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Dec 26, 2024
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EDSP 5820 - Assessment of Young Children with Exceptionalities
Assessment in Early Childhood Special Education focuses on using multiple developmentally appropriate assessments to identify young children with special needs and inform students’ instruction practices to ensure children’s learning. Students examine various formal and informal approaches to assessment to build their skills in (a) creating meaningful learning goals, (b) individualizing instruction, (c) adapting instructional practices, and (d) evaluating children’s learning. Collaboration is emphasized in this course to enhance students’ beliefs and practices with respect to their communication with children, their families, other professionals, and the community.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to analyze strategies to support and empower families from diverse social and cultural backgrounds in the screening, diagnosis, educational planning, and ongoing assessment processes.
- Students will be able to critique the quality of individual intervention plans (i.e., Individualized Education Programs, Behavior Intervention Plans) for their consideration of family resources, concerns, and priorities.
- Students will be able to develop individual intervention plans that reflect consideration of family resources, concerns, and priorities, natural environments, and child assessments.
- Students will be able to explain the formal assessment tools used to screen, diagnose, and evaluate children.
- Students will be able to implement informal assessment tools to monitor children’s progress, adapt instructional practices, and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching on children’s learning.
- Students will be able to summarize the policies, ethical practices, and procedural requirements in early childhood special education.
- Students will be able to use strategies to improve collaboration with families, educators, related-service providers, assistants, administrators, and community members in the evaluation process, educational planning, and assessment of young children.
- Students will be able to utilize a variety of methods and resources to evaluate meaningful curricula that addresses children’s learning goals.
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