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Assessment of Children
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In this article, the authors present a course description of course description child assessment, which serves as an introductory graduate course to the principles and theories of the assessment of children, and exposes the students to numerous theories of assessment and domains of assessment.Abstract:
Course Description Child Assessment serves as an introductory graduate course to the principles and theories of the assessment of children. Throughout the semester you will be exposed to numerous theories of assessment and domains of assessment. Additionally, you will develop basic competency in many of these areas through experiential tasks (e.g., administering and scoring an intelligence test). There is no widely accepted “right” assessment; however, there are better and worse assessments for individuals and problems. At the end of the course, you should be prepared to continue honing your assessment skills in future iterations of your training. Please note that this syllabus is a tentative schedule of the course and may change as the semester progresses.read more
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