Academic Skills Problems, Fourth Edition
Direct Assessment and Intervention
4th Edition
Published on 18. January 2011
Book
Hardback
447 pages
978-1-60623-960-5 (ISBN)
Description
*Updated, widely adopted practioner guide and text that links assessment to instructional outcomes.
*The approach is fully compatible with RTI, a hot topic in education, and the book features a new chapter on RTI.
*Strategies are ideally suited to target the important areas of accountability, early literacy, and early prevention.
*30 of the figures, tables, and forms are new or revised.
*The companion workbook, which includes reproducibles, is also forthcoming in a new edition (Academic Skills Problems Fourth Edition Workbook, 9781609180218).
*The approach is fully compatible with RTI, a hot topic in education, and the book features a new chapter on RTI.
*Strategies are ideally suited to target the important areas of accountability, early literacy, and early prevention.
*30 of the figures, tables, and forms are new or revised.
*The companion workbook, which includes reproducibles, is also forthcoming in a new edition (Academic Skills Problems Fourth Edition Workbook, 9781609180218).
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Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
School psychologists, K-12 school administrators, special educators, and classroom teachers; graduate students and researchers in these fields. Together with the companion workbook, will serve as a text in graduate-level courses dealing with academic assessment and intervention.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
766 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60623-960-5 (9781606239605)
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Person
Edward S. Shapiro, PhD, until his death in 2016, was Director of the Center for Promoting Research to Practice and Professor in the School Psychology Program at Lehigh University. Best known for his work in curriculum-based assessment and nonstandardized methods of assessing academic skills problems, Dr. Shapiro was author or coauthor of numerous books. He also developed the widely used BOSS (Behavioral Observation of Students in Schools) software system and presented papers, chaired symposia, and delivered invited addresses at conferences around the world. Dr. Shapiro's contributions to the field of school psychology have been recognized with the Outstanding Contributions to Training Award from Trainers of School Psychologists, the Distinguished Contribution to School Psychology Award from the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, the Eleanor and Joseph Lipsch Research Award from Lehigh University, and the Senior Scientist Award from the Division of School Psychology of the American Psychological Association, among other honors.
Content
1. Introduction
2. Choosing Targets for Academic Assessment and Remediation
3. Step 1: Assessing the Academic Environment
4. Step 2: Assessing Instructional Placement
5. Step 3: Instructional Modification I: General Strategies
6. Step 3: Instructional Modification II: Specific Skills Areas
7. Step 4: Progress Monitoring
8. Academic Assessment within a Response-to-Intervention Framework
9. Case Illustrations
2. Choosing Targets for Academic Assessment and Remediation
3. Step 1: Assessing the Academic Environment
4. Step 2: Assessing Instructional Placement
5. Step 3: Instructional Modification I: General Strategies
6. Step 3: Instructional Modification II: Specific Skills Areas
7. Step 4: Progress Monitoring
8. Academic Assessment within a Response-to-Intervention Framework
9. Case Illustrations