Assessment in Educational Therapy [Hardcover]

Assessment in Educational Therapy offers essential grounding, skills, and ethical approaches for understanding and conducting assessments in the context of educational therapy. Six clear, straightforward chapters guide graduate students and trainees of the field to use scores, observation, and hypothesis testing to create strengths-based assessments and intervention strategies that can be delivered orally or in written reports. The book is the first to describe and critique all the standardized assessment instruments that qualified educational therapists can use to measure skills in reading, written expression, mathematics, and processing. Real-world case studies, practical takeaways of key concepts, resources for self-study, reflective questions, and other readers tools enliven this comprehensive yet accessible reference.

1. Introduction and Assessment in the Context of Educational Therapy 2. Ethics and Foundational Practices in Administering Standardized Assessments 3. The Basic of Psychometrics Explained 4. Creating the Student's Profile 5. Writing a High-Quality Assessment Report 6. How to Orally Present Your Findings

Assessment in Educational Therapy offers essential grounding, skills, and ethical approaches for understanding and conducting assessments in the context of Educational Therapy.

Marion Marshall, MS, BCET, FAET, is a Board-Certified Educational Therapist and Emerita Professor at Holy Names University, USA, where she was Director of the Educational Therapy Program and Clinical Director of the Raskob Learning Institute.

Assessment is always the most mystifying for people who work with individuals with learning disabilities. Marion Marshall has finally demystified it for us so that we can understand and even self-advocate for our family members or clients who undergo complex evaluations about their personal learning realc‡