1st Edition

Academic Assessment and Intervention

Edited By Steven Little, Angeleque Akin-Little Copyright 2014
362 Pages
by Routledge

362 Pages
by Routledge

362 Pages
by Routledge

Serving students with academic deficiencies necessitates communication and collaboration among professionals from several disciplines. Academic Assessment and Intervention brings together divergent approaches in order to demonstrate that scientific evidence, rather than biases or previous practice, must determine assessment practices that are selected and used for particular purposes. Similar... Read more
Part I: Foundations of Academic Assessment and Intervention  1. Methods of Academic Assessment  Steven G. Little and Angeleque Akin-Little  2. A General Case Framework for Academic Intervention  George H. Noell and Kristen A. Gansle  3. Linking Assessment and Intervention  Steven G. Little and Angeleque Akin-Little  Part II: Norm Referenced Assessment  4. Academic Assessment Batteries  Dawn P. Flanagan, Vincent C. Alfonso, and Shauna G. Dixon  5. Individual Assessment of Specific Academic Areas  Cynthia A. Riccio, Andrea Dennison, and Lisa Bowman-Perrott  6. Group Tests of Academic Achievement  Steven G. Little and Angeleque Akin-Little  7. Norm-Referenced Assessment and Bilingual Populations  Amanda B. Clinton and Pedro Olvera  Part III: Curicculum Based Assessment  8. The Basics of Curriculum Based Assessment  Theodore J. Christ, Milena A. Keller-Margulis, and Amanda M. Marcotte  9. The Use of Technology with Curriculum-Based Measurement  Madi Phillips, Mark R. Shinn, and Ben Ditkowsky  10. Responsive Assessment and Instruction Practices  Rachel Brown, Mark W. Steege, and Rebekah Bickford  11. Use of CBA/CBM with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations  Mike Vanderwood, Catherine Tung, and Rebecca Hickey  Part IV: Specific Academic Interventions and Issues  12. Evidence-Based Reading Decoding Instruction  Clayton R. Cook, Elizabeth Holland, and Tal Slemrod  13. Interventions for Developing Reading Comprehension  Christine E. Neddenriep  14. Linking Classroom Assessment to Written Language Interventions  Linda H. Mason and Anne Mong Cramer  15. Mathematics Interventions  Robin S. Codding and Ryan Martin  16. Occasioning Behaviors that Cause Learning  Kathryn E. Jaspers, Christopher H. Skinner, Erin E.C. Henze, Sara J. McCane-Bowling, and Emily F. Rowlette  17. Increasing Instructional Efficacy: A Focus on Teacher Variables   Kathleen Lynne Lane, Wendy Peia Oakes, Holly Mariah Menzies, and Kathryn Germer  18. Standards-Based Assessment  Tom Nicholson

Biography

Steven G. Little is Professor in the Clinical Psychology program at Walden University, US

Angeleque Akin-Little is President of Akin-Little & Little Behavioral Psychology Consultants based in northern New York, US