SPED 450 - Curriculum-Based Evaluation and Norm Referenced Assessment

This course provides students focusing upon general and special education with information regarding a variety of assessment processes and practices, including the CBE process and norm-reference assessments. Assessments common in elementary and special education classrooms will be explored. Course content will include information regarding assessment skills, descriptive statistics and measurement, types of assessment instruments, data literacy, and issues pertaining to the assessment of students with disabilities and/or from diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Additionally, students will gain experience administering, scoring, interpreting the results of a variety of norm-referenced test instruments, and report writing.

Prerequisites & Notes: SPED 305.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter