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Provides a developmentally informed framework for assessing 3- to 6-year-olds in accordance with best practices and IDEA guidelines. This book takes the reader step by step through selecting appropriate measures, integrating data from a variety of sources, and using the results to plan and evaluate effective interventions and learning experiences.
Provides a methodology for the control and prevention of missing data. This volume helps the reader understand the different types of missing data and their implications for the reliability, validity, and generalizability of a study's conclusions.
Showcasing assessment practices that can help teachers plan effective instruction, this book addresses the real-world complexities of teaching literacy in grades K-8. It presents approaches that examine learning processes as well as learning products, that yield information on how the learning environment can be improved.
Growing evidence suggests that self-determination is a significant factor in improving educational and transition outcomes in students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This book reviews the methods for teaching components of self-determination.
Growing evidence suggests that self-determination is a significant factor in improving educational and transition outcomes in students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This book reviews the methods for teaching components of self-determination.
This compelling video program distills the ideas and insights offered in the late Dr. Edwin H. Friedman's acclaimed workshops on leadership. Drawing on his extensive experience with families and religious congregations--and broadening the focus to encompass larger organizations as well--Dr. Friedman shares essential insights into why systems ......
In the era of No Child Left Behind, what literacy research is still needed? How should it be conducted? And what role does research play in determining the kinds of literacy experiences that actually take place in classrooms? This book addresses these vital and hotly debated questions.
