ESE503: Evaluation of Exceptional Children

Welcome to our course offered online. As you work through these modules you will begin to understand the ins and outs of assessment, what assessment means, and what you can actually gain from assessments.

This is an intensive course with a combination of fun readings and in-depth readings. You will have a wide variety of assignments that are intended to give you the real flavor of assessment. Assessment is a cross-disciplinary activity and by the time you are done with this course you will begin to see how psychology, research and special education come together to breathe meaning into this complex discipline.

To get started, read the syllabus. Buy your book. Sign up for an account on queendom.com and prepare to get a broader vision of evaluation!

The Big Picture

There are the three modules for the course. Need an overview? Begin by reading your book. You will read through almost the entire book in the first module.

Your best bet is to do the class in order. Recognize that there are a lot of assignments. Many are about self-reflection so they aren't very difficult. Other assignments are going to take a lot of time. Stay focused and make a commitment to yourself that you will sign in to the class at the very least every other day. When you have completed The Psychology of Assessment, you take your midterm...so you will be nearly 1/2 way through the class. Remember to give yourself about a week to complete your final!!

Overview

Module One	Activity	Personal Notes
The Psychology of Assessment	You will be looking at how Psychology and Assessment come together to impact special education. You will be doing self exploration as well as exploring what Psychological Evaluations look like. By the time you are done you should have an idea of how complex this field is and what you can do to help your students and yourself benefit the most from assessments. You will also be reading the bulk of your text You will not be tested over the actual text, but on the constructs it supports..

Module Two	Activity	Personal Notes
Legal Issues in Assessment	You will be working toward an understanding of how laws and regualtions impact special education and paricularly assessment. You will look at works by advocacy groups and read about what these groups think and the advice they give parents in regards to how you and the psychometrists work with children. You will continue your self reflective work to get a strong sense of what it feels like to take assessments and have someone tell you about "you" based on limited information. This module should be fun and informative.

Module Three	Activity	Personal Notes
Special Education in Assessment	Now its time to take what you have learned and apply the use of assessments to special education in particular, and all teaching in general. You will play with assessments and continue with your final to do self reflection, finally ending in a full size self written PsychoEducational evaluation.

SO lets get excited and lets get going. Once you have an understanding of assessment you have the foundation of Special Education!

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