TY  - CHAP
AB  - The National Information Center for Children and Youths with Disabilities (NICHCY, 1999) listed five purposes of assessment: (1) screening; (2) evaluation; (3) eligibility and diagnosis; (4) IEP development; and (5) instructional planning. Screening is concerned with identifying students who are suspected of having a disability. In the area of LD, assessors would be evaluating children who are exhibiting learning difficulties or delays in acquiring academic skills. Data from the screening would point out the degree to which these students with suspected LD are approximating average academic growth patterns. Students with extremely deficient skills would be recommended for a full evaluation. This evaluation would delineate the student’s strengths and weaknesses, and overall academic progress across the curriculum. Evaluation would encompass three areas, namely, pre-academic, academic, and learning style assessment. Pre-academic assessment provides information related to a student’s status on prerequisite behaviors (e.g. attention to task) that need to be acquired before instruction in an academic domain (e.g. math) occurs. Academic assessment allows educators to: pinpoint deficit academic readiness skills; describe a student’s overall skill performance level; identify academic skills necessary for learning a domain area; and delineate the steps of a learning task a student has mastered. Learning style assessment involves the identification of a student’s individual learning pattern that she has acquired based on her learning and behavior assets and weaknesses (e.g. active vs. passive learner, auditory vs. visual learner).
VL  - 16
SN  - 978-1-84950-287-0, 978-0-76231-130-9/0270-4013
DO  - 10.1016/S0270-4013(04)16007-8
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0270-4013(04)16007-8
AU  - Rotatori Anthony F.
AU  - Wahlberg Tim
ED  - Sandra Burkhardt
ED  - Festus Obiakor
ED  - Anthony F. Rotatori
PY  - 2005
Y1  - 2005/01/01
TI  - COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
T2  - Current Perspectives on Learning Disabilities
T3  - Advances in Special Education
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 133
EP  - 155
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -