1000 Search Results for Assessment and Special Education
Responsiveness to Intervention
Delivering adequate resources to children with learning differences is not some haphazard undertaking. On the contrary, it requires a predetermined plan and the sufficient combination of a number of different entities Continue Reading...
Gerl (2010) points out in his advocacy of metaphysics as a way of approaching the philosophy of special education that this helps to construct a legal perspective which is evolving in a way that is consistent with the evolution of ethical perspectiv Continue Reading...
Special Ed
Disproportionate Representation of Minorities in Special Education
Special Education is intended to function as a powerful resource for giving extra attention, assistance and educational resource to those with severe and irreparable lear Continue Reading...
Suter, J., & M. Giangreco. (2009). Numbers that count: Exploring special education and paraprofessional service delivery in inclusion-oriented schools. The Journal of Special
Education, 43(2), 81-93. Retrieved September 3, 2009, from Research Continue Reading...
Regular educators are also frustrated with the way NCLB penalizes schools that have high numbers of special education students. Even when those schools are serving special education students well enough to become local "magnets" because their good Continue Reading...
While some suggest that high-stakes testing is an inadequate way of measuring the academic achievement and learning of most students, many also agree that high-stakes testing has severe disadvantages for special education students. Kymes points out Continue Reading...
Dr. Frank Pajares, writing in Reading and Writing Quarterly (Pajares 2003), points out that in his view of Bandura's social learning theory, individuals are believed to possess "self-beliefs that enable them to exercise a measure of control over th Continue Reading...
But with the increased importance of state standards in measuring student and school performance, it is crucial that the student's educators be mindful of the most appropriate methods of measuring the child's compliance and that the general educator Continue Reading...
Education Policy
Reading First is a new grant program proposed by President Bush and endorse as part of the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The new program is part of Title I Part B, along with the Reading First p Continue Reading...
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When they see the library staff in this light, teachers are more willing to work with others in improving the effectiveness of their lesson planning (by incorporating more tools and techniques). (Gregory, 2003, pp. 100-109)
Task 4: Change can be di Continue Reading...
Specific Learning Disability DyslexiaDyslexia is known as a reading disability. It is a learning disability that hinders reading and other language-based processing skills (Muktamath et al., 2021). Dyslexia accounts for around 80 percent of all learn Continue Reading...
When creating a diversity portrait, the identified student group that faced an achievement gap compared with state averages was the black student group. It was identified that the two areas where the identified group performed lower than the state av Continue Reading...
Intervention
Early identification of learning disabilities in children is critical to the development of a child's abilities. Identification allows for tailored interventions sooner, which optimizes outcomes (Wilkinson, 2010). Unfortunately, a wide Continue Reading...
Hernando County and NCLB: Mandate for Drastic Change
The Hon. Ginny Brown-Waite
North Main Street
Sincerely,
Hernando County's Current NCLB Situation
The Hernando County Situation in a Larger Context
National Commentary on NCLB
2004 Adequate Y Continue Reading...
urban elementary school in Eastern, New York . That problem
Specifically, is the social promotion of fourth grade students with disabilities. Currently, nothing is being done to address the issue as social promotion which is supported by state educ Continue Reading...
Social Promotion on Young Students With Learning Disabilities
Public school systems in the United States have been damaged by policies adopted by the Department of Education in recent years. For instance, "The No Child Left Behind Act" (NCLB) has b Continue Reading...
Teaching Children with Hearing Difficulties: Evidenced-Based Practice
Early evaluation and detection for hearing difficulties forms the basis for timely intervention. This text emphasizes the need for early intervention as a way of maximizing the lin Continue Reading...
Special Needs Assessment: A Review of Recent Literature on Testing Students with Special Needs
One of the most difficult and controversial issues in education today is the question of identifying, testing and educating students with potential specia Continue Reading...
Adopting Special Needs Children
When it comes to adoption, parenting styles for special needs children is really no different. There are hundreds and thousands of children that are currently living in the foster care system that are put into the gro Continue Reading...
Education: Teaching Math to Students With Disabilities
Working with students with disabilities (SWD) can be quite challenging, especially for teachers working on a full-time basis. Almost every classroom today has one or more students dealing with e Continue Reading...
Early Childhood
As Service Coordinator, my role is to explain the IFSP and the IEP and serve as liaison with other people and agencies who are part of the child's plan. The screening process looks at cognitive, physical, emotional, social, and commu Continue Reading...
Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators: To What Extent does being on the Senior Leadership Team Influence their Role?
The emergence of the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) role in the United Kingdom represented an important developmen Continue Reading...
Special Education
Influence of Parental Awareness on Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
In the period preceding 1975, the students with disabilities did not have sufficient access to education and often received education that was inappropriate fo Continue Reading...
Special Needs Intervention
Client Profile
Brenda is a seven-year-old second grader that has been identified as dyslexic. She has significant delays in pre-literacy and numeracy skills have been identified through both formal assessment and performa Continue Reading...
Education Plan
Academic Goal Establishment and Implementation
Establishing a clear and common academic goal across a broad population of students can be quite difficult, especially when there are students with special learning needs included at all Continue Reading...
It is important to recognize the many different areas within adult education, and what type of students these areas attract. Ultimately, for the adult education department to be successful, it must attract a wide variety of students, and keep at lea Continue Reading...
When this phase is complete, the assessment phase can begin.
Step 7: Assessment
Assessment will occur on two basic levels: informal and formal. Informal assessment will occur during the group work process, where each group is assessed for its abil Continue Reading...
What works for one child is not necessarily going to work for the next. So how can one promote the use of standardized tests as the only way to measure educational learning and success? The premise of the No Child Left Behind Act is very honorable. Continue Reading...
Education in the Community
A major issue currently effecting culture, population, and demographics is that of wealth inequality. As the global economic downturn continues throughout the world, wealth disparity is increasing rapidly. This affects cul Continue Reading...
E-mail provides ability for 'peer review' and editing of assignments whilst word processing programs enables students to creates their own ideas and documents. More sophisticated programs encourage inquiry-based learning where students explore new f Continue Reading...
The rules of this paradigm are that government usually perform formal inquiries because they hope to establish trends for funding or new educational models, while social research does not have to follow these rules, instead, they study social proble Continue Reading...
Education - Classroom Management
Relationship Between the Use of Behavior Contracts and Student's Ability to Stay on Task
An Introduction to Behavioral Contracting
In dealing with children, there are cases when a teacher encounters a child who doe Continue Reading...
According to a British Study conducted on all students born in the first week of March 1958, and following them through adolescence and on until the age of twenty-three:
There were no average differences between grouped and ungrouped schools becaus Continue Reading...
How are these expectations communicated to your students?
I communicate my expectations to my students in written and verbal form when possible. At the beginning of each lesson, I hand out the overview of the lesson, which outlines the key deliver Continue Reading...
Most of the time research results are often used as the basis for a lot of other research. If a particular piece of research is done in an unethical way or has a hidden agenda to it then the ramifications of this could be very widespread.
Research Continue Reading...
Education
Need for Study
Roles and Responsibilities of Assistant Principals
Historical Perspective of Assistant Principal Roles
Prior and Current Research Studies of Assistant Principal Roles
Assistant Principals and Use of Instructional Leaders Continue Reading...
According to Prchal, "As the nineteenth century became the twentieth, the United States experienced an unprecedented surge in immigration. Some 3.8 million Italians, 3.4 million Slavs, and 1.8 million Russian and Eastern European Jews -- along with Continue Reading...
Education-Administration
Education Discrimination to Teachers
Teacher Discrimination Cases
Educational instructors, especially the teachers provide the necessitated skills and knowledge to students, thereby equipping them with essential life skill Continue Reading...
Students who have low self-efficacy will be likely to give up easily, avoid challenging tasks, focus on their failings, and quickly lose confidence at the first sign of criticism (Cherry, 2013). Bandura's social cognitive theory and the concept of s Continue Reading...