SED 653 - 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): Open to matriculated special education, ETEP students, or program permission.
Co-requisite(s):
Credits: 3

Course Typically Offered:
Course Type: Special Education