EIS 279 - Prescriptive Assessment and Diagnosis for Intensive Instruction

3 Credit Hour(s) Laboratory: 0 Recitation: 3 Alternative Mode: 0

This course will introduce educational assessment methods and procedures used in decision making and program planning for students with exceptional learning needs and from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds. Candidates will select, administer, and interpret norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessments. Discussion of alternative assessment options will be integrated throughout this course. Basic inferential statistical concepts will be introduced and reviewed in the initial five weeks. Candidates will learn how to improve teaching practice and modify curriculum to meet student needs through the strategic use of both standardized and curriculum-based assessment data. Specific attention will be paid to interpretation of assessments conducted in multifactored evaluations (MFE) and their use in developing individual education programs (IEP). Candidates will observe student behavior during test administration and analyze results of assessments. (Fall)

Prerequisite(s): C- or higher in EDU 220; minimum 2.85 GPA. For ISP candidates only in place of EIS 281.