ED2090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Numeracy
ED2090 Intervention for Learning Disabilities
WEEK 11 LECTURE
Assessment for students with Learning Disabilities
Is giving a child an assessment helping them?
- What is the purpose of the assessment?
- If it is not working, you need a plan B
Overview
• Introduction
• What is assessment and why do we do it?
• Types of assessments
• Whats our purpose?
• When to assess
• What to assess in literacy and numeracy
• MOTIf website
• Review
Know thy impact!
https://youtu.be/6xpcXobZF1k
- When you can measure your impact on the students, you can start to explain that to
other people
Introduction
• Historically students with learning difficulties and learning disabilities were
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are still found in the academic literature in this area.
• Diagosti assesset is a ter used to diagose the studets problems and
an intervention would be required to reediate or fi the studets problems
or issues
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hat ou eed to fi rather tha what they can do or their strengths
• In more recent times the focus has been on what instruction (teaching) is
required and how teachers can use diagnostic tests to identify areas of strength
and weakness to assist a student.
What is assessment and why do we do it?
• Assessment is an ongoing process by which teachers
_______________________________ and use this information to advance
student learning.
• Overall message… is to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
• Assessment for learning: enables teachers to use information about student
progress to inform their teaching
• Assessment as learning – enables students to reflect on and monitor their own
progress to inform their future goals
• Assessment of learning – assists teachers to use evidence of student learning to
assess student achievement against goals and standards.
Types of assessments
Quantitative (formal)
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Document Summary
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