55-530 Classroom Assessment and Intervention

This course is designed for classroom teachers to develop multi-layered conceptual and technical skills in classroom assessment in order to fairly evaluate student learning to promote the highest level of achievement. Candidates will be trained to respond to the mandated implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) procedures to provide high quality instruction and interventions matched to student need, monitoring progress in order to make decisions about changes in instruction and applying child response data to important educational decisions. The focus of this course will be on assessment and analysis of data for instructional programming, and the accompanying implications for appropriate teaching adjustments and interventions for learning. Understandings and skills include: developing and using a variety of classroom assessments (formative and summative), standardized educational testing, basic psychometric statistics; progress monitoring; grading; communicating assessment information; testing ethics; locating and evaluating assessment measures;  analysis of accompanying publishers’ tests and assessments used for educational policy decisions. Candidates will demonstrate evidence of their understandings and skills by designing, implementing and evaluating informal and formal assessments and intervention strategies before, during and after learning.

Credits

3