Product Description
Guidelines for Assessment Accommodations (2nd edition)
Author: J Fourie
Format: Physical Hardcopy
The development of an enabling and socially just learning environment in schools relates to teaching and learning but of equal significance is the assessment of and for learning. Of particular importance is the provision of equitable assessment opportunities for learners who experience physical, sensory and neurological disabilities or specific learning difficulties.
Guidelines for Assessment Accommodations focuses on assessment adaptations and methods of assessment accommodations for learners who experience reading and writing challenges that prevent them from giving a true reflection of their acquired knowledge and skills in classroom tests and examinations.
Guidelines for Assessment Accommodations provides a general and useful framework for assessment practices in an inclusive environment. It discusses the support of learners with language and other difficulties and gives specific techniques for adapting assessments to assist learners.
Contents include the following:
Guidelines for Assessment Accommodations is aimed at all educators facing the challenge of assessing learners with disabilities and learning difficulties fairly and consistently.
Features:
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Principles of assessment
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Specific learning difficulties
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Curriculum adaptation
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Identifying barriers to assessment
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Description of assessment accommodations
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Administrative procedures for assessment accommodations
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Collaborating with the school-based support team
Contents:
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Chapter 1 Understanding classroom assessment within an inclusive education framework
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Chapter 2 Specific learning and language difficulties in the classroom and assessment accommodations
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Chapter 3 Principles, purpose and nature of assessment accommodations
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Chapter 4 Identification of barriers to assessment
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Chapter 5 Understanding categories of assessment accommodations
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Chapter 6 Administrative procedures with regard to assessment accommodations
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