ASSESSMENT & DATA DRIVEN DECISIONS

This course provides further study into psychoeducational assessment in education. Topics of study include:1) overview of basic considerations inassessment, 2) assumptions underlying assessment and legal and ethical considerations in assessment, 3) basic concepts of measurement, with a focus on descriptive statistics, quantification of test performance, norms, reliability, and validity, 4) assessment of processes-intelligence, sensory acuity, oral language, perceptual-motor skills, and personality, 5) assessment of skills-academic achievement, reading, mathematics, written language, adaptive behavior, and 6) applying assessment information to educational decision making.