[ARCHIVED CATALOG] 2014-2015 Graduate Academic Catalog

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[ARCHIVED CATALOG] 2014-2015 Graduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDU 646 - Assessment for ESE: Evaluation, Interpretation, and Placement

3 credit hours

Prerequisites: Twelve graduate hours.
This course introduces the basic concepts of testing and measurement theory and explains the nature of assessment and evaluation. The course presents commonly used testing instruments and assessment procedures (both formal and informal and traditional and alternative assessments) used with exceptional students (K-12). Emphasis is on the selections of an appropriate comprehensive battery of tests and assessment measures, practice in administration and assessment activity, practice in scoring and interpretation for diagnosis and instruction, practice in reporting results, ability to establish a test environment, and training in ethics and requirements of fair testing, assessment and evaluation.T Field experience is required.