SPYF 520 Educational Assessment for Tiered Services

Students will be introduced to the assessment of academic and learning problems experienced by children and adolescents. Students will learn an ecological assessment approach designed to prevent and remediate learning problems in a multi-tiered service of supports (MTSS) framework and Response to Intervention (RtI) process. Building on a foundation of measurement basics, students will address the use of academic standardized assessment instruments. The course includes a review of a wide range of assessment tools, as well as an introduction to the assessment and diagnosis of various contexts of students’ experience. Each student will master the administration of one individually administered, standardized academic assessment. This course will be offered during either the summer or fall term and includes a three-day in-person residency component. Students are expected to plan accordingly to attend the full residency, as it is a required part of the course experience. This course has an experiential learning component in the schools.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Admission to the Ed. S. School Psychology Program or permission of program coordinator

Corequisite

None