SED 453 - Assessment of Academic Achievement

This course is designed to prepare special educators to select, administer, score and interpret measures of academic achievement. Numerous measures of academic achievement, including published norm-referenced tests, criterion-referenced tests, curriculum-based assessment and measurement, and performance-based assessments will be studied. Students will develop an understanding of how to use measures of academic achievement as part of a comprehensive problem-solving process that fits with responsive interventions in schools.

Prerequisite(s): SED 235 and matriculation in Special Education Major or program permission.
Co-requisite(s):
Credits: 3

Course Typically Offered: Spring
Course Type: Special Education