Exceptional Children articles from October 1994

Exceptional Children archives from October 1994

Current dimensions of technology-based assessment in special education. (Special Issue: Technology-Based Assessment Within Special Education)
October 1, 1994... In this article, we discuss the growing collaboration between assessment and technology in special education and the implications of this collaboration. Because of rapidly advancing knowledge in each of these fields, and their unique...

Computer-based dynamic assessment of multidigit multiplication. (Special Issue: Technology-Based Assessment Within Special Education)
October 1, 1994... Contemporary special education research, perhaps more than other areas of educational inquiry, is more concerned with variance than with central tendency of populations. For this reason, special educators and psychologists interested in...

The misconceptions of youth: errors and their mathematical meaning. (Special Issue: Technology-Based Assessment Within Special Education)
October 1, 1994... Behavioral approaches to instruction tend to consider that errors, though an unavoidable element in learning, can be controlled and eventually eliminated through well-designed instruction. Educators have designed many ways to attempt control of...

Strengthening the connection between assessment and instructional planning with expert systems. (Special Issue: Technology-Based Assessment Within Special Education)
October 1, 1994... A signature feature of special education is its focus on the individual student as the unit for instructional planning. Regardless of where a program is delivered (i.e., within a special class, resource, or general education setting) or how...

Structure and videodisc adaptation of the Transition Competence Battery (TCB) for deaf adolescents and young adults. (Special Issue: Technology-Based Assessment Within Special Education)
October 1, 1994... Career and vocational assessment for adolescents and young adults who are deaf has gained considerable recognition in recent years (Shiels, 1986; Sligar, 1983). Such assessment is especially relevant in light of the federal transition...

SMH.PAL: an expert system for identifying treatment procedures for students with severe disabilities. (Special Issue: Technology-Based Assessment Within Special Education)
October 1, 1994... Best practice in special education requires the use of various assessment techniques to guide instructional procedures. For many reasons, however, appropriate classroom assessment for students with severe and multiple disabilities is difficult....

Assessing children's social skills using video-based microcomputer technology. (Special Issue: Technology-Based Assessment Within Special Education)
October 1, 1994... Our efforts in applying technology to improve assessment of social competence among children with disabilities have been motivated by an enduring and challenging fact: we know considerably more about what to measure than about how to measure...

Development and validation of standard classroom observation systems for school practitioners: Ecobehavioral Assessment Systems Software (EBASS). (Special Issue: Technology-Based Assessment Within Special Education)
October 1, 1994... * In the past 2 decades, we have made major progress in understanding the relationship between classroom instructional processes and learning outcomes in both general (Brophy & Good, 1986) and special education (see the special issue,...