Classroom Assessment for Students in Special and General Education

Cathleen G. Spinelli is a professor and chair in the Special Education Department at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in assessment and teaching techniques. She has extensive experience working in the public school system, evaluating students from preschoolers to adults, as a certified school psychologist and educational diagnostician. She has enjoyed her years as both a special education teacher and a school administrator in the public school system.  She is the author of another Pearson text, the recently published, Linking Assessment to Instructional Strategies: A Guide for Teachers.

• Brief Table of ContentsPart 1: OVERVIEW OF THE RTI AND SPECIAL EDUCATION PROCESS Chapter 1:  Early Intervening Services: Implementing Response to Intervention for Students who are At-Risk   Chapter 2:  The Special Education Process: Assessment for Referral, Classification, Placement and Programming  Part 2: TYPES OF ASSESSMENTChapter 3:  Standardized Assessment: Types, Scores, and Accommodations   Chapter 4:  Informal Assessment: Selecting, Scoring, and Preliminary Data Collection    Part 3: BASIC SKILLS and CONTENT-SUBJECT ASSESSMENT Chapter 5:  Language Assessment: Oral and English Language Learner/Bilingual   Chapter 6:  Reading AssessmentChapter 7:  Written Language AssessmentChapter 8:  Mathematical AssessmentChapter 9:  Content Area and Related Arts Assessment  Part 4: SPECIAL FOCUS ASSESSMENTChapter 10: Emotional, Social and Character Education Assessment   Chapter 11: Study Skills Assessment and Test Taking SkillsChapter 12:  Transition Assessment: Across the Ages