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SPED5013 Assessment of Children with Exceptional Learning Needs

News as of Thursday, July 2. The KR20 reliability on the final exam was 0.78 and there was one return item. The class average was 84 percent correct.

So this course is over. Before long, many of you will be fully licensed special education teachers. Now the question: What's next, professionally?

In the world of special education, educational examiner (educational diagnostician) is the next step. In the program you are in now, you have learned to interpret the assessments that are given to qualify and/or to track students. If you go on to get your license as an educational examiner, diagnostician, or psychometrist (label depends upon which state you are practicing in), you will develop competencies in not just the interpretation of the test results, but in giving them and doing the write-ups as well. We don't have such a program yet, but you might want to check on it at other universities.

I maintain materials this and for other courses on the T drive at ftp://tdata.atu.edu and at this point, you should be able to do anything and everything in the course either from what is posted on Blackboard or from what has been deposited in Tdata.

The textbook is Assessing learners with special needs: An applied approach Overton, T. (2008). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Merrill. ISBN 978-0-13-159957-4 . I'd suggest you begin reading the book. Three weeks will go by very quickly.

To see a sample of how to do the readings, click here .

Important dates.

June 4, 2009--course officially begins. Some materials will have already been posted. If you want to start early that is fine.
June 4--first discussion board begins; ends midnight June 6th
June 5--second discussion board becomes available, closes June 9
June 6--third discussion board opens, closes June 12 at midnight.
June 10--First professional reading due. Topic: Assistive technology. Fourth discussion board begins; ends at midnight June 13.
June 10, on or about-- Data on a child for which you are to do your case study will be posted on Blackboard.
June 12--Second professional reading due. topic: Assessment of children with culture or language differences.
June 14-- Fifth discussion board (over chapter 6) begins, ends June 20.
June 15--Third professional reading due. topic: Assessment of chilidren from an impoverished background.
June 17--Mid-term exam, on line. It will be available for 48 hours beginning at 12: 01 the 17th and will go off at midnight June 18. You will be required to finish the test in no more than two hours from the time you open it. Could you look at the textbook to find some of the answers? Only if you already know the textbook well enough to find things quickly. Sixth discussion board begins, ends June 22.
June 19--fourth reading due. Topic: Current assessment practices of children with exceptional learning needs. Fifth discussion board ends, seventh begins
June 22--eighth discussion board available. It ends at midnight June 24. Seventh discussion board ends at midnight.
June 23--Sixth discussion board ends at midnight.
June 24--ninth discussion board available, ends on June 28
June 25--Final version of case study due to me no later than 10: 00 PM. Please send it to me in Microsoft Word by email attachment at swomack@atu.edu . Do not put it in the Blackboard drop box unless you just want to leave an extra copy there also.
June 25--Tenth discussion board available, ends June 29 at midnight.
June 30--final exam will become available at 12: 01 June 29 and go off line at midnight June 30

Course-related Links

Link to the State Department of Education Special Education Regs--http://arksped.k12.ar.us/sections/rulesandregulations.html#TOP

SPED5013 Legal issues in Special Education
SPED5013 The IEP meeting
SPED5013 Special Populations
SPED5013 Child Abuse
SPED5013 Mental Retardation
SPED5013 Learning Disabilities
SPED5013 Gifted
SPED5013 Hearing and Speech Impairments
SPED5013 Emotional Disturbance
Exceptional Children search facility
Special Ed. Law search site
Autism Society of America--search
National Council for Learning Disabilities
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
National Information Center for Children and Youth
Search engine for legal information
The Dyslexic Reader
Learning Disabilities Association of Arkansas
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)

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