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Books on Early Assessment
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Suggested Books
The following is a sample of books from our catalog.
Assessment in Emergent Literacy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781597568432Publication Date:This practical guide to identifying preschool and early school-aged children’s strengths and needs across multiple domains of emergent and early literacy, includes phonological awareness, print awareness, narrative, vocabulary, and motivation.
Assessment of Children by Call Number: 153.93 Sa83a3ISBN: 0961820926Publication Date:Assessment of Children is designed as both a teaching text and a reference source for students and professionals.
Assessment of Language Disorders in Children by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781410605719Publication Date:This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language disorders.
Dynamic Assessment of Young Children by Call Number: 155.41393 T999dISBN: 9780306465109Publication Date:The past two decades have witnessed a proliferation of research dealing with dynamic-interactive assessment as an alternative to conventional psychometric measures. This book establishes dynamic assessment as a useful approach that complements standardized normative tests in portraying an accurate picture of cognitive functioning and offering a more adequate assessment of handicapped persons and persons with learning disabilities.
Early Childhood Assessment by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780309124669Publication Date:The assessment of young children’s development and learning has recently taken on new importance. Private and government organizations are developing programs to enhance the school readiness of all young children, especially children from economically disadvantaged homes and communities and children with special needs.
Research Methods in Education by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0203224345Publication Date:The authors have thoroughly updated the fourth edition and included more text on current developments in research practice, action research, developments in ICT, questionnaire design, ethnographic research, conducting needs analysis, constructing and using tests, observational methods, reliability and validity, ethical issues, and curriculum research.
