Offering help to special-education and school-psychology personnel and teachers, this book reviews standardized tests in areas such as achievement, IQ, reading and maths. This edition has a major new emphasis on classroom-performance assessment, reflecting a shift in education to the linking of assessment to curriculum, and a range of student products to assess learning. An ancillary package is available on adoption.

Product Description: This helpful guide moves professionals step-by-step through the screening and assessment tool, Temperament and Atypical Behavior Scale (TABS): Early Childhood Indicators of Developmental Dysfunction. It includes:an introduction to the TABS materialsprocedures for administration, scoring, and interpreting resultsan overview of the importance of and dysfunctions related to temperament and self-regulationreliability and validity data including normative means, standard deviations, and cutoff scores for both typical and atypical samplescultural and language adaptationsguidelines, examples, and research-based behavioral interventions Practical and thorough instructions, combined with illustrative case examples, show professionals how best to use the TABS system in their individual programs and with the families they serve...read more