Williams 4. Assessing Needs in the Planning of
Home-Based Learning Services Lilian Mariga; Part Two: Assessment in the
Service of Integration and Mainstreaming; 5. A Second Change to Learn
Literacy: By Different Routes to Common Outcomes (The Reading Recovery
Programme) Marie M. Clay 6. Enabling Schools for All: Assessment in the
Service of Systemic Reform Winston E. Rampaul and D. Richard Freeze 7. The
Challenge of Special Educational Needs: An Approach to Identification and
Assessment of Individuals with Cerebral Palsy in a Community Setting Sudha
Kaul; Part Three: Growth Points in the Improvement of Practice; 8.
Assessment of Special Educational Needs: Meeting Reasonable Expectations?
Tony Cline 9. Looking with Different Eyes, Listening with Different Ears:
Reading Evaluation from a Holistic Perspective Randall Cranston and Judith
King 10. Curriculum-Based Assessment: Broadening the Base Norah
Frederickson 11. Dynamic Assessment: Pitfalls and Prospects Harry Daniels
12. Minimizing the Inappropriate Referral and Placement of Ethnic Minority
Students in Special Education Victoria L. Graf; Index