Video Resources
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Assessment and Curriculum for Students With Disabilities
This video provides a brief overview of assessment types and their utility in supporting decision making for instruction of student with disabilities.
Accommodation & Modification in Special Education
This video provides background information and types of accommodation and adaptation techniques for use when assessing students with disabilities.
Methods of Assessment Used in Special Education
This video is the first in a multipart presentation on the types of assessments that can be used to measure students’ abilities and/or identify areas of need.
Additional Video Cases
Video Case 8.1: Why and How are Students Assessed?
- Which informal assessment methods are mentioned in the video? How do the teachers use the results of these informal assessments to guide their instructional planning on a daily basis?
- What formal assessment measures do the teachers identify and how are they used to measure student learning? How do the teachers prepare their students for standardized assessment tests?
Video Case 8.2: Progress Monitoring
- How does Mia Tannous describe progress monitoring in reading at her school? What progress monitoring methods does Tema Khieu mention? How are the results from ongoing progress monitoring used to enhance student learning?
- Why does Mia Tannous say that the math specialists at her school are creating new math assessments? What characteristics will the new assessments include and how can the data be used by the teachers?